Who could you trust? The person sitting next to you on the bus? An acquaintance you brushed past at a party? How about someone across the country you’ve never met? To secure a life-changing cash prize, a group of strangers must put their faith in each other in The Trust: A Game of Greed, coming to Netflix Jan. 10.

But this isn’t your typical reality competition series. Instead of fighting each week to get one step closer to the reward, the contestants are offered the winnings right from the start. What comes next, and how they choose to distribute the money amongst themselves, is where the game gets interesting — or better yet, downright dirty. Because in this social experiment, the players’ fates are in their own hands: No one has to lose.

Read on to find out everything you need to know about The Trust: A Game of Greed.

When does The Trust: A Game of Greed Season 1 premiere? 

The first four episodes of The Trust: A Game of Greed Season 1 launch on Jan. 10. New batches of episodes will air weekly for a three-week event.

Where can I watch the trailer? 

No deception here. You can watch the official trailer for The Trust: A Game of Greed Season 1 below now. 

So who’s in The Trust: A Game of Greed cast? 

For the first look at the 11 players who’ll be competing in the game, check out the official cast guide below. 

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Tolú 

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26, marketing manager

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Julie

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28, entrepreneur 

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Winnie

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31, bartender

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Simone

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55, unemployed

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Lindsey

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43, business coach

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Brian

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42, rancher

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Jake

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37, military contractor

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Bryce

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22, realtor

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Jay

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70, retired

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Juelz

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32, police officer

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Gaspare

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33, teacher

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How does the competition work? 

The Trust: A Game of Greed brings together a group of strangers from different backgrounds for a once-in-a-lifetime offer: split a quarter of a million dollars equally amongst themselves. 

That’s right — each week, no one has to be eliminated in this game. Contestants are, however, given the opportunity to anonymously vote each other out of The Trust — increasing their individual share of the total prize pot but potentially sowing further distrust amongst the group. Making things even riskier, just a single vote can boot a player from the competition, but if there’s a tie (or if no one votes at all), everyone gets to continue to enjoy life in a luxury villa. 

Over eight episodes, the contestants will be put through a series of tests to expose who’s a team player and who’s just there for themselves. The Trust: A Game of Greed doesn’t make it easy — in each round players gain access to The Vault, where they’ll be tempted with a potentially game-changing offer. Will the players put their differences aside and band together? Or will greed tear them apart? 

What are the tests and what are they designed to do?

You didn’t think The Trust: A Game of Greed was all about lounging around in paradise, right? To keep the contestants on their toes and help them decide who they want to split the prize money with, the group must navigate new tests each week. And, trust and believe, they won’t be easy. The tests will force the players to confront their biggest insecurities, long-held secrets, and past histories — all in the name of helping contestants decide if they can truly trust one another.

What is The Vault exactly and how do you get in? 

In this game, there’s always something going on beneath the surface — and the same goes for The Vault, which is literally located underneath the contestants’ luxury villa. Each episode, cast members will get access to The Vault using key cards. As for who’s lucky or (unlucky) enough to get a card, it’s simply a game of chance. The players are asked to select a key card at random, but only those who choose a key card with a silver stripe will enter The Vault together. 

Once inside, they’ll be presented with two offers: one that benefits them individually and another that helps the group as a whole. But whether they choose to share their decision with the rest of the team or tell the truth about their offer is entirely up to them. The only rule, however, is that they must accept one of the offers. 

What is a trust ceremony? 

Everything comes down to this: At the end of each episode, the players will meet with host Brooke Baldwin one by one and reveal their decision. Will they vote to cut someone out of The Trust or choose to keep on sharing the money with the group as it stands? Remember, in this game it’s majority rules, so just one vote could be enough to send someone packing. But if there’s a tie, then everyone is safe and the game continues. At the end of each episode’s ceremony, Baldwin will reveal whether The Trust has been broken or not — and if so, which player is going home.

Who’s the host of The Trust: A Game of Greed?

Veteran journalist and former CNN correspondent Brooke Baldwin will serve as host for Season 1 of the competition. After graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with degrees in journalism and Spanish, Baldwin launched her journalism career in local news with her first stint at an NBC-affiliated television station in Charlottesville, Virginia. She then went on to join CNN in 2008, where she covered some of the world’s biggest breaking stories for more than a decade as the anchor of CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin. Before leaving the network in 2021, the Peabody Award finalist served as creator and host of CNN’s American Woman, a digital series shining a light on the stories of pioneering women in politics and pop culture. Baldwin’s 2021 debut book, Huddle: How Women Unlock Their Collective Power, features interviews with Gloria Steinem, Billie Jean King, Stacey Abrams, and Ava DuVernay. To follow Baldwin on Instagram, click here. 

