Mini Mafia V: Clues and Puzzles

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darmousseh

United States3437 Posts

January 25 2011 20:07 GMT

/in !

I just went out on a different mafia game so that I can do this one.

darmousseh

United States3437 Posts

January 25 2011 23:50 GMT

#12

Ok, here's my character

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaara

darmousseh

United States3437 Posts

January 26 2011 06:25 GMT

#23

On January 26 2011 15:11 shannn wrote:
My character: Q.
Sounds so fun :D

OMG, that is the best character......which Q though?

darmousseh

United States3437 Posts

January 29 2011 04:14 GMT

#57

A hungry panda would never leave anything to rot. There's a lot of characters that have a lot to do with blood, except Q, who probably would never do such a thing

darmousseh

United States3437 Posts

January 29 2011 18:35 GMT

#85

On January 30 2011 02:03 Node wrote:
While I agree that "disappeared in a giant burst of gravel" would seem to point towards Gaara, I don't think the story as a whole fits him that much. I don't know too much about the character, I'm just going by the Wikipedia article. Is there any plot in Naruto that mirrors the events in the day post at all?

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This all seems to state that the story as a whole will point to a specific person, rather than there being a small reference slipped in somewhere. This makes me think that Carlos the Jackal is the best fit so far. I mean, it's a string of hostage situations caused by a terrorist organization. Does that sound like anybody else?

Obviously I'll be a little biased since my character is gaara, but

Gaara used sand and in all cases he always left behind traces of sand and thats it, he never any traces of blood. There was a character in naruto who was like gaara but used rocks, but he didn't have a big role and wasn't related to gaara at all.

If the clues are anything like XXXVI, then usually the entire post is reference to the person and there are 5-6 clues which point directly to that person which fit the entire post, not a small portion.

Carlos the jackal seems like a very good match so far. Yesterday was the wife's birthday, so today I will have time to read the thread and I'll try to find hints.

darmousseh

United States3437 Posts

January 29 2011 18:37 GMT

#86

On January 30 2011 03:35 darmousseh wrote:

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I just noticed that on some versions they block out the blood and on other versions its a bloody mess. Difference between the manga and the english anime i guess.

darmousseh

United States3437 Posts

January 29 2011 19:05 GMT

#87

There are so few characters to analyze, and the only contribution I can offer so far is this.

Carlos advocates radical Islamism in his book Revolutionary Islam, which expresses support for the terrorist attacks of Osama bin Laden as well as Saddam Hussein for resisting the United States.

Radical islamism typically includes suicide bombing. This points to the part

The Inspector replied, “No, the pirates killed everyone. And the pirates themselves? They would rather kill themselves than be captured”

The pirates are irrational. Most pirates would rather be capture and have a chance to escape. The fact that they'd rather die indicates they are probably radical in some way.

Another thing to note is that terrorism and being a pirate are very close to the same thing and in fact an 18th century british police force might see this as an act of piracy instead of terrorism. If you switch the word pirate to terrorist while reading the story I think it becomes even more pointed towards carlos the jackal.

darmousseh

United States3437 Posts

January 29 2011 22:22 GMT

#94

On January 30 2011 07:14 Jackal58 wrote:

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On January 30 2011 06:46 shannn wrote:

On January 30 2011 06:10 DoctorHelvetica wrote:

On January 30 2011 03:35 darmousseh wrote:

On January 26 2011 08:50 LSB wrote:
Each day post will be about one mafia. It won't be obvious, but it will be pretty specific once you figure out what is happening.

One idea I have for a day post is a Sherlock Holmes story.
A typical Sherlock Holmes story gives you enough info that you figure out everything that is happening, and then Holmes explains what happens. What if I gave you a Sherlock Holmes story, but killed off Sherlock before he could explain what happened? There's all the information, and its up to you to figure out what happened.

EDIT: The clues will be much more specific than XXXVI. Once you figure it out what the day post is about, it will point to one person, but the problem is figuring it out.

