# The Lost Mafia Forbidden Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [June 11, 2009, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lost-mafia-forbidden-thread/499486 "2009-06-11T20:37:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2009, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lost-mafia-forbidden-thread/499486/6 "2009-06-12T01:29:48Z")
> [@Lost Mafia/Werewolf/Psychopath](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-mafia-werewolf-psychopath/499337/158): > > On mass role claims: Seriously, has one of those _ever_ worked out for town? I’m only being 25% sarcastic here; I really would like to know. In the first instance I experienced, it was a closed game, nobody was town, and everybody lied. It was somewhat useful for other scum clans, but not so much for the Masons (this was the Not-so-Simpletown game). > > In the latest game, it was pretty much useless for town. Again, all the scum lied, and one scum did get caught out in his lie, but it came down to one person’s word against another, and the wrong person ended up lynched. Mass claims have won the game for Town in Conspiracy I and II, Batman and T2, and that’s just off of the top of my head. Scum likely would have won Apocalypse had the Godfather not made a critical mistake in his claim during the mass claim. YSI was designed so that the Town had to mass claim to have a chance. Now, the mass claims in Conspiracy, Batman and Apocalypse came towards the end of the game, T2 was a special case because it was an open game, and YSI was different from any other game we’ve ever played. Early in a game, it’s unlikely to help the Town, but a mass claim towards the end of the game is a necessary tactic. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lost-mafia-forbidden-thread/499486)._