AI - Alignment Indicative; if something is AI, it can be used to determine the alignment of someone (can be used to tell if the person is Town or Mafia).
Alignment/Faction - Which side (Town or Mafia) a player is on.
Anti-Spew - When a member of Mafia is about to be eliminated and intentionally lets out fake “spew” that is meant to mislead Town after they die.
ATE - Appeal to Emotion; using emotional appeals, flailing, pleading, etc., to try and avoid getting voted/suspected of being Mafia.
Buddying - When one player acts friendly to another to try to get the other player to develop good feelings towards them and be reluctant to vote or suspect the first player; similar to Pocketing but can be done by Town.
Bussing - When a Mafia member says they are suspicious of their teammate (another Mafia member), votes them, and ends up killing their teammate.
CC - Counterclaim; someone announcing that they are the role that someone else had previously claimed. A claim is usually accepted as true if no one counterclaims the same role in an open set-up game (game where all the role are known).
CFD - Chinese Fire Drill; when a lot of people shift votes in a coordinated manner, usually near the end of Day phase.
Claiming - When someone announces in the thread that they are a particular role (usually a Power Role). Note that claims can be faked by either alignment but fake claims are usually done by Mafia.
Conf-bias - Confirmation Bias
CW - Counter Wagon; the alternate wagon from the largest wagon (the largest wagon being the one with the most votes); the second largest wagon.
Distancing - When a Mafia member says they suspect their teammate (another Mafia member) or doesn't interact with their teammate.
EBWOP - Edit By Way Of (Double) Post; when a typo or other minor error is fixed through quoting the original post (this is used because it is against the rule to edit posts in a Forum Mafia game).
Elim/Eliminate/Lynch - Vote out from game; all players vote for a person to be “killed” in the game at the end of the day phase. (Please note, the word “lynch” has been replaced by less offensive alternatives such as “eliminate”, "execute", "lunch", or "yeet" but may still show up from time to time. Town tries to get members of the Mafia eliminated, while Mafia try to avoid getting eliminated.
EOD - End of Day; end of the Day phase.
F-3 - Final 3, when the game is at a 3-player ELo, where there are two Towns and one Mafia remaining.
Flip - When a player dies in the game and their role and alignment (whether they were Mafia or Town) is revealed in the thread.
FoS - Finger of Suspicion; used to indicate that you are suspicious of someone but are not going to vote them (because you are voting someone you find more suspicious or for other reasons).
GTH - Gun To Head; the read you would make of a player if you were figuratively threatened at gunpoint.
IIoA - Information Instead of Analysis; when someone regurgitates information without analyzing it, typically used by Mafia members to appear to be solving when they are not.
ISO - Isolate; reading a single player’s posts in isolation in order to determine their alignment (e.g., I'm going to ISO Lemonfairy before deciding if I should vote her).
ITG - In The Game.
ITT - In The Thread.
L-# - Lynch minus a number; the number indicates how many votes a player needs to be lynched. e.g., in a 9-player game, a player with 3 votes on them is at L-2 (5-3)
L-1 - Lynch minus one; this either refers to the second-to-last vote before a lynch is obtained, or a state where a player only needs one more vote to be lynched
LAMIST - Look At Me, I’m So Town; when someone makes an obvious attempt at looking like they are Town.
Lean - Basically the same as Read but you’re less sure of their alignment (e.g., “I have a scum lean on Lemonfairy”).
LHF - Low Hanging Fruit; a player that is easy to eliminate.
Lock - Used when you are 100% sure of a player’s alignment and will generally not be changing your Read of them (e.g., “Lemonfairy is lock town”).
Lolcatting - When outed Mafia do not want to leave behind spew so they start posting cat meme in the thread instead.
LyLo/ELo - Lynch or Lose/Eliminate or Lose (Please note, the word “lynch” has now been mostly been replaced by more neutral alternatives like “eliminate” due to the word’s distressing historical connotations.); when the game is at the point where Town has to correctly eliminate a Mafia member or Town will lose the game.
Mafia/Scum/Wolf - Mafia alignment; the “bad” guys (NB: in some games, Wolf/Werewolf is another alignment separate from Mafia). Mafia members know who other Mafia members are (their teammates) and by deduction, they know who Town members are (everyone else).
Meta - How a player usually plays as a Town or Mafia; often used by players with experience with each other to gauge the other’s alignment.
Mis-Elim/Mis-Lynch - When a member of Town is eliminated.
