Emily Atack and Danny Dyer host a strategic reality quiz, with 10 strangers arriving at a manor to compete for up to £100,000 in a game where survival depends not only on how clever players are, but how intelligent the others think they are. The first private pod quiz introduces the show's central tension, with money being earned in secret, then publicly declared. Exaggeration, denial and bluffing creep in fast, leaving the group unsure who to trust