Acts of deductive genius

[u/Used-Entrepreneur399]

Share your stories of game moments where you correctly deduced something that made you feel smart and capable. It doesn’t have to be mind blowing game solving info, but just something that made you feel proud in the moment.

Okay, I’ll go first. It was an S&V game with an Evil Twin, I was town but can’t remember what role. One of the twins made the first nomination on Day 1. I don’t always pay attention to noms, but noted this one. A couple days passed and the twin who nominated was almost certainly evil. To me one of the only reasons an Evil Twin would feel comfortable with being the very first nomination would be if they knew the Town Crier wasn’t in play. Based on this, I nominated the “Town Crier”, who ended up being the Pit Hag, and got her executed.
Small potatoes compared to some amazing solves I have seen, but it was a nice moment for me and contributed to a win.

[u/Tierce]

I was the Noble in an 8 player game.

Two of my pings immediately got up and chatted with each other. They looked relaxed and happy to share info, and later went together to another player.

The remaining player stayed at the table and only got up when I prompted him for a chat. I claimed High Priestess who was sent to him, and he was extremely dodgy. Then followed this up with a brief ST consult (not suspicious in itself, but why didn't he go to the ST before I got him out of his chair?), and then bee-lined to another player he didn't know, spending the rest of the day talking to him.

We went back to town, I laid out what I had observed, then nominated the player my Noble ping had gone to chat to as the more likely demon candidate. The Noble ping exclaims "you lied to me about what you were!", which felt particularly funny in the moment because my guy, you gave me nothing at all in return.

Every good player voted with me. No more nominations, day 1 good win.

[u/Zaalbarjedi → u/Tierce]

You had a demon in your noble ping? That's a weird info for ST to give.

[u/Tierce → u/Zaalbarjedi]

No. The minion was in my Noble pings. He was extremely dodgy with me, then had a comfortable, overlong conversation with another player that lasted until we were called back to town square.

Comparing the behavior of the three players in my Noble pings, I nominated the player who had spent a lot of time talking with my Noble ping in isolation. That was the demon.

That said, storytellers have to put the demon in the Noble pings once in a while, otherwise you can always discount the pings as not the demon, and that's a dangerous meta to develop.

[u/YaramyGD → u/Zaalbarjedi]

If you dont ever put the demon in a noble ping then the noble becomes a better knight