How to play

The idea

Every round, everyone answers the same question, like a group chat. But some players — the impostors — don't write their own answers. An AI writes them, in the impostor's voice, using what they told it about themselves. The impostor can only reword its draft (about 40% of it), not replace it.

Everyone else is a detective. Read the answers, talk it over, and vote out whoever you think the AI was speaking for. Impostors try to blend in and not get caught.

Starting a game

• Private lobby: create one and share the 5-letter room code, the invite link, or the QR code. Friends join with the code on the home page or by opening the link. The host picks the number of rounds, the timer, the difficulty and the question pack, and starts the game.
• Public game: find a game with strangers. A room opens once enough people are searching; it starts when it's full or when most of the people in it vote to start.
• You need 5 to 8 players. You can play as a guest, or make an account to keep your score and history.
• Before you join you choose a name and avatar, and can add fun facts about yourself and a note on how you talk. If you're picked as an impostor, the AI uses them to sound like you. Fun facts are shown to the others in the room, so everyone can check the AI against them. All optional.

A round, step by step

1. Answer. A question appears and the clock starts (the host picks 30–90 seconds; the default is 75). Detectives type an answer. Impostors get the AI's draft to review: approve it, reword part of it, or ask for a fresh one (3 per round). Nobody can see who has answered — only how many have. If time runs out, an AI writes your answer for you, whoever you are, so staying silent never gives anyone away.
2. Reveal. The answers are turned over one at a time, in a shuffled order.
3. Discussion. Talk. You can chat, tap quick replies, and react to answers (😂 Funny, 🤨 Doubtful, 🤖 Sounds like an AI). Tap sus on anyone who seems off — it's a private note, and after the vote everyone only sees how many flags each player got. If an answer doesn't answer the question at all, you can flag it as off-topic; if most of the table agrees, it's struck. When everyone taps Ready to vote, discussion ends early.
4. Vote. You have 30 seconds. Pick one player you think is an impostor. Votes are secret, and you can change yours until time is up.
5. Result. The votes are counted and the player with the most is voted out — and their role is revealed. A tie, or no votes, means nobody goes out. A short recap of the round follows, and the next question starts.

Who wins

• Detectives win when every impostor has been voted out.
• Impostors win when there are as many of them left as detectives (a majority vote can no longer catch them), or if they're still hiding when the last round ends.
• There's one impostor in a game, and two when 7 or more are playing. Voting out an innocent player hurts the detectives: it brings the impostors closer to winning. So the number of rounds is a ceiling — a game can end sooner.

If you're an impostor

• Fun facts and a good “how I talk” note make the AI sound more like you. Reword the draft so it fits you better, but keep it close: you can change about 40% of it.
• Join the discussion like anyone else. Flag other players as sus to throw suspicion — but not your partner.
• With two impostors, you each know who the other is, and have a private 🤝 impostor chat only the two of you can see. You can't vote for, or flag, each other.

If you're a detective

• The AI can sound polished, generic or oddly on-topic. Compare each answer with what that player has told you about themselves.
• Real people ramble, make typos, joke around. But so can a reworded AI draft — and so can you under a deadline.
• Use 🤖 Sounds like an AI and 🤨 Doubtful reactions and sus flags to think out loud. Watch who agrees with whom in the discussion.
• Your votes earn points when they land on an impostor, even if the vote doesn't win.

Scoring

• Your team wins: +10.
• Impostor: +2 for each round you stayed in, and +5 more if the impostors win.
• Detective: +1 for each vote that landed on an impostor.
• An answer the table struck as off-topic: −2, and it counts as a pass. A game can't cost you more than 6 points.

Public games count toward your total score and the leaderboard (accounts only). Private lobbies are scored too — you see your points at the end, and they're kept in your history — but they stay separate and never count toward your total or the leaderboard. Guests see their points for the game but don't keep a total.

If you're voted out

You're not shut out. You become a spectator: you can watch every round and chat with the other spectators. The players still in can't see that chat, so it can't steer the vote. (A voted-out impostor can still read the impostor chat, but not write in it.) After the game, tap Rematch to play again with the same room.

Keeping the table friendly

• Mute anyone for yourself: you stop receiving their chat, they can still talk to everyone else, and their answers always stay visible.
• Report someone whose behaviour isn't okay. It mutes them for you straight away, and if most of the table reports them, they're muted for everyone. Nobody sees who reported.
• The host of a private lobby can also mute someone for everybody, and can remove people before the game starts.
• Chat and answers are filtered for slurs, contact details and links. The AI is also kept from insulting other players by name.

Getting back into a game

If you lose your connection or close the page, your seat is held for a few minutes. Open the home page and tap Rejoin under Running games, or type the room code of your own game, or open the invite link. Accounts can come back from any device. Make an account if you want to keep your score; if you ever forget the password, the recovery code you get at sign-up is the only way back in, so save it.