How to Play Day 1 Properly

## Basics

Day one is one of the most important days in a mafia game. This should not come as a surprise, considering the outcome of d1 determines what info town has to scumhunt with during d2. The main goal of town players during d1 is to scumhunt, and more importantly get discussion going. You can't decide if someone's actions are protown if they aren't making any actions, so you should be trying to find coasters and blenders and making them give their opinion on the discussion. The main goal of the mafia during day 1 is to be townread.

## Scumtells

These are things that are indicative of being antitown. As town, you should be trying to condemn people who commit these. You should try to avoid doing these as mafia.

### List of common scumtells

#### Congratulating PRs

If a player congratulates a town power role like medic at the beginning of d1, they are often either scum or that PR. Scum do this to try to appear like they're happy about the PR use, and PRs do this to make the PR seem like a different person. This *can* actually just be villager, and it often is, so you should not push a condemn on this alone. However, it is useful corroboratory evidence.

#### Being a midway vote on a bandwagon

If a player is the 3rd or 4th vote on a bandwagon, they are very likely scum, especially if that bandwagon has poor reasoning. Scum are often reluctant to start votes due to fear of drawing attention to themselves, and late votes run the risk of hammering the condemn and getting them suspected. Scum want to see support on a condemn before pushing it. Because of this, you should heavily question the 3rd, 4th and sometimes 5th votes of a d1 BW.

#### OMGUS

This is voting someone for no reason other than because they voted you. Anyone who does this should be immediately condemned, because it is not protown.

#### Wanting a no condemn

If there is no condemn on d1, town is deprived of info from a vote. This makes pushing an NL d1 a major scumtell. This is *slightly* outdated because most scum are aware that NCing is one of the most well known scumtells. However, you should still heavily question and consider condemning NCers, because it is not protown.

#### Blending

This is one of the top scumtells. Blending is when you are active but do not push any condemns or have many opinions of your own. It is *extremely* suspicious, because town has no reason to do it. Townies want the mafia to be condemned, and should be aggressive about what they want done to achieve that goal. The only reason to do it is to avoid drawing suspicion to yourself, which is a scum behavior. If a townie actually didn't have an opinion on the game, they wouldn't bother to be active. Ideally, the day 1 condemn should be a blender.

#### Coasting

Contrary to popular belief, this is less significant than blending because it has a decent likelihood of being apathetic town. This doesn't mean you should ignore coasters though, as they can be very dangerous late game due to the fact that town and mafia coasters are identical.

#### Mafia being condemned d1/bussing

In a game with the proper 3:1 town to mafia ratio, there is a low chance of a mafia being condemned d1. This chance is made even lower by the fact that the mafia can defend each other and push the condemn on to a town. Therefore, it is likely that if a mafia is condemned d1, scum were on the vote. If a player starts a condemn on poor reasoning and the target turns out to be scum, the player pushing the condemn is very likely to be scum. This DOES NOT apply if there is valid reasoning for the condemn.

#### Making too many "Towntells"

If a player acts how you would expect a town player to act without making any actual useful reads, they are likely scum. Mafia are more focused on their appearance than town is.

This guide will be expanded in the future

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