# Mafia - Do we have people who would be interested in playing the game mafia? **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [June 7, 2024, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-do-we-have-people-who-would-be-interested-in-playing-the-game-mafia/1002599 "2024-06-07T17:32:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2024, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-do-we-have-people-who-would-be-interested-in-playing-the-game-mafia/1002599/1 "2024-06-07T17:32:49Z")
My plan would be to host over on GIraffe Boards, which has a dedicated mafia board and is free to join. We had a very active community there for over a decade, but the majority of us appear to have gotten played out and it actually fizzled. It’s literally been game after game for 10+ years. I’m a teacher about to go on summer vacation. I am ready to plan and play a game and I thought it would be a great opportunity to open it up to anyone, new or old. Mafia is a game that typically has two teams. One team is Town, which is the majority of players. The other team is “scum”, which is the bad guys(also called the Mafia). They only consist of a few players. Mafia-scum know each others identities and can even speak to each other in a secret forum. Town only know their own individual identity. Their job is to figure out who the Mafia/scum are. Some townsfolks are vanilla. No power, just playing in the dark and trying fo figure it out. Some Town have minor powers, like protection or investigation. Each day(lasts about 5 real world days), the players “vote out” one player, who is then “killed”. Once dead, we learn who they were. At night(lasts 2 days or so), Scum kill one player in the game and possibly activate some other bonus powers. Goal for Town is to destroy all scum-mafia. Goal for Mafia-scum is to kill all Town, or get it to even numbers, where they win by default. Anyway, it’s a fun game and completely simple to understand once you are in the game. If I had about 10 or so folks interested here, I’d be willing to plan and start a game. I can PM you here, assuming you have PM’s turned on. Anyone up for it? Even if you are a typical frequent player, let me know here. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2024, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-do-we-have-people-who-would-be-interested-in-playing-the-game-mafia/1002599/2 "2024-06-09T13:27:09Z")
I’m up for a game over the summer, sure. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2024, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-do-we-have-people-who-would-be-interested-in-playing-the-game-mafia/1002599/3 "2024-06-14T16:01:19Z")
Well, I’m not Scum so it must be Mahaloth. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2024, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-do-we-have-people-who-would-be-interested-in-playing-the-game-mafia/1002599/4 "2024-06-24T04:28:39Z")
I would love to play again but the Scum Board difficulties are a major impediment. ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2025, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-do-we-have-people-who-would-be-interested-in-playing-the-game-mafia/1002599/5 "2025-06-27T17:23:47Z")
Wouldn’t it be possible to just have the scum team communicate by PMs? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2025, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-do-we-have-people-who-would-be-interested-in-playing-the-game-mafia/1002599/6 "2025-06-27T17:36:13Z")
Yeah, this board allows for any set of members to all be in one PM thread. It’d be easy for the game host to just set up a group chat with the Scum team. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2025, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-do-we-have-people-who-would-be-interested-in-playing-the-game-mafia/1002599/7 "2025-06-28T02:19:15Z")
I would play if there is a game. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2025, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-do-we-have-people-who-would-be-interested-in-playing-the-game-mafia/1002599/8 "2025-06-28T02:38:48Z")
I’m definitely in any time. ---
**Author:** ![DemonTree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demontree/32/8646_2.png) [@DemonTree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonTree)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2025, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-do-we-have-people-who-would-be-interested-in-playing-the-game-mafia/1002599/9 "2025-06-28T09:51:17Z")
I’ve played something similar in real life, I’ll try it if there’s a game. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2025, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-do-we-have-people-who-would-be-interested-in-playing-the-game-mafia/1002599/10 "2025-06-28T18:00:09Z")
I should point out that the use of Google Docs has worked well for scum private conversations. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2025, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-do-we-have-people-who-would-be-interested-in-playing-the-game-mafia/1002599/11 "2025-06-29T14:53:00Z")
Madame Pepperwinkle’s in the hospital again, so I don’t have time to play. Alas. Pfui. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2025, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-do-we-have-people-who-would-be-interested-in-playing-the-game-mafia/1002599/12 "2025-06-29T23:08:02Z")
Hmm. If someone else really wants to host one, I’d be glad to play… but if nobody wants to host, I have one in mind I could run. Give me a few days to figure out setup details. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-do-we-have-people-who-would-be-interested-in-playing-the-game-mafia/1002599/13 "2025-07-02T13:51:04Z")
Still working on it, but it looks like I can do a game for either 13 or 16 players. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2025, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-do-we-have-people-who-would-be-interested-in-playing-the-game-mafia/1002599/14 "2025-07-03T18:41:07Z")
OK, here’s the sign-up thread. I included Biotop, Mahaloth, and DemonTree. @Thing.Fish, did you want in? > [@Shakespeare Mafia-- Signup](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-mafia-signup/1020456): > > All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. This is a Mafia game. The basic idea is that there’s a town, composed mostly of innocents, but with a few secret evildoers among them. The game goes in cycles of Day and Night: Every Day, all of the townsfolk (including the secret evildoers) vote to lynch someone, hopefully an evildoer. Then, every Night, the e…