Betrayal At House on the Who (Doctor Who SPOILERS)

So, Betrayal at House on the Hill may be my favorite board game of all time.

For those of you who haven't played it, it's a semi-cooperative tile-based horror game with so many variants you will never get through them all. It also has a Legacy (campaign) version.

You explore the house by drawing tiles, then eventually somebody will trigger the Haunt, at which point (in most, but not all modules), somebody becomes the traitor and has to play against the rest of the group.

In this week's Doctor Who:

The party find themselves in a house.

Said house turns out to be non-euclidean and keeps changing...almost as if people were drawing tiles.

One member of the party is missing. He turns out to be possessed and in partial control of the house (the Traitor).

The house is outwardly stated to be "evil."

And there are two very direct references to the game. The coal chute tile is notorious for being a one way route to the basement.

And the phrase "You know these things to be true" is how the read aloud text for the heroes starts for every haunt.

So, fess up...

...just who gave Chris Chibnall a copy of Betrayal? Or maybe it was new writer Maxine Alderton to blame, although judging by what I can find out about her it seems more likely she was asked to write the ep because she's good at this particular kind of weird.

Either way?

I feel personally fanserviced. Like, did Chibnall read my mind and give me everything I didn't know I wanted?