123 thoughts on “THIS IS AMAZING”

  1. Gizensha

    I’m loving the ludicrously artsy opening few minutes for the first episode of the 12th series, there.

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    1. Brig Bother Post author

      I’ve not yet watched it, I’m currently watching series five they have up, which I actually remember watching some of years ago.

      The show has a very different feel to the english language versions you may have seen. Much raw-er and filmier.

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      1. Gizensha

        Based on S11 would I be right in assuming that the Dutch version doesn’t give free clues to the viewers such as putting the mole in alphabetical order under M for Mole rather than where he’d come up from his name in the opening credits, or the mole flashing the scrabble letters F and E to the camera?) like the British version used to?

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        1. Brig Bother Post author

          No, I don’t think that’s true, although it’s much harder to discern them when not in the native language.

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          1. Gizensha

            Yeah, just seen the ‘how we did it’ – there are some clues-for-viewers there, including the episode titles in some cases apparently. Nothing as fun as ‘first word of each episode makes a sentence,’ mind…

  3. greg

    Fantastic start to series 12, they mention jokers during one of the tasks, what are these? I assume they void an exemption is that right? They did not have them in any of the English language versions i remember.

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    1. Brig Bother Post author

      I’ve yet to watch it (I was watching another series, although I think I might do now), but I watched the Dutch one without subtitles last year and I *think* they’re free answers. But I will check.

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      1. Brig Bother Post author

        Ha ha, the first round of the bridge game is hilarious.

        Jokers ARE the exemptions i.e. free passes, but they come in token form.

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        1. Gizensha

          Yeah, the first round of the Bridge game is fantastic.

          Wonder if the production team are going to let them get away with losing their -500…

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      2. Gizensha

        Jokers are ‘one wrong answer turned into a right one’ based on – the difference between the tokens for the free passes and the jokers is that the jokers are made of wood and thicker rather than the green plastic disks.

        (Watching S11 at the moment, and they are very prominant in it)

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          1. Gizensha

            The way S11 goes, ‘exemption’ (free pass) and ‘joker’ (free question – and prominant enough in S11 that someone acting on the assumption that since they hadn’t seen any in the first two tasks of the first episode they’ll see a bunch in the third makes a twisted sort of sense) definitely seems different to me…

          2. Brig Bother Post author

            I’ve yet to see the translation for S11 (although I DID watch it last year), but it seems pretty clear to me when they talk about “jokers” in S12 they’re referring to exemptions. I do not doubt they might have other meaning as well.

          3. Gizensha

            Was it? I thought the suggestion was that “We haven’t seen any yet, so there must be some in this hay.” I might need to rewatch…

          4. Brig Bother Post author

            Mmm, I thought it was pretty clear. Especially if you listen to the conversation when the tokens are actually found and doled out.

          5. Travis P

            The German term for “joker” is basically the lifeline/wildcard. Which is why Millionaire calls their lifelines as Telephone Joker, Audience Joker etc.. While Schlag den Star has a joker but if used then Stefan Raab replaces the contestant for one game.

          7. Robbieazertyui

            Interesting threads here to keep my eye on.
            Native speaker to the rescue! Gizensha is right, joker and exemption are different.

            The green tokens they find in challenge 2 are exemptions.
            Jokers are free answers. They are wooden disks.

          8. Brig Bother Post author

            Amazing, thanks Robbie!

            (For those who don’t know, Robbie ran the Who Is the International Mole site, and pointed me in the direction of these videos in the first place).

  4. SquareEyes

    Jokers are used to redeem incorrect questions. So you would have 10 answers incorrect, 2 jokers are played -> 8 answers incorrect.

    The green tokens are passes for the entire test, either episode 1, 2 or 3. That is in the first episode of season 12.

    This site (in dutch obv) is where all the hardcore fans tear the episodes apart for clues and hidden clues: http://www.wieisdemol.com/forum/?topic=44826.0

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    1. Brig Bother Post author

      Which is what I said up there in response to Greg.

      But! Listen to the conversation! They’re definitely using the word “jokers” in it.

      Sod this, I’ll ask my Dutch friend.

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    1. Brig Bother Post author

      http://youtu.be/cNZzeS46HiY

      They first get mentioned about @ 6:20, although they’re a point of interest for the rest of the episode. Thanks very much!

      (I can’t get sound on my work computer, although I think the translation is pretty clear).