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How much is the grand prize? 

At the start of the competition, the contestants are offered $250,000 to divide equally among themselves. 

Who wins The Trust: A Game of Greed?

After seven episodes, six eliminations, and one secret millionaire (congrats to Bryce and his Gucci loafers), it all comes down to this. With Winnie and Lindsey voted out of the game, the remaining five contestants — Gaspare, Tolú, Brian, Julie, and Jake — must pass through one last test before they walk away with their share of the now $268,000 prize pot.

The players are presented with one final offer that will benefit them individually but compromise everyone else’s payday: name an amount up to $25,000 to take out of the trust to keep for yourself — and the highest bid wins. While many are tempted to collect the extra winnings, everyone decides to turn down the offer and stay loyal to the group, except Tolú, who breaks from the pack and bids $25,000 for herself. But she keeps her decision under wraps, leaving everyone to assume that The Trust hasn’t been broken — until Baldwin reveals the twist in the final moments of the finale. Despite the deception among their ranks, all five players choose to split the remaining money, leaving each with an equal share of $48,600. But, in the end, those who chose to look out for themselves collect an even bigger check. Tolú takes home $73,600 and Julie wins $63,600 after secretly accepting a previous offer to receive an additional $15,000 earlier in the game. 

For the record, Tolú has absolutely zero regrets about accepting the final offer in the game. “Less than 48 hours ago, all the people in the house voted off Winnie, and then they wanted me gone. I did not feel safe. I couldn’t trust them,” she tells Tudum. “At the end of the day, nobody’s going to look out for me the way that I’m going to look out for me. Yes, some people will call it selfish, but I honestly don’t believe that selfishness is a bad trait to have. This world is callous and unforgiving. I’m always going to have baby girl’s back — and baby girl is Tolú, period.”

While Tolú might’ve felt uncertain about her standing in the house, Gaspare says that he was the one to convince both Jake and Brian to save her because of the strong friendship they shared. “I was really, really close with Tolú and [told them] she’s not going to double-cross us,” he says. When she did, Gaspare feared that Tolú might even choose not to split the cash and vote out his ally, Jake. “I was like, ‘I’m going to have to Venmo him $20,000’ because the only person she really, truly trusted was me.” Ultimately, Gaspare has no hard feelings toward Tolú, adding, “I get why she took the money. I’m not mad at her.” Julie agrees, sharing that she and Tolú have developed a strong friendship since filming ended. “We’re so close,” she says. “We both kind of get the same amount of hate, so it’s something we really bond over and laugh over.” 

Julie and Jake, however, have gone their separate ways after sparks flew in the villa. “Our beliefs are way too different for us to be together as a couple, and so it does come down to compatibility,” she says. The two remain friends and are aligned about their nonexistent romantic future. “I’ve got nothing but love for [Julie], but we live vastly different lives,” says Jake. But the military contractor does still have some misgivings about Tolú’s choice, given the many conversations he says they shared about the final five banding together during the finale. “It’s more a point of contention for me, because she took [money] from [our families],” Jake says. “We were trying to tell her that we were never going to get rid of her, so we could’ve all left with more money. But, in the end, we were played the fool.”

Despite Tolu’s decision, each of the winners walk away with a significant chunk of change. As for what they plan on spending the cash on, the players are all focused on helping their families back home. Since the show ended, Brian adopted his son, whom he’s nicknamed Rooster. “It’s life-changing, adopting this little boy,” he says. “He is just truly my happiness. He carries my smile now.” Brian is planning on buying Rooster his first horse to carry on the family legacy. “I’m going to get Rooster his own herd of cattle and try and set him up for his own life of being a second generation rancher.” Gaspare and Jake are also looking to invest in their children’s futures. The former plans to save the money for a college fund, while the latter is focused on giving his son the best life possible as a single dad, in addition to donating some winnings to his local church. “My son is the light of my life for sure,” Jake says. “I’m rebuilding my life, just trying to get back above water. It’s been a real struggle.” 

For Tolú, her goal throughout the competition was to bring home as much money as possible for her parents by any means necessary. “When the check clears, I have already set my portion aside,” she says. “I’m going to give the rest to my parents to pay them back tenfold for all the sacrifices they’ve made and all the love and support they’ve given me.”