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

Tom Scott | April 10, 2025



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.

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