Rules

A summary of the league rules. Where it differs from the full rules document, the document wins.

How the league works

• Each manager picks five celebrities: one confirmed Traitor and four confirmed Faithfuls. Different managers may pick the same people. Later lineups need not keep that balance.
• Scoring follows game days, not broadcast episodes. An overnight murder revealed in a later episode belongs to the day it happened.
• Only the opening active lineup scores on a given day. Every ordered bench names one confirmed Traitor and may add up to three Faithfuls; reserves do not score while on the bench.
• There are no transfers. Active players stay until they leave the programme; substitutions from the bench happen automatically and start scoring the following game day. Faithfuls replace Faithfuls and Traitors replace Traitors, except a Faithful may fill a Traitor vacancy when that team already starts every live Traitor.
• Teams can shrink as the cast does. A vacant place may be filled later; a retired place is gone for good. Surviving players are never cut.
• Each team has exactly one captain per game day, whose points — positive and negative — are doubled.
• On the final game day, ordinary points double (so a captain’s are quadrupled). The winner bonus is not doubled by the final day but is doubled for a captain.
• Recruitment changes a player’s role from that moment; it is not a transfer and scores nothing itself.
• “Pending” is not zero: some totals stay provisional until every outcome and role is confirmed.

Deadlines

Send instructions to the organiser before each deadline. A game day’s instructions lock immediately before the earliest release containing any part of it. The last valid instruction received before the deadline counts; if none arrives, the previous instructions carry forward.

Times are UK time (Europe/London): BST (UTC+1) until Sun 25 Oct 2026, then GMT (UTC+0). Instructions are not shown here until they lock and the organiser publishes results.

Image credits

No contestant photographs are currently in use; initials are shown instead. Each photograph added later will be credited here with its creator, source and licence.