# Spectators' thread for Shakespeare Mafia (no active players, please)

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**Created:** [July 12, 2025, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spectators-thread-for-shakespeare-mafia-no-active-players-please/1020790 "2025-07-12T15:21:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 3, 2025, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spectators-thread-for-shakespeare-mafia-no-active-players-please/1020790/114 "2025-08-03T18:25:04Z")

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> [@Shakespeare Mafia-- Act I](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-mafia-act-i/1020789/20):
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> There are also ways to do it using the math tags, but it’s cumbersome and I don’t want to impose that on anyone. But if you want to go to the trouble to look up color tricks, to make it clearer for yourselves and each other, go ahead

(late reply, I know. I hadn’t noticed the game.) long ago when we first got here, I actually had the idea of using the `<del>` and `<ins>` tags if Mafia ever started up here in earnest again.

**vote Meeko**  
~~**unvote Meeko**~~

in most skins you see a green and red background. in some you’ll just see underlines and strikethru, but at least it would still stick out and be fairly easy to type.

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