The Mole 2: The Double Agent Strikes Once Again

The Mole 2: The Double Agent Strikes Once Again
Overview
Dates	March 30, 2014 & April 5, 2014
No. of episodes	9
No. of players	12
Set location	Southern Old World (closest city: Kitania)
Presenter	MinecraftYoshi26
Season chronology
Preceded by	The Mole 1: The First Betrayal
Followed by	The Mole 3: The Third Treachery

The Mole 2: The Double Agent Strikes Once Again, known colloquially as The Mole 2, is the second season of The Mole. 12 players, one of whom was the Mole, competed over nine episodes. The season's episodes were held on March 30, 2014 and April 5, 2014. The maximum possible pot was 70,000 diamonds, and the quizzes were nine questions. Various other minor format elements were changed for the second season, such as double eliminations. Episodes were now named after quotes from players during that episode.

Cast

Player	Home Country	Rank	Room Number	Finish
colaja953	Australia	Mod	209	Winner
KittyCat11231	United States of America	Member	210	Mole
6687kittycat	United States of America	Mayor	205	Runner-up
Soleurs	United States of America	Mayor	201	9th executed
hawksfan1010	United States of America	Trusted	208	8th executed
Benie	United States of America	Trusted	212	7th executed
wilywonker	United Kingdom	Trusted	203	6th executed
computerghost	United States of America	Admin	207	5th executed
Music3_0	Canada	Trusted	211	4th executed
gogojakeo	United Kingdom	Trusted	204	3rd executed
bensismith	United Kingdom	Mayor	202	2nd executed
Cortesi	Italy	Mayor	206	1st executed

Execution chart

The cast of The Mole 2.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
colaja953	IN	IN	IN	IN	WIN	IN	IN	IN	WINNER
KittyCat11231	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	MOLE
6687kittycat	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	WIN	IN	IN	OUT
Soleurs	IN	IN	IN	WIN	IN	WIN	IN	OUT
hawksfan1010	IN	IN	IN	IN	WIN	WIN	OUT
Benie	WIN	IN	IN	IN	IN	OUT
wilywonker	IN	IN	IN	IN	OUT
computerghost	IN	IN	WIN	OUT
Music3_0	IN	WIN	OUT
gogojakeo	IN	OUT
bensismith	IN	OUT
Cortesi	OUT

     Blue indicates the player won the game

     Orange indicates the player was the mole

     Green indicates the player won an exemption

     Yellow indicates the player won an exemption, but gave it back for diamonds

     White indicates the player was safe

     Tan indicates the player scored the lowest on the quiz, but finished faster

     Red indicates the player scored the lowest on the quiz and was executed

     Brown indicates the player scored the lowest on the quiz and was going to be executed, but someone forfeit.

     Purple indicates the player forfeit

Episodes

Episode 1 - "I'll Claw Your Face Off" -Benie

Episode 1 Recap
Episode Date: March 30, 2014
Challenge	Diamonds earned	Possible earnings
Teamwork Starter	300	300
Coastline Crusade	200	800
Current Pot	500	1,100
Exemptions
Benie	Chosen as Whiner
Execution
Cortesi	1st player executed

Teamwork Starter: The teams were introduced to the city owned by the last mole, Music3_0. The team members had 7 minutes to work together to find their way to the top of the church. An explosion was heard. It opened a hole in a building. The correct solution was to climb into the house of the explosion, make your way out, climb across roofs, then climb the tower to the top. gogojakeo reached it first, and gave the team 300 diamonds.

Coastline Crusade: The players were taken to a beach. The goal of this mission was to find eight items that had a specific requirement on it. They had ten minutes to find them. Some chests were empty while some were held with a block. They had to find the blocks out of 100 chests on the shore.

Benie, who was voted the "whiniest" player, could not have done anything. At the end of the challenge, they were told Benie had earned an exemption. The requirements were about specific blocks, for example, What block was placed first in Inchmuir? All of the requirements are told in the picture in the photo section for Episode 1. For each correct item found, 100 diamonds were added to the pot. 2 correct guesses were made and gave the team 200 diamonds.