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  7. SquareEyes

    That is what I meant earlier – this one at 6:21, the green ones, are exemptions (vrijstellingen), so you will skip the whole test.

    The two other guys at the bridge, at 6:50 in part 3 ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=LI02NYi7hzk ), they are looking for the jokers (made from wood, blank-like color), the ones that will redeem the incorrect questions. http://widm.punt.nl/upload/jokers.JPG

    In two seasons earlier, they also had topito’s, which kinda worked like trivial pursuit in a short explanation. And a full topito would also result in an exemption.

    I think you were correct the first time, but hopefully this clears things up.

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    1. Brig Bother Post author

      OK – I keep hearing the word “jokers” when they talk about the exemption tokens, but I’m happy to accept your explaination. Thanks very much!

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    2. Poochy.EXE

      On a similar note, I came across an amateur version of Run For Money done in Animal Crossing (Wii version, I think):

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  9. Brig Bother Post author

    Ok, next question. We all know the Dutch like to borrow from film soundtracks for their adventure reality shows, and De Mol is no exception. But is the dramatic piano piece that plays when someone is eliminated from a film, and if so which one?

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  12. tom

    I watched the 5th series years ago without understanding it but loving it anyways. Now with subtitles this is amazing.

    I really like the style of it, it’s a lot less “OMG DRAMA” than the american one and a lot less “Forced espionageeee” than the UK one (even though I love both those versions too).

    I don’t get why channel 4 spends money on crap like the bank job and channel 5 is getting average ratings for big brother when this format is clearly brilliant.

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    1. Brig Bother Post author

      You have to wonder why ITV don’t try it on Tuesday nights. Worst case scenario is it flops (but that’s alright because everything flops on Tuesday nights), best case scenario is sizable number of people get into it and it grows an audience as it is the sort of show it could happen (I saw the numbers this pulls in Holland – 12 years on it’s still one of the biggest shows on Dutch television).

      Well no, worst case scenario is ITV fuck it up, but there you go.

      Coincidentally it’s the series set in Australia and last year’s series I had watched previously without the subtitles. And now I can watch them with! Actually I’ve just spent the last week watching the Australia one.

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      1. David Howell

        It’d draw a young, advertiser-friendly audience with approximately zero overlap with the apparently timeslot-owning behemoth that is Holby City. Even if it only got the same sort of *total* viewers as High Stakes, it’d quite possibly make more money for ITV than anything short of football in the slot.

        This is actually a brilliant idea.

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        1. Andy "Kesh" Sullivan

          I 100% agree with this, it’s high time the UK had another crack at The Mole. And with it being on ITV, you’d have a more recognisable name hosting the thing (although saying that, Glenn Hugill hosing it on C5 was nothing short of awesome!), but as Travis put down in the Blockbusters thread, I’d get the feeling they’d just use Ben Shepherd…

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          1. Travis P

            Nah. It’s more likely to be Michael Underwood if The Mole is revived for ITV.

          6. David B

            And there’d be a nice synergy, since he also lives in my locale of Kingston, as did Glenn at the time. As does Jimmy Tarbuck.

            Basically, it’s wall to wall celebrities here.

        2. Gizensha

          Producer would have to be Glenn Hugil, wouldn’t it?

          I think you’d have to assume ‘Year 1’ for the gameplay, and that they’d only twig ‘pretend to be The Mole’ as a strategy after it was too late to propperly pull it off, requireing the extreme stealthy sabotauges of David rather than the somewhat less subvert ones of Tanya, rather than the natural assumption in the second UK series that the contestants would be trying to mislead the others into thinking that they’re the mole (Allowing Tanya to go as overt as she did – although obviously she wasn’t entirely overt. My theories in S2 got eliminated as rapidly as they did in S1.

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  13. Beau

    I’m dutch and watch(ed) all the Mole series with my Scottish friend online, all the while typing like a madman to explain everything haha. It’s great that these subtitled episodes now exist! 🙂

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  14. Brig Bother Post author

    Episode two is now up, it features an amusing way of dealing with the team’s debt, and one of the contestants goes secret clue hunting. Fun!

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  16. ThatDarkSpark

    Hi guys!
    Good to see somany International Molefans united here!! 😉
    Robbie pointed out the link to me (Thanks Robbie!).

    I’m the one doing the translations together with a bunch of people (friends mostly) who help me out – since it’s a lot of work.

    I’m really glad to see you guys are enjoying the show! So are we obviously! 🙂

    Also if you have any specific questions or comments please let me know.

