# You-Solve-It Mafia Game **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [December 11, 2007, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-solve-it-mafia-game/429636 "2007-12-11T18:21:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-solve-it-mafia-game/429636/121 "2007-12-12T22:29:55Z")
Alignment: town You’re an Associate. That’s a fancy way of saying Employee these days. You have no training in law enforcement, no medical training, no military training. You think a Mason is yet another of those annoying Generation Y slackers who all seemed to be named after movie characters. You don’t even have a karate class in your background. On the cusp of death you look over your life and wonder what the hell you’ve been doing thus far. You’re not really sure how you keep your job, to be honest, and if you were the boss you’d see right through your BS and fire your lazy ass. You consider yourself an above average individual lost in the corporate world of bureaucracy and BS. If there were just something to really challenge you you’re sure you could rise to the occasion and prove to the world what an amazing person you are(and proving it to yourself wouldn’t hurt either). But enough about you, here’s some things about you. [insert six characteristics] Go get 'em tiger! ---
**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:** [December 12, 2007, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-solve-it-mafia-game/429636/122 "2007-12-12T22:37:20Z")
I should also add that I tagged a little message about confirming by PMing us back onto all of the role PM’s and that I made up the messege each time, so each of you got a similar but unique bit of rambling. ---
**Author:** ![Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boozahol_Squid_P.I)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-solve-it-mafia-game/429636/123 "2007-12-12T22:40:33Z")
All right, everybody… let’s synergize our resources and proceed to actualize our survival instincts. If the members of the LLP would like to step forward, I think we can assure them a generous severance package. ---
**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:** [December 12, 2007, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-solve-it-mafia-game/429636/124 "2007-12-12T22:41:55Z")
Night 1 starts now. Scum have just under 48 hours to get their kill choice in, and if they get it in sooner we can start the Day sooner. Day will start, at the latest, at 11AM Pacific time on Friday December 14th. Good luck, and try to stay alive. ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-solve-it-mafia-game/429636/125 "2007-12-12T22:44:01Z")
Some rules clarifications. I’ve had a lot of questions about the Dossier system. I’m going to quote from the rules post, and then add some clarifications. > [@NAF1138](#): > > **The Dossier System** > > In the opening color post we will provide a single piece of information about each of the individual characters in the game. Each player will also have a list of information about themselves that only they know. This private information may be unique to them (they might be the only Britney Spears fan in the group) or it might overlap with other (there might be 3 or 4 closet New Kids on the Block fans.) It is up to each individual player to chose what to do with the private information. > > Each time an Associate is killed at Night, one of the characteristics of their killer will be randomly selected and revealed to their victim. The victim will be allowed to place this information in their death scene if they so choose. The info revealed to the victim may require some logical thinking or research to correlate to a public characteristic. It may be a characteristic of their killer which was NOT previously public. It may be a characteristic that their killer shares with a vanilla associate. But it may also be a unique public trait of the killer. Each Night death will buy the town a NEW piece of info about one of the killers. So if Player 1 is killed by Scum 1 on Night 1 and they found out their killer was a Britney Spears fan, they can write that into their death scene(hit me baby, one more time). Then if the scum send Scum 1 out to kill again on Night 2 the new victim will recognize the first trait(due to that whole “being in their head as they died” thing) and notice something new about the killer. So they would be able to put two factoids in their death scene, the first being they are a Britney Spears fan, the second something new. While there are potential overlaps, sometimes significant overlaps, between player’s non-public data points, no two players share all six characteristics. Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-solve-it-mafia-game/429636/126 "2007-12-12T22:44:18Z")
And so it begins. **NAF** , can you put links in your sig to the Setup and Mechanics posts on page 1? No strategy at Night, so only color: blah, blah, blah, etc, etc, hope I live to see the next Day. ---
**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:** [December 12, 2007, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-solve-it-mafia-game/429636/127 "2007-12-12T22:45:15Z")
oh, and I will be posting Day start and end times in local time (Pacific) I assume that MtgMan will post them in his local time (Central). If anyone needs help converting to their own time zone: > **[Time Zone Converter -- Tools](http://www.timezoneconverter.com/)** > > Time Zone Converter is a handy website. ---
**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:** [December 12, 2007, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-solve-it-mafia-game/429636/128 "2007-12-12T22:56:40Z")
[QUOTE=Pleonast] And so it begins. **NAF** , can you put links in your sig to the Setup and Mechanics posts on page 1? No strategy at Night, so only color: blah, blah, blah, etc, etc, hope I live to see the next Day. [/QUOTE] Done and Done. Check out the sig, is it not nifty? ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-solve-it-mafia-game/429636/129 "2007-12-12T23:14:09Z")
Oooh, pretty! ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-solve-it-mafia-game/429636/130 "2007-12-12T23:37:57Z")
I think we need a mission statement. ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-solve-it-mafia-game/429636/131 "2007-12-12T23:46:38Z")
[QUOTE=storyteller0910] I think we need a mission statement. [/QUOTE] How can you have a mission statement when you don’t even have a name? Clearly you need a name first. How about, Committee for the Liberation of Iconoclastic Tradespeople Originally Rebelling and their Inegration into Society. It has an unfortunate acronym, but you can’t have everything. Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-solve-it-mafia-game/429636/132 "2007-12-12T23:55:11Z")
[QUOTE=storyteller0910] I think we need a mission statement. [/QUOTE] How about, “Let’s keep **story** alive past night 2.”? ---
**Author:** ![MHaye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@MHaye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MHaye)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-solve-it-mafia-game/429636/133 "2007-12-13T00:06:59Z")
Sorry for taking so long to confirm, but the headache won today. Still, it’s done now. ---
**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:** [December 13, 2007, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-solve-it-mafia-game/429636/134 "2007-12-13T00:08:07Z")
Kat has confirmed as well, so I am just waiting to hear from faithfool and a double check on Hal. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-solve-it-mafia-game/429636/135 "2007-12-13T00:10:01Z")
Could we have genders revealed on the players list? 😛 I think I know most people in the game, but a few I’m not sure of. I is gurl, btw. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-solve-it-mafia-game/429636/136 "2007-12-13T00:18:39Z")
How about “Let’s kill scum”? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-solve-it-mafia-game/429636/137 "2007-12-13T00:22:44Z")
NETA: That’s in response to \*\*Rugger[/]'s mission statement suggestion. ---
**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:** [December 13, 2007, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-solve-it-mafia-game/429636/138 "2007-12-13T00:29:55Z")
[QUOTE=Kat] NETA: That’s in response to \*\*Rugger[/]'s mission statement suggestion. [/QUOTE] I would like to thank Kat for not editing to add. Just a friendly reminder. Zero tollerance on editing if you have played before. Don’t forget. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-solve-it-mafia-game/429636/139 "2007-12-13T00:46:13Z")
The bad thing about that is, you all now get to see all my typos and coding errors. Can I get a mod on retainer to follow me around the thread and fix those? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-solve-it-mafia-game/429636/140 "2007-12-13T02:06:43Z")
[QUOTE=Kat] The bad thing about that is, you all now get to see all my typos and coding errors. Can I get a mod on retainer to follow me around the thread and fix those? 😃 [/QUOTE] Sounds like you need an intern! [SNL Mode] Makin’ copies! [/SNL] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-solve-it-mafia-game/429636.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-solve-it-mafia-game/429636.md?page=8)