SPOILER FREE PLEASE The Secret Traitor Big Reveal? Place Your Bets | Traitors 2026 | Thread 3

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Previous thread: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/telly_addicts/5469362-red-cloak-dagger-were-all-being-played-traitors-2026-thread-2?page=1

Here we go, ready for the big reveal (maybe?) next episode - Wednesday 7 January.

Current Status

Confirmed Traitors
Hugo
Rachel
Stephen

Murdered
Netty
Ben

Banished
Judy (Faithful)
Hugo (Traitor)

Confirmed Faithful (still in)
James
Maz
Reece

Secret Traitor Suspects Remaining (in order of when named and who said it first)

Ross - *@maggieFS
Fiona - *@Empress13
Jessie - *@DandelionPockets
Roxy - *@CheerfulBunny
Jade - *@sleepeazie (technically it was CheerfulBunny who said it first, but you’ve already got one on the list!)
Amanda - @TokyoSushi
Sam - @lightanddreamy
Harriet - @Newgirls
Faraaz - @Ohcrap082024
Jack - *@Beachtastic
Ellie - *@Piggywaspushed

Only 2 players have not been named as ST suspects at this point (please provide screenshots if I’ve missed these being named!):

Adam
Matthew

It’s going to be a long 4 days!

Now I’ve had a look at the article, I’ll remember Ellie as quiet blonde lady, Jack as cow/horse, Roxy as Judy’s daughter … but I still can’t think what Matthew had said or done!

I’m not convinced by all the theories about connections between players, however I do wonder whether each player has a ‘secret’ not disclosed to the rest of the group. For example:

Amanda - retired detective
Harriet - crime writer and ex-barrister
Jade - studying for a PhD (rather than just a MA), and a tactical gamer
Roxy & Judy - daughter and mother
Ellie & Ross - potential relationship

Jack - chess playe, 90s dresser.

Its such a psychologically intense show I think for the reason it can exhaust viewers. If you couple that with 'the same format' every time, people will get 'bored'.

It's actually a lot different to what I expected - I thought there would be more exploration of motives and you'd have to figure out people's motives. The challenges seem to be mostly physical, maybe mental ones would be good too.

I don't think the current traitors are great strategists.

Stephen- goes with the herd
Hugo - left his thoughts and observations unfinished, while they were good, he didn't follow them through and was a bit reactive
Rachel - good but we're not seeing her inner processes

Most of the interchangeable young men said they were brilliant strategists, it's unlikely current traitors will remain so, perhaps we'll see a switch in game play.

If he's not ST, I really want to see Jack as traitor for his chess background. Everyone has blind spots though I guess.

Traitor strategy seems to have been 'let's create confusion'. That's a bad move as during the confusion others will be marshaling their attacks and strategies like Fiona on Hugo. Funny Hugo dug his own hole like he said Ross had.

I like it when Traitors say let's think two steps ahead and get rid of the strongest players. But arguably that gets predictable, you end up with nicest players going I don't know why I'm still in the game, and amidst them are one or two traitors who have pulled off being nice, mainly as the nice are too nice and unassuming to question. So be interesting to see what happens.

Honestly, with some rare exceptions, I think strategy is vastly overrated in the game. There are very few situations where you can genuinely reason your way through (which is why it was SO FRUSTRATING when Molly missed the chance to do just that, after Jas had been so ridiculously clever and used his own opportunity for logic when he worked out why Paul and Harry had to be traitors!). It's almost entirely a guessing game, coming down to people just having to choose whom to believe. Traitors get to choose who to murder but even that often isn't hugely strategic, especially in the game's early stages.

Over the years there've been rare times when a humdinging clue is dropped (won't say for spoiler reasons) and traditionally the faithful never pick up on it

Which is why Reese probably won't notice the buffoonery at the family tree

If he did he should be telling everyone as that's the best way to protect himself from murder

Yes strategy is overrated because it’s more like psychology / how do people behave, react and respond when in a totally alien environment cut off from support and usual routines and with completely new people. There won’t be rhyme or reason. Perhaps Ellie the psychologist would disagree 🤣

@Umbilicat could you please PM me what you’re referring to? I’m terrible at remembering based on cues like that.

I can’t wait until 9pm tonight! How will we all get through the last week of January when it’s all finished!?

I agree the whole Reece happily walking off for Rachel and Stephen to chat was odd. I'm wondering how often that happens, that two people want to talk and the others leave them to it. Could be normal? We've certainly seen in past Traitors someone coming up to a group and say something like "can we talk" and extracting one person.
I can't remember it happening previously, but will take your word for it! What struck me as odd was that Rachel made vague noises about wanting to talk to Stephen alone, and Reece leapt in and said something like, 'Do you want me to go? I can go.' Maybe he's an agreeable person and was just trying to be agreeable about this, but it seemed a bit keen.
I've no idea what it might mean though

It’s 8pm isn’t it? (Annoyingly, as I generally don’t get back until 8.30 on a Wednesday)

Yes 8-9pm I can’t wait until 9pm after I’ve finished watching it 🤣 sorry for confusion

I think it’s much more about luck and chance than strategy. I’m always amused when contestants find it suspicious that other contestants are keeping notes. Surely that would be the least you’d do. But apparently not!

I think the ST is tedious. I just wish they'd reveal who it is and shelve the whole thing. The connections were interesting for the first two series and are now boring and distract from the activities in my opinion.

I also don't like the ST and I didn't like the seer in the last season.

Oh yeah I did not like the Seer at all. Link explaining if anyone struggles to remember like me! Francesca was portrayed as so dramatic about it, and they just overloaded the production of her walking in and the betrayal. It was too artificial. www.radiotimes.com/tv/entertainment/reality-tv/the-seer-the-traitors-season-3-twist-explained/

I don't think they'll do the Seer again, it went so wrong. What you want is to be the Seer, but without anyone else knowing it!

Or have a haircut like a sheep perching on top of their head and dad glasses, in which case they're Jack.

(Sorry to Jack if those glasses are the very latest trendy thing. I'm much too old and indifferent to keep count of which ancient trends have come round again.)

Annoyingly I am out both tonight and tomorrow (booked several months ago!) so I won't catch up with you all until the weekend.

I hope both episodes are good!

I'm not entirely sure that being a strategist/gamer/psychologist/chess player is all that much use, because you'll normally be up against people who think along similar lines to you. All these people in the castle aren't going to be playing like that, and are likely to go off on wildly unexpected tangents. Interpreting their motives and behaviours against your usual benchmarks will send you right up the garden path on a wild goose chase without a paddle.

Enjoying the ST though, but I do think their presence has made us drop the rope slightly, because we've been discussing little else. Looking forward to tonight and finding out who they are.

I think my chances of DC being settled by 8pm are nil and I’ve stupidly got DH hooked too, so I can’t sneak off to watch and leave bedtime to him. Error.

I've got no idea who the ST is at all!
I thought Harriet for a while, but I think I've changed my mind about that now.
I think I've narrowed it down to Fiona, Amanda, Jade then possibly Ellie after those three.
But, I might be way off, as it's so hard to tell due to editing. We might all have been manipulated by the editors, and it could be one of the more obscure players we've not seen so much of...
No idea 🤷‍♀️

Without the Seer at that stage I think Charlotte would have won.

I'm going to have to watch on catchup - I've got a football match to view.