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“The Traitors”, a reality TV show, offers a useful economics lesson

It is a finite, sequential, incomplete information game

Claudia Winkleman, a television presenter with a helmet of shiny hair, is not a typical economics teacher. Those learning outside Britain may opt for any of the 20 or so versions of “The Traitors” screened elsewhere, including a popular American option that has featured celebrities such as Deontay Wilder, a boxing great, and John Bercow, a disgraced British parliamentarian. This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline “All fun and games”

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