Super-Shiritori

Super-Shiritori

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Type

Discord Bot

Function

Flagship word-chain game bot

Aliases

Super Shiritori, Shiritori

Platform

Discord

Status

Active

Launched

November 22, 2024

Hosted in

Washington State, USA (via Discord)

Related bots

Word-Curatori (originally called "Super Shiritori (Test Edition)")
Vexitori

Super-Shiritori is the flagship Discord bot of the project, running a word-chain game in which players respond with a word beginning with the final letter of the previous word. Alongside its core game, it supports several related word-based modes, tracks detailed player statistics, and maintains the shared dictionary of over 1.6 million entries. It is one of three separate bots that make up the project, running alongside Word-Curatori and Vexitori.

Features

• Multiplayer and solo word-chain gameplay, against other players or AI opponents with distinct personalities
• A dictionary exceeding 1.6 million entries, drawn from acronyms, user submissions, foreign-language borrowings, constructed languages, and established published dictionaries
• Additional game modes, including Word Bomb, Wordle, Anagram, and Protori
• A rarity-based word rolling and trading system
• Player statistics, leaderboards, and a leveling system with unlockable Achievements (formerly called titles)
• Deployable in any Discord server
• A small number of hidden text-trigger commands functioning as puzzle easter eggs

Bot Commands

Multiplayer Shiritori

Command	Description
/start_shiritori [#channel]	Starts a multiplayer game in the specified channel. Requires the Manage Messages permission or bot owner status.
/end_shiritori	Manually ends the current game and displays final statistics.
/invite_ai	Invites an AI opponent with a randomly assigned personality into the current game.
/murder_ai	Attempts to remove the current AI opponent from the game.
/leaderboard	Displays the server's multiplayer leaderboard by category.
/my_stats	Displays the player's personal global multiplayer statistics.
/levels_leaderboard	Displays the server's level leaderboard.
/level	Displays the player's current level and experience progress.
/restore_games	Restores active games after a bot restart or shutdown.
/global_stats	Displays aggregated multiplayer statistics across all servers.

Main article: Multiplayer Shiritori

Protori

Command	Description
/start_protori [#channel]	Starts a Protori game in the specified channel. Requires the Manage Messages permission or bot owner/curator status.
/end_protori	Manually ends the current Protori game.
/protori_stats	Displays the player's Protori statistics, both globally and broken down per server.
/protori_leaderboard	Displays the Protori leaderboard, server or global.

Main article: Protori

Solo Shiritori

Command	Description
/solo_shiritori	Starts a private solo game against the AI in a dedicated thread.
/solo_stats	Displays the player's solo statistics.
/solo_leaderboard	Displays the global solo leaderboard.

Main article: Solo Shiritori

Wordle

Command	Description
/wordle	Starts a private Wordle game.
/wordle_leaderboard	Displays Wordle win streaks by word length and mode.
/wordle_stats	Displays the player's personal Wordle win streaks by mode.

Main article: Wordle

Word Bomb

Command	Description
/wordbomb	Starts a Word Bomb game.
/wordbomb_leaderboard	Displays the server's Word Bomb leaderboard.
/wordbomb_stats	Displays the player's personal Word Bomb statistics.

Main article: Wordbomb

Anagram

Command	Description
/anagram	Starts a private Anagram game.
/anagram_stats	Displays the player's personal Anagram statistics.
/anagram_leaderboard	Displays the server's Anagram leaderboard.

Main article: Anagram

Dictionary and Words

Command	Description
/dictionaries	Checks the player's progress against specific themed word lists.
/check	Checks whether one or more words are in the dictionary.
/characters	Displays the character count of the given word or words.
/solve	Searches for words matching a given prompt, length, or other criteria.
/suggest	Suggests a word for addition to the dictionary, or proposes removal of an existing entry.
/define	Returns an AI-generated definition of a word.
/word_collection	Displays a player's collected words.
/random_word	Returns a random word that has not yet been played.
/wordhunt	A recurring personal challenge, refreshing every 12 hours, that prompts the player to find dictionary words they have not yet used.

