Players making accusations in a game of Mafia Other name(s) Werewolf Dmitry Davidoff Players At least 6 for classic, Deathwing is played with 5. The game of Mafia is run by a moderator or narrator, who hands each player a card secretly signifying their identity in the game In its simplest form, Mafia is played by two teams: the mafia and the innocents. Live games require a moderator who does not participate as a player, and identities are assigned by handing out cards.

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At the start of the game, every mafioso is given the identities of their teammates, whereas the innocents only receive the number of mafioso in the game, and do not know which players are mafia and which are innocents. There are two phases: night and day. At night, certain players secretly perform special actions; during day, players discuss and vote to 'lynch,' or eliminate, one player. These phases alternate with each other until all mafiosi have been eliminated or until the mafia outnumbers the innocents. Some players may be given roles with special abilities. Common special roles include: • detective — an innocent who may learn the team of one player every night; • doctor — an innocent who may protect a player from being killed every night; • barman — a mafioso who may cancel the effect of another role's ability every night Andrew Plotkin recommends having exactly two mafiosi, whereas the original Davidoff rules suggest a third of the players (rounding to the nearest whole number) be mafiosi. Davidoff's original game does not include roles with special abilities.

Saxophone Quartet Sheet Music. In his rules for 'Werewolf,' Plotkin recommends that the first phase be day and that there be an odd number of players. These specifications prevent players from being killed before the first day and in most scenarios ensure that the game will end dramatically on a lynching rather than with an anticlimactic murder.

Night [ ] All players close their eyes. The moderator then instructs all members of the mafia to open their eyes and acknowledge their accomplices.

The mafia members pick a 'victim' by silently gesturing to indicate their target and to show then close their eyes again. A similar process occurs for other roles with nightly actions. In the case of the detective, the moderator may indicate the target's innocence or guilt by using gestures such as nodding or head shaking.

Night may be accompanied by players tapping gently to mask sounds made by gesturing. — Dr Simon Moore, • The information revealed by the mafiosi voting patterns tells against them later in the game.

One of the game's fans, has said that 'If the villagers are allowed to keep a pencil and paper, they always win.' • As players get more experienced, their strategic sophistication and ability to spot and use deception.

They will typically get better at the skills needed for playing innocents faster, being villagers more often than mafiosi. • The aspect: Dimma Davidoff has said, Past connections will always lose to future collaborations. When playing Mafia games with the same people, it's more helpful to be known for than for deceit. Davidoff considers that so important that he thinks the advantages of playing the mafioso role honestly, outweigh the disadvantages. But, the Mafia can win in live play; their best chance of winning occurs when mafioso with their innocent and convince those neighbours to value that bond over dispassionate analysis. The game designers Salen and Zimmerman have written that the deep social game play in Mafia (combined with the fear of elimination) create ideal conditions for this.

Optional roles [ ]. This section needs additional citations for. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (November 2017) () These additional roles are named differently in the many versions of Mafia, for, or historical reasons.

Also, the same role-name can have differing functions across different versions of the game. What follows is a general list of role types found in Mafia variants; since the specific names vary by it must be non-exhaustive. Investigative roles [ ] Players with these roles use their own night-phase to discover something about other players. Though the standard game now includes the basic Detective, these roles are optional, and games can exclude them entirely (such as the stool pigeon variant, or Davidoff's original rules).