# Mafia Reunion - Day Two **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 17, 2017, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-two/777425 "2017-01-17T22:20:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 875
**Author:** ![paulwhoisaghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e5b9ba/32.png) [@paulwhoisaghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulwhoisaghost)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-two/777425/875 "2017-01-22T03:42:56Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > This post was quoted a couple of times and I didn’t think about it hard enough the first time. > > Wait. Why would Town counterclaim? There are two switches. **If scum is holding one of them, only one Townie has a switch and would have no reason to counterclaim someone else claiming to have a switch.** The only thing that makes sense for a counterclaim is if two people currently have Batman switches other than brewha, but if that were true, what would brewha be gaining by claiming and how would the other people know there was more than one of them? They’d only know that if they were on the same scum team, which wouldn’t be brewha’s team, because it wouldn’t make sense for brewha to claim in order to out the other switch holder if both were on his scum team. > > I don’t think your theory makes sense. I bolded the part where we disagree. By the logic of that statement, a townie who holds a switch would be under the impression scum hold the other switch. If someone then claims to have that switch, wouldn’t they conclude that claimant is scum? > [@](#): > > If scum is holding one of them, only one Townie has a switch and would have no reason to counterclaim someone else claiming to have a switch. Only one townie has a switch, but he would have no reason to counter a claim of town with the same switch? Sent from my SM-G930T using Tapatalk --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-two/777425)._