Half way through the series and the group is noticeably smaller.
 

WHICH CONTESTANTS REMAIN?
aussienetman 16 years old Male Queensland, Australia	baskio 16 years old Male Australia	danielhib 18 years old Male Victoria, Australia
nat_freeman_2000 21 years old Female Victoria, Australia	robbieazertyui 19 years old Male Arendonk, Belgium	shark_white_great_the 18 years old Male Victoria, Australia

After the group had started to split themselves up and work individually last episode, they discover they won't be able to complete this episodes challenges without eachother.

They discover their first challenge is what the mole sent a clue for.  Each of them are given the final parts of the web addresses and discover they each have two parts of a seven piece jigsaw puzzle.  The challenge is to complete the jigsaw by trading pieces with their fellow team mates - But only the first one to submit a correct and completed puzzle will be considered.  Have a completely correct and completed puzzle will allow the winner to choose their prize from 5 unlabelled boxes.  Submitting non-genuine piece(s) for the puzzle means the challenge is over for everybody.  The group have both this and next episodes to complete the challenge.

aussienetman automatically announces to the group "I will not be sending anyone my photo pieces. I am here to win. Not to make friends." shark_white_great_the thinks its a foolish attempt to make everyone believe that he is the mole.  So meanwhile they are given another challenge...

The group are confronted with six lateral thinking riddles.  Each contestant has been named the leader for one of the riddles.  The challenge for the group is to solve 3 out of the 6 puzzles.  They are allowed to ask the host for assistance, however he may only answer yes or no.  The group are limited to using 21 questions amongst themselves, where guessing a solution incorrectly is worth two questions.  If the group can solve 3 out of the 6 puzzles, the leaders of the puzzles receive mole clues.

The contestants discover they must work closely with each other to complete the challenge and they give their thoughts on each others puzzles. shark_white_great_the and danielhib both ask early questions, neither of their responses being much assistance.  aussienetman, shark_white_great_the and robbieazertyui all take big risks and guess their solutions. aussienetman is right, the other two are wrong and cost the group 4 guesses.  shark_white_great_the makes another guess and is right.  Two correct answers and only one more is needed.

As aussienetman is first to submit a correct answer, he announces to the group he won't be of assistance unless they gave him their puzzle pieces.  Trades occur and he is the first one to complete the seven-piece jigsaw.  The challenge is over and it looks like aussienetman has won the challenge.  But the host closely examines the pieces and one of them is not genuine, a complete fake.  aussienetman and the team walk away empty handed.  A vital question arises - Who gave him the fake puzzle piece?

Focusing on the lateral riddles, robbieazertyui asks the host a question that almost leads to the correct answer.  Thinking he knows, he guesses once and the once again.  But knowing vital information, he is still not on the right track.

The group receives an email from the host.  It says they may only ask 7 more questions.  Who has been using the groups questions?  Some of the group are pretty sure that 3 people said the host said their submissions were correct, but the host says he hasn't received 3 correct answers.  Suspicions raise as they know someone in the group is lying.  More guesses are made and they are only allowed to ask one more question for this challenge.  Luckily robbieazertyui discovers the relationship with his vital question and answers his riddle correctly.  Three out of six questions correct and aussienetman, robbieazertyui and shark_white_great_the all win a mole clue.

The group is told whoever can solve any one of the three unsolved riddles in under three questions and one guess, will win for themselves a free pass to the next episode.  danielhib is the first to try but he doesn't give a full answer.  He is given the opportunity to elaborate on his original answer.  Hours pass and baskio sends in two answers, shark_white_great_the sends in one. danielhib completes his answer but not after baskio had sent this first answer.  Only baskio's first answer is checked...it's correct.  He wins the free pass to the next episode!

