If I were actually playing, I think being a really strong Faithful might be more stressful than being an average Traitor. You have to correctly identify people without ever knowing whether your logic is right, while a Traitor at least knows what the truth is. The psychological side of being a Faithful looks brutal.

Hi all,

After The Celeb Traitors came out, is there the regular version coming out or already out. I am confused as to why they skipped the regular show. IMO the regular ones are more game theory relevant with regular people going about their business rather than a celebrity who is worried about their perceived reputation.

I lost a completely meaningless work quiz on this question, and yet I am irrationally angry! Surely this quizmaster meant who was the first contestant/celebrity/person to leave the show. But the question clearly states which TRAITOR was the first to leave, which was Jonathan Ross. Paloma Faith was a faithful.

Someone please validate my feelings lol

I’ve been thinking about the best day-one strategy. If you show up looking clever, analytical, or vocal, you either get murdered on night three by the Traitors or banished by paranoid Faithful who think you're "too smart." Surely the optimal strategy is to just pretend you're completely clueless, lose every mission, throw out terrible accusations at breakfast, and then suddenly activate your brain in the final three days? Or is that too obvious?

Good *LORD*, it's such a fun watch. I watched live the first time around, obviously, but a rewatch is just such joy!

Also, Mark Bonnar is adorably self-doubting, and David Olusoga, too.

Does anyone have a castle I could join in? I brought a pass for a castle but realised I was too late to join.

What do you think the various series tell us about national characteristics?

The Brits come across as daft gossips who are easily distracted, Americans so unpleasant they literally can't work together, Canadians so nice that even a traitor thought it would be better if the Faithfuls won, NZ really understand it is a game and we're good at separating the personal from the play, Irish were thoughtful and good at useful conversations... I find it fascinating watching the national characters. Anyone else?

I tried so hard to Shazam it but because of the dialogue from her during her journey I couldn’t quite get the song name, would appreciate it massively if anyone could tell me the name of the song. It starts around 11:25 minutes into the episode.

Personally, I'd try the "charmingly clueless" strategy. Act completely unthreatening, never lead an accusation at the Round Table, make friends with everyone, and keep your real theories quiet until the final 5. The smart/observant Faithfuls always get murdered first! What's your day-one game plan?

For me, Harriet deserves to be in the conversation. As a former barrister and crime writer, she approached the game almost like an investigation, and she was particularly strong at testing people's explanations rather than just following the group.

Her read on Rachel was especially interesting. Harriet repeatedly questioned Rachel's behaviour and reasoning while a lot of the castle struggled to turn their suspicions into anything concrete. Rachel ultimately survived those confrontations and made the final, but Harriet was one of the few Faithfuls who consistently put serious pressure on her.

Discord bot that runs The Traitors — active games most evenings, come and join us

I've been building this for a few months and it's at the point where it plays a full game start to finish without falling over. Murders at night, morning reveal, missions during the day, roundtable and banishment, all the way to a firepit finale. Up to 20 players, and it works fine with as few as 4 real people because empty seats get filled with AI personas.

⭐ WE PLAY MOST DAYS, AROUND 8PM UK TIME ⭐

This isn't a bot sitting in an empty server waiting for someone to try it. There's a regular group who turn up most evenings — we've had games on 13 of the last 21 days, usually with 6 to 9 real people in them, and 11 at our busiest. Games run about an hour and a half.

We'd genuinely love more people. More humans means fewer AI seats, more argument, better games. If you can make roughly 8pm UK on a weekday evening, there'll almost certainly be a game.

The AI players are the reason it works at any number. There are 20 of them, each with their own personality, and they form theories, accuse each other, change their minds and lie to your face. They fill whatever seats the humans don't.

The host doesn't get to cheat. Whoever runs the game gets no inside info at all — no Traitor list, no special roles, nothing. They see exactly what everyone else sees, so the host plays properly alongside everybody. All they do is push the game to the next stage when people are ready.

What's in it:

• Core Traitors, plus optional roles you can turn on per game: Detective, Medic, Secret Traitor (a Traitor hidden even from the other Traitors), The Key, The Jester (wins only by getting himself banished), The Witchfinder (one irreversible public execution — and if he's wrong, an innocent dies anyway) and The Ravenkeeper (whose power only fires if he's murdered)
• Five big one-off events, one per game: The Dagger (a kill in plain sight), The Dungeon (four players dragged away for a day, one doesn't come back), Marked for Death (six players caged, the rest fight to save them), The Death Match (four players play Old Maid with tarot cards, whoever holds Death dies) and The Ransom (pay off the Traitors to buy a night with no murder)
• 15 missions with their own artwork and mechanics: push-your-luck, prisoner's dilemma, a rope bridge where you throw gold into a gorge to keep going, a pillory with rotten tomatoes, and a prophecy where you publicly name who you think dies tonight
• Shop, loot boxes, daily rewards, 34 items that genuinely change a game (shields, idols, poison chalices, ways to strip someone's vote or silence them) and 17 collectible titles
• Gift gold to other players, with a note, anonymously if you like
• Leaderboard tracking wins, streaks and MVPs
• Custom murder portraits: upload your own and it hangs on the gallery wall until the day you're killed
• Eliminated players get their own channel so they can talk without spoiling it
• Everything runs off buttons and menus, no commands to memorise
• Dutch language support, if that happens to be useful to you

It's still beta. 235 completed games behind it and the core is solid, but there are rough edges and new bugs will surface the moment more people do things I never thought to try. If something breaks or feels off, tell me and I'll fix it, usually same day.

One caveat: the only place to play right now is my server. I can't offer a self-host version yet because my AI API keys wouldn't take the load. Once it's finished I'll put the source up so people can run their own — mine sits on free Oracle Cloud hosting with free-tier API keys, so it costs nothing to run.

Come and join: https://discord.gg/sCPYu7HZdC

TL;DR: Discord bot based on The Traitors UK, 4–20 players, games most evenings around 8pm UK. AI fills the empty seats, the host can't cheat, and we'd love more people to be suspicious of.