My name is Pavel and I am a big fan of the Mafia party game, also known as Werewolves and with many other names and variations. I have played it for 10 years and conducted this research to honor the Mafia community I belong to and to understand the game differently. This is the part of my Master’s Thesis “Power Interplay in Mafia Games”. In this article I discuss the roots of the game, why it is interesting for research, and what the Mafia Community in Latvia is. Hope you enjoy. Mafia Description For example, the Witch in Werewolves of Miller's Hollow has only one use of her protective potion. She is allowed to see who was killed by the werewolves before applying the protective potion, so this character is more typical of the reanimation than the protective type. a b c d e f g Robertson, Margaret (4 February 2010). "Werewolf: How a parlour game became a tech phenomenon". Wired UK. Vol.3, no.10. Conde Nast Publications . Retrieved 2010-06-06. Salen, K; Zimmerman, E. (October 2003). Rules of play: game design fundamentals (illustrateded.). MIT Press. pp.468–469. ISBN 978-0-262-24045-1. Produced by Davidoff, The Game is an extraordinary choice that is bound to win you over. It was unveiled to the world in 2012. Once known as toilet water, EdTs, such as this one, have a lower concentration of ethereal oils than EdPs do, ordinarily between 5-15%. Because they are lighter, they are a frequent choice for office wear. Elaborate Olfactory Pyramid

Over the past three decades, Davidoff has seen hundreds of various strategies deployed in his game. Over the long-term “almost none of them work,” he admits. But there is one strategy he swears by: “Lying, and getting caught in a lie, is extraordinarily dangerous. The best players lie only when absolutely necessary and otherwise stretch the truth as much as possible,” says Davidoff. “Never lie unless you’re sure nobody will notice.” Name: Naive Cop". Archived from the original on 2007-02-27 . Retrieved 2007-12-16. Description: A type of cop that always gets innocent results regardless of who they investigate Multiple, independent groups of mafia or werewolves [57] act and win independently, giving faster game-play and the potential for cross-fire between the factions. For example, "The Mafia rules (MIT)". , from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, are very simple, and specify roles for 7–20 players, always including at least one Detective. Andrew Plotkin's original Werewolf always includes a Villager (Seer), and he mentions that in 1997 Mafia was played in the National Puzzlers' League convention with a Knight Commandant. (The role of the Knight Commandant or Knight is described in detail as having the standard Detective powers in: "National Puzzlers' League – 1997 Convention Reports". Archived from the original on 2007-12-08 . Retrieved 2007-11-24. ) Plotkin describes Davidoff's original game (which had no Detective) as well off the current average. A rare modern rule-set with No Inspector is: Engstrom, Vegard (1999). "The Game Player Constellations" . Retrieved 2010-06-15. but only when starting with five, larger groups get at least one inspector. The physiological stress of sustained lying degrades the initial ability of mafioso to deceive the innocents, much more than a model of perfect play would predict, especially if the innocents can get the town emotionally involved in the game's outcome:The baker is on the side of the innocents. During the night, the baker gives one player a loaf of bread, potentially revealing their identity. If the baker dies, the innocents have just three nights to dispose of the mafia, or the innocents starve, and the mafia win. The Cobbler, [33] Villager, or Jester has the objective of convincing the town to kill them, or is required to vote in favor of all proposed eliminations. Sometimes, successful elimination of the Village Idiot results in the mafia being able to kill two people that night. Complicated roles [ edit ]

In which the antagonists are Things, shape-shifting aliens that can turn humans into other Things. For the rules of the original variant, see: "Thing Werewolf Variant". . For a detailed description of another variant of this game, see: Solis, Daniel. "Alien Among Us". . For the most recent variant using web-enabled devices, see: "Latitude 90: The Origin". Batcheller, Archer L.; Hilligoss, Brian; Nam, Kevin; Rader, Emilee; Rey-Babarro, Marta; Zhou, Xiaomu (2007). "Testing the technology: Playing games with video conferencing". Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. pp.849–852. doi: 10.1145/1240624.1240751. ISBN 978-1-59593-593-9. S2CID 5230409. See "Making Light: Home Again". ; "Making Light: Traditional diversions". ; Azure, Chris. "Viable Paradise – Day 1". Archived from the original on 2011-08-17. ; Griffith, Eric. "A week in paradise". ; and Gordon, Barbara (30 December 2006). "Viable Paradise, day one". . Quoting Dvorin, Julia. "Viable Paradise: A Travelogue (Part 1)". After the introductions and instructions for the next day, I thought that perhaps we'd be released and I could go see the room I was to be staying in for the week and chill out a little from the travel. But such was not to be, for the agenda now turned to the important bonding activity of playing Mafia and Thing. So I pushed away the cranky traveler's whininess that was stalking me, and sat down in a circle with a bunch of strangers and began to accuse them of lying and murder. Also: Gould, Steven (30 September 2007). "Photo: semi-mandatory Mafia".a b "Are You A Werewolf? Rules of Play". Looney Labs . Retrieved 2010-06-15. Night-Noise: When everyone closes their eyes at night, it is best for people to also start humming, tapping the table, patting a knee, or making some noise. This will cover up any sounds made accidentally by the werewolves, the seer, or the moderator a b "The Original Mafia Rules". members.theglobe.com. Archived from the original on 2 March 1999 . Retrieved 15 January 2022. Andrew Plotkin gave the rules a werewolf theme in 1997, [6] arguing that the mafia had less cultural resonance, and that the werewolf concept fit the idea of a hidden enemy who looked normal during the daytime. [4] Mafia and a variant called Thing [Note 2] have been played at science fiction writers' workshops since 1998, [7] and have become an integral part of the annual Clarion [8] and Viable Paradise [9] workshops. The Werewolf variant of Mafia became widespread at major tech events, including the Game Developers Conference, ETech, Foo Camps, and South By Southwest. [4] In 1998 the Kaliningrad Higher school of the Internal Affairs Ministry published the methodical textbook Nonverbal communications. Developing role-playing games 'Mafia' and 'Murderer' for a course on Visual psychodiagnostics, to teach reading body language and nonverbal signals. [10] In September 1998 Mafia was introduced to the Graduate College at Princeton University, where a number of variants were developed. [11] The werewolf theme was also incorporated in the French adaption of Mafia, The Werewolves of Millers Hollow. Fraade-Blanar, L. (2001-10-26). "Mafia game indulges fantasy, avoids jail term". The Johns Hopkins News-Letter. One person out of the circle finds themselves tapped twice, making them the stool pigeon. He must inform the townspeople, i.e. everyone who was not tapped, of the identity of the Mafia members while not being killed himself... The game shows a historical conflict between the accusers and the accused. It could well be the Europeans accusing witches [ permanent dead link]