    As for Northern Ireland – someone else started episode one of that series. I wouldn’t recomment watching the first bit of it to be honest if you don’t know the moles of series 5,6,7 and 8 yet because they have a socalled Molejury in it – so it contains a spoiler in that sense.

    After series 12 we may do another earlier series perhaps, but please bear in mind it does take up a lot of time and everyone has busy work and school irl stuff too, so you might have to be a little patient. 🙂 But it’s a fun project and we are definitely looking into doing more if we can. 🙂

    Anyway, hope everyone will enjoy the rest of the series I think it’s shaping up to be a very good one sofar! 🙂

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      1. Brig Bother Post author

        I think you’re all doing an amazing job and it’s really appreciated.

        I watched S11 on the Avro Gemist site last year when I was very ill and really got into it, despite not following what they were saying. I really like the way the Dutch show is produced.

        Thanks very much!

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    2. Gizensha

      Really appreciate your work on the translation. I’ll probably have a question (About the Dutch version in general rather than you’re translation of it, mind), I’m just struggling to figure out how to phrase it.

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  17. ThatDarkSpark

    Thanx guys, I appreciate it! 🙂 I’ll pass your kind words on to my friends and fellow molefans. 🙂

    Gizensha, I’ll be happy to help out with any questions you may have. 🙂
    I saw a question you mentioned before about the hints to the identity of the Mole.

    Not all are revealed in the last episode since this is usually just about 3-4 minutes of the airtime. Usually the more elaborate hints (such as the musical hints and the twitter hints) are revealed on the official site.

    The hints vary very much. Sometimes they are kind of lame imo (such as last year’s goat in the bus because the Chinese zodiac sign of the Mole was a goat.. 😛 ) and sometimes they can be quite interesting and complex, linked culturally or recurring as a theme in the series. I won’t give away too much because it might be a spoiler for you guys if you ever watch the previous series. Suffice it to say though that the hints can vary quite a lot per series in terms of how creative or bland they are. 😉

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      1. Brig Bother Post author

        They are totally editing this to make Tim look like a very obvious Mole, and my gut says it’s a double bluff and he is actually The Mole.

        Or it’s Maartin because nobody would suspect. Also, ‘writers with a Q?’.

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        2. ThatDarkSpark

          You might well be right .. (About Tim I mean).

          Last week I was about to write him off since the edit made him look so fishy and suspicious.
          He did earn the €1000,- but then again Frits had already said he would take the money otherwise, so in that case Tim may have opted just to get the money and look ‘better’ for it wrt the rest of the team..

          I’m not sure, he does plenty to be on my list, and yet I get the feeling like it’s a trap – either as contestant set up like the Mole or like you say a double-bluff..

          Even rewatching it 3x for the subs now hasn’t helped me make up my mind about him, he’s a shifty character by nature too I think which doesn’t help. 😉

          Other than that options are still open, yet some people seem unlikelier at this stage – though in actual fact everyone has done things that could be qualified as un-molish (i.e. taking money where they needn’t eg). Except for Liesbeth maybe but she would make such an obvious (and nice but kinda dull imo) Mole that I’m just hoping it’s not her.. besides I haven’t really seen her sabotage a lot, but she’s definitely playing the game I think. 🙂
          BTW was that a good or a bad ‘Hmm’.. 😉

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          2. Gizensha

            Anne-Marie and Tim both shot up in suspiciousness for me this week, after last week I had a strong leaning towards William (Since my other main suspect got eliminated.)

            Tim’s “sharing everything apart from one thing” is almost as blatant as Tanya’s “I’ve been playing [as] the Mole since Day 1” in S2 of the UK version, really, and could easially either be a bluff or a [very unsubtle] clue.

            What about Frits, though? Can’t see much sabotage from him as of yet, but he keeps doing subtle off/weird things – Not asking about what questions he missed, trying to give away jokers to other contestants, etc. Then again, Marion was suspicious of Tim, Liesbeth and Frits.

            I have no clue what to make of the music playing during Hadewych’s green screen reveal, with the two beeps on her just before it, mind, other than it struck me as odd.

            Just, bear in mind when interpriting my comments that I have a really bad track record with this, to the point that I now almost expect the folk I think are the Mole to be eliminated or go on to win.

          3. Brig Bother Post author

            It may be a side effect of the translation, but Tim seems to say a lot of stuff in his video diaries that suggests a priveliged position in the game.

