# Story about Mafia the Game on The World (NPR) today

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/story-about-mafia-the-game-on-the-world-npr-today/706360>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [December 4, 2014, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/story-about-mafia-the-game-on-the-world-npr-today/706360 "2014-12-04T23:53:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2014, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/story-about-mafia-the-game-on-the-world-npr-today/706360/1 "2014-12-04T23:53:32Z")

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For all my fellow Mafioso.

My local NPR station carries The World in the afternoons. Today there was an [interesting story](http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-12-04/entrepreneurs-around-world-love-soviet-era-storytelling-game) about the origins and popularity of Mafia in Eastern Europe and the Far East including interviews with the Russian dude who invented the game.

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**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2014, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/story-about-mafia-the-game-on-the-world-npr-today/706360/2 "2014-12-05T00:10:21Z")

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Fixed the title as you asked.

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**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:** [December 5, 2014, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/story-about-mafia-the-game-on-the-world-npr-today/706360/3 "2014-12-05T01:23:51Z")

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I’ll listen later and thank you for the link to the story. It is downloadable, folks, so you can just grab it and listen whenever or wherever.

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**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:** [December 6, 2014, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/story-about-mafia-the-game-on-the-world-npr-today/706360/4 "2014-12-06T04:45:01Z")

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Thanks again for posting the link. I listened to it just now and it was fun to hear the creator of the game. I was playing it in 1996, but I figured it went back a lot longer than 1986-87.

I haven’t played in person in over a decade, but immediately joined when I realized we played here and on Idle(and on giraffe).