King of the Nerds

Previously on king of the nerds...

The teams went head to head in a live debate.

On the topic of superheroes.

With internal strife on team Blextrophy...

You have a furrow in your brow.

And an unresolved civil war between Danielle and Joshua...

You're a lying piece of.

The nerds put conflict aside

and proudly showed off their geek to Kevin Smith.

It is irresponsible to prevent a superhero from intervening.

Celeste's stage fright caused her to stumble...

Uh, sorry.

And the servants of the forsaken orb

soundly vanquished their foes.

Enjoy your time debating

who you have to send to the nerd-off.

It was alana...

Versus Genevieve...

In the final battle.

Today, I'll be playing for the orb's team.

Angry at her own team, alana vowed to seek revenge.

I couldn't give any amount of for my team.

- But her overconfidence proved Oh!

When Genevieve won the nerd-off.

I will never piss off Genevieve again.

And Alana's desire to sit atop the throne of games

and be crowned king of the nerds will be forever unfulfilled.

Hey!

I live to fight another day, baby.

You did really good.

I would have felt really badly

going home on a comic book challenge.

Like, she's a huge comic book nerd,

and how do you get a Batman question wrong?

I'm glad Alana's gone.

Intra-team dynamics have just gotten so much simpler.

I no longer have to, like, socially navigate

complicated social things.

Good thing we didn't vote you in, huh?

Maybe you should have voted me in.

I'm gonna change,

'cause I don't need to walk around in a red unitard all day,

fun as it is.

I think our team is going to be a lot more cohesive.

We've got rid of the member

who was draining our energy a little bit.

And I think everything's gonna come up roses.

- Have a cookie. - Thanks. Okay.

So, head wanted you to go, but heart wanted you to stay.

Appreciate that.

Yep. That's usually how it is.

My biggest threat right now is Ivan.

It's just so much fun to watch him squirm.

Right now in the house, it's really quiet.

The competition is getting more intense.

We're running down to the fewer members now,

and we're just all thinking, "how do I survive?"

My only worry is if people

start plotting against us or something.

Because we have an alliance?

I mean, they have to have some idea.

Yeah.

I have a very strong alliance with Genevieve.

I've already made a promise to her

that we want to aim for final four.

She's the person that I trust the most.

Actually, she's probably the only person I really trust.

So, if we win tomorrow, though,

I definitely think we should put Ivan up.

He's not trustable.

- For sure, yeah. - Yeah.

And I think we're getting to the point

where just voting out strong people is the winning strategy.

Genevieve showed you a little bit

of what she's capable of, you know?

Me and Ivan have definitely bonded through our time here,

and I think that we do have more of

a unspoken alliance, if you will.

Genevieve has to go home.

I know. Je sais.

Josh and I are really getting along.

We both have that edge where, like,

"when it comes to the final two,

it's gonna be you and I, isn't it?"

We're gonna sit down and we're gonna have to, like,

go Wolverine-sabretooth

Make sure your seat belt's on tight,

'cause this is gonna get one bumpy ride.

You said it, Chewie.

Calling all nerds! Join us in the courtyard!

What?

Oh, my gosh, rubik's cubes?

Everyone knows me as the rubik's cube girl

'cause I can solve it super fast.

Oh, yeah. Doing the rubik's cube.

We got this.

Good morning, nerds.

Good morning.

This week, you'll be tested in one area

where all nerds should have an advantage:

Pure intelligence.

But first, team servants of the forsaken orb,

today's challenge is a three-on-three game,

which means you have to choose one teammate

to sit this nerd war out.

I'm gonna be stepping this one out.

Joshua, do you feel like it's a good decision?

Sometimes you just have to put your trust in your team.

I probably am the best candidate to sit out,

so I opt out of the nerd war

before someone asks me not to be in it,

'cause as soon as someone asks me not to be in it,

that automatically puts, like,

a negative energy towards my direction, and that I don't need.

I believe they can do this.

Joshua is constantly copping out of things.

I really want to win this nerd war, but another part of me

would love to be able to vote Joshua into a nerd-off.

Now, around the fountain

are pieces of a disassembled rubik's cube.

Each team must reassemble their own cube.

Crud, it's that spatial mechanics puzzle

where you have to build a square.

I hate those.

The completed cube will reveal the numbered squares

of a sudoku puzzle.

This is my thing.

Sudoku puzzles are what I do when I don't want to think

and I just want to go to bed and kind of ease my mind.

They're easy.

The object of the game of sudoku

is to place numbers in a grid

so that the three rows, three columns,

and five boxes contain the digits one through nine.

No numbers may be repeated in any diagonal.

Sudoku does not speak to my skills at all.

It's important to be meticulous,

and being meticulous is not a strength of mine,

at least in science.

They say there's, like, two kinds of thinkers.

There are the careful plotters

and there are the intuitive artists,

and I'm more in the intuitive, thinks beyond framework.

The first team to successfully solve the sudoku puzzle

wins this nerd war.

Joshua, please come over and take a seat.

Bye.

- All right, on your marks... - Get set... - Assemble!

Careful, careful!

I feel like I'm on some messed-up version of baywatch.

It's interesting they chose to run through the fountain

instead of around it.

We don't have to kill ourselves.

We're gonna do the sudoku in, like, two seconds.

You got it, buddy, you got it.

Dragon face, dragon face.

It's time for the fire-breather to come out.

I am a dragon!

Speed up, guys, speed up.

We definitely needed Ivan for the physical part,

'cause I'm not a super physical person.

This is about the extent of my, uh, physical abilities.

White face down, white face down.

White face down.

Awesome.

Help, help! Okay. Go, go!

I was running as fast as I possibly could.

Like, I'm a bullet. I go fast.

The parts are heavy.

No, no! Virgil, that stays there.

Blextrophy has Celeste, the pro rubik's cuber...

a distinct advantage there.

Well, this isn't actually

just the execution of a rubik's cube.

This is the actual construction of a rubik's cube.

Oh,.

Now lift it up like this.

Why are you moving that?

It's gotta lift up.

Oh, okay.

I'm going to lead building the cube.

I mean, I've played enough tetris to know,

build it in a spiral, all the way up to the top,

just blocking it.

I'm really banking on moo and Danielle

being able to bring the sudoku part home.

Last piece, guys.

Watch your fingers.

Pull out. We gotta go straight. Yeah.

Servants of the forsaken orb have their cube assembled.

Blextrophy's gonna have to get it in gear.

We don't have enough height here.

We have to get this damn cube built.

No, no, no, no, no, no!

Blextrophy's still trying to get their cube together.

Servants of the forsaken orb

have moved on to the sudoku puzzle.

Virgil, come on. Help me!

Get the up here!

No, no, no, no, no, no!