Main article: Dictionary Information

Casino and RNG

Command	Description
/roll	Rolls for a random word, weighted by rarity.
/set_casino	Sets or removes the channels where /roll may be used.
/rng_draw	Spins for a chance at rarer rewards.
/rng_stats	Displays the player's personal rolling statistics.
/rng_global	Displays global rolling statistics.
/rng_set_luck	Sets the player's luck multiplier for rolls.
/word_trade	Trades a word with another player.

Achievements

Command	Description
/achievements	Displays the player's unlocked and obtainable achievements. Public/Private visibility choice.
/set_achievement	Sets or clears the player's displayed achievement from among those unlocked.

Main article: Achievements

Configuration and Utility

Command	Description
/toggle_corrections	Toggles whether invalid words are deleted and warned about, or only marked with a reaction. Requires the Manage Messages permission.
/config_view	Displays the server's configuration for AI event logging and word suggestion notifications.
/server	Returns an invite link to the official support server.
/wiki	Returns a link to this wiki.
/curator_form	Returns a link to the Word Curator application form.
/help	Displays a list of all commands.

Quick Chat Commands

Command	Description
!i	An expanded version of /check with more detail.
!level	Quick view of the player's level and experience progress.
!achieve, !achievement, !achievements	Opens the player's list of unlocked and obtainable achievements. All three aliases work identically.
!check	Curator only. Checks the status of pending word suggestions and removals.
!status	Displays the current game's status, including words played, average word length, and the next required letter.
!longest	Displays the top five longest words played in the current game.
!rng <word>	Checks a word's rarity and global ownership.

A small number of additional text-trigger commands exist as hidden puzzle easter eggs. Their exact triggers are not documented publicly here. Separately, a set of documented explainer commands — !hyphens, !neoses, !aisource, and their aliases — answer common questions about dictionary rules; see Dictionary Information.

AI Opponents

Multiplayer games may include an AI opponent, added either randomly through /invite_ai or by summoning a specific personality with a text command. Each of the 19 personalities follows its own word-selection logic — NOOB favors short, simple words, PRO requires words of at least twelve letters, MIMIC attempts to answer with an anagram of the player's own last word, and so on. Two further AI types, Sniper and Assassin, layer additional mechanics — one-shot dramatic word plays and a hijack-and-silence risk/reward exchange, respectively — on top of the base system.

Main article: AI Bots

Game Modes

Multiplayer Shiritori

The core game mode. Players take turns submitting words in a shared channel, each beginning with the final letter of the previous word. Repeated words, invalid characters, and words that do not follow the required letter all end a player's turn or the game, depending on server configuration.

Main article: Multiplayer Shiritori

Protori

A scoring-based variant of multiplayer Shiritori. Rather than simply continuing the chain, every accepted word earns points from a flat per-letter point table, weighted by how rare each letter is in the dictionary rather than a standard Scrabble-style tile distribution; a word's base score is just the sum of its letters' values. Continuing more deeply into the previous word than just its final letter — matching several trailing characters in a row — earns a chain bonus of roughly 1% of the word's base score per matched character, up to about +79% for a very deep match. Playing a word that has already been used ends the game immediately and costs the player a 250-point penalty.

Main article: Protori

Solo Shiritori

A private word-chain match played against an adaptive AI opponent in a dedicated thread. The AI begins as ROOKIE and its behavior shifts over time based on the player's performance and random chance.

Main article: Solo Shiritori

Word Bomb

An elimination game for up to 16 players, each starting with three lives. On each turn, a player must submit a valid dictionary word containing an assigned prompt string before a timer runs out; failing to do so costs a life. Games started through /wordbomb are configurable across several options, including bomb speed, starting difficulty (one of sixteen named buckets, from Tranquil down to the single-word Singularity tier), prompt length, allowed special characters, and an optional themed category filter.

