Texas Justice Mafia

Texas Justice Mafia is an Open Setup game which consists solely of a Mafia group and multiple one-shot vigilantes. The original setup (eaten by The Crash) had 4 Mafia and 16 Vigilantes.

Other instances include

• Texas Returns appears to be the oldest surviving example, from 2003.
• Texas Justice 2 was played on the Grey Labyrinth in 2006, less successfully.
• Later still, it was run in 2007 as part of the new Open Game Queue, as a Mini Game.

Setup Breaking

02 July 2008, The Fonz broke the then standard Texas Justice Setup. Currently the setup is under several developments to fix the problem.

The break occurs when the town pairs players up at random, no lynch, and killing their pair. The full math determines town win percentage to be ~73% based on how many mafia are paired with their team-mates.

In determining this course of action, Fonz acknowledged that it would destory the current Texas Justice setup for any future games:

"Now, I can see what the obvious objection here is: that's no fun. If we are going to do that, we might as well go with a random number generator, and allocate W/L based on that.

However, being part of the town requires me to do my upmost to fulfill my win condition, and i have a really hard time seeing how any other strategy can generate a higher expected town win %."

For the full math and discussion, as well as the outcome click here to see the game.