Angelina is 100% lying about her hufflepuff idol guess this round. She guaranteed didn't guess 6 numbers she already knew were wrong, she just waited until she got an answer and then told us a guess that she knew would have been 0 out of 7.
Maxime's guess also want helpful at all, but that's mostly because Angelina doesn't want to share info with Maxime and didn't stop Maxime from guessing something we already knew.
Kinda surprised the times were so bad on the other tribe for this challenge as it would seem they are headed to a difficult tribal, especially with an idol in play and the basilisk twist. Maybe there will still be a consensus choice but you have to think most of them are starting to have an incentive to try hard to avoid tribal.
All early signs point to Amos and Snape (and me)being the early biggest threats for challenges, or at least the most willing to give their full effort and be good at it. But neither are social threats so they're the kind of players who can make merge and win challenges but still not be seen as a big threat. I'd rather not see them make merge, but with dudley and mcgonagall flopping, they seem destined to last to swap.
Snape really worries me the most because he tells me he hates me every day and claims I stole his idol to my face every day. Nothing but a liability in swap or merge imo.
No real actionable plan on this, these are just 3am thoughts. But I find snape so displeasant that I'm cutting down the time I spend on slack and I'm marking myself as away a lot just so I don't feel obligated to talk to him one on one. He's a dementor sucking fun out of this game and if I'm not willing to waste time trying to connect with him, letting myself be put in a situation where I'm allied with and relying on him is a foolish move.