The game is becoming more intense and they are all asked about their strategies of surviving the eliminations.

aussienetman: "Well... my strategy is to stuff up as much as possible making people think im not the mole but then thinking that i may be.  (Does that make sense??)"

shark_white_great_the: "I have been left feeling not as confident after this weeks challenges. I have changed my thoughts for the mole as well. Robbie now has been replaced as Corey. Everyone is just co-operating too well for my liking. I think I might be out by a mile, but I haven't a clue.  Corey (aussnetman) has now stuffed up three challenges for us all up to this stage. This is why I have changed my mind. He posted the wrong pic to the board, knowing full well if he stuffed it, the game was over for everyone.  I really feel I need the free pass to stay in this game. I still haven't been able to figure out how to get the answers to the type of questions asked in the questionaire. I just wish I could find out. I even asked some people for a trade of information this week; as yet no one has stepped forward.  Thats enough this week, hope to back here next week writing again :)"

baskio: "At the moment my strategy is to be aware, very aware!!!! In the hunt for the mole, one has be attentive and interested in the game and always checking what's happening and where each player stands in the scheme of things!!!  I have somewhat become slightly bewildered in the last few days!!! I'm thinking this is because a lot of contact with the players was needed for this challenge!! I hadn't heard from aussienetman or danielhib for a few episodes and their input has been somewhat interesting!!! Aussienetman is not the mole!! Although he'd like people to think he is - he purposely failed the jigsaw challenge just to arouse suspicion - it may of worked, yet not on me!!! Danielhib is my second mole choice! If it's not Dave then it's definatly him - yet I'm hesistant to put him down as my number one suspect, as I believe you need more involvement in the game to be the actual mole!!!  I think the final three will be myself, the mole (shark_great_white_the) and robbieazertyui!!! This works in my favour!! This is because even if we both suspect Dave as the mole - I shall get my questionnaire in quicker than he because of the time difference!!! I know - it may seem unfair but that's the aim of the game!!!"

nat_freeman_2000: "What is my strategy for staying in the game? Just keep my wits about me."

robbieazertyui: "I don't think I really have a strategy. I do try to get those mole clues, but I always just miss them. I'm not doing anything suspicious on purpose so the others would suspect me. I don't think that's a good strategy, because like that you will lose mole clues too. aussienetman is the mole! I'm sure of it now! I don't think I'll change my mind about it again, because that might be dangerous. Aussienetman sent in the jigsaw pieces and they were wrong... Now no one could win anything anymore. That's why I think he's the Mole. And someone has been asking a lot of questions. We suddenly had only one question left. Luckily we won, though. I think Aussienetman has been sending lots of questions and guesses to make the total amount of questions we could ask smaller."

She put in a gutsy effort, but it's nat_freeman_2000's time to leave.  aussienetman, baskio and robbieazertyui all guessed her elimination correctly.

The last female has left the game.  Five guys are left and they can hardly trust each other.  They receive an interesting challenge, the first time they are encouraged to stategically plot against each other.  Instead of having one big task they are given a series of simple mini-challenges they have to complete as fast as possible.  The catch is, once a mini-challenge has been completed, they must rank in order and vote off the person whose assistance they want the least in the following mini-challenge.  They continue this process until there is only one.  The ones who make it to the last 3 win a mole clue and the final survivor wins a free pass.  But because of the time restrictions, getting to that final stage is a lot harder than everyone first thinks.

They all start off with the first challenge as a group of five.  They are to create cartoon characters which represent the remaining five characters.  At least two of the group must work on it and the host needs to be able to recognise who the characters are representing without them being labelled.  shark_white_great_the and baskio, the famous rivals, amazingly work together and within hours produce interesting characters.  They are identical in looks but each one hold up signs which are unique to their characters.

