Lying About Mac And Cheese Is A Top Tier Strategy

The lie grows...

**Lying About Mac And Cheese Is A Top Tier Strategy** is the fourth episode of MintORGs Season 1: Hogwarts.

## Story

### Flitwick

**Hayleigh** felt well overall about how the events of tribal went down, with Alli being voted out. With the Great Hall opening, she wanted to end up on a tribe with Kieran if she did switch tribes. She found the challenge frustrating, saying Tomato messed up several times, but it didn’t matter in the end because they didn’t go to tribal.

**Kyle** feels good, wanting to step up his social game slightly. He hated to see Alli go, but feels like his relationship with Nicole and Hayleigh improved as a result of tribal. He feels like he can only trust Riley though. He also notes that whatever he says to Hayleigh will likely go back to Tomato and/or Jace.

**Jace** plans to use the Great Hall re-opening to build more cross-tribe connections. He was so happy to win immunity, especially noting that Tomato has never won an immunity before.

**Nicole** wants to use the Great Hall to talk to Laura. She was initially shocked at being left out of the Alli vote, but was able to talk to everybody involved and get things straightened out. Kyle and Riley both apologised to her, saying they didn’t know she didn’t know.

**Riley** wants to send Trelawney to tribal, and took the challenge as an opportunity to do so. He launched the plan to gang up on Trelawney, which worked very effectively, sending them to tribal.

**Tomato** felt that the Alli vote couldn’t have gone better for him, saying it worked exactly how he wanted it to. He continued to lie about liking mac and cheese, telling Nicole he loves it! He noted a lot of people on Flitwick have been using invisible mode. He was pleased to win immunity, and found it very easy.

### Sprout

**Andy** noticed Freeze saying inflammatory things in the Great Hall, and called him ‘dumb’ for doing that - but also is glad that he now has an easy shield. He didn’t care if he went to tribal, but then noticed Freeze continuing to get under people’s skin and was worried that it would cause Hufflepuff and Gryffindor to turn on him.

**Duolingo** is becoming increasingly worried about the decimation of Hufflepuff, thinking that if Trelawney goes to tribal as Freeze wants, Eris would get voted out. But then he’s worried that if Sprout goes to tribal, HE would get voted out. He also found Freeze getting into drama with other tribes really strange, saying this isn’t a challenge where you want to be chaotic.

**Freeze** made some very inflammatory comments in the Great Hall, causing a lot of the other players to dislike him. He feels like Trelawney now hates him, something he “didn’t think about at the time”.

**Jamal** felt like people would potentially pity the Hufflepuffs of Duolingo and Laura, and was worried that he might get voted out instead, if Sprout ended up at tribal.

**Laura** didn’t have a lot to say this round, only noting that Freeze was making enemies. She stayed out of it, sitting back with popcorn. However, she was heartbroken that Alli was voted out.

**Meredith** finds it funny that all the Hufflepuff players are getting voted out, but is also annoyed at Eris. She's glad to have avoided tribal, especially considering the fact that she’s received votes previously.

**Vinny** is looking for some sort of idol or advantage, but is so far unsuccessful.

### Trelawney

**Imke** is discovering her competitive side, feeling like she NEEDED to win the challenge. She even said, “if I want to, I will play as dirty as I can be”. Unfortunately, Flitwick and Sprout ganged up on Trelawney, sending them to their first tribal.

**Kieran** has been a little busy with school, but he’s been doing his best to keep on top of things. He finds Freeze to radiate ‘scary’ and ‘hateful’ energy, and decided that he’s going to ‘destroy’ him. He was understandably frustrated with how the challenge went, but felt that Eris was the only vote that made sense.

**Nick** was surprised to see Alli voted out, and thinks that he can use this to his advantage by convincing Eris that she can stick with the Ravenclaw players to knock out the Gryffindor players in exchange for protection. He felt as though the challenge was rigged against him, saying that charms class ‘wasn’t so charming’, and that now the vote is leaning towards Eris, due to her not connecting well with the rest of the tribe.

**Nikki** really struggled with the challenge, taking it very hard. They really didn’t want to go to tribal. They felt it was really unfair to Eris, and were really frustrated with the challenge. They were even tempted to ask people to vote for them instead.

**Rips** had a parchment ready for both Eris and Nikki , due to Nikki potentially wanting people to vote them, and Eris being the least social player. Rips also received Eris's vote.

**Wei** was very active this episode, taking an opportunity to learn from Nick how to play chess. He wasn't too shocked to be at tribal and enjoyed watching the drama unfold. He also wishes his tribe will stop complaining. He was then filled in on the vote by Imke, who he also talked strategy with, solidifying their bond as allies. They formed an alliance including Imke, Nikki, Wes and Wei. He felt everything went to plan in voting out Eris, and is feeling very cool and collected on Trelawney.

**Wes** actually wanted to lose this challenge, so it didn’t become a long-term rivalry with the other tribes. They were worried Nikki would walk from the game. Rips also rubbed them the wrong way a little when he said he told Wei that he had to compete in the next challenge.

## Challenge

### Challenge Details

**Immunity Challenge:** *Charms Class*

Every hour you can do one of three things: Attack, Defend or Heal. The tribe(s) with the least damage points after 24 hours wins immunity.

In **Season 1**, this challenge saw Flitwick, Sprout and Trelawney compete, with the ability to Attack (3 damage points to a tribe), Defend (an attack will only deal 1 damage point) or Heal (minus one damage point from your tribe). Led by **Riley**, the Flitwick tribe ganged up on Trelawney as they were the only tribe who hadn't yet been to tribal. Sprout joined in, and the challenge was actually called early by Bob 5 hours in, with Trelawney's agreement. Bob and Minti both admit there were design flaws for this challenge, and that if it will come back in a future season, there will be changes made to ensure the challenge is more balanced.

**Winning Tribes:** Flitwick & Sprout

### Challenge Results

 Sprout | 2nd
 Trelawney | 3rd

## Tribal Council

 Eris (7 votes)
 Rips(1 vote)
 VOTED OUT:Eris

## Trivia

* This episode marks the first where a challenge is called midway through.