IS ANNA THE MOLE? - SUMMARY OF ALL HINTS - ENGLISH - WIDM 2024 - WIE IS DE MOL? SEASON 24 

Anna was at the top of my list after episode #1. She seemed to be in prime Mole position throughout that episode and the birthday balloon hint was pretty convincing. But...the group still earned 6,500 in that first episode. So if Anna was the Mole, she wasn't very effective. Given all the money that was removed from the pot later, I think the Mole's strategy was to lay low in Episode 1 to avoid suspicion. As the season went on, most of the Anna hints are clues (or alleged clues) inserted by the producers and not actual Mole actions. For example, the music note clue. This makes me think that Anna is the player who the producers WANT the viewers to think is the Mole, and not the actual Mole. In fact, I think they may even added in the birthday balloon as a red herring once they knew she was a finalist. Not to mention, she has brought in the most money out of all the finalists if you follow the money. But we shall see!

One clue you may have missed: Anna's card in the Dia Del Topo challenge is a crown. In episode 5, the crown reappears... as a very visible tattoo on the former Mole.

I will admit, there are as many hidden hints throughout the episodes pointing to Anna as there are hints pointing to Rosario. Before the season started, I felt like Anna would be a good mole pick. And she was on my radar for the first 2 episodes, due to her performance in several of the early assignments: -Frida Kahlo assignment: I still feel like the group that was unlocking the paintings (Anna, Tooske, Kees) was missing something here. I really think the paintings were color-coded to make it easier to find the correct combinations on the picture. But Anna was more than happy to just yell numbers back and forth with Kees. -Molympics: Anna understood how this assignment was supposed to work-read out two sets of coordinates, then stop and see what number is forming in the stands. But what she did was more like…read out two sets of coordinates, shove a bunch of papers into Kees’s pocket, and tell him to start reading the next set of coordinates. -Rock Climbing: All of the climbers, including Anna, claimed to have done really well with their quiz questions (spoiler alert: they didn’t). But after this…Anna kind of fell off of my suspect list. I guess she just seemed less suspicious compared to some of the other candidates. BUT, when I really think about it, it’s not like she has earned a huge amount of money. I don’t really do the whole “follow the money” thing, but it would be interesting to see how much money Anna has earned for the pot compared to Fons, for example. Because you would THINK that Fons’ total would be much lower. But, Fons did actually earn 1000 euros in the first episode. So maybe not?

My time to shine baby!!! My general Mol!Anna thesis centers around the idea that there was a point in the season where she carefully had to maneuver around Rosario and Fons' blunders/fake moling. She pulled a little bit out of the pot here and there and hid behind their follies when convenient. Sometimes it's not about who takes the most out of the pot, but who does it relatively consistently and suspiciously. Episode 1: The very first challenge, there's a part that always stuck out to me. It's when Anna is about to go into the fortune teller tent and she sounds...sad? Like her voice hitches and everything. There's a lot of fun and excitement going around and sure, having to step away from it momentarily is less fun, but you're about to start the season! I don't know why she gets weirdly emotional here...unless she's upset to have already lost 6 topitos? Then suddenly it makes a bit more sense. She's sad she didn't do well in her first mole outing. But beyond that, she loses her topito and is very suspicious in the art challenge too. Just messing about not collecting many paintings. Anna's Communist Plan is definitely there as a potential anti-mole action...until you realize not that many contestants followed it. I also find it suspicious that you don't see who Anna voted for (although if she followed her own plan then she voted for Justin, so didn't earn any money). Episode 2: Any of the final 3 could have sabotaged the Olympics task, so I'm whatever about it. No strong evidence for anyone. The questions on the mountain are a little more interesting, until you realize you haven't really heard the podcast so can't really know for sure the answers. And there's the problem of them saying an answer but not showing them type it in, so you don't even know if they really answered it right. It's editing shenanigans that I'm not going to make assumptions about one way or the other. Episode 3: The pub quiz game is whatever. Like not a lot of money being earned in each question, so the mole has some incentive to make the game go longer. Helps take money out of the pot. Anna getting the cockroach question right at the perfect time seems a bit suspicious. Anna not being at the puzzle in the second challenge seems rather suspect too. And she and Tooske miss out on the last 150 euro table, while not being able to provide that answer in the puzzle. Which didn't matter in the end obviously, but yeah. The wrestling challenge could've been moled by anyone, so a moot challenge (a common theme this season). Episode 4: There's not a big reason the mole needs to be on the bicycles in the first challenge. The first whiff of a joker in the season the contestants were gonna go for it, so the mole doesn't need to do anything. What is important is to let the previously eliminated contestant back in the game, and it's a lot easier to have that go off without a hitch if the mole is in the market. Anna spends a ton of time working on the Rubik's cube on the boat, and wasting time is a mole's bread and butter in the realm of sabotaging. Episode 5: Anna really takes the reins in the first challenge with the bad math. Not that it necessarily matters, but it all but solidifies the failure. The second challenge will be the best behind the scenes moment, but another moot challenge. Any of them could've sabotaged here. Losing only 500 euro in the third task is a perfectly respectable mole amount, especially when there's nothing the other candidates can do to stop you from taking the money out. Taking out a solid 3k feels too unfair. Episode 6: The Mayan math challenge could be one of those subtle sabotages that we don't get to see. Like maybe Fons sabotaged it...or maybe it was sabotaged before he touched it. Or maybe the mole didn't sabotage here because they were being watched or it's just one of those challenges they don't mole. Anna had an easy out being right next to Kees in the dancing challenge. Like it's the only part that got messed up and it's an easy way to sabotage while blaming someone else. Episode 7: It's mentioned at the start of the first challenge that Rosario and Babs are the strongest in the music challenges...yet Anna hogs Babs for 3/4 of the time on one mini task. Which is successful, sure, but it takes up so much time for a measly amount of money. For challenge 2, you have her dropping off contestants with the right names (getting them wrong would get called out later and be obvious moling). She also tells them their jobs, which just adds more info to complicate things and make it more challenging to remember. They also do a bad job of bringing people to the brunch to begin with (they miss out on like half the people), which she could have had some part in. (It will be fun to see the mole just ride by confused brunch goers rather than picking them up, or just circling around the neighborhood after picking people up to waste time.) She also played 'Integrity will be rewarded' the way I would expect a mole to play it. Bet a good amount on a contestant who looked at the questions. She also appeared to go later in the line up, which is important because if no one has looked at the questions yet she can do it to make sure 3k isn't earned if required. Episode 8: Anna is the second-least trusted, which feels important. Clearly she's on some people's radar as mole. She also doesn't seem all that surprised to find she's playing a laser game when it's announced (everyone else has an obvious reaction, aside from Rosario who isn't present). She also gets the smallest amount of money and is not great at defending herself against Rosario. The water task is one of those that just could've been moled by anybody, but I know the anti-mole action people will point out. To me, the pot is low enough that we don't need another huge pot drain (it would have been really demoralizing at this point in the season to lose even more money). Earning a really sad 80 euros is fine. Episode 9: She's obviously tested in the first challenge, so knowing she doesn't have a lot of money in her pouch plus knowing how easy the next task is to sabotage, she can make do with not looking obvious to both Fons and Rosario. We're also under the assumption that her pouch only had 750 euro, but what if it had more and she had a way to open it? It would be a sight to see the mole drop that extra money on the zip line. Although again the pot is so low a little extra in the pot doesn't hurt at this point. Anyone could have sabotaged the last assignment, so it's another moot point.