The mini-challenge is complete and it's time to vote.  They rank in order who they want off the team.  The person most wanted off received 3 votes, the second most, 2 votes, and the third one vote.  Each contestants votes are order they are received is recorded.

aussienetman: robbieazertyui (3), danielhib (2), baskio (1)
baskio: aussienetman (3), shark_white_great_the (2), danielhib (1)
shark_white_great_the: danielhib (3), robbieazertyui (2), baskio (1)
robbieazertyui: shark_white_great_the (3), baskio (2), aussienetman (1)
danielhib: shark_white_great_the (3), aussienetman (2), robbieazertyui (1)

baskio: aussienetman (2), danielhib (1)
aussienetman: baskio (2), danielhib (1)
danielhib: baskio (2), aussienetman (1)
robbieazertyui: baskio (2), aussienetman (1)

With baskio and shark_white_great_the gone, someone else has to do the work.  This time it's aussienetman.  He creates a humourous website that forfills the requirements perfectly.  He puts in his vote for robbieazertyui.  With the three remaining not communicating properly, danielhib doesn't realise that aussienetman had already submitted a webpage, so he does one up himself.  However he doesn't place his vote in yet, wasting valuable time.  robbieazertyui doesn't make a page, but places his vote for aussienetman just hours before the final deadline.  Time is up and not all the votes are in.  The challenge is over for everybody, and nobody walks away with a free pass.

A nerve racking questionnaire is ahead and everyone is feeling vulnerable.  Everyone gets their questionnaires done almost immediately.  They are asked how they think the mole is operating.

shark_white_great_the: "By sitting back and doing nothing really. I hope I'm on the right track here. Hopefully I am, alas, if not it has been great to be a part of this game. The Mole has done well, because I can't really pick one person that stands out that far...I mean most players actually return mail. danielhib probably doesn't, and perhaps he is the mole, but aussienetman has stuffed so many challenges I still have to go with him. It got me through last week, lets see what happens this week :)"

danielhib: "Fairly quiet just like Alan, but is still posting messages so nobody becomes too suspicious"

baskio: "This is getting more and more difficult!!! Personally I think the mole didn't have much activity in this episode because he was voted out!!! But prior to this in the riddle challenge, I actually helped the mole get his riddle solved!! He personally asked me to solve his riddle and help him out!! I thought this was great 'mole' activity!! I obliged - solved it and he stopped another contestant from getting another mole clue!!!  Yet.....this was the first elimination where i was stuck between two people!! These are danielhib and shark_white_great_the!!! The only reason that I suspected danielhib was because he has suddenly become more devious in this episode!! He formed an alliance with aussienetman to out myself and shark_white_great_the!!! It's just seems sneeky!!! The other reason I'm becoming more unsure about my mole suspicions is because in this questionnaire in question 9, it asked 'Who did the mole give 2 votes for in the second mini-challenge?' and it didn't give an option of 'he was voted off before this challenge!!' and my suspect was - I'm just presuming my host made a fatal error!!! There are sooo many things that point to shark_white_great_the as the mole but then there is the touch of uncertainty!!!! i know the mole wouldn't be aussienetman because the statement below is so like something he would say, he is also a bad actor when he tries to make other people think he's the mole!!! Robbieazertyui and I have had a great repour with each other and I don't believe it could be him!!!! If I'm here next week - I'll be surprised because of my uncertainty and I believe that Robbieazertyui thinks the mole is danielhib because of the allaince thing!!!"

aussienetman: "The Mole is not helping at all.  But still seems to be making it through the game."

robbieazertyui: "This survivor challenge Danielhib doesn't do a single thing. And he sends mail to gang up against the others. So I'm back to Danielhib again."

Every week he was able to guess correctly who was going to be next eliminated.  Unfortunately, he didn't realise it was his turn. robbieazertyui and shark_white_great_the walk away with an extremely valuable bonus questionnaire point for the next round.

In last week's questionnaire they were asked "Who, out of the remaining contestants, said "I'm definitely superior to the other players, even though I'm bad at maths" in their mole cam?".  aussienetman thought it was shark_white_great_the.  danielhib thought it was baskio.  baskio, robbieazertyui and shark_white_great_the all thought it was aussienetman.

