# MAFIA: The Game - Ideal for Beginners \[Game in Progress\]

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**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")\
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**Post date:** [August 28, 2015, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-game-ideal-for-beginners-game-in-progress/725099/1524 "2015-08-28T12:13:58Z")

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> [@Biotop](#):
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> And I think **Sario** might have reasonably expected a fellow wolf to help him out…but the other wolves did not. And I want to know why.

I think Occam’s Razor works well here. The wolves didn’t know who the remaining mason was and they expected that Sario would be the one to break the tie.

My main suspect right now, obviously, is Diggit. I do tend to get blinders when it comes to accusing people in this game, and I rarely switch my votes without a compelling reason. I will note that e, now a confirmed town, encouraged me to switch my vote off \*\*Diggit \*\*and onto **Plum**. I didn’t. If I was a wolf who knew that **Thing Fish** was on the nightkill short list, wouldn’t it have made more sense to follow his lead there? Following a soon-to-be-confirmed townie into a vote on a different townie would have been a safe move.

I don’t buy that those who vote for wolves should be trusted as town. If that were an axiom, this game would be a **lot** harder. At the moment I’m suspicious of both \*\*Jimmy \*\*and \*\*Cygnus \*\*for following your vote on **Plumpudding** so close to the end of the day. If you hadn’t claimed as Mason, I’d be all up your ass about it, too. Reading your posts without knowing you’re mason, it really does look like you engineered a save for \*\*Diggit.

\*\*I’m also suspicious of \*\*Mollusc \*\*because a) some of his posts are borderline incomprehensible to me and b) what I can parse involves an awful lot of assumptions where “likely town” translates into “confirmed town” in his calculations.

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