mafia, mafia card game, group games

mafia, mafia card game, group games

mafia, mafia card game, group games - The more players you have for this game, the more fun you'll have. It has some tricky rules, but you'll get the hang of it, it calms the group down, but is great fun! All the players sit in a circle. All you need is a deck of cards. One person is "the lookout" or "the narrator" and stays out of the circle. The lookout or "the narrator" then takes the deck of cards (face down, so no one can see them) and goes around the circle letting everyone pick only 1 card from the deck. Once everyone has their card (be sure that they don't show them to anyone else) and the lookout then tells them the rules.

The lookout or narrator should tell them that if they have a king card, they are a cop. If they have an ace card, they are a part of the mafia. It is important they don't tell anyone who they are. The lookout now says, "its night time!" or "it's time to sleep" and everyone shuts their eyes and puts their head down to their lap. Then the lookout says," police, heads up" and the people who have king cards should put their heads up to show the lookout who they are. As soon as the lookout or "the narrator"says "heads down" the police put their heads down. Then the lookout or "the narrator" shouts "mafia, heads up!" and the people with Ace cards put their heads up, to show the lookout who they are. The lookout or "the narrator" once again says: "heads down", and then says "its daytime!" and everyone puts their heads up. Now that the lookout knows who the mafia and policemen are, he can assume everyone else is a citizen (people with a Queen, a Jack or a number card.) Now the lookout can repeat the process of "night time". But the second time he does this, when the policeman's heads are up, the policeman can point to one person, and the lookout can tell them whether they are citizen or mafia. When the mafia's heads are up, the mafia can point to one person, but the lookout says nothing, the person they point to is automatically "Dead" and out of the game. When "Daytime" comes, the lookout says whoever the mafia pointed at: "You're dead" and the person can now reveal who he was. You can then go around the circle and have one person accuse someone of being in the mafia. Everyone votes to get that person out. If enough people vote, he is out, and can reveal who he is, if not enough people vote, he stays in the game, still not revealing who he is. The object is to have the policeman or citizens get all 4 of the mafia out of the game. If this happens, the mafia has lost. If the mafia get all 4 policeman out of the game, the mafia has won.

During the daytime phase, those who are dead can no longer participate, although they can watch (although, in some variants, the person who has just been "killed" gets to say their "last words" before they "die").

The entire group, including the mafia, now decides who to lynch. This is where the trickery comes in. The mafia must act innocent while trying to protect themselves from lynching. Any form of accusation and evidence is admitted in the discussion, even outright lies, and players are alowed to lie about their secret roles. This part usually takes the longest, and the topics and arguments that come up can be anywhere from sane to outlandish.

Eventually, the group must vote on who to lynch. In some variants, a majority vote is required to convict a player (and variants differ on what to do if a majority is not achieved), while, in others, a plurality of the vote is enough to eliminate an accused player. Variants also differ on what to do in the case of a tie.

When a decision is reached, the lynched player is out of the game. In many, but not all, variants, it is revealed if the player was a member of the mafia. In some variants, the player's secret role may be revealed by the narrator at this time no matter what their role is.

After the lynching, night falls again. The cycle of night and day repeats until either the mafia have a majority or the townspeople have killed all of the mafia.

Also to make it more interested you can add a Queen who is the the doctor, and the doctor can save someone from dying. They can save themselves or other people that they feel the mafia is going to kill, and if they save the same person that the mafia kills, then that person is saved! It's a fun little twist to throw in!

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