Abbreviations

Common abbreviations for ideas, often used as shorthand midgame. originally compiled by NinetyNineGhost on the Discord Server. Further pieces of terminology have been added since.

## General Terms

Vanilla – Basic Role of an alignment (Villager for town, Mafia for mafia, Scumbag for third party)

PR – Power Role. A non-villager, non-mafia role like Cop or Medic

RR - Role Reveal

CC – Counterclaim. Claiming someone else’s role, typically when there is only one left of a given role

Sus – Suspicious/May be scum

FoS – Finger of Suspicion. Refers to when a player points out or “Points the Finger” at a single message/action of another player to bring attention to them.

PoE – Process of Elimination. Excluding players you think are town in order to narrow down who should be condemned.

Gamesolve — A statement full of scumreads, usually equal to the amount of scum that are presumed to be alive. Most often a list of people, from most suspected to least. When used as a verb, is synonymous to scumhunting, but can also mean the action of making the solving statement.

Scum – Roles that need to be condemned/killed for town to win (Mafia, Bounty Hunter, Cult, Zombie, etc.)

Soft/Softing - Short for soft claiming; not directly claiming one‘s role but rather hinting at it contextually

Blending – Talking but saying nothing unique; not very distinguishable from the chat logs

Coasting – Not talking or contributing as much as is expected

Deflecting – Taking suspicion off of yourself or another by accusing/sussing another player

Hardclaiming – Claiming a role and having no intentions to retract what you said

Sheeping – A vote on someone purely because of the player voting them

Towncase/Scumcase – A set of arguments that show your reasoning for calling another player town/scum

Tunneling – When a player consistently pressures one player to the point it interferes with their own gameplay

Pocketing – A player (who usually isn't town) trying to get a specific player on their side by acting in a way that is helpful to them

Warlocking – Deliberately townreading/defending a person that is about to get condemned

F(#) – Final (#). A term used to describe when you're late into a game with a very small number of people. For example, a final 3 with two Villagers and a Mafia.

NK – Night Kill (Typically by mafia)

KP - Kill Power (how many kills are possible, usually in reference to mafia's 2kp option where they can kill twice in one night)

NC - No Condemn

NL – No Lynch. Old terminology.

NS/S - Not Sided with the Mafia / Sided with the Mafia. Shorthand used for a cop's notes.

OGI - Outside Game Influence/Information. Things separate from the game itself that point to a certain alignment. Frowned upon when used because of how hard it is to fake (for example, pointing out a tendency to use Discord at night as Town)

RC – Random Condemn

RL – Random Lynch. Old terminology.

MC – Miscondemn. Condemning incorrectly, condemning a town.

ML – Mislynch. Old terminology. Defined similarly to MC.

BW – Bandwagon – When a large number of people suddenly hop onto a condemn vote simply because other people are

BM – Bad Manners. Certain behaviors are considered BM when they are used to frustrate your opponent or to gloat (for example, intentionally throwing in a game that's 100% won)

TR - Townread - Shorthand to indicate that you believe someone is town

SR - Scumread - Shorthand to indicate that you believe someone is scum

Hammer (a condemnation) – 1. When one individual breaks a split vote or makes a condemn vote on someone the majority, ensuring their death; 2. When someone ends the day by being the final vote on a condemned target (Usually involving clown’s shot)

MYLO – Miscondemn and You Lose. Refers to when voting a town would win scum the game, but town may still select No Vote

CYLO – Condemn or You Lose. Refers to when a scum must be voted or the town loses, even in the situation of a No Vote

LYLO – Lynch or You Lose. Old terminology, and defined identically to CYLO

PMYLO/PCYLO — Possible (or Partial) Miscondemn/Condemn or You Lose. Refers to when it is one of the voting situations detailed above, with caveats such as a Medic save, making losing “possible”

Super-CYLO/SCYLO – Similar to CYLO, but specific scum role(s) must be voted or town loses. A basic of Super-CYLO is 3 Villagers, 1 Basic Mafia, and 1 Poacher. Town must condemn the basic Mafia before the Poacher to win (town loses if the scum roles are voted in an incorrect order)

CRYLO – Condemn Role or You Lose. Defined identically to Super-CYLO

Slip or Slipping – When scum accidentally gives away that they are scum, through game mechanics or accidentally sending a message meant for Mafia chat into the day-chat

Throwing – Acting against your own win condition. Common examples might include revealing mafia members as mafia or killing a confirmed town as town. (Throwing is not good and generally discouraged)

Bus or Bussing – When mafia susses, pressures, kills, or votes/hammers another mafia member in order to appear more town (see Towncred)

Joint-win or Jointing – When two different alignment groups or players (typically mafia and a third party) win together at the end of the game.

OMGUS/OMGYS – Oh My God You Suck – Sussing someone back for sussing you. (general idea)

Outted – Of almost undeniable alignment

WIFOM – Wine in Front of Me – An infinite loop of "did they do X thinking i would think Y? or did they do Z, thinking i would expect X?" (See The Princess Bride)

Filter – Usage of Log Filtering tool in top right of the chat area.

Flip - on-death reveal of a player's role.

Towncred - Town credibility, a quality of a player that is measured by "towny" actions, usually aiding in the condemnation of a scum player. Used commonly to refer to actions taken by scum to gain town credibility.

Gaslighting – Can refer to 1. Attempting to convince players of information that isn’t true, 2. Attempting to make a player doubt themselves psychologically, such as claiming a player is tunneling when they are not.

Open-wolfing – When a player (regardless of alignment) acts with no regard to try to look like they are town. This includes band wagoning for no apparent reason, openly sheeping votes, and generally being anti-town.

Wincon – Win condition. What exactly you need to do in order to win.

Agenda / Agenda’d — (A message or action) that pushes a win condition that is seen as anti-town.

## Role or Ability specific terms

3P – Third Party

AD – Arms Dealer

BB – Busboy

BG – Bodyguard

BH – Bounty Hunter

BM – Blade Master

BP – Bulletproof

BV - Basic/Blue Villager

BW – Brainwasher (Or being brainwashed)

CL – Cult Leader (Original Cult Member(s))

DA – Defense Attorney

FT – Fortune Teller

FG – Fall Guy

GF – Godfather

GE – Greedy Executioner

GL – Greedy Lyncher. Old terminology.

GR – Graverobber

Jan/Jan’d – Janitor (Or being role cleaned by Janitor)

LG – Luckyguard

LT – Lazy Tracker

MB – Mad Bomber

MM – Marksman

NS – Nervous Sleeper (or Not Sided with the mafia)

OL – Overlord

PC – Parity Cop

Para - Paranoiac

PH – Party Host

Pres/Presi – President

SS – Secret Service

SF – Selfish Fool

SW – Sleepwalker

SM – Suspect Mind

TC – Tax Collector

WT – Wiretapper

OT – Overturn a condemnation (An action/power where Governor or Crook can change the condemned target)

Pass (a condemnation) – Telling a governor to not OT a condemnation

RB/RB’d – Roleblock or Roleblocked (Hooked if RB’d specifically by Hooker)

Sweep or Sweeping – When one’s role is hidden by Sweeper

Jailed/Executed – When one is put in jail or killed by the Jailer

Doused/Burned – Prepared for kill or killed by the Pyromaniac