Solo Room

### Descrption

A separate room in the game where contestants could try their chances for an advantage in the game.

## Premise

The Solo Room is a place in the game where contestants will be sent to during moments in the game, usually alone, to get an advantage to hopefully help them in the game. Typically, a player is sent before the next tribal council or before the tribes go back to their respective camps at the beginning of the game or right after a swap occurs.

## History

### ***Survivor: Twist Manor***

This Solo Room was used in the premerge phase of *Survivor: Twist Manor*.

After the tribe selection, Richie became the first person to be exiled to the Solo Room after he was not picked by Darius or Hailey to be on either of the two tribes. He would go in and be offered a choice between two hats, one with an advantage and the other with nothing. Richie unfortunately pick the wrong hat and get nothing, and he would be in the Solo Room until after the first tribal council of the season, of which he would be sent to the losing tribe's camp to join their tribe. Richie would be sent to the Potowatomi Tribe after Kyle G. was voted out.

After the Ho-Chunk tribe would win second immunity challenge, they would be given the opportunity to send someone from the Potowatomi Tribe, now including Richie, to the Solo Room. The downside with this round was that they would only be given five minutes before the next tribal council to strategize before tribal council. They would ultimately pick Tom due to him being on the outs of the Potowatomi Tribe, and he would not pick the right hat or get an advantage. Tom would ultimately be voted out at the next tribal council due to his connections in the game.

When a tribe swap occurred, the two tribes were mixed up via. a ball out of a bag with a colored mark on it, and the person with no mark would be sent to the Solo Room. After their visit to the Solo Room, like Richie, they would join the losing tribe after their next tribal council. That person ended up being Jack, and he would be the first contestant to obtain an advantage from the Solo Room, that being the *Half-Idol*. The half-idol is a form of the hidden immunity idol where one person has to give it to another person on their tribe, and they will hold onto each part of it by themselves until they both survive a tribal council together. Alone, neither half could help anybody in the game, but together it would form a hidden immunity idol. Jack would end up being sent to the Ho-Chunk Tribe after Breanne was voted out, and he would use his half-idol to leverage himself into a better position over Richie by giving the other half to Darius to get trust with him.

After the Potowatomi would once again lose an immunity challenge, the Ho-Chunk tribe would send Michael to the Solo Room as a way to send a signal to the other tribe that they wanted them to get rid of him. This would ultimately backfire on them, as Michael would find an advantage in the Solo Room, that being the *Block-A-Vote*, where he could play this advantage before the votes were cast and the user could block another player's ability to vote. Michael would lie about his advantage to Nathan in an attempt to get him to vote with him, and with Hailey's help, them and Nathan, who did not want to cause a tie after he found out what the advantage really is, blocked Juice from being able to cast a vote, and he would be blindsided after Nathan would betray him.

The Solo Room was not used for the rest of the season.

### ***Survivor: Blood vs. Water: Redemption Island***

The Solo Room made its' first return in five seasons when it appeared at the tribe swap in Survivor: Blood vs. Water: Redemption Island. In it, the remaining 11 contestants were divided between two new tribes of five by picking a buff out of a bag, with the eleventh person, Lea, picking a buff with a different color than the others. In the Solo Room, Lea was given a bag to pick from with three advantages or disadvantages within it. Lea would pick the *Slip-Up* disadvantage, this meaning that, if she made the merge, she would use this against someone at the first individual immunity challenge of the season. If the person did not make it to a certain part of that first individual immunity challenge, they would have an extra vote placed against them at the next tribal council. Lea was then instructed that if she did not make it to the merge, she would have to will it to someone else within the game.

## Trivia

* The Solo Room is the first twist to exile a player in the game from the others.
* Richie Gureski is the first person to enter the Solo Room.
	+ Richie is the first person to not get an advantage from the Solo Room.
	+ Richie is also the first, and currently only, contestant with a disability to enter the Solo Room.
* Tom Anderson is the only contestant to be eliminated at the tribal council immediately after them leaving the Solo Room.
* Jack Demet is the first contestant to get an advantage from the Solo Room.
	+ Jack is also currently the only contestant to not use an advantage they obtained from the Solo Room.
	+ Jack is the first male contestant to receive an advantage from the Solo Room.
* Michael Garcia is the first returning player to enter the Solo Room.
	+ Michael is also currently the last person to enter the Solo Room.
	+ Michael is also currently the only person to use an advantage from the Solo Room.
* Lea Mueller is the first, and currently only, female contestant to enter the Solo Room.
	+ Lea is the first, and currently only, female contestant to receive something in the Solo Room.
	+ Lea is the first, and currently only, contestant to receive a disadvantage from the Solo Room.