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Sheriff of Nottingham — Complete Strategy Guide (now with round timing)

This is the integrated, tactical playbook. It merges the Merchant and Sheriff strategies, the bribe math, bag-loading rules, psychological play, and explicit corrections for game length by player count so you can schedule trust-building, deception windows, and inspection cadence precisely.

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1. Core mechanics & notation (compact)

• $P$ = penalty total on declared legal cards (coins).
• $M$ = penalty total on misdeclared/illegal cards (coins).