# MAFIA: The Game - Ideal for Beginners \[Game in Progress\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [July 14, 2015, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-game-ideal-for-beginners-game-in-progress/725099 "2015-07-14T00:45:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 33
**Author:** ![Sario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sario/32/18580_2.png) [@Sario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sario)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-game-ideal-for-beginners-game-in-progress/725099/641 "2015-07-27T15:57:49Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > By my count, you could vote Dante and make a 5-5-5 tie! > > Somebody, please tell me if my timnezone interpretation is correct: Is Day over in 7 minutes? I believe so. Note: **Story** may not be able to post EOD right away, but any votes past then will not count. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-game-ideal-for-beginners-game-in-progress/725099/642 "2015-07-27T15:58:14Z")
Unvote TexCat vote septimus I may be wrong, but it looks to me like someone or someones is trying to engineer a tie. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-game-ideal-for-beginners-game-in-progress/725099/643 "2015-07-27T15:58:52Z")
7-g **Don’t Lnch me, Town. I’m the Guardian.** ---
**Author:** ![TexCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/texcat/32/9041_2.png) [@TexCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TexCat)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-game-ideal-for-beginners-game-in-progress/725099/644 "2015-07-27T15:59:09Z")
I thought Cygnus made it 7 for you, Septimus, but who knows? ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-game-ideal-for-beginners-game-in-progress/725099/645 "2015-07-27T16:00:25Z")
That’s what I’ meant 7-6 Drat the 60-second nop-post SDMB rule. ---
**Author:** ![Cygnus42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Cygnus42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cygnus42)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-game-ideal-for-beginners-game-in-progress/725099/646 "2015-07-27T16:00:44Z")
unvote septimus ---
**Author:** ![Cygnus42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Cygnus42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cygnus42)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-game-ideal-for-beginners-game-in-progress/725099/647 "2015-07-27T16:01:45Z")
I hope that unvote counts…I’m swayed by the last minute claim… ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-game-ideal-for-beginners-game-in-progress/725099/648 "2015-07-27T16:03:25Z")
I apologize to Town. ☹ I was desperate to avoid outing myself as Guardian. TexCat was in lead by 1 vote and I was developing doubts about her scummitude anyway. I might have gambled on not claiming with a 6-6 tie, but the last-minute vote did me in. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Sario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sario/32/18580_2.png) [@Sario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sario)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-game-ideal-for-beginners-game-in-progress/725099/649 "2015-07-27T16:05:20Z")
> [@storyteller0910](#): > > \ > **Day One begins here, and will end at noon o’clock Eastern time on Monday, July 27.\** Day is over. I don’t know if **Cygnus’s** last minute unvote will count. ---
**Author:** ![Thing\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@Thing\_Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing_Fish)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-game-ideal-for-beginners-game-in-progress/725099/650 "2015-07-27T16:06:14Z")
Oh, we are going to have a LOT to talk about Tomorrow. But not now… OOG, but not fluff: I would like to apologize to **Sario** for the “snit” remark. I agree that that crossed a line. ---
**Author:** ![Cygnus42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Cygnus42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cygnus42)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-game-ideal-for-beginners-game-in-progress/725099/651 "2015-07-27T16:06:23Z")
Urgh… So, now what? ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-game-ideal-for-beginners-game-in-progress/725099/652 "2015-07-27T16:06:43Z")
**Well, that was exciting. I apologize to all for the shortage of vote counts and responses; I have been in the process of moving out of my home for three months, and it’s been a bit harder to get to a computer. Gonna double-check everything and end the Day presently.** ---
**Author:** ![Plumpudding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Plumpudding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plumpudding)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-game-ideal-for-beginners-game-in-progress/725099/653 "2015-07-27T16:06:44Z")
Do we know that? We haven’t actually heard from storyteller in quite a while… ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-game-ideal-for-beginners-game-in-progress/725099/654 "2015-07-27T16:07:59Z")
I cry many tears this night. ---
**Author:** ![Plumpudding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Plumpudding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plumpudding)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-game-ideal-for-beginners-game-in-progress/725099/655 "2015-07-27T16:08:06Z")
Ah, alright. This was an exhilarating first day! Exciting! ---
**Author:** ![Thing\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@Thing\_Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing_Fish)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-game-ideal-for-beginners-game-in-progress/725099/656 "2015-07-27T16:08:31Z")
**Cygnus’** unvote was tagged at exactly noon EST, so I don’t know if it will count, but by my count that would still leave it 7-5 against **septimus.** ---
**Author:** ![Sario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sario/32/18580_2.png) [@Sario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sario)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-game-ideal-for-beginners-game-in-progress/725099/657 "2015-07-27T16:09:44Z")
> [@Thing\_Fish](#): > > Oh, we are going to have a LOT to talk about Tomorrow. But not now… > > OOG, but not fluff: I would like to apologize to **Sario** for the “snit” remark. I agree that that crossed a line. Thank you. I think we all occasionally get too caught up in the moment and forget that this is just a game. ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-game-ideal-for-beginners-game-in-progress/725099/658 "2015-07-27T16:20:57Z")
Ok not getting Plumpudding being all over Texcat and accusing her of hysterical responses and telling her to calm down, ascribing hysterical and emotional characterizations to words on a screen seams odd . I read Texcats response as entirely reasonable and clam. I also don’t like that he is so certain that Texcat is scum , no one except scum could be so certain of TexCats alignment. On septimu the case as far as I can tell is that he was helpful to scum with his analysis, again I don’t see how , a few of us had been opposed to the plan as unworkable or overly risky in exposing masons. I also don’t like that we have a tie as I see neither as particularly scummy. I would be voting for Plumpudding , or Dante G – based on the earlier suspicion . OK Unvote Sangfroid Vote Plumpudding ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-game-ideal-for-beginners-game-in-progress/725099/659 "2015-07-27T16:21:38Z")
(I think any further comment by me is unethical, except that all the people too late to unvote should quickly forginve themselves – I have myself to blame. I even wasted critical precious seconds changing fonts to delay the Claim Message. Moreover the weird last-minuite vote of Dante was a confusing distraction.) :smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack: :smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack: I kick myself repeatedly repeatedly for those perversions. Both of them were perhaps Imp of the Perverse. I indeed suffer from “Loser’s Complex” (Is that in DSM-IV ?) I nominate myself for Scum MVP. Sincere and humble apologies. ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-game-ideal-for-beginners-game-in-progress/725099/660 "2015-07-27T16:22:19Z")
err apparently I don’t know time zones very well [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-game-ideal-for-beginners-game-in-progress/725099.md?page=32) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-game-ideal-for-beginners-game-in-progress/725099.md?page=34)