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BGG not a reliable source

Greetings! I had received a message from User:Doniago stating that BGG isn't a reliable source, hence undoing my former add of Blood on the Clocktower because I put BGG as a source. Shouldn't all "One Night Variant" be removed, too? It has BGG as a source... That's why I sourced it at the first place! --Forly (talk) 07:41, 20 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough. I've removed BGG as a source for that information and requested that a citation be provided (perhaps the Bezier Games website may be useful to some extent?). FWIW discussion of BGG as an RS can be found here. Cheers! DonIago (talk) 16:02, 20 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Prior version

This is surely just a variant of a much earlier party game called "Murder" - see for example the 1934 film The Night of the Party -- JohnKozak (talk) 15:30, 18 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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@JohnKozak So Murder inspired Mafia, which inspired Among Us??? Kosburrat (talk) 00:05, 21 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"Mafia (party game" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Mafia (party game has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 April 8 § Mafia (party game until a consensus is reached. Utopes _{(talk / cont)} 01:34, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ideal proportion of mafiosos

I am quite missing, for practical purposes, some data on an 'ideal' number of mafiosos, detectives (and possibly other roles) as a function of the number of players. All suggested numbers in the mathematical section assume a game with no detectives, which is not very practical because the game is usually played with them. That is, I would want to find an answer to the question "How many mafiosos and detectives should a game with X players have such that the probability that mafiosos will win is 50% (or 30%, or Y)?". As mentioned, in reality, innocents win more often than the mathematical models would suggest, therefore, some data from actually played gamed would be suitable. 86.49.227.95 (talk) 10:35, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think there are relevant mathematical studies in citable sources about the simplest case (only wolves and villagers, or whatever they are called). If similar sources can be found covering more realistic cases, we might include a few of those. However, there are no end to the number of variations and combinations of roles one could imagine, and also, wikipedia is not a how-to, so it's not info we MUST have. Nø (talk) 14:41, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]