Episode 2 - "Why Not Risk It All?" -Music3_0

Episode 2 Recap
Episode Date: March 30, 2014 Location: Valgirn
Challenge	Diamonds earned	Possible earnings
Lost In The Caves	1,600	2,000
4 8 15 16 23 42	1,900	2,400
Current Pot	3,000	5,500
Exemptions
Music3_0	Traded instead of 400 diamonds in Lost In The Caves
Execution
bensismith	2nd player executed
gogojakeo	3rd player executed

Lost In The Caves: In this challenge, The players had to search through the caves of Valgirn and find five chests each with 400 diamonds in them. They were given 10 minutes. The hints they were given were: Top of Testificate, the farm silo, Store 45, Fellen the Strong, and Alter of the Sever. They found all of them, however, at the Alter of the Sever, there was either an exemption or 400 diamonds. Music3_0 found that chest, he chose the exemption, which made the team lose 400 diamonds. The team ended up winning 1,600 diamonds.

4 8 15 16 23 42: The title referred to "Lost". The team had to search through the town they were in to find maps hidden in chests to recreate the numbers. However there were only a certain amount of numbers. There were; two 6s, three 8s, three 5s, three 1s, four 3s, five 2s. Each single digit number was word 200, and each double digit number was worth 500. Their final board looked like: 4 8 15 _6 23 42. They made a total of 1,900 out of a possible 2,400.

Episode 3 - "I Can't Believe I Made It This Far" -Benie

Episode 3 Recap
Episode Date: March 30, 2014 Location: Inchmuir
Challenge	Diamonds earned	Possible earnings
Storm The Castle	0	2,000
Siege The Castle	4,000	4,000
Current Pot	7,000	11,500
Exemptions
computerghost	Earned from Storm The Castle
Execution
Music3_0	4th player executed

Storm The Castle: The remaining players were teleported to Inchmuir and on front of Fyfe Manor. They had to find an exemption in the mansion. To get to the exemption, a player had to jump out of a window onto a ledge and find the chest in the corner of the castle, which was inaccessible if a player didn't jump. Computerghost found it and didn't accept the money offer.

Siege The Castle: The players are taken to an abandoned fort and told they must defend it from three aggressors. The targets are eight fires, each worth 500 diamonds. The aggressor's objective is to destroy or put out the fires. To succeed, the players must keep the fires safe for ten minutes. They had five minutes to prepare. Success in this task is worth 4,000 diamonds. The aggressors had iron and gold armor with stone swords while the team had leather armor but with iron swords. The players kept all fires lit for the ten minutes, resulting in them getting 4,000 diamonds.

Episode 4 - "Party In My Room" -KittyCat11231

Episode 4 Recap
Episode Date: April 5, 2014 Locations: Primerose & Ghasts Stadium
Challenge	Diamonds earned	Possible earnings
Hostage Rescue	3,000	3,000
Studio 8	0	1,000
Current Pot	10,000	15,500
Exemptions
Soleurs	Earned from Studio 8
Execution
computerghost	5th player executed

Hostage Rescue: In this challenge, the group had to find kidnapped computerghost somewhere hidden in the map. They had could talk to computerghost the whole time, all he could see is out a couple windows. He stated he saw snow, some type of wool line, and a reenactment of a Star Wars Battle. The group had ten minutes to find him. They had to find Primrose by the hints given by computerghost and his descriptions. The correct location was that he was in a statue from Lord Of The Rings near Primrose. All of them had to arrive to the place before time was up. They sucessfully all arrived there and the team earned 3,000 diamonds.

Studio 8: The remaining players had to search through many sheep inside Studio 8 (little did they know that hidden there was the final elimination room). The had to find the sheep renamed "Exemption" to receive the exemption. The longer the team took to search for the sheep, the more sheep were added. The sheep they were looking for was a small, baby white sheep. Soleurs found the sheep and he was offered 1,000 diamonds, he did not take it, making the team lose 1,000 diamonds.

