# \[Mafia game\] The Realm of Phere **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [April 1, 2012, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-game-the-realm-of-phere/617480 "2012-04-01T15:04:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2624
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-game-the-realm-of-phere/617480/2624 "2012-05-08T00:17:16Z")
Do you think maybe the long delays in reveals are by design? After all, Pizza did tell us > [@"I'm Too Busy To Play This" Mafia](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-too-busy-to-play-this-mafia/613978/50): > > I know. I’m trying to make a game that is playable, within the realm of fairness, and will make sense at least after it is explained. > > I don’t want to make a rigged, unplayable, stupid game, just for the sake of crazy. And yet, I do want to meet the challenge of mad creativity. We’ll see what I come up with. > > I need moar victims. Perhaps “let’s have a one-week ‘break’ after each phase so that the players will go batshit crazy waiting for ‘information’ that isn’t actually coming regardless” falls under the category of “mad creativity”…after all, he didn’t say he \*wouldn’t \*make a rigged, unplayable, stupid game, only that he wouldn’t do it “\*just \*for the sake of being crazy”… 😃 --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-game-the-realm-of-phere/617480)._