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Unsure of what a certain mafia term means or where a community phrase came from? Hopefully this guide can help!
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Bastard: A term to denote a type of mafia game. Bastard games are setups that involve the gamerunner lying or divulging false information to players.
Deep wolf: A term used to refer to a suspected Mafia player that has gained the trust of Town players. Also sometimes called a ‘false town leader.’
EoD: An abbreviation for the term ‘End of Day’ to refer to the end of a Day Phase.
Hammer: When a player places a vote on another player and causes a vote majority to be reached thus ending the Day Phase is considered a ‘hammer.’
ISO: Refers to isolating a specific player’s posts in order to look at all of them at once.
ITA: Stands for ‘In Thread Action.’ Typically refers to a game mechanic that was originally introduced by Geno in Heroes vs Villains Mafia in which all players received an ITA for a 1-shot kill chance.
MafiEra: What we call our community! A combination of Mafia + ResetEra.
Meta: Refers to the shared history and knowledge of other player’s styles from having played with each other across several games. A ‘meta read’ is to base your guess of someone’s alignment from past knowledge of their games and style.
NAI: An abbreviation for the term Not Alignment Indicative to describe an action or post that does not indicate whether a player is Town or Mafia.
OMGUS: An abbreviation for ‘Oh My God, You Suck!’ which typically describes when a player votes someone out of retaliation for voting them.
Operation Hydro Cannon: A mafia strategy coined by Blargonaut during Love Boat Mafia. Refers to a Mafia team that purposely withholds a night kill in order to sow confusion.
POE: Process of Elimination is a strategy which attempts to find Mafia players by going after those who have not been cleared as Town in some form.
Pulling a Maple Street: Coined due to the game Maple Street Mafia by Dr. Monkey. Refers to when Town ends sequential Day Phases early via a vote believing themselves on the right path only to lose the game.
Read(s) List: A read list is a list of players left alive in the game and your current thoughts about them and their possible alignment.
Thunderdome: A term used to describe when a lynch is only between two players.
Town Hooker: A Mafia fakeclaim coined by Sorian in Love Boat 2. Refers to when a Mafia player creates a fake roleclaim convincing enough to deceive Town players and not be caught.
Turbo: A turbo is when a player reaches a majority of votes during a Day Phase thus causing the Day to end early.
*Vote Out/Voted Out: A term used to describe who to remove during a Day Phase.
W/W: An abbreviation for the term ‘Wolf/Wolf’ or ‘Werewolf/Werewolf’. This is used to associate two players together as being Werewolf/Mafia.
WIFOM: Or ‘Wine in front of me.’ A term originating from the movie Princess Bride which is used to denote when someone is trying to guess the reason for a choice a person made, when that person knew in advance that their choices would be subject to scrutiny.
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