# Mystery Mafia -- Game Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [August 17, 2011, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025 "2011-08-17T14:03:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 53
**Author:** ![TimeLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6f9a4e/32.png) [@TimeLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimeLady)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025/1042 "2011-08-19T18:09:06Z")
Turbo Data is FUN. I did a statistical analysis of the 274 turbos run in 2010, and found that overall village won (about) 75% of the time and scum 25%. The % for wolf wins drastically reduced when wolf teams didn’t kill the seer n1. It’s very unbalanced, but it’s damn fun, and a completely different style of play that relies mostly on tone reads rather than data. ---
**Author:** ![TimeLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6f9a4e/32.png) [@TimeLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimeLady)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025/1043 "2011-08-19T18:10:14Z")
> [@Episkey](#): > > I guess what I’m saying is I don’t try to find just Town or just Scum, but to resolves unsure roles that should be useful late game helping us lock it. Yeah that’s pretty much it. ---
**Author:** ![lilflower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecccb3/32.png) [@lilflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lilflower)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025/1044 "2011-08-19T18:14:13Z")
This is all very interesting. I’m glad you all came over here to play. You’ll have to come over to the Giraffe Boards and play a game or two (although they might be painfully slow for you). ---
**Author:** ![bufftabby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@bufftabby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bufftabby)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025/1045 "2011-08-19T18:15:15Z")
**Hey Gad, would it be possible for you to put links to the beginning of each Day/Night in your sig for the duration of the game? I’ve seen it done here before, and it was very very helpful, given that there’s only the one game thread.** ---
**Author:** ![Episkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Episkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Episkey)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025/1046 "2011-08-19T18:15:48Z")
> [@TimeLady](#): > > 🙂 > > I know it sounds dickish, but I had a LOT of PMs from that game from everyone at various points, and yours may have got lost in the shuffle > > I really did appreciate the poem, fyi. That sort of thing makes me very happy yeah for sure I can imagine that happening. Was stupid of me to assume you were not getting a ton of pm’s similar to mine. Out of curiosity, was there any pm that was just A+ rant worthy? ---
**Author:** ![Episkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Episkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Episkey)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025/1047 "2011-08-19T18:17:55Z")
> [@TimeLady](#): > > Turbo Data is FUN. > > I did a statistical analysis of the 274 turbos run in 2010, and found that overall village won (about) 75% of the time and scum 25%. > > The % for wolf wins drastically reduced when wolf teams didn’t kill the seer n1. > > It’s very unbalanced, but it’s damn fun, and a completely different style of play that relies mostly on tone reads rather than data. I’m astonished it’s that different. I feels much closer ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025/1048 "2011-08-19T18:18:14Z")
> [@Episkey](#): > > yeah for sure I can imagine that happening. Was stupid of me to assume you were not getting a ton of pm’s similar to mine. > > Out of curiosity, was there any pm that was just A+ rant worthy? Mine just had a row of sad faces. (I’ll see what I can do, bufftabby!) ---
**Author:** ![crackedquads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b38774/32.png) [@crackedquads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crackedquads)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025/1049 "2011-08-19T18:19:03Z")
> [@Episkey](#): > > yeah for sure I can imagine that happening. Was stupid of me to assume you were not getting a ton of pm’s similar to mine. > > Out of curiosity, was there any pm that was just A+ rant worthy? I remember getting a pm from her ranting that some dick was sending her poems, but other than that… ---
**Author:** ![Episkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Episkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Episkey)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025/1050 "2011-08-19T18:22:35Z")
> [@crackedquads](#): > > I remember getting a pm from her ranting that some dick was sending her poems, but other than that… loooooooooool it was in thread. im not sending random people poems in pm’s haha ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025/1051 "2011-08-19T18:22:39Z")
Testing out the signature. Hmm. Where do I go to enable my signature? ---
**Author:** ![peekercpa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@peekercpa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peekercpa)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025/1052 "2011-08-19T18:23:15Z")
wonder how this crowd would fare in malazan? that could prove to be epic. of course it would probably crash the message server on **idle** ’s board. ---
**Author:** ![bufftabby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@bufftabby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bufftabby)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025/1053 "2011-08-19T18:25:34Z")
> [@Gadarene](#): > > Testing out the signature. > > Hmm. Where do I go to enable my signature? When you reply to a post, check “enable signature”. If you “go advanced” or edit after that, you’ll have to check it again. ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025/1054 "2011-08-19T18:26:59Z")
> [@peekercpa](#): > > wonder how this crowd would fare in malazan? > > that could prove to be epic. of course it would probably crash the message server on **idle** ’s board. You know, that isn’t a horrible idea. If they like us enough maybe we invite them to play in the next iteration of Malazan. ---
**Author:** ![Askthepizzaguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askthepizzaguy/32/9405_2.png) [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025/1055 "2011-08-19T18:28:55Z")
> [@episkey](#): > > i generally try to investigate from the neutral type people. > > If you line up all the players left in the game in a list from most townie to most scummy: > > Lock town > lock town > lock town > probably town > probably town > no clue > no clue > no clue > no clue > possibly scummy > possibly scummy > lock scum > lock sum > the scummy people are the ones most likely to resolve themselves since they will be wagoned in the next few days. You don’t want to waste investigations by having them on dead people, and you don’t want to find out someone “probably scum” is actually a townie as force yourself to claim to prevent a mislynch. > > The lock town members are most likely to be nk’d by scum, so you don’t want to peek them either. > > But if you pick from the no clue section, you find out important info on their role and interactions with people and have an investigation that should be useful into the end game. strongly agree with this post ---
**Author:** ![sangaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@sangaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sangaman)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025/1056 "2011-08-19T18:30:26Z")
> [@special\_ed](#): > > Do you people have jobs? and if so, do you actually work at them? To answer your first question, yes. To answer your second question, sometimes. > [@MykBot](#): > > I see there are rules about night talking. Interesting. Yes I thought it was weird when people were talking at night as well. This is another world of WW for sure. ---
**Author:** ![peekercpa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@peekercpa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peekercpa)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025/1057 "2011-08-19T18:30:36Z")
> [@NAF1138](#): > > You know, that isn’t a horrible idea. > > If they like us enough maybe we invite them to play in the next iteration of Malazan. well we could invite them anyways. we probably could infer whether they like us or not by whether they show up or not. ---
**Author:** ![Episkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Episkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Episkey)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025/1058 "2011-08-19T18:31:01Z")
Is Malazan a different board? ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Jan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Silver\_Jan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Jan)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025/1059 "2011-08-19T18:31:22Z")
> [@special\_ed](#): > > Not me. I’ve never played there. Just because I can, misrable sod that he is. **Vote Special ED** ---
**Author:** ![peekercpa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@peekercpa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peekercpa)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025/1060 "2011-08-19T18:31:43Z")
> [@sangaman](#): > > To answer your first question, yes. To answer your second question, sometimes. > > Yes I thought it was weird when people were talking at night as well. This is another world of WW for sure. and about a quarter of the time strategy is also allowed at Night. ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025/1061 "2011-08-19T18:34:01Z")
> [@Episkey](#): > > Is Malazan a different board? Malazan is a different game. It’s mafia inspired, but it isn’t mafia. It was invented by four of us who play here and is sort of mafia meets diplomacy with some other stuff thrown in. The color is based on the fantasy series Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson. It’s a game where you make your own teams as the game goes on. Very fluid and with a lot of off board communications. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025.md?page=52) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025.md?page=54)