MyLo/MeLo - Mislynch and Lose/Mis-eliminate and Lose (Please note, the word “lynch” has now been mostly been replaced by more neutral alternatives like “eliminate” due to the word’s distressing historical connotations.); when the game is at the point where Town will lose the game if they mis-eliminate a Town member.
NAGL - Not A Good Look; looks scummy (like a mafia).
NAI - Not Alignment Indicative; if something is NAI, it cannot be used to determine the alignment of someone.
Neutral - Usually refers to another faction that is neither Town nor Mafia in some games.
NK - Night Kill; Mafia faction kill of a Town member during Night phase.
NKA - Night Kill Analysis; analysis of who was night killed by Mafia to try and determine who might be a Mafia member.
Null - Neither towny nor scummy.
Obv-Town - When a player acts obviously towny (like Town).
OMGUS - Oh My God, You Suck; when a player suspects another player because the other player suspected the first player.
Open-Wolf - When a player acts scummy (like Mafia) on purpose.
PBPA - Post By Post Analysis; a detailed analysis of posts (usually from one player).
Pocketing - When a Mafia acts friendly to a Town to try to get the Town to develop good feelings towards them and be reluctant to vote or suspect the Mafia player.
POE - Process of Elimination; a solving strategy that involves looking for Town and then placing the rest in the POE as the most likely to be Mafia.
PR - Power Role; can be Town or Mafia (depends on the game set-up) but is generally used to refer to Town Power Roles.
Pure - (Of a post or a series of posts) lacking nefarious (Mafia) agenda.
Read - What alignment you see someone as (e.g., “I read Lemonfairy as Town”, “I have a town read on Lemonfairy).
RVS - Random Voting Stage; period of the game when votes are largely random and unsubstantiated.
SBPC - Sort By Post Count; suggestion that whether someone is Town or Mafia can be determined by the number of posts they make.
Scummy/Wolfy - Something that makes a player look like a member of Mafia.
Sheep - A player that mindlessly follows the majority and does not have their own reads or opinions.
SL - Scum Lean
Slot - The role and/or alignment the player has within the game.
SOD - Start of Day; start of the Day phase.
Spew - When a member of Mafia unintentionally reveals who is or isn’t on their team before dying.
SR - Scum Read
Sus - Suspicious (of being a member of Mafia).
Thunderdome/TD - When two players are dead-set on having either one or the other eliminated in that phase.
Tinfoil - A conspiracy theory-esque speculation; focusing on what is possible, rather than what is probable.
TL - Town Lean
TMI - Too Much Information; when Mafia lets slip something only Mafia would know.
Town/Villager/Villa - Town alignment; the “good” guys. Town members only know that they themselves are Town and know nothing of other people’s alignment (they don’t know if other people are Town or Mafia).
Towncred - Town Credit/Town Credibility; an unquantifiable entity given to a player that reflects how towny they have been.
Towny/Villagery - Something that makes a player look like a member of Town.
TR - Town Read
Tunnel - When a player is hyper-focused on a target and can’t see anything else (can be done by either Mafia or Town to Mafia or Town)
TWTBAW - Too Wolfy To Be A Wolf; when someone acts so obviously scummy (like a Mafia) that you think they cannot be Mafia.
Vanilla - Anyone who does not have a power role, can be either Town or Mafia.
VC - Vote Count; a visual representation of whom each player has voted.
VCA - Vote Count Analysis; analysing shifts in voting and the composition of players in the Vote Count prior to a lynch (usually occurs after the player to be eliminated has died and their alignment had been revealed).
VI - Village Idiot; someone who says or does things that are generally considered bad, typically because they are inexperienced and/or do not understand the consequences of what they are saying/doing; can be Town or Mafia but is generally passed off as inexperienced Town.
VT - Vanilla Town; a Town-aligned role with no powers.
Wagon/Bandwagon - A number of people voting to eliminate someone, usually named after the person getting voted on (e.g., “You were on the Lemonfairy wagon”).
Wagonomics - VCA (Vote Count Analysis).
WIFOM/Wine - Wine In Front Of Me; something done to make other people second-guess the motives behind that action.
WiM - Wants it More; has the motivation to play the game and put a lot of effort into the game to win; usually used to refer to players who try really hard to find Mafia.
Win-Con - Win Condition; usually, town’s win-con is to eliminate all mafia members and mafia’s win-con is to eliminate enough town members that there is no other possible outcome besides all town members being eliminated (usually this is when the number of mafia or non-town = the number of town).
WKing - White-Knighing; when a player aggressively defends another player (can be an indication of Mafia defending a teammate but not always).
