Talk:The Mole (American TV series) season 3

The show's first episode says the pot can be worth up to $250,000; but this page's descriptions of the challenges gives me a total of at least $454,000 dollars; and the winner got $233,000, with the team certainly losing at least $17k. So what's with the discrepancy? TheHYPO (talk) 03:13, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

That's how it was with the opening on both Hawaii and Yucatan, even though both seasons' possible winnings were well over the $250,000. I believe the ABC people wanted a nice even number that was close to, and higher than, the winner's prize. In reality, none of the four seasons so far had exactly the possible prize given in the opening. I think season 1 was the closest at $60,000 over, while season 2's possible was about $100-$200 thousand above the million (that's something I've wanted to get an actual number on sometime soon). So it is something they've done before, just not to the extreme they did with the Celeb editions where the total possible was in actuality almost double the given value. S. Ellis (talk) 03:54, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

I believe the first season came up with a correct million dollar total IF you factor in that the Bullfight tienta was a "bonus" and I believe the sheep counting total number was also a "bonus" [I'm not entirely sure if it was stated as a bonus though]. Without those values, I believe the total ends up being a million dollars. TheHYPO (talk) 04:15, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Other information

For possible future inclusion.Doctorindy (talk) 03:00, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Order which the names were called during each execution

• Episode 1: Frederique, Kathy, Erik, Corbin, Kim
  • Exemptions: Stephen
  • Not called: Michael

• Episode 2: Kathy, Michael, Corbin, Stephen
  • Exemptions: none
  • Not called: Frederique, Erik

• Episode 3: Erik, Kathy, Michael, Frederique, Corbin
  • Exemptions: none
  • Not called: none

• Episode 4: Michael
  • Exemptions: Erik
  • Not called: Kathy, Frederique

Revised elimination table

Color key

  The contestant was executed.

  The contestant earned or claimed an exemption.

  The contestant was tied for the lowest score on the quiz, but completed it in a faster time.

  The contestant earned an exemption, but later declined it.

  The contestant had the lowest score on the quiz, but was not executed because they had an exemption in their possession.

	Episode 1	Episode 2	Episode 3	Episode 4	Episode 6 Final
Quiz	1	2	3	4	5
Starting prize pot	$0	$50,000	$42,000	$151,000	$151,000
Money earned	$50,000	$17,000	$109,000	$0	$82,000
Penalties	(none)	-$25,000	(none)
Total prize pot	$50,000	$42,000	$151,000	$151,000	$233,000
Kathy	Safe	Saved	Saved	Safe	Winner (Episode 6)
Frederique	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	The Mole (Episode 6)
Erik	Safe	Saved	Safe	Exempt	Runner-up (Episode 6)
Michael	Safe	Safe	Safe	Executed	Executed (Episode 4)
Corbin	Safe	Safe	Executed	Executed (Episode 3)
Stephen	Exempt	Executed	Executed (Episode 2)
Kim	Executed	Executed (Episode 1)
Exemptions	Stephen	Not earned	Erik (declined)	Erik	(none)
Executed	Kim Lowest score	Stephen Slowest time to complete	Corbin Slowest time to complete	Michael Second-lowest score	Frederique The Mole
					Erik Lowest score
					Kathy Highest score

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