Mime

Mim Alias: none Alignment: Third-party Role type: Manipulative Choice: Night Status: known

A Mime is a member of a third-party faction that wins only if all of its members are voted out, or eliminated. The Mime faction also has a factional Roleblock that can be used at Night to hopefully stop the Mafia's kill. If the Mime faction wins, the game usually ends.

A single Mime is nearly equivalent to a Jester-Roleblocker, the difference being that Jesters tend to not end games when they win.

This role is used in the Open setup Paris Mafia.

Standard version

The Mimes are an informed minority. They have two factional abilities:

• they know each other identities, and may communicate privately;
• each Night, one Mime may perform a roleblock.

All Mimes win if all of them are eliminated; when that happens, the game ends, and the Mimes are the sole winners. Whenever a Mime dies in any other way, all Mimes leave the game in a loss.

Use & Balance

Mimes are generally not used outside the aforementioned Open setup because if a single one of them gets killed (i.e. not eliminated), all of them lose. That's not particularly fair. That said, see The Game of the Year, where Mimes were successfully used to deter shoot-from-the-hip eliminating (and unfortunately lost day 1 due to Angels).

Sample Role PMs

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