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

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**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")\
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**Author:** ![Dante\_G](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@Dante\_G](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante_G)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-game-ideal-for-beginners-game-in-progress/725099/304 "2015-07-21T20:10:20Z")

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> [@Thing\_Fish](#):
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> This makes no sense to me. Do you mean that you didn’t lynch **scum** on Day One or you didn’t lynch anyone at all? If nobody said anything substantive on Day One, then what was there to talk about on Day Two (barring the use of some interesting power during the Night?). Players on this board rarely find scum on the first Day, either, but you have to start somewhere. Just posting filler is essentially giving the scum a free kill.
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> And again: how is voting for “no reason” supposed to “instigate chatter”? What is there to chatter about other than “Wow, **Dante** just voted for someone for no reason”? Finding a _reason_ to vote for someone, even if it is weak, as it almost certainly will be on Day One, allows that reason to be discussed and keeps the conversation going. Just voting without justification serves no purpose (unless of course you are scum).

We very rarely lynched anyone on Day 1. I understand how that would basically set up Scum to get a free easy kill on Night 1, but its just the way I was introduced to the game. Sometimes we lynched someone on day one, other times not.

In regards to your second question of why vote for someone for “no reason” - why are you calling _ **me** _ out on this? Does anyone in this game have ANY reason to suspect anyone else? Aside from the Scum team knowing whom each other are, nobody else in the game can really have a suspect at this time, so just about everyone’s vote at this time will be for “no reason.” It can start conversation amongst us by maybe the votee getting defensive and countering votes and in the process bring about more discussion. This may, in turn, bring about meaningful discussion.

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