            Also maybe Dio was onto Tim in week one and Tim steered him away in week 2.

            The only hint that it might not be him was in week one when one of the contestants suggested it had to be one of the people who found the exemptions to set up the third task, and was sent home.

            I approve of Scattergories In A Speedboat.

          4. Gizensha

            How successful was Tim at steering Dio along any lines of reasoning? Dio strongly implied that he found Tim giving him any advice at all as being untrustworthy – Referencing how Tim had been helpful in, followed by whispering ‘Trust Nobody’. Not enough to convince me that he went all in on Tim (Which I seem to recall him saying he did) but certainly doesn’t discount such a possibility.

          5. Gizensha

            As for priviliged information, I got the impression this week that Tim considers being in two cliques at once, giving him access to the information both cliques aren’t sharing with the other [his clarification on what he allegedly meant by ‘except one thing’) to give him priviliged information, unless you mean beyond that? He might just be bad at doing video diaries after the fact as if they were during the fact, though I certainly considered it odd that someone wouldn’t pay attention to information being dispensed as if it was a prelude to a challenge (which in this case it wasn’t, but…) on The Mole, simply because someone else was writing everything down…

            I just found William more suspicious for the first two weeks; as I said Tim, along with Anne-Marrie, has overtaken him in my suspicians this week.

          6. ThatDarkSpark

            Just for the record, we try to remain as close to what is actually said in the series as we can. 🙂
            It’s not always possible especially if there are puns and things like that, or if there is redundancy because it would be too chaotic.

            But in this case I think this is pretty much literally what Tim said. He’s remarkably self confident (let’s keep it positive :P), which would seem an over the top Mole-ish thing to say.
            So OTT that it seems like it could be a bluff. EIther that or he’s almost bound to get an ass-whopping (pardon the term) somewhere because who is this confident at this stage of the game really..?? (‘I’m sure I will make the test better than anyone else’ .. ?!)

            I would have to agree with Gizensha that it seems the priviledged information, at least according to Tim, is that he feels he keeps tabs on everyone, and is playing a ‘smart’ game in that sense. He may well be, or he may be using that as a Mole-cover not sure. But it definitely stands out in his comments in the vid confessionals, yes. 😉

  19. ThatDarkSpark

    The 1 minute preview & teaser of episode 4 are online 🙂
    It seems they are going to:

    1. Do a challenge on an abandoned airfield/ airport.
    2. Do a challenge involving diving and (youth?) pictures.
    3. Have some tough negotiations about the ‘sunny’ future.. 😉

    Can’t wait!! 🙂 🙂

    Preview:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsy6B9LHbQ0

    Teaser:

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      1. Gizensha

        After the prisoner’s negotiation game, I don’t think it can be anyone other than Frits, Tim and Liesbeth…

        …Of whom I’m more suspicious of Tim than Frits or Liesbeth.

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        1. ThatDarkSpark

          I agree that it seems so at least at face value.
          been thinking about it some more and I can’t put aside this gnawing feeling that this may be a double-bluff of sorts.

          It just seems too straightforward somehow, plus the edit is making Tim and Liesbeth both looking so suspicious. This too can be a doube-bluff too as mentioned before but I just think that’s very unlikely, somehow.

          Judging by the polls and pools Liesbeth has been suspect nr 1 almost since day one and is high up there, followed almost immediately by Tim.

          The whole idea is to have some sort of surprise at the end.. So unless they are just building up to a two person race between these two in the finals (for which I do consider it very early still btw we’re not even halfway the series yet) I keep getting the feeling something’s off about this.

          Any of the actions of the 5 people (assuming the Mole was indeed among them that is..)can be explained as the Mole or as a contestant. Yet this whole red-card business makes Liesbeth and Tim look so suspicious it makes me very suspicious of that.. :p

          Hopefully I’ll feel on firmer ground after ep 5. For lack of better I’ll be putting Tim and Frits on the top of my list sofar even though neither convinces me. Liesbeth I refuse to believe, Anne-Marie might still be an option even if her reactions seem natural and can be explained both ways – she has been involved in things going wrong though so.. Hmmzzz… 😉

          BTW: Tim is indeed very shady, but that’s also his personality I think. His complete lack of facial expression is something that makes it so hard to figure out what’s going through his mind. He’d be a natural born Mole, even if he would turn out to be a contestant.. 🙂

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          1. Brig Bother Post author

            You will know the show better than me but after twelve series would it be a surprise to see someone who has openly been edited to look like The Mole to in fact be The Mole?

