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Originally Posted by MysticCat

I'm pretty positive Bob is bluffing. Four reasons:

1) If it were going to matter later, wouldn't we have seen Marcus tell Bob?
2) If Bob knew where it was, would he have said, while on Exile Island, that he needed the idol because he was in "deep doo doo" in the tribe?
3) If he really knew where it was, wouldn't it have made sense for him to let Corinne and Randy in on it last week, so that it was Sugar and company blindsided?
4) I still have the episode where Charlie was voted out on DVD. At the "previously, on Survivor" part at the beginning, they show the bottle floating in the water, and there is clearly something tied around it.

But Thursday night was classic. It was simply amazing how sure Corinne and Randy were that Bob would find the idol -- I guess because, as Corinne says, Sugar is so stupid she'd never find it. And I loved Randy declaring it an "accolade" to get voted out by those "losers."

I’m not really disagreeing with you about Bob bluffing (because we all know he’s sneaky as hell!), but you never know…

1.) “…wouldn’t we have seen Marcus tell Bob?” … Welcome to editing. The producers could have just left that out to make the show more interesting and to have everyone wonder.

2.) I can definitely see your point here. But at the same time, maybe he just wanted a second one?

3.) Not necessarily. He knew that there was a very good chance of him going home last week. With the way he’s been playing, I highly doubt that he’d just come right out and tell Randy and Corinne about the idol if he thought he could play it off using the fake one first (which obviously worked).

4.) Again, a very good possibility that the idol is still out there in the middle of the ocean. If it is, and this is just another strategic move on Bob’s part (which I’ve already said would not be a surprise at all), and it actually works to get Corinne voted off, then Bob is officially a genius.

And if this is a bluff, and Corinne leaves, Bob should simultaneously be trying to get Sugar and Matty on his side. I think his only hope would be to have Matty and Sugar match up with him without anyone else knowing, to have the two of them convince Crystal and Kenny to vote out Susie, while telling them that Bob will be voted out at the following tribal council.. but not really. Then... Matty, Sugar and Bob take out Crystal and Kenny after that, and they’ll be guaranteed the top 3 spots. This would probably leave each of them with a pretty even chance of winning.