This is a dumb defense. If LSB had never watched/seen Naruto he'd have nearly no way of knowing all of that. And you can just as easily say with any one that "sure the story fits my character in X way but not in Y way" because there are very rarely perfect clue situations. If Node got the impression that gravel was a fair connection to Gaara then that could very well be what LSB was thinking when he wrote the clue. I'm not saying it's you but this doesn't actually rebutt anything Node was saying. The fact that you were that defensive when he didn't accuse you (and actually said the story doesn't really fit you overall) makes me more wary than anything.

But on the other hand. LSB could've just read the wiki's. There's a reason why there are links of everyone as that is enough to come up with clues about the suspects and Gaara isn't the biggest suspect in my view (biggest is Carlos due to all his characteristics of a terrorist). So far I can only think between Gaara or Carlos whereas leaning more towards Carlos. Neither of them have all clues matching with their characters which makes it hard (whether it's LSB's attention or not) to figure out precisely how LSB thinks and what he means with some clues.

I read the link of Gulliver's travels but I have not really seen any indication or similarity in the wiki about the clues that have been given. I didn't read anything about murdering people or bodies disappearing. The only link you could think of is about the 18th century and that it's from the same time as Jonathan Swift. But the place and time shouldn't really be relevant about the suspect as LSB mentioned in his post. So for me Jonathan Swift isn't a suspect for today.

To be fair to LSB and Gmarshall his wiki page is Jonathan Swift not Gulliver's Travels. Gulliver would open a whole new can of worms but Swift not necessarily so. I don't know how far afield from each persons page LSB may have drawn clues from but I don't see much on Swift.

I would guess that if there was a major story that the author is known for or event that a character was a part of that it could relate to the character. I was actually looking through the different works your character wrote, but didn't come up with anything significant other than the radical islam part.

darmousseh

United States3437 Posts

January 29 2011 22:28 GMT

#96

On January 30 2011 07:24 Pandain wrote:

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Pandas don't eat humans? And they eat bamboo for 99% of diet?

Anyway, will be contributing with my thoughts shortly.

I asked my wife and she said that they will occasionally attack humans but it is a very rare occurence. Even though their diet is mostly bamboo they will eat meat.

However, pandas probably wouldn't eat the whole body and would leave a very mangled body left over.

darmousseh

United States3437 Posts

January 30 2011 09:38 GMT

#118

Jackal getting picked off at the same time in 2 active mafia games. How often does that happen?

Still deciding who to vote, but most likely jackal58 from evidence and post analysis.

darmousseh

United States3437 Posts

January 30 2011 22:32 GMT

#122

On January 30 2011 08:43 Jackal58 wrote:

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Actually there are 3 that really have no attachment unless you really stretch it.

1. chaoser Holden Caulfield - Catcher in the Rye doesn't set off anything
2. darmousseh Gaara - Gravel
3. CubEdIn Raiden - Teleportation - No bodies
4. GMarshal Jonathan Swift - Unless this includes Gulliver's Travels nothing but perhaps time period
5. shannn Q Omnipotent character that can do anything. Including everything in the day post
6. Node Dinosaur Comics Main Cast - Other than squashing log cabins not much
7. Jackal58 Ilich Ramírez Sánchez Comparing pirates to terrorists
8. DoctorHelvetica Thom_Yorke Eye Patch, Eraser, British
9. Mr. Wiggles Yossarian Bombardier, Missing peoples
10. Kenpachi Zaraki Kenpachi Captain, Eyepatch, Blood
11. Pandain Ling Ling Dead Panda. Not much.

Perhaps this is the "puzzle" part. 3 that aren't connected?

Not a ton of evidence to go on, but no one has really found anything more convincing than jackal58. If anyone find anything more convincing in the next 3-4 hours I might switch my vote.

##Vote: Jackal58

Also remember also the first post mentioned that the setting is 18th century britain so it is unlikely that we should use references to britain or english people as evidence of guilt.

darmousseh

United States3437 Posts

January 30 2011 22:33 GMT

#123

EBWOP

##Vote: Jackal58

darmousseh

United States3437 Posts

January 31 2011 01:54 GMT

#127

5 mins til voting ends.... where is everyone?

darmousseh

United States3437 Posts

January 31 2011 01:58 GMT

#130

On January 31 2011 10:56 LSB wrote:
I won't actually do modkills this game, since I realize that if Mafia is inactive, the clues can just pown them
But I am looking for replacements

What will happen then instead?