How Maggie Got Linnea Voted Out of a Tribe She Wasn't On: Survivor 51's Dina Blindside, Step by Step

The short version

Linnea went home from Dina in Episode 5 without anyone on her own side wanting her gone. The four original Savus on Dina (Linnea, Cristian, Eric and Sharonda) had the numbers 4–2 over the two original Tokas, Lewis and Kilby. Then Maggie, who was not on Dina at all, walked onto their beach with two Extra Votes and handed them out.

Those two extra votes turned 4–2 into 4–4. Fans have been calling it a hit ordered from another tribe, and the Survivor Wiki lists two firsts: the first Tribal Council where two Extra Votes were played, and the first time one castaway held two at once.

Step 1: Episode 3, the bag and the oar

It started two episodes earlier, on the old Toka. While Mike kept a visitor busy, Lewis went through Carter's bag and found a clue to an advantage hidden in Toka's boat. Maggie found the right oar first, and Brady broke it open. Inside was an Extra Vote. Brady let Maggie keep it in exchange for a promise to vote his way. At Tribal that night she voted with the other side. Our Episode 3 recap has the whole oar sequence.

Step 2: The swap splits the old Toka allies

The Episode 4 swap put Maggie on the new Toka and dropped Lewis and Kilby onto Dina with four original Savus. Two against four is the classic swap trap: the minority goes first. Maggie had voted with Kilby at Toka's first and third Tribals and with Lewis at the third, and her new tribe stayed away from Tribal.

Step 3: Episode 5, the trip to Dina

Toka won the Episode 5 reward and immunity, but the pastries came with a catch: one Toka had to give up their share and leave camp. According to TVLine, Mike, Maggie and Kristin volunteered and the draw picked Maggie. The trip came with an Extra Vote she had to give to someone on the tribe she visited. She went to Dina, and on top of that vote she still had the one from the oar.

She gave one to Lewis and one to Kilby. Linnea told TV Insider she thinks Carter helped point Maggie at her.

Step 4: Two 4–4 ties

At Tribal, the four Savus wrote Lewis. Lewis and Kilby each cast two votes on Linnea. That was 4–4, and the revote came out exactly the same:

Every ballot here is as the Survivor Wiki records it, and our Survivor 51 votes page has the same rounds.

Step 5: Kilby will draw a rock

After a deadlocked revote, the voters who are not tied must agree on one name, out loud and unanimously. If they cannot, everyone not tied and not immune draws rocks, and the odd rock goes home. Here that meant Kilby, Cristian, Eric and Sharonda.

Kilby said he would draw. Sharonda, Eric and Cristian would not put themselves in that lottery to save Linnea, and all four wrote her name. Linnea's final words on the Wiki say Kilby "mega blindsided" her.

Every rock draw in US Survivor

Kilby's threat almost added a fourth. Through Season 50, the US version has drawn rocks three times, per the Survivor Wiki's Tiebreaker page and our season-by-season history:

Our voting explainer covers ties, revotes and rocks in full.

How it scored in fantasy

There is no line for playing or giving away an Extra Vote in the house scoring rules. The swing came from what the votes did:

• Linnea: −5 for being blindsided, with +3 back for saying the line the episode is named after. Net −2.
• Lewis: +2 for the blindside and +2 for the alliance, minus 4 for the four votes he survived. Net zero.
• Kilby: +2 for the blindside, +2 for the alliance and +1 for finishing the night with no votes against him, less 1 for sitting out the challenge. Net +4.
• Maggie: +6 without casting a ballot at Dina: +3 for Toka's immunity win, +2 for the journey and +2 for the alliance, less 1 for sitting out the challenge.

Those are raw scores; a manager who made one of them their Sole Survivor doubles the gains.

The fantasy points leaderboard has the Week 5 totals, and every advantage still in play is on the idols and advantages page.

Cast photos: Robert Voets/CBS

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