Just last week, Canadian Broadcaster CBR commissioned 27 episodes for the fourth straight season of their hit show Trade Up (original title Paquet Voleur). This Saturday evening prime time rating killer is unpredictable, full of surprises and manages to keep Canadian viewers locked in their seats.Trade Up is a high-tension game show full of surprises in which candidates fight for capsules representing amounts of money. It requires knowledge, clever tactics, a poker face, bluff, and nerves of steel. 

Each game starts with eight players and only half of them will proceed to the next round. In every following round, only half of the players can continue until we end up with only one finalist in round four. As a player, you can only continue if you are in the top half of the group which owns the most valuable capsule. But this doesn’t mean you’re safe. Your fellow candidates can steel yours, if they have what it takes! 

Players who are in the top half will do anything to defend their capsule while those in the bottom half will try everything to get there. This leads to three different options for each player. They will either:

1.      KEEP their capsule if they are top half and want to keep their capsule;
2.      STEEL another player’s capsule which they think will bring them into the top half. The other player will be stuck with the stealer’s former amount;
3.      SWAP their capsule with one of the leftover capsules in the middle, giving them a chance of drawing a capsule which will bring them into the top half.  
                                                                                       

Players can only KEEP, STEAL or SWAP a capsule after they correctly answer a trivia question from the host.

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