            But you’re right in another way because it’s going to be a great final if he’s in there. Funnily enough I’ve not really paid much attention to Liesbeth. I don’t think it’s Frits, I think he comes across pretty naturally.

          2. ThatDarkSpark

            Yes anything is possible of course. 😉
            I will say this though: We’ve had two pretty blatant Moles and yet they managed to edit them in such a way that they didn’t become prime suspects in the main polls until the very last minute.

            Some people claim the polls on the official site are manipulated, I think it’s more likely that they are badly managed. 🙂

            But they usually do give a good impression on how the average viewer sees this, and Liesbeth and Tim have been top suspects since epi 1 and 2 respectively.

            Sure, this may be a year in which they do the editting different, because each year introduces new factors, it can’t be ruled out. I just think this won’t make for a very exciting finale unless they are betting on pitting them against each other and betting on the excitement to come from that.

            I don’t know, maybe I am biased because I’m not a big fan of his moletactics nor Liesbeth. So maybe I am the wrong person to ask 😉

            It’s possible yes but it would be a first and surprising in that sense, because all of Holland would have thought: you see, I knew it from day one. And the element of surprise at the reveal has always been a rather important one sofar, to keep people watching. Even with the obvious ones. So yes it’s possible but I personally think they would shoot themselves in the foot by doing so. 😉 We shall see though I might be wrong. 🙂

  21. Chris

    Here’s something I found quite suspicious

    At 7:08 Frits says something quite odd

    “This is the only time I’ve voted red in my life”

    Would that be to imply that this game will be repeated again later in the series?

    Personal suspicions are Frits and Lisabeth

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    1. Brig Bother Post author

      To be honest I think it’s more likely a joke to do with political affiliation seeing as he was a politician. Although if it *does* come up again…

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      1. ThatDarkSpark

        Yes, everyone knows him as a conservative/ republican/ right wing politician. So him voting for red (for the first and last time ever in his life he says ;-)), is a joke, a reference to the fact that otherwise h never would do so, because ‘red’ stands for Labour Party and Socialist Party in the Netherlands. 😉

        There could be something more to it, but personally I think it was just a joke. 🙂

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        1. Gizensha

          Might be a cryptic reference to him being the Mole, I suppose – And then voted green himself.

          Frits is interesting because, yeah – He comes across as genuine, likeable, and trustworthy…

          …And by my count is only exceeded in potential sabotauges (and possible clues) by Tim (He seems to be about equal with Anne-Marie and William) – Him making the plane is something I find somewhat suspicious, athough obviously isn’t a sabotauge – I don’t think they were ever going to win that game, so it seems more likely for the Mole to have made the plane than not.

          …Then again, would The Mole have been active on the first few days knowing that game was coming?

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        1. ThatDarkSpark

          *lol* Yeah I know, William cracks me up a lot anyway. 🙂

          A few days ago Frits twittered that he and Tim were going to some play or something together. Then William, Anne-Marie and Frits were all joking to eachother what Frits would have to do to prevent Tim from running away again. 🙂

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      1. Brig Bother Post author

        Big sad face at the result, one of my favourite contestants. That lighting rig puzzle was probably a bit overcomplicated. Still though.

        Not long now until we fnd out I was correct from week one 🙂

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  26. Greg

    My main 2 are still in the game Tim and William. My evidence points to Tim but i just don’t trust Williams smile stupid thing i know.

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    1. ThatDarkSpark

      Haha.. I know what you mean though..
      My head keeps telling me William makes no sense.
      But then I feel we’ve had a few Moles that made much less sense than several other people who did more suspicious things in a way. 😉

      He would be the one of the other three that I still have some gnawing doubts about in case the whole negotiation thing was indeed, as per title of episode 6, a smokescreen.
      That I personally still find kind of hard to believe though because how would the Mole explain not even being part of one of the biggest sabotages (ito amount of money taken) ever in this series, and definitely in S12?

      Nonetheless, I am kind of still hoping for a surprising result because I really am not too thrilled about Tim and less even about Liesbeth as a Mole…

      One more thing though about Tim, ito being a potential Mole clue.

      Remember the 4364 code in the sign challenge?
      What if this is a hint to the episodes where the same Mole clue is presented??

