From producer-director Jeong Jong-yeon, The Devil’s Plan brings together 12 savvy contestants to face off in mind-bending games of wit and strategy to determine who’s the brainiest of them all. They need to be cunning, they need to create alliances, they might even need to backstab — and they’re all stuck together 24/7 without their phones. Think Survivor, but it’s a chess game that takes place in a house with bedrooms that double as jail cells. Oh, and an anonymous masked man with a creepy pixelated face hosts the show.

Read on to find out which smarty-pants made it onto the show — yes, there was an entrance exam — and what the game’s all about.

Stream it now on Netflix.

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Though their backgrounds vary, every contestant selected to compete in The Devil’s Plan is a...