Queen Latifah originally signed on to participate, but dropped out a month before shooting to be with her family.
In one episode where the players are in a graveyard with tombstones that have actors and actresses who have died onscreen, there is a quick shot of a small tombstone labeled "A. Cooper". This is a joke to the former host of The Mole (2001), Anderson Cooper, who left after two seasons to pursue his career in broadcast journalism at CNN.