The host tells them that noone actually said it, but it let everyone know what everyone else thought about everyone's attitude.  It also gave the roles for the next challenge.  Because the majority thought that aussienetman thinks he superior and is bad at maths, he gets it easy this episode.  He buries himself in a treasure chest deep under a deserted island.  The other three have to find him on a treasure map.

The three that have to find him are each given different mathematical clues that gives directions to find him.  danielhib is given the coordinates of where they should start looking.  shark_white_great_the is given the distance they have to travel from their starting to point to aussienetman.  robbieazertyui is given the direction they have to travel from their starting point to find aussienetman.  Each of them are also told what one of the unlabelled points are.  If they are able to find the coordinate aussienetman is hidden in, the three of them win an all important mole clue, if they don't, aussienetman wins a free pass into the final episode.  Two of them must submit an identical coordinate, and their coordinate includes it's eight surrounding squares.

Meanwhile, aussienetman is given an individual task of invitnig 8 new members to play the second series of the game.  If he can successfully do this, he can win for himself a clue about the identity of the mole.  He gets to work straight away and starts advertising in other Mole Clubs.  A number of people join straight away and the tally goes up.  But the three treasure hunters are keeping a watchful eye on him.  Instead of just focusing on their challenge, both shark_white_great_the and robbieazertyui reply to his messages in the other clubs telling people not to join!

Though the treasure hunt is still in mind for the guys.  They all share their information with each other.  danielhib shares his reference point, but the others realise the name he gave is a mix of two seperate names arousing suspicion of sabotage.  robbieazertyui's direction clue causes slight confusion within the group, something a little bit suspicious.  robbieazertyui draws up a few diagrams and shark_white_great_the works on the calculations. danielhib seems to lose contact with his team mates, leaving them to do all the work on their own.  shark_white_great_the comes up with the correct coordinate.  robbieazertyui comes up with a slightly different answer, but just decides to go with shark_white_great_the's answer.  Both of them send in the coordinate J10, but after they receive an email from danielhib offering help.  They discover where aussienetman is buried.  He is at L11.  So close, but no cigar. aussienetman is into the final episode and the rest walk away empty handed.

aussienetman was on a roll for his challenge, but he hits a brick wall.  Six people have joined the club but only five have signed up for the game.  It is so far not enough.  He has a few hours remaining to get three more contestants.  Amazingly with minutes to spare, 3 more people sign up for the game, helping him reach his target of 8.  He doesn't only get a free pass, he also gets a mole clue.

The four left realise that they have gone so far, but one of them must go.  They all share how they would feel if they were eliminated at the end of this episode, just missing out on the final three.

aussienetman: "Well.  I am already a little annoyed at my teammates for believing that I'd say that I feel superior.  When I saw the email here in my inbox - I was like - HOLY SHIT!!  It can't be so soon!!!  I have been through so much this whole game and I think I have come close to being eliminated many times but by luck I have been ok.  I don't know if I'll be so lucky this time round. The other two players have played well and I'm sure that they will know a lot more than me.  It's been a great game and if I get booted I will hunt our host down and chew on your eyeballs.  I am going to win this game.  I'm sure of it.  I haven't noticed anything out of the ordinary.  But every week I've gone with robbie so that must be helping something.  I just hope that one of my other players still think's I'm the Mole and therefore will get thier questionarre wrong." (*quoted before he won free pass)

shark_white_great_the: "If I was to be eliminated, I would be bloody pissed off! I really think that aussienetman is the mole, am positive that robbieazertyui is not, although unsure about danielhib. However, I have been with aussienetman for a while now, and I'm not changing now!  The mole, who is on his own this week, made an appeareance over at the ABC Mole Yahoo Cub asking for members to join so he could get a clue. I wrote a reply basically saying that you really don't need to get the number of members, did he? Perhaps I gave myself away a bit, I dunno (to robbieazertyui and danielhib) :) Nevermind."

