It’s A Wicked Game | Traitors 2026 | Thread 9 | Spoiler Free!

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Welcome to Thread 9 of Traitors 2026.

This thread runs at TV pace so do not read any further if you are not up to date with the live broadcast. Whilst most discussion will be on the current series, inevitably people will refer to previous series/players/winners so reader beware if you’ve not seen the 3 previous editions, or the celebrity version.

While we welcome posters discussing their theories and speculating on relationships/connections between players, please don’t post spoilers from elsewhere that may ruin things for those of us who like to see things unfold over the course of the series.

The story so far <spoiler warning if you haven’t seen the start of episode 9>

Traitors
Hugo
Rachel
Stephen
Fiona (Secret Traitor)

Murdered
Netty
Ben
Maz
Reece
Adam
Jessie

Banished
Judy (Faithful)
Hugo (Traitor)
Ross (Faithful)
Amanda (Faithful)
Fiona (Traitor)
Harriet (Faithful)
Sam (Faithful)

The floor is yours…

couldnt agree more @HK04 I feel quite sorry for Jade

I suspect/hope that the others are onto Rachel and Stephen and are biding their time. Roxy’s constant over the top defense of Rachel is a red flag for me. Better strategy to keep known traitors in rather than have to deduce who the newly recruited ones were.

I’m finding this series far less enjoyable - it’s become the Rachel show and I just can’t warm to her at all. Everything is going her way. There is zero intrigue and has become a bit boring. Someone upthread mentioned Traitors Aus series 2 which was excellent in every way. Definitely worth a watch!

I think the traitors are mostly benefitting from the self importance of the remaining faithfuls - ‘someone keeps me here because I’m their good friend’, ‘they are framing me - I’ve had enough ’, ‘they’ll be recruiting me tonight’,…

Perhaps the editing in of all Roxy’s defending is foreshadowing a Rachel/Roxy Endgame where Rachel wins and Roxy is massively upset…

The only way Stephen is staying in the game, in my opinion, is because Rachel is diverting attention away from him. It’s clever play from Rachel because if Stephen leaves she’d have to recruit another traitor who could ruin her game. She needs to keep Stephen in until the very end. It’ll be interesting to see if she’s happy to share the money with him though.

I do think the traitors deserve to win this one though and usually I’m firmly team faithful! It seems all the effective faithfuls have left the game. If any of the remaining faithfuls win, I haven’t seen anything yet to make me think they deserve it. Granted, one of them might suddenly cotton on at the end but at the moment none of them are sharing in their VTs that they have any suspicious (that stick) about the correct people.

I just realised I missed Farooz's story round the dinner table-what ddid he say?

There was a fragile contestant in US S1. She developed a deep attachment to a very competent Traitor. At the final reveal, she began berating the Traitor " I trusted you. How could you do this to me? " etc etc. It was so uncomfortable to watch. And totally took the spotlight away from the very deserving Traitor.

I do think people should be comfortable with being accused, lied to, betrayed. Need to be a bit thickskinned.

Yes, another pp pointed out that it was Jack, not James.

I still don't think she's related to anyone remaining though, as I think she would have mentioned it in the exit interview or Uncloaked.

He wanted to take his family to pilgrimage to Mecca, and buy ‘another motor’

After the first few I commented to my husband that the lack of sob stories was refreshing. And then Jade spoke 😟

Last paragraph - agree so hard.

If you find a traitor, your fellow faithfuls with banish you.

Maybe MN has a next series contestant? Application to get on show link below:

eu.castitreach.com/ag/lambert/traitors5/welcome.html

I know Rachel has the advantage of being a traitor but I admire her for the way she tries to shake things up.
The way she decided to suggest Faraaz was a traitor killing off the older players, then the way she made that "I know who it is" announcement at breakfast.

It would be great if more players did that and took risks in the game.
I think Rachel would have been a really good faithful & would have played exactly the same way with theories, risky game play etc.