      Episode #1:
      In an elaborate 10 min. extra the Mole resets the clock from 3 to 2. (3 -> 2)

      Episode #2:
      Tim is asked the question with how many people he performs in his trio: 2 (3 -> 2)
      We also get the code 4263 in smoke signals (!) and the same numbers return on question number 6 on the quiz, asking in which room the Mole slept. (Marit made quite a big deal about this code in the voice over).

      Episode # 3:
      Standing on top of the tower Marit and Maarten get a number of sums (the Mole tweeted that this series would be ‘mathematical’ at the beginning).

      They get 6 buslines and 6 people crossing the bridge (2×6 = Mole clue to Mole 12?)

      They are also handed two numbers in advance. 2 and 3 !

      http://i.imgur.com/DdGfy.jpg

      Episode #4:
      In the bunker challenge Tim is connected to the “3-1=2” sign.

      Episode #6:
      In the Fish challenge, first the contestants were allowed to change max. 3 beams, and after that they were allowed to only change 2. (again 3 -> 2)

      i.e. the same clue returning in episodes 2,3,4 and 6.

      I think this would tie in nicely with the ‘4263’ code, if this were a Mole clue. What do you guys think? 🙂

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    2. Poochy.EXE

      I also suspect primarily Tim and secondarily William.

      Tim plays the game like Craig from US season 5, who was also the Mole. The 2’s and 3’s ThatDarkSpark mentioned above only serve to reinforce this as well.

      William is just plain cuckoo, although this could very well be a ploy to make the other players think he’s the Mole, especially since he’s not very subtle about it.

      I’ve also noticed that 6 seems to be a recurring number this series. For example, the house number that Art was hiding in in episode 5 was 66. I’m not sure what this means. The numbers 2 and 3 also seem to crop up quite a bit; this could be a reference to Tim’s work as ThatDarkSpark said.

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      1. Poochy.EXE

        On a second glance, I think I just figured out one possible significance of “6”. In the photo shown at the end of every episode, Tim is the 6th person from the left.

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  27. ThatDarkSpark

    Hi guys!

    The sneak preview and 1 min. preview for episode 7 are online!:-)

    ‘Getting High’ seems to be the theme..:-)
    Whether it’s being ‘bullied’ by a heavy bull, facing their fears of hights or looking for mushrooms in a Spanish city where nobody speaks any English… 😉

    Also an epilogue to Episode 6 containing extra footage about how the contestants react to the execution and to the sabotages going on in the generator – lighttower challenge. 🙂

    Epilogue Episode 6:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q81MxyxIbl0

    Promo Episode 7:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAQY_Ipr0qo

    One minute preview Episode 7:

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    1. Brig Bother Post author

      Thanks! Another fun episode (although another sad result).

      It’s nice to know art history students on the continent are just as bad as they can be in the UK.

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      1. ThatDarkSpark

        Glad you enjoyed it! 🙂
        And I agree about being sad on who left. 🙁

        I think the question is, were they really as clueless as it seemed? 😉
        One thing is for sure though, Tim seems to have taken a hell of a detour. Not quite clear what he was doing in 1,5 hours except for finding a soul that speaks English out there apparently… 😛
        Someone on one of the forums checked all the places he went to on google maps. This was his route, according to them:

        http://i.imgur.com/mPBns.jpg

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    2. Poochy.EXE

      It seems like every time I become confident that a player isn’t the Mole, he/she gets eliminated soon after.

      Of the 4 remaining, Tim is still my top suspect, while I think Hadewych is the least likely to be the Mole.

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    1. Brig Bother Post author

      NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

      Well done on making Go Fish look tense and exciting.

      Well I don’t think it’s Anne-Marie, I think she comes across honestly.

      I don’t think it’s Liesbeth as e eryone thinks it is her, so it MUST be Hadewych!

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    2. Dave

      The episode title is “Tim, Anne-Marie, Liesbeth”. Perhaps I missed something, but is there any reason why Hadewych’s name was missed out?

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      1. ThatDarkSpark

        I don’t know Dave.
        We have these titles since last year, when they put clues in just two of them. But perhaps it’s different this year.
        I think concluding it’s a hint to Hadewych would be really obvious. Not saying that’s not it because the clues were quite simple last year too if I remember correctly.
        Another interpretation that has been offered is that these are the four of a kinds Anne-Marie collected for her exemption, or that all the first letters of the titles of the episodes spell something.
        The latter is quite speculative but we’ve had a similar hint last year with the tweets, so there may be some truth in it. 🙂

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    3. Poochy.EXE

      Well, crap. There goes any chance I had of being right. I had Tim as one of my top three suspects the whole time since the very first episode, too.