robbieazertyui: "I would really be devastated. But still I had a great time playing the game. And I can say that I got really far in the game. I hope I can stay though, because then a Belgian can beat the Aussies :-) I still think Danielhib is the Mole and I'm not gonna change my mind anymore. I did it once or twice, but I think that's something dangerous to do. Danielhib was talking about 'Tyuga's Cave' in the treasure island challenge. But that place didn't exist. So now I wasn't sure whether he meant 'Topigna's Cave' or 'Tyuga Tree'. He didn't really participate much in this challenge too. The reason I think aussienetman has to go is because I think shark_white_great_the is very eager in winning this game. I think he suspects danielhib too, so it will be an exciting final... If I don't have to go that is..."

danielhib: "I would be disappointed. But to be honest I wouldn't be surprised. I have no real firm beliefs that the mole is who I chose, just a few things he has done along the way suggest to me that he is, and I have stuck with it, and gotten this far. As I am the last one to submit this questionnaire I would have to think I would probably be next to go. This weeks challenge has been difficult."

The effort and energy he put into all of the challenges maybe took the focus away from trying to determine who is the mole.  Noone expected him to be the next eliminated and everyone will surely miss him.

The last three remain: aussienetman, danielhib and robbieazertyui.  They face their final challenge and final questionnaire in this final episode.  Instead of getting something exciting and challenging as a big finale to the end of their series, the challenge tests other skills.  They are given something they are already sick of - a questionnaire.  The questions on the questionnaire are as follows:

Favourite Food:
Something you will never be caught doing:
If you were given one million dollars, what would be the first thing you would buy:
Number of hours spent on the internet per week:
Favourite Mole Online Challenge:

While they figure out who said what, each of them reflect back on the game:

aussienetman: "This has been a totally great game and I have loved playing it.  The only thing I disliked was the Eliminations!  Every week I had a fit whenever I saw the elimination link in my email.  It's been fun and sinister.  Not knowing who to trust and all.  Thanks, for a real fun game!"

danielhib: "It's has been an interesting time. The only problem I have with it, is that for a lot of the challenges one person could finish it in no time. Especially Dave. You can't really see sabotage when it is finished straight away. The experience as such is probably better that i have made it this far.

robbieazertyui: "It was really cool. I thought it would be very easy to catch the Mole, 'cause I was wondering what could go wrong over the internet. I thought it would be very obvious who the Mole would be, because everyone would do their best except for the Mole. It turns out I'm wrong. Things did go wrong with a lot of people. Actually, I think everyone has been acting suspicious. Including me (remember the casino challenge?)"

aussienetman: "I'm going to have to go with the Treasure Island Challenge as my favourite challenge, because I didn't have to do anything and I still got the Free Pass!  I don't have a favourite contestant as this is a game.  And I wasn't here to make friends."

danielhib: "My favourite challenge was the Lateral Puzzles. I love these types of questions and that, it really made me think.  But as for my favourite contestants - I don't think i still know these people, but Dave was good that he did a lot of challenges, although annoying for the same thing.  I don't like the loud mouthed contestants, who ever wrote that smarter thing, but not good at maths. You just can't do that. Oh, and anyone who is in the mole listbot."

robbieazertyui: "Actually I liked all the challenges, except maybe for this last one, because there's not much action in it.  I would have liked the labyrinth with the flags, but the others were too quick, so I didn't see much of it.  And although the challenge with the jigsaw pieces didn't have much action, I liked it too. It was funny to see how everyone distrusted each other and no one wanted to trade pieces at first. My favourite contestants? Well, everyone was great, but that's very stereotype to say. I guess I liked electric_sheep2000 and Baskio most. They mailed me a lot, so I had a lot of contact with them. I didn't have much contact with Nat Freeman, but that's because we have almost never been in a team together. Shark_white_great_the was great too. He was very eager in winning the challenges. I liked Aussienetman a little less. Especially when he said he was here to win and not to make friends. I didn't like that. But hey, it's game. It doesn't mean he's like that in real life too. I don't think he is."

robbieazertyui is next to hand in his questionnaire. baskio sends him a copy of his answers because he wanted him to win the game.  It worked.  robbieazertyui manages to score 11 points, enough to have the lead and get a mole clue.  aussienetman is not heard from and doesn't submit any answers in time.  So robbieazertyui walks away with the final mole clue, which could be vital in the final questionnaire.

