| Genre: | Reality competition |
| Presenter: | Angela Groothuizen Pieter Jan Hagens Art Rooijakkers Rik van de Westelaken Junior seasons Sipke Jan Bousema Art Rooijakkers |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Language: | Dutch |
| Num Seasons: | 26 (including 2 Junior series and 1 Jubilee series) |
| Num Episodes: | 181 |
| Runtime: | 50 minutes |
| Company: | IDTV |
| Network: | AVRO AVROTROS |
| Last Aired: | present |
| Related: | De Mol |
Wie is de Mol? (English: Who is the Mole?) is a Dutch adventure reality competition show. It is based on the Belgian show De Mol, the original version of the format created in 1998 by Woestijnvis and broadcast on VRT.
Wie is de Mol? is a reality television competition involving 10 candidates. These candidates travel to a foreign country where they have to complete assignments to earn money to fill the prize pot. However, one of the participants is the Mole. The mole's goal is to sabotage the assignments and cause the other candidates to fail and to keep the total amount of money in the pot as low as possible. The other candidates do not know who the mole is, and have to find out who this mole is.
At the end of every episode the candidates take a multiple choice test about the mole's identity. The test contains 20 questions (40 questions in the final test) about the mole's activities since the previous test and personal questions about the mole (for example, "On which team was the mole during the castle-assignment" or "Has the mole been baptized?"). With the help of 'jokers', which they can earn during the assignments, the contestants can turn incorrect test answers into correct answers.
The person with the fewest correct answers is then eliminated from the show. In most series this process continues until only two contestants and the mole remain. The winner is the person with the most correct answers in the final test and he or she gets all of the money earned during the previous stages of the game.
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The first four seasons of Wie is de Mol? had ordinary people as participants. After the break in 2004, all participants in the following seasons were Dutch celebrities.
The 7th season in 2007 was the first season to have four finalists, with two runner-ups.
The 18th season in 2018 was the first to be located in six countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine, and Georgia.
In September 2020, a special jubilee season aired in celebration of twenty seasons of Wie is de Mol?.
| Season | Start date | Host | The Mole | Winner | Runner-up/s | Amount won | International destination | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Angela Groothuizen | Deborah | Petra | Robin | ƒ82,500. | Australia | |||
| 2 | January 5, 2001 | Nico | Sigrid | Yvonne | ƒ70,000 | Scotland | |||
| 3 | February 8, 2002 | George | John | Jantien | €42,300.- | Portugal | |||
| 4 | March 15, 2003 | Elise | Ron | Chandrika | €35,550.- | Canada | |||
| 5 | January 14, 2005 | Yvon Jaspers | Marc-Marie Huijbregts | €23,000.- | Australia Indonesia (Bali) | ||||
| 6 | March 10, 2006 | €24,475.- | Argentina | ||||||
| 7 | January 4, 2007 | Renate Verbaan | Eva van der Gucht | €17,300.- | Thailand | ||||
| 8 | January 3, 2008 | Pieter Jan Hagens | €20,375.- | Mexico | |||||
| 9 | January 8, 2009 | €22,650.- | Northern Ireland Jordan | ||||||
| 10 | January 7, 2010 | Frits Sissing | €21,950.- | Japan | |||||
| 11 | January 6, 2011 | Art Rooijakkers | €19,540.- | El Salvador Nicaragua | |||||
| 12 | January 5, 2012 | Art Rooijakkers | €12,601.- | Iceland Spain (Andalusia) | |||||
| 13 | January 3, 2013 | €17,120.- | South Africa | ||||||
| 14 | January 2, 2014 | Susan Visser | Sofie van den Enk | €16,700.- | Hong Kong Philippines | ||||
| 15 | January 1, 2015 | Rik van de Westelaken | €10,500.- | Sri Lanka | |||||
| 16 | January 2, 2016 | Tim Hofman | Annemieke Schollaardt | €13,020.- | Dominican Republic | ||||
| 17 | January 7, 2017 | Thomas Cammaert | €24,320.- | ||||||
| 18 | January 6, 2018 | Jan Versteegh | Olcay Gulsen | €17,750.- | Georgia | ||||
| 19 | January 5, 2019 | Rik van de Westelaken | Sarah Chronis | Niels Littooij | €10,150.- | Colombia | |||
| 20 | January 11, 2020 | Miljuschka Witzenhausen | Nathan Rutjes | €13,400.- | China (Henan) | ||||
| JB | September 5, 2020 | Jeroen Kijk in de Vegte | Nikkie de Jager | Tygo Gernandt | €12,580.- | Italy (Tuscany) | |||
| 21 | January 2, 2021 | Renée Fokker | €9,675.- | ||||||
| 22 | January 1, 2022 | Kim-Lian van der Meij | €8,065.- | ||||||
| 23 | January 7, 2023 | Ranomi Kromowidjojo | €11,650.- | South Africa | |||||
| 24 | January 6, 2024 | €8.585.- | Mexico | ||||||
| STR | June 28, 2024 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | Oman | |||
| Season | Airdate | Presenter | The Mole | Winner | Runner-up | Prize money | Destination | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 17 May 2008 | Sipke Jan Bousema | Amin | Naomi | Lara | 6970 Two and a half cent coin (Netherlands) (€79) | Zwolle | |
| 2 | 9 March 2014 | Art Rooijakkers | Jenny | Davey | Roeland | €1,020 | Maastricht Zeeland |
The 1999 and 2005 seasons of the show were both filmed in Australia (in 2005, part of the show was also filmed in Indonesia). The 2013 and 2023 seasons of the show were both filmed in South Africa. The 2008 and 2024 seasons were both filmed in Mexico.
