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Snitch guide

Quick answer

The Snitch is the best-kept secret in Dawson Oaks Trailer Park: you look like an ordinary suspect, walk like one, and even complete your fake role's business - while quietly reporting everything you see to the Supervisor. Your job description, as the game puts it in its own briefing: stay undercover and inform the Supervisor of other players' roles.

You win with your handler's side, and you win quiet. This guide covers the 1.0.3 build: how cover works, what to report, the tells that give Snitches away, and how to survive a meeting that names you.

How cover works

The game gives you a fake identity - a suspect role to perform. Launch-week Snitches were given covers like the Gambler ("pretending to be a gambling addict"), and the cover's tasks are your public life: you do the groceries, you hang around the slot machines, you drink at the saloon. Meanwhile your real task list is the surveillance job.

That split is your entire game. Your cover behaviour is what other players use to build trust in you; your reports are what actually wins. A Snitch with a perfect cover and zero reports is a passenger. A Snitch who reports brilliantly but fumbles the cover is a round-one exit.

What to report - and how

You are the Supervisor's eyes, so send what eyes are for:

  • Role sightings with context. The player buying weed, the one lighting a fire, the one visiting every kitchen, the one who has not used their own trailer since spawn. One clear sighting with a location beats five paragraphs of suspicion.
  • Behaviour changes. Who started avoiding the group the moment crimes started, who stopped answering their phone.
  • Meeting room reactions. After a vote, text your handler what you saw: who relaxed, who pushed hardest, who refused to look at who.

Send reports during movement, not in open view. A player standing still and texting in the middle of the park is drawing a small but real audience - players in launch-week lobbies were already joking about "recording" someone on their phone as a tell.

The tells: how Snitches get caught

The community has had three days to learn what a Snitch looks like. Current folklore:

  • Errand patterns. Launch-week players treat the "milk run" as comedy gold - multiple streams independently joked that a Snitch on a milk errand is a dead giveaway, because half the Snitches they caught were doing exactly that. Keep your visible errands boring and normal for your cover role, not memorably weird.
  • Phone habits. You will text your handler all round. Do it in motion, in private, and never during someone else's confession.
  • The Supervisor test. Your handler knows who you are and may overplay it - a Supervisor who never pressures you, never suspects you, and glues to your shoulder is a billboard. You cannot control them, but you can put distance between yourself and them in public.
  • Over-reporting. Stay in character. The Snitch who suddenly needs to leave every conversation is telling everyone something is up.

Surviving meetings

Meetings are the only place the park can kill your cover outright, so treat every meeting as a survival event:

  1. Do not lead the charge, and do not hide. Both extremes are suspicious. Contribute a reasonable opinion based on public information others had too.
  2. Accuse someone real. The best defense is a defensible accusation. Have a second name ready that you can genuinely justify from the park's visible behaviour.
  3. Keep the story of your role straight. If your cover is the Gambler, know the Gambler's business and be seen doing it. Accounts that do not match sightings get people voted out.
  4. Do not over-defend. The louder your defense, the better it looks to the room. Say your piece once, calmly, then let the vote math work.
  5. When they are close, redirect. If the meeting is one strong voice away from your name, push the room at the loudest wrong theory. You do not need control - you need the vote to land elsewhere once.

One quirk of the rules helps you: if the vote ties, the tied players settle it in a fistfight. Being in a tie is survivable; being the obvious Snitch is not.

Advanced: Deep Cover

There is an achievement called "Deep Cover" for the ultimate reverse play as the Snitch: have the Supervisor call the police on you - and survive to win anyway. It sits below 8% completion in launch week, which should tell you two things: it is a stunt, and it is hilarious when it works. Pull it off only when the police call is already coming for someone and your handler can afford a wasted raid; executed cold, it is just an early exit.

Round checklist for new Snitches

  • Read your fake role's tasks before you leave spawn; you will be asked about them.
  • Get a walking route that covers the store, the saloon and two or three trailer clusters - that is where crimes happen.
  • Bank one report early (a role sighting) so your handler knows you are active.
  • Keep a public alibi activity for the midgame: slots, shopping, the bar.
  • In meetings: one sensible opinion, one real accusation, zero drama about yourself.
  • If you survive to the last third of the round, you have usually already won the information war - do not get greedy.

Last checked: September 20, 2026 - game version 1.0.3. Cover mechanics and reporting behaviour described from launch-week streams; "milk run" tells are community folklore, not official mechanics.

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