i havent been impostor in literally 6 hours

[Giant Idiot]

am i just really really unlucky or is this a known bug or something?

[Doge]

Go to your statistic page and see what you % is for imposter, normally its ~33%.

mine is 20 :(

[Giant Idiot]

my impostor / (impostor + crewmember) is 18%
it says ive been an crewmember in my last 34 games

[Noelle]

Try playing more than one game every six hours.

[kesaki]

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[eightiesboi]

TL;DR, it's because people generally understand how probability works poorly. Just keep playing and chances are (ha!) that you will eventually be the impostor. (Disclaimer, my stats skills are rusty).

Actually, depending on how many overall players there are in a game and how many impostors there are, the probability of being an impostor will vary. For a game with 10 players, 2 of whom are impostors, the probability of being chosen as an impostor is 20%; for a game with 6 players and 1 impostor, it drops to 17%. (A few others: 10 players with 3 impostors, 30%; 8 players 2 imps, 25%)

Keep in mind, this is just the chance for any given game. Assuming that the game assigns the roles independent of any previous game, that means that if you played exactly 1 game, and you were the impostor, you'd have an impostor statistic of 100%. The more you play, and the more you play exactly the same types of games (in reference to the number of crewmates vs impostors) the closer your actual statistic should look like the forecasted probability.

So, if you were playing a game with 10 people, and there were 2 impostors, and you played 10 games, what's the probability that you would never once (in 10 games) be picked as the impostor? Remember, as I said above, your chance of being the impostor in any individual games is 20%.....

Ready? Pencils down.

Roughly 11%. That doesn't sound like a lot, but if I told you that you had an 11% (or better than 1 in 10) chance of winning the lottery, would you play? If I told you that the mean I just cooked would kill you dead on a 1 in 10 chance, would you eat it? Etc...

(Oh, and @Siges3, unless my math is faulty, you'd need to be playing games that have half as many impostors as crewmates to have an impostor percentage around 33%. That's like having 6 crewmates and 3 impostors).

[Bellax]

Originally posted by Natalie:

Try playing more than one game every six hours.

lol no.

[rozey]

join diffrent sesions just dont leave if ur not imposter

[Toni 'Bō' Jones]

I've just realazied there's a statistic button after 75 hours of game time, hahah!

Me being:
- crewmate 445
- Impostor 55

500 games overall. Not that much for me too, but I like being both tbh.

[NecroMaster]

If you play with 1 imposter your chances are 1/10

2 imposters
2/5

3 imposters your chances are roughly 1/3.

But how hard are you willing to go to increase your chances.

[Giant Idiot]

I mean I get how probabilities work, I'm just surprised that I got crewmember 34 games in a row. Before then things were normal.

I played many games, with players ranging between 6 and 10. If we have 6 to 7 players we do 1 impostor. If we have 8 to 10 we do 2 impostors (I exclusively play with friends).

I'm pretty sure I've played 10 player games the most, but if we do a conservative assumption and say half of my games were 7 players and the other half were 10 players, that means the odds of me getting 34 games in a row as a crewmate are 0.16%

Thats pretty crazy isn't it?

[eightiesboi]

Originally posted by Huge ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥:

I mean I get how probabilities work, I'm just surprised that I got crewmember 34 games in a row. Before then things were normal.

I played many games, with players ranging between 6 and 10. If we have 6 to 7 players we do 1 impostor. If we have 8 to 10 we do 2 impostors (I exclusively play with friends).

I'm pretty sure I've played 10 player games the most, but if we do a conservative assumption and say half of my games were 7 players and the other half were 10 players, that means the odds of me getting 34 games in a row as a crewmate are 0.16%

Thats pretty crazy isn't it?

Not trying to pedantic (but likely succeeding), I think you meant the probability of being crewmate 34 games in a row, not the odds. But I do know what you mean.

On the other hand, 0.16% still isn't as low as it seems. Consider that, as I type this, there are nearly a quarter million Among Us players in game, and that it is statistically likely that roughly 200 of those players (a bit less than 1 in a 1000) have just been crewmate for the 34th time in a row. Anecdotally, I also play exclusively with friends and playing last night I ended up being the impostor so many times in a row that I got voted for specifically because I had been the impostor all night. And, I actually was the impostor again.

Anyways, nice to discuss stats with someone who understands that when a low probability (but non-zero) event occurs, it doesn't mean that anything is wrong / broken / rigged; that just how life works. If rep were a thing on Steam, I'd rep you. :)