Traitors UK S2 Thread 5 - “Another man? Just like olden times”

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Welcome Faithfuls!

This thread is for Traitors UK S2. Posting at TV pace so if you are not fully up to date then beware of possible spoilers.

Hang up your cloak, and pull up a chair at thr Roubd Table.

Who would like to start?

I really like Jaz too, and have also wondered about unconscious bias. Nobody listened to him re Paul; and even he credited Harry with Paul's banishment. Maybe off camera people acknowledged Jaz's correct discernment; but it didn't look like it to us.
Though, to be fair, he hasn't been right about everything. He was wrong about Ross and Miles. But nobody has been 100% correct. He's done a better job than most at finding traitors.

@periodiclabel fair point!
I know Aaron helped his mum buy a house, so just an assumption on my part with the others.
It's nice it went three ways anyway, rather than just one person taking it all. I guess if people had jobs that made them miserable, being able to quit and do something that makes you happy is no bad thing?

Good luck to them. £33k is obviously a lot of money but it wouldn't last long if it was all you had with no other income. Their follower numbers don't look high to me by influencer standards but I suppose engagement is what matters. Actually I thought Aaron wanted to use the money to buy his mum something.

@NonPlayerCharacter agreed. £33k is a big sum, but we're not talking millions and millions here. It could be used to set something up, or as a deposit for a home like Aaron's mum; but it's not an insane amount. It wouldn't go far if squandered on cars and holidays etc. Entirely up to them what they spent it on anyway. Best wishes to them.

That would be such a great idea! They could move the pictures around occasionally to keep us guessing

Re money - I reckon some of the contestants would end up with lucrative opportunities anyway. Apparently Diane has had offers. I'd love to say it's not about the money; but of course, in these straitened times, it probably is a massive motivation for most of the contestants. Totally understandable.

I was listening to a podcast thus weekend, (apologies can't remember which one)

Apparently the origin of the game was one designed by Sociology students.

It was a game of chance to be selected but even though all the participants knew this they proved that natural prejudices took over logic.

I'd be interested in listening to that...

It was one of The Shrine Podcasts - The Traitors (episodes 7,8 or 9)

I was listening whilst running so it all blurred a bit. Something called Werewolf.

I studied Sociology so I thought it was interesting based on that premise

It's the same premise as Mafia, Werewolves, all those games. Did sociology students invent the concept?

ETA: Answered my own question. The Wiki page for the Mafia game answers it all.

The contestants are so din witted, they'd never work out the pattern!

Especially as the skipping if traitors would interrupt it!

They can't be even spell names like Charlotte, do you really think they'd spot the alphabetical order pattern that had a skipped name? Lol

Paul's attempt at the accent was dire in comparison, but I bet he thought he was great 😂

One thing it does show is that most people are not, despite what they claim, any good at reading people. Plus being a 'convincing liar' is not terribly difficult unless directly questioned. Kind of makes sense how some people hide their affairs for years, before being found out (if at all).

I know I'm not good at reading people, I am always taken in by people who seem nice. I am good at spotting a break in behaviour though, from people's consistent patterns, so I'd be quite good in a six-month-long Traitor castle!

I'm sure we've all had that experience where someone has us completely wrong but absolutely will not hear otherwise, no matter what.

I love how they just pick on anything and claim it is "traitor behaviour"...oh so u like beans on toast do ya? Proper traitor tastes you've got.... Definitely a traitor!!!

We played a very similar game as kids called werewolf, where as well as were wolves (traitors) and villagers (faithful), there were also healers who acted like shields and chose someone to save each round and seers that could ask about 1 other member each round.

We go on holiday with other families and play a murder game which is similar. There's just one murderer and they have to kill someone (or two people if lots are there) every day. Then at dinner, we have a round table type of thing, accuse a murderer based on votes and that person has to say if they were the murderer or not. It's much simpler than Traitors, but it is so much fun. If you have lots of people and can spin the game out for a while, people get really freaked out. And because you have to kill the person by actually telling them in person that they are dead, as time goes on people start to not want to be alone and go round in pairs to stop themselves being murdered. Of course, you don't want to pick the wrong person to hang out with...

I really love the idea of recruiting a murderer and am thinking how we could incorporate this if we have enough people!

That game sounds fab @BonjourCrisette ! Are there other rules? How does it actually work?

We play it as Mafia.

That's why I didn't watch it first time round, because I didn't fancy watching 22 randoms playing something I have to pretend to be interested in every Christmas.....how wrong I was!

I'm kind of looking forward to our next family gathering now....

(Mwah ha ha...)

Sounds like the least relaxing holiday ever!!! 😱

I don't like these kind of games at all! I was invited to a Werewolf type dinner party and I was mysteriously unable to attend. I can't cope with pretending and just find it very stressful.

I think I could enjoy it for an evening, but an entire holiday would massively stress me out

Yeah, Paul's attempt was cringe.

Other rules are minimal. You have to do the murder in person (no notes). At the dinner table, the person who is murdered must state that they were murdered plus vague time/location (and you can make up a funny cause of death). Then you have the discussion and it is obviously forbidden for the victim to do anything obvious to give the murderer away. At the start, we just pick bits of paper out of a hat and just one has an M on it. And murderers have to tell the truth once accused!

It is not actually stressful (but we are a family of slightly competitive game players and tend to have similar friends). We rather enjoy the slight fear of wondering if you are going to be murdered and the fun of trying to avoid it.

I would sign up for a Traitors game in a heartbeat if I didn't have to go on the telly!

Sounds fab @BonjourCrisette