They take on the final questionnaire.  This time it is twenty questions long and has questions about anything and everything the mole did throughout the entire series.  They have to rethink carefully whether their mole suspicions are right, because a few incorrect answers will seperate the winner and the loser.

robbieazertyui: "Aussienetman could be the Mole, because he isn't a very active member, at least not in the beginning of the game. But it's possible he just didn't send mails to me, because we weren't in the same team in the beginning. A very suspicious thing he did, was posting the jigsaw pieces on the messageboard, and one of them was wrong. The entire challenge got lost thanks to him.

danielhib: "aussienetman could be the mole because he was quiet early, then got more into it, wouldn't talk to me on messenger about the game. I don't know maybe because I haven't suspected him as the mole he could be, you know the one you least suspect."

aussienetman: "Daniel could easily be the Mole."

robbieazertyui: "Well, I think Danielhib is the Mole. He tried to confuse me several times and from time to time he wasn't an active member. Like with the Treasure Island challenge, Shark and me had to do everything and did nothing."

danielhib: "Robbieazertyui could be the mole because i have voted for him from round one and i have got this far, and i was the last one to put in my questionnaire last week but i'm still here. Also in a couple of the challenges he got wrong answers. In the photo challenge, when it was him, he put down all these people it wasn't, and went over the limit of responses."

aussienetman: "Robbie could easily be the Mole too.  But I've gone with Robbie since the very first episode so I'm gonna stick with him."

aussienetman: "Well Done! (bastard)"

danielhib: "Well Done, never did anything over the top. Played well.  If I win: You were a great mole.  If I lose: I hate you! lol"

robbieazertyui: "You did a great job, but I'm on to you!"

nat_freeman_2000: "I think aussienetman will be the winner, robbieazertyui will be the loser and danielhib is the mole."

menlover1986: "I think robbieazertyui will be the winner, danielhib will be the loser and aussienetman is the mole."

baskio: "The mole is danielhib, the winner will be aussienetman and the loser is robbieazertyui.  I don't think aussienetman deserves to win, it's just the whole time difference between him and Robbiazertyui!!!!! That's why!!!"

shark_white_great_the: "aussienetman will win this because robbieazertyui still hasn't quite narrowed it down enough, while three weeks ago Corey told me he would be there till the end. He's a safe bet.  robbieazertyui will be the loser simply because he thought he was gone a couple of eliminations ago. He might know the mole now, but aussienetman is much quicker with email responding, through no fault of robbie's, just unfortunate that he lives in a different country.  danielhib is the mole. He has done his job very well. Even last week when I was grouped with him, he convinced me that he had been busy last week. Ahhh, if only I had opened my eyes!"

aussienetman: "Thanks for a great game!"

danielhib: "I did have something to say, but i have forgotten.  Basically this was a very entertaining experience, thanks for all the contestants playing the game. I don't know how many ever thought of me as the mole, but i tried to act like i was the mole a lot of the time. Most times i knew what was happening in a challenge, if i didn't i wrote to the host. I played it a way i wanted to play it, never always there but at times i would come into the game and do a lot, then nothing at all. As we get to the end one of us will be abby, jan and alan. Sayonara"

robbieazertyui: "Thank you riqay for a very nice, cool, great game!  Thanks fellow mole contestants, for keeping this game fun! I can't wait till Monday... . . .  .  .   ."