Was filmed in Fall 2019 for a total of 15 days in the same Salford, Manchester building as the original U.K. show.
Contestants were not able to leave their rooms without wearing noise-cancelling headphones, and/or blindfolds. They were also required to have a chaperone with them.
Sammie stated she was not aware this was a reality show. Rather, she believed she was applying for an extended game show.
What appears to be a text-to-screen messaging technology is actually producers manually typing in the words of the players including the emoji symbols.
Many of the contestants have a performing or influencer backgrounds but either decided not to bring it up or were advised not to. In Season 1, these players included Shooby, Bill and Joey fall into the first category. In Season 2, Jack and Bryan hid their modeling backgrounds and in Season 3, Danny hid his musical theater major.