{"id":240944,"date":"2026-08-12T19:47:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T17:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-bbnaija-s11-what-the-gambit-voting-reveals-about-sentiment-over-strategy\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T19:47:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T17:47:02","slug":"nigeria-bbnaija-s11-what-the-gambit-voting-reveals-about-sentiment-over-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-bbnaija-s11-what-the-gambit-voting-reveals-about-sentiment-over-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Bbnaija S11 &#8211; What &#8216;The Gambit&#8217; Voting Reveals About Sentiment Over Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"79\">When Big Brother introduced &#8220;The Gambit&#8221; in the first week of Season 11, it gave viewers a rather unusual choice. One male and one female housemate would be guaranteed a place until the finale, but permanently barred from winning the \u20a6160 million grand prize. On paper, it was a strategic decision. Viewers could identify potential threats, protect housemates they felt were valuable to the show, or simply keep certain people around while taking away their shot at the money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">But what happened with&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608120517.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Big Brother introduced &#8220;The Gambit&#8221; in the first week of Season 11, it gave viewers a rather unusual choice. One male and one female housemate would be guaranteed a place until the finale, but permanently barred from winning the \u20a6160 million grand prize. On paper, it was a strategic decision. Viewers could identify potential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,6553,50447,257,4687,393,14326,55136,15134,254,6986,7755],"class_list":["post-240944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bbnaija","tag-gambit","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-reveals","tag-s11","tag-sentiment","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strategy","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}