| Season | Timeslot | Premiere | Finale (Reunion) | background:#ffdead;" rowspan="2" | Average ratings | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | font-size:smaller; line-height:100%;" | Ratings | Date | font-size:smaller; line-height:100%;" | Ratings | ||
| 1 | Friday, 20:30 | 19 November 1999 | 807,000 | 21 January 2000 | 915,000 | 793,000 | |
| 2 | 5 January 2001 | 1,070,000 | 2 March 2001 | 960,000 | 1,006,000 | ||
| 3 | Friday, 21:35 | 8 February 2002 | 928,000 | 19 April 2002 | 1,005,000 | 909,000 | |
| 4 | Saturday, 21:00 | 15 March 2003 | 1,115,000 | 24 May 2003 | 626,000 | 785,000 | |
| 5 | Friday, 20:30 | 14 January 2005 | 1,289,000 | 18 March 2005 | 1,485,000 | 1,450,000 | |
| 6 | 10 March 2006 | 1,168,000 | 12 May 2006 | 1,147,000 | 1,106,000 | ||
| 7 | Thursday, 20:30[2] | 4 January 2007 | 1,358,000 | 15 March 2007 | 1,270,000 | 1,188,000 | |
| 8 | 3 January 2008 | 1,922,000 | 6 March 2008 | 1,563,000 | 1,513,000 | ||
| 9 | 8 January 2009 | 1,597,000 | 12 March 2009 | 1,409,000 | 1,460,000 | ||
| 10 | 7 January 2010 | 2,040,000 | 25 March 2010 | 1,558,000 | 1,673,000 | ||
| 11 | 6 January 2011 | 2,146,000 | 17 March 2011 | 2,031,000 | 1,922,000 | ||
| 12 | 5 January 2012 | 2,136,000 | 8 March 2012 | 2,105,000 | 1,899,000 | ||
| 13 | 3 January 2013 | 2,070,000 | 7 March 2013 | 2,579,000 | 2,132,000 | ||
| 14 | 2 January 2014 | 2,455,000 | 20 March 2014 | 3,148,000 | 2,464,000 | ||
| 15 | 1 January 2015 | 2,486,000 | 5 March 2015 | 3,359,000 | 2,403,700 | ||
| 16 | Saturday, 20:30 | 2 January 2016 | 2,163,000 | 5 March 2016 | 2,982,000 | 2,114,900 | |
| 17 | 7 January 2017 | 2,882,000 | 11 March 2017 | 2,999,000 | 2,536,000 | ||
| 18 | 6 January 2018 | 2,669,000 | 10 March 2018 | 3,227,000 | 2,582,300 | ||
| 19 | 5 January 2019 | 2,986,000 | 9 March 2019 | 3,500,000 | 2,869,400 | ||
| 20 | 11 January 2020 | 3,002,000 | 14 March 2020 | 3,894,000 | 2,591,300 | ||
| Renaissance | 5 September 2020 | 2,665,000[3] | 25 October 2020 | 3,567,000 | 2,741,750 | ||
| 21 | 2 January 2021 | 3,117,000[4] | 6 March 2021 | 3,348,000[5] | 3,180,700 | ||
| 22 | 1 January 2022 | 3,120,000[6] | 5 March 2022 | 3,242,000[7] | 2,894,000 | ||
| 23 | 7 January 2023 | 2,634,000[8] | 11 March 2023 | 3,081,000[9] | 2,451,400 | ||
| 24 | 6 January 2024 | 3,717,000[10] | 9 March 2024 | ||||