Sunday, July 19, 2009

Party Game: Mafia

Really easy fun game. It's a murder mystery type game where people die each round and the living try and find the killers.
Suppose a group of people at a party. Divide this group into 1) Mafia and 2) Villagers, and one moderator. Ratio should be 1-3 or similar. Create cards or paper sheets that can be passed out to everyone to identify them as villagers or mafia. This is a secret others shouldn't know who is a villager and who is the mafia.
Moderator declares it to be night and everyone closes their eyes. Moderator asks Mafia to open their eyes and kill someone. Moderator asks everyone to close their eyes and then asks everyone to open their eyes. Villagers find out who has been killed and discuss to determine who might be a mafia killer - once decided villagers take a vote or come to a consensus on who the killer is and he/she is killed. Villagers can choose not to kill anyone. Upon a person being killed their card is revealed to show the villagers if the person was a Mafia or a villager. Rounds continue.. Objective of villagers is to exterminate all mafia, objective of Mafia to eliminate all villagers.
Interesting dynamics and logic.

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