Main article: Wordbomb

Wordle

A private word-guessing game with two modes: Standardized, which applies stricter word validity rules, and Full Dictionary, which allows any word in the bot's full dictionary. Players choose a target word length and may optionally allow hyphenated words as valid answers. Win streaks are tracked separately for each word length and mode.

Main article: Wordle

Anagram

A private single-player game in which the bot selects a base word and the player attempts to find as many valid words as possible using only the letters available in it.

Main article: Anagram

Dictionary Tools

Two related but separate features track a player's progress through the dictionary. /dictionaries reports progress against specific themed word lists. /wordhunt is a recurring personal challenge, refreshing every 12 hours, that surfaces dictionary words the player has not yet used.

Fool's Mode

A special, occasional state, traditionally run around April Fools' Day, in which the bot's word validation is deliberately loosened for comedic effect — words with no spaces are accepted as playable regardless of dictionary membership, and several commands (!i/!info, /check, the end-of-game summary) start returning deliberately unreliable or nonsensical output. It is toggled on and off manually by the bot's operator rather than being scheduled automatically by the code itself.

Main article: Fool's Mode

Development

Super-Shiritori has been developed and maintained by Ghost (no_where.ghost_002) since November 22, 2024, with administrative and moderation support from Kos (kos256) and GreenyMage (greenymage).

The bot's dictionary began as a small curated word list originally compiled by OMG, creator of the Roblox game Word Bomb. It later expanded through a bulk import of 320,000 words, followed by ongoing contributions from users, dictionary scraping from sources such as Merriam-Webster and Oxford, and the inclusion of acronyms, constructed languages, and foreign-language borrowings. The dictionary now exceeds 1.6 million entries. There is no anti-cheat system in place; players are free to consult external dictionaries or search engines, though playing without assistance is encouraged.

The bot runs on hardware maintained directly by its developer, Ghost, rather than on any cloud hosting service. It went offline on April 27, 2026, at the start of a military Permanent Change of Station () relocation that took Ghost from South Korea through Japan, Alaska, and Los Angeles, California, before he finally settled in Hawaii on June 8, 2026. A subsequent housing shortage there delayed the bot's return well past initial estimates; it came back online on August 10, 2026, after roughly three and a half months offline — the longest outage in the bot's history. Household expenses connected to the move, including hosting costs, were covered as part of U.S. government support.

Since coming back online, an automatic restart-on-crash mechanism has been added, intended to make genuine 24/7 uptime realistic going forward; as of this writing, expected downtime is limited to maintenance, a crash severe enough to take the host machine itself down, or a power outage.

Two further features followed directly from that same reality. A planned restart or shutdown can now carry a custom message to every active game instead of one of two generic canned notices, so players get an accurate heads-up — an estimated outage length, for example — rather than a vague "update" notice. For the opposite case, a total, zero-warning loss of power gives the bot no chance to warn anyone before going offline at all; there's no way around that physically. What it can do instead is explain itself retroactively: reconnecting after any outage it wasn't able to shut down cleanly for now posts a message acknowledging the unplanned downtime, noting that unannounced power loss is a real and recurring possibility given the host machine's location, and confirming that any interrupted games have already been restored.

Official Design

• The name is always spelled "Super-Shiritori".
• The official color is hex #F91000, informally named "Shiritorier's-Orange" as of December 1st.
• The logo is a mahjong-style tile featuring the Japanese characters ボ ("bo") and ツ ("tsu").

External Links

• Invite the bot to a server
• Support server
• Word Curator Assessment Form

See also

• Discord Bots
• AI Bots
• Multiplayer Shiritori
• Solo Shiritori
• Protori
• Anagram
• Wordbomb
• Wordle
• Achievements
• Fool's Mode
• Manual-Tori
• Dictionary Information
• Word-Curatori
• Vexitori