      Now my probability distribution is something like 45% / 35% / 20% for Liesbeth / Anne-Marie / Hadewych respectively.

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    1. Brig Bother Post author

      Thanks very much, will watch later. Once again, I really appreciate the work that’s gone in to these translations, thanks!

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          1. Brig Bother Post author

            I watched season 11 last year and didn’t remember it, but that is probably me. They don’t do it in the Season 5 they have up there. Unless I’m misremebering that already as well.

            The Dutch are quite unusual in one regard – usually a great setting for the finale, but the reveal tends to be the most straightforward thing in the entire series.

          2. Gizensha

            Didn’t they reveal who the Loser was at the end of the final leaving us to potentially reevaluate over the week?

            Course, I might be misremembering…

          3. ThatDarkSpark

            Yes they revealed the loser last year. In some seasons they reveal the winner, or nothing like this year.

            We were led to believe the loser would be revealed at least but no.. Not sure why not perhaps they want people to speculate more this season, for all three ladies could still be the Mole basically. Last year I think for most people it was clear it was between the winner and the Mole. 🙂

            This is pure speculation though. 🙂

  32. ThatDarkSpark

    Episode 10 of the 12th Mole series is online now with the Final Reveal, Mole sabotages and Mole clues. Also a few extra clips 😉

    Hope you’ll enjoy it! 🙂

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      1. Brig Bother Post author

        I love, LOVE that Anne-Marie’s face was on all the banknotes, and nobody noticed.

        Great final, great series. Thanks for all your and your friend’s hard work.

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  33. ThatDarkSpark

    Thanks guys, I’m really glad you enjoyed it!
    I will pass on your kind words to my friends who helped out with the translations 🙂

    Well sofar this has only been a rumor and I don’t know if it will materialize, so I don’t want to get your spirits up just yet. 😉

    But alledgedly there have been many changes in the Belgian tv-landscape where the original producer of the original series (Woestijnvis) are collaborating intensively with a new tv commercial tv channel that is trying to compete with the public network.

    Apparently the core (?) of the original producers have said in an interview that they might possibly bring another Mole series too since the format is still doing so well in the Netherlands for 12 years now.

    I’m not sure if these rumors will be substantiated but it would be very interesting and exciting to see the country of origin of the Mole produce another series, after their wonderful 3 series that the show spun off from to so many different countries 🙂
    But this will for sure not be for this year anymore, and well, perhaps it will never materialize. I wonder how they would go about it so many years later, since they made a decision on principle at the time (i.e. not to milk the concept), and times may have changed. But I would love to see it, no matter what!!! 🙂

    Second thing is that perhaps, maybe, if we find time we might subtitle an older series, if enough people would be interested to watch?
    I can’t promise you that will be any time quick but maybe – if we can get out times and irl schedules lined up to do it, we will, if enough people would be interested in watching it. 🙂

    Anyway glad to hear you enjoyed the series, I did too! 😉

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    2. Gizensha

      I’d definitely be interested in watching, yeah.

      And thanks again for translating this series.

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    3. Dave

      Agreed, thank you very much for the obvious amount of hard work that’s gone into this and if you have the time for a future project then that would be great 🙂

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    4. Poochy.EXE

      I would be interested in watching past series as well.

      And thank you very much for all the work you’ve done to enable us to enjoy this show!

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  34. ThatDarkSpark

    Hi all. 🙂
    Just wanted you to know I have started a new project for S10 in Japan. 🙂

    It’s kind of an experiment/project for me as well because I want to see how things work with soft-coding instead (i.e. if people think that’s a good alternative). Mostly because hardcoding it took up so much time last season so I would appreciate any feedback you guys can give me (is it clear enough etc). 🙂

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    In order to switch on the subtitles, please press the red ‘cc’ button on the right lower corner and select ‘English’! 🙂

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    I’ll try post new vids on a regular basis but it’s summertime and I probably won’t be getting a heap of help due to irl stuff going on with my friends so just so you know. But I will definitely try to post new vids of S10 on a somewhat regular basis. 🙂

    Please, a request. If you have already seen it or know the outcome, kindly refrain from posting any spoilers here. Thank you! 🙂

    Hope you’ll enjoy it! 🙂

    The Mole Japan, Series 10, Episode 1 (full):

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