[Mrs McGinty]

Originally Posted by Giraffe

But there are a number of other possibilities, e.g. what if the scum all have the same last name? In that case, only the Town player(s) with that last name is actually a Cop and the rest are useless, but Town wouldn't know which player it was. Scum would need to find the Town player(s) with that last name, which they could do by systematically pairing all the claimed first names with their own last name and doing their own investigations until they are successful, at which point they could make themselves immune from investigation by killing that player. In this scenario, a name claim is a bad idea for Town: we'd be helping scum kill our Cop without our knowing it and giving them a free Day kill at some point.

Ah, now that's something I hadn't thought of. But would it mean that the scum all had the same first name as well?