APMason comments on Open Thread: September 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ataftoti 17 September 2011 03:25:01AM *  0 points [-]

I just had 4 games with the same 5 players (setup is 4 town 1 scum) that all ended in scum victory. Random lynching should yield only 53% chance of scum victory. 0.53^4 seems low enough that this is likely a case of better than random.

The players in this case were new to the game with the exception of myself (and after the first couple games I was constantly night killed). I was going to say that this seems to suggest that scum is stronger in newbie games, but then I realized I have no data to draw this comparison with. :-(

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 17 September 2011 11:36:20AM 0 points [-]

Were you the scum in any of the games?

Comment author: ataftoti 17 September 2011 08:16:54PM 0 points [-]

I was scum in none of the games.