Strategies and mind games tips for show hopefuls

Dr Egan and Dr Scully came up with four key insights that might help future contestants outwit, outplay, and outlast rivals in next year's edition of the show.

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Manage your self-presentation

Survival in the game rests on convincing the other players that you are "100% Faithful" while being careful about how you do it.

Adopting a leadership role, like David and Niall early in the series, or coming across as too 'savvy', like Mark, leaves you liable to murder by the Traitors. But attempting to keep a low profile was seen as suspicious.

We have numerous different versions of ourselves that we present depending on the situation, such as on a night out with friends or visiting elderly relatives.

This does not mean one version is your 'real' self, and the other is somehow 'fake'.

The nature of the game is that players can be recruited as Traitors and thus must switch overnight from truthfully presenting themselves as Faithfuls, to continuing to present themselves as Faithfuls, while actually being Traitors.

Some players, such as Andrew, appeared to struggle with this switch, while others, such as Nick, appeared to embrace it.