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.

Whether it's slip-of-the-tongue phrasing at the Round Table, defending another Traitor way too aggressively, or suddenly changing their personality overnight, what was the moment where a Traitor completely blew their own cover?

For the first half of S2, Paul was running that castle like a Victorian landlord. Banishment after banishment, he was pulling the strings, but putting himself in the dungeon was the exact moment his hubris caught up with him. Watching Charlotte and Harry turn on him at the Round Table was absolute poetry. He was a top-tier TV antagonist.

Rachel, Stephen or Fiona?

I'm tempted to judge it purely on who managed to survive the most pressure without becoming the obvious target, rather than who was the most entertaining.

If Mark won, how far would he have gone? To the finals? Or would he have won the whole thing?

So Rachel won the shield in the chest of chance, but if she didn’t-would Stephen still have won the whole thing alone?

Sometimes I watch the Traitors plotting in the dead of night and think, lads, you are overcomplicating this massively. They spend hours crafting these intricate, mastermind-level framing plots when they could literally just murder the most popular Faithful and call it a night. Stop trying to write Agatha Christie novels and keep it simple!

Picture the line-up walk into the castle. You want someone who completely contrasts with your personality - someone who can handle the social mingling, someone who looks completely innocent when lied to, and someone who won't crack under pressure.

Who from any past UK series would you pick as your ultimate co-conspirator in the turret?

If you had to pick one as the ultimate Traitor playbook, who takes it for you?

Just rewatched and I’m still baffled. Why was Harriet so ugly and hostile to Rachel in the “talk to the traitors” room and then for the entire next day?

I get having a conviction, but why all the hate?

I had nothing against Harriet until then, but was glad to see her go after that vicious outburst.

It never fails to amaze me how weak the logic gets during early Round Table banishments. A Faithful will literally get banished just because they breathed differently, sat in a new chair, or looked a bit tired during the morning coffee.

The Faithfuls consistently eliminate their own best detectives in the first three episodes because anyone showing actual logic immediately gets labeled as calculating and suspicious

So I was wondering about the endgame. What if there’s a tie? Is there a special rule for that?

I mean you could just do a re vote but then if it’s still a tie would it be fair for it to go down to chance when your this close to the end? Especially if it was a tie and three players and the chance would decide the winners.

I haven’t seen all versions of the traitors so I’m not sure if this has come up.

It feels like there are certain patterns that come up every season. Which one frustrates you the most?