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Investigative roles (less common)[edit]
—Psychic, Wizard, Fortune Teller, Oracle, etc.
Psychic, Psychologist, or Sorcerer-type investigators can determine other players' roles, rather than their alignments.[29] Roles which detect other roles are usually implemented in the same way as the Detective's ability to determine alignment. For example: the Psychologist points to a player (at night) for a Thumbs-up from the moderator if the Vigilante is pointed to.[Note 6] A Tracker may see what someone's night action was, or the target of their action.

Information revealed to investigators is fallible (in more complicated variants). Online versions can give information with a confidence level, and in other variants the Narrator deceives the Detective by showing all players as Innocent, all as Guilty, giving reversed results, or random information (these can be termed as Naive,[33] Paranoid, Insane, or Random respectively). Additionally, some Alignment roles give immunity to successful investigation.

In some games, there are Mafia Detectives, who have the power of a normal detective but are on the Mafia side. The Super Commandant has the standard power of a Detective, while also protecting the investigated from night-time attack.