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.

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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…

Exactly!
Surely by now the faithfuls should be wondering why the traitors are leaving innocent, "FBI-trained", friend-to-everyone, eloquent at the RT, calm, unflappable, mentioned directly by TWO players in kamikaze ways, trouble -stirrer Rachel in??

Surely?? Surely??

I think Ben was adamant that Ross was a traitor because Ross could not stop over explaining about Netty. Even when Ross was banished it was largely because he kept going in and on about the suspicion on him. It was as self destructive as Brian in Series 2. Any behaviour that makes people uncomfortable gets labelled as traitorish at the beginning and Ross kept making himself look like he was hiding something.

Yes. How is it concievable to them that Adam was murdered ahead of Rachel?

I think Ross would have played the Netty thing differently if his long term girlfriend hadn't been in the castle with him.

His over explaining and discomfort with the Netty situation was driven by having to sit opposite Ellie and not having been able to properly explain it all to her.

I think it was a tough double whammy for him & he just never recovered from it.

I do think there have been some clues for the faithful this series. But time and time ain't it seems that people would rather cite being too loud/ quiet and adding too much/ little as proof rather than looking at patterns of play and using logic.

Jessie used logic about both the library and the cages but in this series the faithful don't seem to be good at forming alliances so she just didn't get the numbers in time. If Diane and some of the other faithfuls from series 2 and Alexander and some from Series 3 had been in the castle with Jessie I'd predict a faithful victory.

I agree it got him off to a terrible start and he never really recovered. He let it get into his head and assumed everyone else was equally obsessed with it, just like Brian the sheep.

Can you imagine?!?

Also, no one would take in a package for anyone else so Claudia wouldn't be able to deliver the traitors' letter to the murdered contestant.

I am hoping one of the faithfuls have their eye on Rachel but they aren’t showing us in the edit to make the final dramatic.

The traitors have been great to watch but I cannot believe the faithfuls are really this clueless!

Also think Harriet’s plan was always to dramatically leave early.

It was just bad luck for him really with the whole Netty thing. Out of all those people applying what are the chances that you’d know someone?

Only if the others know she's in their pockets. Given no-one seems to suspect either Stephen or Rachel at the moment, I don't think the faithful will realise it until it's game over though.

Not sure it was discussed much as we were all obsessed at who the ST was. It has crossed my mind though. Maybe we don't see the full edit and Ben had said more outside the library before to make him a target. Maybe Fiona shortlisted him as Stephen was also in the room. But Jessie wouldn't know that. But she's been dam good at acting on gut instinct, as is James, which is hard to explain logically.

They’re not related, Rachel is from Newry and Matt is from Londonderry, which are not even close in NI terms. They also have completely different backgrounds.

I'm hoping that as well. Surely, you would be considering everyone and thinking about their voting patterns and behaviour. A traitor has more of a reason to control their emotions. She doesn't appear to come up even when just mulling people over although didn't Faraaz mention her? I do wonder if his "when I think of someone I stick to it approach" is a way to avoid too much scrutiny of his choices by the others. But it allows him to keep his real thoughts closer to the final. I'm probably way overthinking that.

They have completely different accents to my ears.

Rachel’s not an amazing player, most of the others are just very bad.
She’ll probably win but I wonder at what personal cost. She’s not completing acting/ playing the game - this is part her personality. I certainly wouldn’t want to work with her.
But I also wouldn’t want to know Fiona, Roxy, Ben, Matt …

Guess we all look at this differently. I would be really happy to work with Rachel or hire her. Competent, calm, good communicator, good people skills.

I think you'd at least know where you stand with her. I definitely wouldn't want to work with Fiona. Would absolutely love to work with Stephen, James and Jack though. They seem like nice people.

Until they have been through the wash twice and revert to a dingey midcolour!

I wouldn't want to work with James or Jack. They don't seem very bright. James appears chaotic.
Smart is more important than nice in the world of work.

Agree with that but I don’t think she’s a team player and that causes chaos at work.

Yes. Rachel would be good to work with because she'd be efficient. James would be fun to go for a drink with.

I suspect Rachel is extremely good at the crisis management branch of comms. For me Fiona is the only contender who came across as awful in RL as well as in the game, all the others revert to something more standard and workable with.

Apart from I don’t think she has good people skills. Obviously sone people must like her but I think I’d have an aversion.

She’d probably blame her mistakes on you and everyone would believe her.

Yes I wonder if she’s always centred on Rachel.