Five YouTubers. Five games. $10,000. ⋮ Money: the full series

I invited Rohin from @MedlifeCrisis, Sophie from @SophsNotes, @MikeBoyd, Sam from @Wendoverproductions, and @MiaMulder to play some games. They'll be tempted by individual profit over group wealth, in an environment designed to slowly break their team apart. But all they knew is: they'd be sat around a table trying to win cash: over $10,000. This is a show about trust, about loyalty... and about Money.

Games Producer: David Bodycombe
Games AP: Liam MacLeod
Production Assistant: Molly Williams
Runners: Edward Hubbard, Alice Rostant
Dealer: Chahna Windross

Camera operators: Jamie MacLeod, Aidan Bryan, Elisa Spigariol, Ami Bevilacqua
Camera trainee: William Davis
DIT: Rachel Hutchings
Stills Photography: James Gowdy
Gaffer: Marc Spicer
Spark: Jamie Montgomery
Lighting Trainee: Luigi Truscelli
Sound Operators: Tom Bartlett, Ollie Drummond
Graphic Design: Simon Buckmanster, Kate Willaert

Motion Graphics: Dom Burgess, Elsie Heersink, Josh Sherrington
Composer: Benjamin Squires
Editor: Jamie MacLeod
Edit Assistant: Rachel Hutchings
Colourist: Ciaran O'Brien
Sound Mixer: Dan Pugsley
Production Designer: Louis Grant

Special thanks: Khyan Mansley, Edith Windle, Caroline Hardman, Chris Dickson, Charlotte Dann, Grace Lee, Graeme Cole, Howard Swains, Jonathan Richards, Jonathan Warschauer, Joshua Felix, Kav Benepal, Mark Norman Francis, Matt Gray, Michelle Martin, Nat Aves, Nick Gates, Rita Wilcox, Ross Hroff, Sally Le Page, Tim Hall

Director of Photography: Ciaran O'Brien
Producer: Ashley Horne
Series Director: Sammy Paul
Series Producer: Cambria Bailey-Jones
Executive Producers: Guy Larsen, Tom Scott

Episode 1: This game is inspired by the Platonia Dilemma, from Douglas Hofstadter's book Metamagical Themas.
Episode 3: This game is inspired by the Public Goods Game, a standard of experimental economics.
Episode 5: This game is inspired by the Ultimatum Game, first described by Güth et al in 1982.

A Nebula Original
A Penny4 Production
© Pad 26 Limited MMXX

This was originally a five-episode series for Nebula: for this free-to-air release, it's been combined into a single omnibus episode. The changes are limited to: cutting the "previously on" sections; adjusting the music to cleanly bridge episodes; and combining all the credits into one end-of-the-series set.

(you can find contact details and social links there too)

[shunkazami]

"You'lre giving away 4/5 of your cash then"
"No, I'm ensuring I win $1000"

Damn Mike, that's actually really cool counter to the "loss aversion" effect.

[omnitroph]

Mike was absolutely the MVP. He was constantly accused, walked away with the least money at the end, and still held his end of the bargain.

[rubybun]

rohin: “youre giving away 4/5 of your cash then!”
mike: “no I’m ensuring i win a thousand”
tom: O_O

[TheRealSullyG]

This absolutely needs to be adapted into a full YouTube series. I would watch the hell out of it.

[singerofsongs]

The subtitles being color-coded to the player colors in-game is just stellar. Awesome video, super glad to see a game show on the channel again!

[MikeBoyd]

I still think about how this game could have went VERY differently. Thanks for having me on Tom!

[samwilkins]

It would be interesting to do this with complete strangers rather than friends and colleagues. That way Mike would've had no repercussions by walking out the door on his fellow strangers...

[crack]

watching sophie get screwed over time and time again was honestly heartbreaking

[maxd]

I think this with 5 strangers, or atleast 5 people who won't see eachother ever again, would make the final dynamic way better because I feel like Mike is never walking away in that situation

[ValueNetwork]

Sophie's honesty in Game 3 whilst everyone else played each other is admirable!

[richtigmann]

Even though Mike took arguably more selfish choices through most of the game and took the briefcase hostage, He's got my respect from round 2, he did exactly what he said he would and split it with everyone in the end even to his own detriment of having the least money out of everyone

[HofTheStage]

This was a perfectly solid use of an hour of my life. Well done! Enjoyed every second of it.

[Max_Jacoby]

My favorite part is when Sophie put $1 and nobody else did 😂 She's too good for this world.

[horvathbotons]

Mia really went "Im glad we could establish some trust by the end" while agressively abusing that trust in the whole entire game to her advantage

[nbmrbluesky]

If this isn’t already a Board game it needs making into one. It would ruin more christmases than monopoly

[oscodains]

I love that Tom gets to live out his dream of creating & hosting gameshows, yet as small one off productions between friends they remain fresh and entertaining.

[RealEngineering]

I wish I was available for this! My goal wouldn't have been to win, my goal would have been to make Sam lose.

[TreeCutterDoug]

While being honest and benevolent, and keeping the game almost perfectly fair... Mike actually walked away with the least amount of cash, though arguably, with the most respect.

[calebnissen]

Mike & Sophie were so wholesome and honest. It's really a shame they ended up with the least, but I'm glad it was as close as it was.
Really fun to watch!

[EngineeringMindset]

This was a intense game to watch, I feel like I need to go for a walk to just to calm down. Great work Tom, crew and contestants