Episode 5 - "But Wait, There's A Twist!" -hawksfan1010

Episode 5 Recap
Episode Date: April 5, 2014 Location: Eisitasi
Challenge	Diamonds earned	Possible earnings
Exemption Run	0	0
Exemption Confession	0	3,000
Current Pot	10,000	18,500
Exemptions
colaja953	Earned from exemption run
hawksfan1010	Voted as "least trusted"
Execution
wilywonker	6th player executed

Exemption Run: Players had to run across a football field and grab a wool and place it on the diamond block. However, the twist was that there were anvils falling and they had to run across and run back without dying. If they died, they would have had to run across again. colaja953 completed the task first and was awarded with the exemption. No money was offered.

Exemption Confession: In this challenge, everyone wrote down a list of the other six players from most trustworthy to least trustworthy. They had to sign the book and pass it to MinecraftYoshi26. The person that was chosen as the least trustworthy the most was hawksfan1010. Little did they know that he would be offered an exemption. He was offered an exemption or 1,000 diamonds. He declined. He was offered then 2,000 diamonds, refused again. Finally offered 3,000 diamonds and refused. He was rewarded with an exemption.

Episode 6 - "Blaze Of Glory" -Benie

Episode 6 Recap
Episode Date: April 5, 2014 Locations: Survival Games & Bloomington
Challenge	Diamonds earned	Possible earnings
Red vs Blue	0	1,500
Dumb vs Smart	2,000	5,000
Current Pot	12,000	25,000
Exemptions
6687kittycat	On Winning team in Red Vs Blue
hawksfan1010	On Winning team in Red Vs Blue
Soleurs	On Winning team in Red Vs Blue
Execution
Benie	7th player executed

Red vs Blue: This challenge was basic capture the flag. The six remaining players had to split into two teams, red and blue. On the blue team, 6687kittycat, hawksfan1010, Soleurs. On the red team, colaja953, Benie, KittyCat11231. The other team's goal is to break the other team's flag inside the courtyard. The team that won was the blue team. Now, acting separately, MinecraftYoshi26 asked if they would like to exchange any of the exemptions for 500 each. They all said no. 1,500 diamonds were lost.

Dumb vs Smart: The six players had to choose from either being on the "Dumb" team, while three others were deemed the "Smart" team. The "Dumb" group were presented with a series of eight different brain-teaser questions, and needed to select five to present to the "Smart" group. The "Smart" group then had 10 minutes to solve the five problems for 1,000 apiece. If the team guessed a problem incorrectly, they were given one minute to come up with a second guess. If the "Smart" team was unable to solve all five problems, all three "Dumb" players earned an exemption; if the "Smart" players got all of them correct, however, they would earn the exemptions. The "Dumb" team chose problems 1, 2, 3, 5, 8. The "Smart" group solved 5 & 8. The team ended up with no one getting any more exemptions, but ending with 2,000 diamonds.

Episode 7 - "I Thought I Would Have Been Eliminated" -colaja953

Episode 7 Recap
Episode Date: April 5, 2014 Location: Inchmuir
Challenge	Diamonds earned	Possible earnings
Diamond Mania	4,300	10,000
Anagram Mania	5,000	5,000
Current Pot	21,300	40,000
Exemptions
None	KittyCat11231 returned an exemption for 5,000 diamonds.
Execution
hawksfan1010	8th player executed

Diamond Mania: The players had to look around North Inchmuir to find a total of 100 diamonds, each valued at 100 diamonds each, resulting in a total of 10,000 diamonds possibly earned. The team searched the city for the diamonds in the 10 minute time frame they had. They had to look for them in trapped chests. In the final count, the team found forty-three out of a total one hundred possible. The team earned 4,300 out of 10,000 total. They made a decent profit.

Anagram Mania: In this challenge the team was teleported into a room and they all saw a bunch of letters. Each letter was made out of a different block. Some blocks were: Light Blue Stained Clay, Blue Wool, etc. What the team had to do was that they had to take all letters with that were made with the same block and once they have done getting all the letters together, they must rearrange all the letters for form a word, once having the correct words, then they must rearrange the words into a phrase and message it to MinecraftYoshi26, the host. If correct, they would be offered an exemption. The correct phrase was: "ONLY THE WISEST WILL WIN AN EXEMPTION.". KittyCat11231 got the phrase first and was offered an exemption or 2,500 diamonds. He declined. He was then offered 5,000 diamonds. He accepted that offer, and gained the team 5,000 diamonds.

