How to Play
Cloak & Draft is part prediction game, part fantasy draft. There are two stages: Pre-Show Picks, made once before episode 1, then Weekly Picks as the series airs. Pre-Show Picks cover two things: predictions about how the series plays out, and a Celebrity Draft, where you choose celebrities who earn points for you all series.
There's also The Recruit: one extra celebrity you add to your draft from episode 7.
Then there are the Series Awards: five categories about the series as a whole, like Funniest Celebrity and Biggest Let Down. Voting opens when episode 1 airs and runs all the way through, so you can change your mind whenever you like. Whoever wins each award becomes the right answer to that award's question in your Pre-Show Picks. The leaderboard updates after every episode.
The Traitors likes a twist, so new ways to score may be added during the series if the show throws something in that nobody saw coming. Anything new will be announced on the News Feed and added to this page.
Stage One · Before Episode 1
Pre-Show Picks
One combined entry, submitted on the Enter Now page, covering five sections:
Pick the Traitors
Name the 3 celebrities you think start the game as Traitors.
First Events
8 questions covering episodes 1 and 2. Unless a question says otherwise, it counts if you are right in any of them.
End Game
13 questions about how the series finishes, including the Series Awards.
The Hot Take
One free-text prediction about something ridiculous that might happen during the series - go bold.
Be specific, and pick something that might NOT happen. "Someone will get murdered" or "someone will cry" scores nothing: they are near-certainties, so there is no risk in them.
Aim for outlandish but genuinely possible, and name names where you can. "X will accuse Y of being a Traitor at the first round table and be completely wrong" is the shape to go for. If being right would surprise you, you have pitched it about right.
Celebrity Draft
Choose 3 celebrities to follow for the whole series. You earn points for what happens to them, episode by episode, whether they turn out to be Faithful or Traitor.
Episode Events - Faithful or Traitor
Faithful only - on top of the above
Traitors only - on top of the above
Series Milestones
Series Milestones - Traitors only
Stage Two · Once the Show Airs
Weekly Picks
There are 4 Weekly Picks windows, each covering one to three episodes depending on the TV schedule. A window opens once the episodes before it have aired, and locks before the next ones go out. The Weekly Picks page always shows whichever window is open.
Windows 1-3
Who is murdered, who is banished, Celeb of the Episode, who features in the Best Moment, who wins a shield, and who helps banish a Traitor (voided if no Traitor is banished that window). Plus 2 wildcard questions, written during the series to suit what is happening. Unless a question says otherwise, it counts if you are right in any episode the window covers.
Window 4 - The Finale
A set of questions for the finale: who is banished, who is murdered, Celeb of the Episode, the Best Moment, the final 3 celebrities, whether a Traitor makes the final 3, the winner, and one wildcard question written during the series.
From Episode 7
The Recruit
During Weekly Picks 3 you add a 4th celebrity to your draft, chosen from whoever is still in at that point. You pick them alongside that week's Weekly Picks. They only earn from episode 7 onwards, so nothing is backdated, and your original 3 stay as they are.
Scored exactly like your original 3: survival, shields, Best Moment and the rest. One exception - the Traitor "survives 5+ / 7+ episodes" milestones don't apply to The Recruit, since there isn't enough series left to reach them.