Tactical Shutan with elements of social stealth “Mafia”

Once, during the break between his 128 and 531 parties to the mafia, I decided to imagine how this game would look in reality. Having sorted out various options with concrete shoes, executions from Tommy Gan and sniffing flour Al Pacino, stopped at the idea of ​​a poker table. In the end, the game is card.
And now what happened in the end:

The mafia is a table-nastic game for https://roulettetv.co.uk/ training trolls, liars and virgins. It is a slight form of srach with elements of the detective.
Despite the fact that the game with different names and options for the rules has been known at least from the middle of the 20th century, it was invented by its student at Moscow State University Dmitry Davydov in 1987. Interview with the newspaper Kommersant.
At first, they played in dormitories, audiences and corridors of Moscow State University, but after some university students spent vacation in summer student camps, where students and other Soviet universities rested, the game, along with new players, began to spread to other educational institutions of the USSR. After graduating from the university, in 1989, Dmitry remained at Moscow State University to teach psychology for international students (mainly from socialist countries), and some of them, returning home, smashed the seeds of the “mafia” abroad, first to Europe (Slovakia, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Belgium, UK, Norway), and then in the USA).
According to the author, the game is based on the cultural and historical theory of the Soviet psychologist of the 20s of the last century L. WITH. Vygotsky prototype of the game “Mafia” is a European game called “killer” (English. Murder, German. Mord IM Dunkeln, known since the middle of the XX century. Unlike the game “Mafia” in the “killer”, players by discussion are looking for one maniac, and in the “Mafia” players are already calculating the team of the murderers – the mafia team.
The Italian series “SPRU”, in which the police commissar Kattani (Italus, helped. Corrado Cattani) fights the Sicilian mafia. In the late 80s, its motives were often used in the first versions of the game, and some variations of the Mafia store the names of role-playing characters and the place of action in the tone of the series still. For example, in Norway, to which by 1995 the status of the commissioner and the name of the game itself, using the “rule of a bad phone”, came as Kasar Khatani.
The essence
Players are divided into 2 groups – civilians and bad guys. The participants of the game are distributed cards. Those who got the Reds represent the “civilians of the city” a player who received Red Ace, becomes a sheriff (option – commissar). Players with black cards – the team “Mafia”. (If you are too lazy to look for a deck, paper with statuses are also suitable). At the first stage of the game, bad guys secretly “kill” one of the inhabitants, in the second stage they all try to find out who did it and send the guilty to the victims. After which everything is repeated. The game continues until the number of bad guys becomes equal to the number of good ones, or until the whole mafia is killed.
Characters
Despite the fact that in the simplest version of the game everything is divided into “civilians” and “mafia”, in most cases the game is overgrown with additional actors: doctor, commissar, godfather, maniac, etc. p.
The host says: the city falls asleep – and everyone closes their eyes. Then the mafiosi does his black deed, without words pointing to the presenter to the victim. Then the doctor wakes up, who cures a random player. At the same time, it is not forbidden to treat himself, so the choice of the patient is often dictated by the instinct of self -preservation. The sheriff points to the alleged mafiosi, and can see any player with a card with a character. After the words “the city wakes up”, the presenter declares the name of the victim. By voting, players determine who the mafia is cut out of the game. Lulses are that the mafiosi themselves can convince the players to cut out a peaceful resident, doctor or sheriff, using their eloquence and cunning.

The best comments

on a pickabu and in a somewhat changed version on Joy. However, this picture also has some improvements

Well, except that it is added and the doctor is added.
And the games where a lot of a lot of roles are stupidly so that no one would get bored at night for a simple citizen, I also like it either)