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Hrm. It might be worth sticking an {{tl|outofdate}} sticker on this whole section. Thoughts? - Shanba
:Probably; go ahead...it's a wiki. ;) -- [[User:Mr. Flay|Mr.]] [[User_talk:Mr. Flay|Flay]] 22:51, 4 July 2007 (MDT)


rescued from the page history:

"OK, I'm going to outline a few simple tells that will often help you find various roles in [[Game of Mafia|Mafia]]. Please don't get too caught up in the terminology. My basic strategy for determining who has what role is outlined in the topics below. This is a wiki, so feel free to expand this, but if you simply have comments, please use the [[Talk:Common Tells|talk page]] feature.

I will slowly be adding in the information so as to reduce the impact to running games. See the release schedule in the table below. If I fall behind, feel free to ping me.

Please note that simply by making these "tells" public knowledge, they should fade away. In the short term, it is likely that people, esp. when playing as mafia, will attempt to plant some of these. This is natural and will settle down eventually. Ultimately, I think it will advance the game. And I cannot resist putting in my two cents on good play, so this will probably have some suggestions for play too.

Some general rules of thumb<sup>[[Common_Tells#Note|1]]</sup> that I use:
* Players want to tell you their role ''on some level'' -except when they are playing doctors-... docs want to tell you they aren't docs
* Pro-town roles rarely have a valid reason to lie. Almost always, pro-town lies are the result of poor play. Therefore, you should [[Lynch All Liars]]. This is a [[MetaGame]] ploy to help encourage people to play better.
* Experienced players have seen variations on it before. So when experienced players ask "what's up with XXX" it means they probably did it. Esp. if they try to tell the town that it "must be" a pro-town ability. Same with Newbies, generally, but there is more variability.

I do things on a percentage basis when I take notes I add a percentage (shown in parenthesis). I won't say that the numbers are all I use, but they help. The numbers are not very scientifically generated...

I misplaced some of the files. If I find them again, I'll change the status, but otherwise, I'll have to start again.

[[User:Adel|Adel]] 14:20, 14 November 2007 (MST)