Mafia
Wake at night and pick someone to eliminate. By day, act innocent. Your card shows the other mafia.
4–24 players · 20–40 minutes
Mafia
A few players are secretly mafia. Each night they pick someone to eliminate; each day the whole table argues and votes someone out.
The cards
What each person is holding
Doctor
Each night, choose one person to protect from the mafia.
Detective
Each night, point at one person and the narrator tells you if they're mafia.
Villager
No power at night. Find the mafia by listening and voting.
Narrator
Only when the host turns on "I'll narrate": you run the night and see every role.
A round
How it goes
- 01
The host deals. Everyone presses and holds their card to see their role, then lets go.
- 02
Night: everyone closes their eyes. The narrator wakes the mafia, who silently agree on someone, then the doctor, then the detective.
- 03
Day: everyone opens their eyes and hears who was eliminated. Talk, accuse, then vote one person out.
- 04
Repeat. The town wins when every mafia is out; the mafia win when they match the town in number.
- 05
When it's over, the host taps Reveal all to show who was who.
Before you deal
What the host can change
- How many mafia
- Roughly one for every four players
- Doctor
- Saves one person each night
- Detective
- Checks one person each night
- I'll narrate
- You sit out and see every role
From the table
Worth knowing
- Without a narrator, the host plays too and someone calls the night phases from memory.
- Eliminated players stay quiet — no hints from beyond.
Ready
Open a room and read out four letters.
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