Talk:Metagaming/@comment-32942597-20170907023536/@comment-168.99.198.77-20171119171709

Jesters are the best TIs

some Jesters randomly accuse someone of being mafia in order to try to appear as an exe, and thus get hung. The reason this doesn't work when people are actually good at video games is that any OBVIOUS exe is a possible jester. For example, an extremely fucking bad jester will say: N1: Bob (MAFIA) and then say oh i'll side with town (not even push the lynch on bob, just say they are exe after Bob defends themself). Thus, the town will instead have THE JAILOR execute the exe or jester, as they would rather not hang a jest, and they would rather VFR.

If jailor is dead, this has a possibility to work, but you have to play well. High elo can EASILY read the difference between an exe and jester, so you need to act as exe-like as possible, and you may get lynched on susp of being an evil (ww usually) faking exe, or an exe in general (although many times town will ignore you and go for obvious maf).

Now the reason this is such a bad strategy is that if your random guess hits that 5/14 chance that they actually are evil, they won't have a strong defense and will likely get lynched, which either confirms you as a TI (so you wont get lynched) or if they are an evil that doesnt appear as mafia, gets you executed as jester.

By far the worst way to play as jester (other than spamming, saying you are an evil role, etc.)