No-kill gambit

A no-kill gambit involves scum intentionally not utilizing their nightkill, with the intent of confusing town power roles.

When To Use

When the mafia know or have a good guess on the town's Power Roles, and believe the PRs will come to inaccurate conclusions on player alignments.

Especially effective if a mafia member has high reason to believe they will be targeted by a Doctor that night.

Execution

For example, if scum no-kills and a Town Roleblocker targets a townie, the Roleblocker may believe he stopped the kill and will gun for the townie as "confirmed scum". The risk in this example is that the Roleblocker might target a mafia member, obtaining the correct result via an incorrect assumption.

The effectiveness of this gambit is highly dependent on what roles town has:

• Roleblockers might falsely believe they roleblocked an attempted mafia killer.
• Doctors might falsely believe they protected the mafia kill target.
• Jailkeepers might believe they roleblocked the killer or protected the kill target.
• Bulletproofs might believe they were the kill target, leading to inaccurate NKA.

Additionally, the mafia can also no-kill in order to set up a future Power Role claim, e.g. a Doctor who successfully stopped the nightkill, or a Bulletproof who was shot.