# Skimming the surface: Scum Mafia FORBIDDEN thread

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skimming-the-surface-scum-mafia-forbidden-thread/526896>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [January 29, 2010, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skimming-the-surface-scum-mafia-forbidden-thread/526896 "2010-01-29T15:18:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skimming-the-surface-scum-mafia-forbidden-thread/526896/81 "2010-03-16T12:52:25Z")

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I accidentally deleted my spoilers (feel free to resend–my box got full so I deleted everything and forgot that I had yet to go to the spoiler board) so this is a totally unspoiled observation…

I’ve heard reference to a game in which Scum was caught by referring to a NK as a lynch. So **Rysto** in post 1941 making reference to **storyteller** ’s “lynch power” is setting off air raid sirens in my head.

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**Author:** ![MHaye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@MHaye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MHaye)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skimming-the-surface-scum-mafia-forbidden-thread/526896/82 "2010-03-17T20:16:54Z")

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> [@Drain\_Bead](#):
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> I’ve heard reference to a game in which Scum was caught by referring to a NK as a lynch. So **Rysto** in post 1941 making reference to **storyteller** ’s “lynch power” is setting off air raid sirens in my head.

You know, I remember reading that. I was unconvinced.

Who it was, and who caught them, escape me.

I’d like spoilers now please Chronos. If you can spare them.

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**Author:** ![Captain\_Klutz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captain_klutz/32/4993_2.png) [@Captain\_Klutz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Klutz)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skimming-the-surface-scum-mafia-forbidden-thread/526896/83 "2010-03-19T08:13:20Z")

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> [@MHaye](#):
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> > [@Drain\_Bead](#):
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> > I’ve heard reference to a game in which Scum was caught by referring to a NK as a lynch. So **Rysto** in post 1941 making reference to **storyteller** ’s “lynch power” is setting off air raid sirens in my head.
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> You know, I remember reading that. I was unconvinced.
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> Who it was, and who caught them, escape me.

That was way back in Mafia 2. The serial killer ( **MonkeyMensch** ) noticed a player calling a nightkill a lynch, and killed him that Night. He was scum.

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**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skimming-the-surface-scum-mafia-forbidden-thread/526896/84 "2010-03-19T14:18:57Z")

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> [@Pleonast](#):
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> \*Why isn’t anyone working out the mislynch numbers? I did the analysis, and voting two players at a time is extremely bad in mislynch terms.

I did, but I thought that posting it would give away the fact that I was looking at the idea from a scum perspective.

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