# Random Mafia

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-mafia/532942>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [March 18, 2010, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-mafia/532942 "2010-03-18T21:47:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-mafia/532942/960 "2010-04-05T18:08:25Z")

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> [@TexCat](#):
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> I guess I don’t have enough experience to know what is standard and what is gastardly. I know that godfathers usually investigate as “town”. I didn’t see it as such a stretch for the flip to show “town” somehow.

What Drain Bead said, but typically Godfathers investigate as town but death-reveal as scum. The issue is that if we don’t have accurate information on whether someone is scum or town at death, then we can’t make viable decisions. The only false death reveals I’ve ever personally seen were in explicitly Gastardly games.

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