Clean Sweep

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## Clean Sweep

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Relatively simple setup that highlights the importance of sweeping the right condemn.

### Town Roles

Announcer, Cop, Guardian, Oracle, Patsy, Sleepwalker ×2, Villager ×4

### Non-Default Settings

Nightstart (No Kill Night 1), Punish Initiators

## Description

Sweeper can use their power to hide a variety of roles: Godfather, Jaywalker, Announcer, and Patsy are just a few of them. Good Sweeper usage will likely help mafia to win the game. However, they must also balance killing the Cop with avoiding the Announcer.

Anno exists rather than Emcee to allow mafia to push and sweep the Anno to get rid of it, should they desire.

## Optimal play

### Town

Optimally, Cop should out when they have a sided check or two, and Guardian should then protect them the next night. It is optional but recommended for the Guardian to out when the Cop does. Town can use visitor mechanics to help them find the Jaywalker, and Cop checks to find all the mafia except for Godfather. Likewise, players can be confirmed as Town using this method as well.

#### Cop

Check scummy players. Claiming when you have two sided checks is best (as one could be Patsy), but claiming with one is fine as well. Claiming in cylo is also beneficial to town. No not sided check is confirmed town until the Godfather is known to be dead (which may very well never happen), and any sided check could be Patsy if it is still alive. If you visit the Announcer before having outted as Cop, you should claim Sleepwalker. If you have already revealed, it is up to you whether you want to out them or not.

If one of your not sided checks or the Announcer is being voted after you have revealed, it is worth letting town know.

If a mafia ever fakeclaims Cop, it may be worthwhile to hold back ccing until both Sweepers are dead/have used their power. This will prevent them from hiding your death or the death of the fake Cop.

#### Guardian

It is worth outting when the Cop does to prevent town from accidentally voting you, because you will die the next night anyway.

Guardian play is simple: don't visit anyone until Cop outs, then visit them and only them. Don't try to find the Anno, because you are outted as a visitor to the mafia (and you might randomly die).

#### Oracle

Try to bait the night kill. Reveal someone who you believe is mafia. Mafia likely won't cc you, as you can't be swept.

Never choose to reveal ns checks or anno visitors, let them solve themselves.

#### Villager

You are either a normal Villager, a Sleepwalker, the Announcer, or the Patsy. Fakeclaiming or softing power roles can be more rewarding due to the possibility of you being the Announcer, but it is also possible that you are Patsy, in which case the Mafia will completely ignore your claim.

If you visit the Announcer, you know that you are a Sleepwalker. As such, anyone who claims otherwise is lying. (For instance, if a Cop claim says you are sided, or that you are the Announcer and that they visited you, you know that they are fake.)

If you are confirmed as the Announcer (or Patsy, if every mafia other than Godfather is dead), play as any confirm would, leading town.

### Mafia

The setup being headstart rather than daystart gives Sweepers time to communicate with each other and the Jaywalker to have a chance to find a player who isn't the Anno. Deciding when each Sweeper will use is critical, as if both Sweepers use on the same day, one will waste their power.

#### Godfather

Godfather is interestingly more bussable here than in other setups, as Sweeper can hide it when condemned to prevent ns checks from being confirmed. Thus, try to get condemned before a Sweeper does. If Sweepers get voted out early on, try to stay alive for as long as possible instead.

#### Jaywalker

Visit players who you believe to be the Announcer, so the team knows who they are and not to kill them. Even if you don't ever visit the Anno, who you visit is valuable information; they are confirmed to NOT be the Anno, and as such are safe to kill. NEVER visit other mafia members as the Jaywalker, as it doesn't benefit the team.

#### Sweeper

Sweeper has a lot of reasons to sweep:

* Hide the Godfather's death, to prevent ns checks from being confirmed as town
* Hide the Jaywalker's death, to prevent anno visits from being confirmed as town
* Hide the Paty's death (if checked as sided by Cop), so that town doesn't know if they were real mafia or not
* Push the Announcer and hide their death to prevent the mafia team from looking scummy for voting out Anno (and to prevent town from deducing who Jaywalker is)

Coordinate who will be using when on the first night so that you don't accidentally use your powers on the same day.

A Sweeper should NEVER hide the death of the other Sweeper as the first sweep, as they are mechanically outted to have been the Sweeper due to the lack of a post-vote action the following day (thus it is a wasted sweep). It is okay to do this as the second sweep, though.