Episode 8 - "Thanks For The Great Time" -Soleurs

Episode 8 Recap
Episode Date: April 5, 2014 Location: Ghasts Stadium
Challenge	Diamonds earned	Possible earnings
The Four-Thousand Diamond Game Show Drop	731	4,000
The Four-Thousand Diamond Air Drop	65	4,000
Current Pot	22,096	48,000
Execution
Soleurs	9th player executed

The Four-Thousand Diamond Game Show Drop: In this challenge, the four remaining players split into two groups of two. Soleurs and colaja953 on one team, and KittyCat11231 and 6687kittycat on the other. Each team had 2,000 diamonds to start with and they had to answer four questions to win. Each question had a four answers, one being correct, three being wrong. They had to bet their money and if it was wrong, their money would fall into the void. They were allowed to split their money on all the drops but one, meaning, they had to leave at least one drop empty.

KittyCat11231 and 6687kittycat went first and they ended up with 64 out of 2,000. Soleurs & colaja953 were next and they had to do the same thing. Little did they know that both teams had the same categories to choose from. Soleurs and colaja953 ended up with 667 diamonds out of 2,000. Which resulted in a total gain of 731 diamonds out of 2,000.

The Four-Thousand Diamond Air Drop: The players chose one person to run through a machine and catch diamonds falling from the sky before they hit the ground. Soleurs was chosen as the runner. The game was simple. The team sadly only earned 65 out of a possible 4,000.

Episode 9 - "It's All Ogre Now" -yeamanator132 (Spectator)

Episode 9 Recap
Episode Date: April 5, 2014 Location: Arisa
Challenge	Diamonds earned	Possible earnings
The Long & Winding Roads	4,000	12,000
The Dossier Race	0	10,000
Final Pot	26,096	70,000
Final Places
KittyCat11231	Mole
colaja953	Winner
6687kittycat	Runner-up

The Long & Winding Roads: The three remaining players are asked personal and revealing questions about each other. One by one, a diamond is hidden in a chest in hidden in the area. The two other players are asked the same questions, and must try to match the answers given by the hidden player. After each response, the two players go either left or right in a fork in the road. If they answer all three questions correctly, they will successfully guide themselves through the village and find the hidden diamonds. If they make just one wrong answer, they will go down the wrong fork in the road and will not find the diamonds. This took place at Arisa. The team succeeded at one person's questions, but failed the other two. This ended with them ending with 4,000 diamonds out of 12,000 possible.

The Dossier Race: All players were separated and had to race around the server to find three clues for each of them. They chose between 1, 2, and 3. They all started at the Mole Manor and ended at Arisa. colaja953 arrived at Arisa first and was offered 10,000 diamonds instead of the dossier. He took the Dossier, containing an answer to a question on the quiz, making the team gain 0 out of a possible 10,000.

Sabotage

Episode 1: During the first challenge, KittyCat11231 did nothing and tried to slow them down. In the crusade, KittyCat11231 had blocks and cleared his inventory when he found any.

Episode 2: KittyCat11231 tried to not find any chests and hid maps and threw items into the ocean.

Episode 3: KittyCat11231 poorly defended the castle in Siege the Castle.

Episode 4: KittyCat11231 failed to attract players to a false location in Hostage Rescue, trying to lead them to other snowy areas such as Kalmar. In Studio 8, KittyCat11231 searched desperately for the exemption to make the team lose money, however, he did not find it, but the team still did lose money due to Soleurs's decision.

Episode 6: KittyCat11231 tried to give hard questions to the smart team to make them lose money in Dumb vs Smart.

Episode 7: KittyCat11231 purposely did not "find any diamonds" in Diamond Mania. The Mole only just looked in chests and only deposited a few to look not suspicious.

Episode 8: KittyCat11231 tried to lose money purposely in The Four-Thousand Diamond Game Show Drop.

Episode 9: KittyCat11231 purposely answered from The Long & Winding Roads questions incorrectly and butchered the Dossier Race.