Talk:Town of Salem Rules/@comment-177.142.220.61-20160405222415/@comment-25646419-20160405232419

Once the lobby is full or the host hits the Start button, it takes 10 seconds to go into the name selection screen, which counts as the start of the game.

This is the first I've heard someone experience a 5 minute timeout from this sort of situation. If you strongly believe that the game couldn't have possibly reached the name selection screen at the time you've refreshed the page, feel free to report this in the Bug Reports section in the forums.