I have warmed to her a lot as the game has gone along & Stephen too. I didn't rate him at first but he has made some quite astute observations and decisions in recent episodes.

I want to agree with whoever said Claudia is brilliant. She is a comic genius. Never too much camp, but just enough.
All the other Traitors hosts are pretty shit. Either too dull or like Alan Cumming, too OTT.

But the remaining faithfuls have ignored so many big clues about who the traitors are. They don’t even have quiet suspicions about the correct people that they just share with the viewers. If they win it will be due to a process of elimination. They are completely blindsided by the big characters. I still stick by traitors deserve this one. I just hope both win the money as they have both helped each other so much.

I agree, I can’t warm to Rachel. I think she will have given herself the dagger.

Bookies are usually bang on and seeing it was filmed last summer they have Stephen & Rachel as 1st/2nd…

See, if I were Faraaz, I would have been so suspicious of Rachel coming up to me like that. But he's just bumbling along dreaming of his " motor". 😀

I hope that the traitors will win. Not because I like them, but the faithful are useless. The Traitors have picked off all the astute and capable faithfuls and left themselves with an easily manipulated and weak bunch. It is a bit boring to watch, compared to earlier in the series.

He's so sweet, he's either going to get murdered or by some miracle he'll find himself in a winning cohort of Faithfuls and still not quite realise what's happened. Pretty babes in the wood...

Alan Cumming was trying to be Richard O'Brien in The Crystal Maze. It was awful. The Aussie host was so boring I sometimes didn't realise he was there.

Claudia is just perfect. I don't even know how or why. Camp enough with just enough sincerity. Perfect Gamesmistress. I laughed so hard when she crashed the dinner party and all of them were like "oh, not you!"

It happens every series - the Faithful get close to getting a Traitor out but don’t and the next day seem to have collective amnesia and forget to carry on following the train of thought.

Reminds me of the Ben/Glory storyline in Buffy (hope that’s not a spoiler for anyone 😜)

This series has become disappointing, all the drama was over in the beginning. It showed so much promise. As usual, the big, feisty characters who actually wanted to to play the game have gone and we’re left with the clueless coasters.

I really don’t like Rachel but she deserves to win as she has actually plotted and dodged her way through, she’s earned it. Stephen has done a great job too as he seems to be everyone’s friend and they all trust him. I like to see a traitor win.

The worst outcome is is like S1 when three bewildered faithfuls won, they had wandered around in a daze for weeks not picking up on any clues and won it by default because Wilf double crossed Kieran right at the last minute.

I don’t even care who is related to who any more - bring on the fire pit!

Stephen is very, very likeable. He was a bit timid at first, but now a deserving winner. I would like to go down to the pub with him and discuss my love of Freddy Mercury: bet he's a fan!

I would give the dagger to Stephen. The faithfulls are not united in who to banish. By doing this they ensure someone gets at least 3 votes. Is anyone else realistically going to get 4 votes? I don’t think so. It is risky though but the only way to ensure the game goes the traitors way.
I would be getting rid of Matthew first, either through banishment or murder and also Ross or Faz.
As long as the 2 traitors get to the fire pit I think they are safe.
So far nobody is mentioning Rachel or Stephen enough to get them banished. If they give the dagger away, unless that player is very vocal about who they will vote out, it’s a huge risk and could be wasted. The only other option I see is give it to Roxy and for Rachel to ask her who she is going to vote for, then her and Stephen go with that.
But, I suppose as long as a faithful is banished does it really matter?
My other thought is can the traitors guarantee there will be a murder? If not then they are on dodgey ground.

I love the clothes they wear. So nice to see men not in track suits.

Actually hope none of them win this time. People keep saying rachel and Steven deserve to win but frankly they’re only visible because they’re traitors. If Rachel had been a faithful she’d have been banished / murdered ages ago (what with being middle aged and seemingly bright). The game needs some sort of rejig, the traitors have such a big advantage, and the faithfuls main hope of winning is to be utterly dull.