Shirts

This is a variation on regular mafia designed for 3 players. It is often played with each person wearing a certain colour shirt and from the clues you get about each of the shirts, try and deduce who is the Mafia. This is often played on AIM or other suitable instant messengers, in Scum Chat, or even in the MafiaScum forums.

Setup:

There is one Mafia and 2 Witnesses. One of the witnesses is a Sane Witness and the other is a Delusional Witness. Neither witness knows whether he/she is sane or delusional.

The Mafia is wearing a certain colour shirt, let's call it shirtA. He does not know any more information than that.

The Sane Witness is wearing a different shirt to the mafia, let's call it shirtB. Additionally, he/she has seen someone wearing shirtA, which unknown to him, is worn by the Mafia.

The Delusional Witness is wearing another shirt, let's say shirtC. Additionally he/she sees someone wearing shirtB, but unknown to him, that shirt belongs to the Sane Witness.

Play

The game starts at day. Players may vote and unvote at will. It takes 2 votes to lynch. Once someone gets 2 votes, the game is over and no amount of unvoting will change that. The GM then announces the lynch, and resulting winner(s).

Winning

The Mafia wins if a townie is lynched. The town win if the Mafia is lynched.

Rules

• The GM has the final say regarding everything. Any complaints should be discussed privately.
• You must stay true to your role, and play to achieve your objectives as best you can.
• You may not quote your PM under any circumstances, nor may you use the wording of your pm to justify your innocence. The only things in your pm you are allowed to reveal are the colour you are wearing, and the colour you have seen (if applicable.)
• Votes must be of the form VOTE: IS, or Vote: IS. If you do not vote in capitals or bold, it will NOT be counted.
• If you are switching votes, please UNVOTE before you VOTE.
• After a majority is reached, no amount of voting or unvoting will undo the lynch.
• This is a game, you're here to have fun. Yes, that's a rule, not a guideline :P.

Variations

• One common variation is instead of using colours, use types of shirts, such as t-shirt, or football jersey. Alternatively you can use other items of clothing, ie. anything from jackets to wigs, but usually all 3 roles have a similar theme. You can also play using radical identities such as each player is driving a certain make of car, or drinking a certain cocktail.
• It is becoming less and less common, but still exists nonetheless, to announce before hand each of the 3 shirts that are being worn, but not to tell who is wearing them, or which one is being worn by the Mafia. This is perhaps a good way to introduce new players to the game. Though this appears to give the Mafia a better chance, it does not when the Mafia is being played by a sufficiently experienced/knowlegeable player. At all times in this game, the chances of either side of winning, with optimal play from all 3 players, is 50%.
• Some games I have played, also have the variation that the shirt seen by the delusional witness is not the shirt worn by the Sane Witness but rather a shirt that is not actually in the game (not worn by anyone).
• Another potential variation suggested by someone recently, is to have an additional 4th player, someone who is innocent but neither Witness nor Mafia. I have no idea how this will work out until it is tried and analyzed more deeply.