Werewolf/Mafia/Whatever is currently quite in, and the Dutch show Die Verraders which is very heavily inspired by this starts this week – where an informed minority must outwit an ignorant majority without giving themselves away. So here’s how Japan did it:

Unfortunately we can’t find any episodes of the BBC’s 2004 non-hit Traitor with Tony Livesey.

Edit: Relevant and of interest! Gnosia on Switch (£22.49 at time of writing) which is effectively Werewolf as a visual novel, each game lasting around 10-15 minutes. In the 90 minutes or so I’ve played of it, there’s quite a lot of repeat chat and it could do with throwing a bone with regards to overall story a bit quicker I think. Still though, quite good characters.

Christ, I could have made a killing if Youtube was around in the 1990s. It’s Down From the Attic, a channel that looks into (mainly) old board games. Thanks to @undeniablyalex for the heads-up.

From 1997. På Rymmen evidently opts for the light-entertainment approach closer to our second series, interestingly only opts for two teams to follow and an extended slot.

And here’s a playlist for three series! Incredible.

Tons of cool stuff in the previous comment box that I don’t want to get lost so here they are in a post.

First of all, rather brilliantly, it’s Valvet, the Swedish version of Swap Team. Based on the original Norwegian version (we think) it’s played with adults and features EXPLOSIONS, and it’s fair to suggest there’s a slightly more grown-up theme to some of the games, it’s unlikely kids were ever going to get to use a blowtorch I expect. Almost four minutes of anagrams is a bit much (although there’s 1,000,000 Kr up for grabs, which is about £85,000). Their endgame was a bit more eliminatory and interesting than ours, and their ending labyrinth actually had a memory element not obviously present in ours. Most fun – the theme tune, which is the same as ours except with different lyrics. And still in English! Also: a viewer competition.

Also turning up yesterday Jakten på ökenguldet, (The Hunt For Desert Gold) the Swedish version of The Desert Forges. It follows the original French format pretty closely (with some differences – fewer games in the Desert, the route to the Forges).

In other news Netflix have put up two series of The Challenge, series 31 (Vendettas) and 33 (War of the Worlds) although confusingly they’ve labelled them S5 and S6.

And finally, Prime have re-added S5 of Aussie Survivor (Champions vs Contenders) to go alongside S3, no idea why they haven’t re-added S4 yet. Check your watchlists though, it appears to be a different listing to the first time they put it up.

It’s the 1st of March, so here’s an episode of daytime quiz Timekeepers.

Thanks to the Bother’s Bar Discord for bringing this up, the very first game of Wonga on The Big Breakfast, the end of the live millennium nine-hour special.

When they bought it back as a semi-regular thing, they added a seven minute chess-clock.