Mafia

I had been previously asked to make a post about how to play Mafia after my New Years post! I had never played it before and loved it! It is especially fun with a group of 7 or more!

What you need:
A narrator
7 or more people
2-4 queens from a deck of cards
1 king from a deck
1 jack from a deck
After the 4-6 face cards,how many ever other people are left you need a number card for each of them.

How to play:
First off this is a silent game. The only one that talks is the narrator and then while you are picking the 2-3 to vote on at the end of a round.

The narrator should go around and have each person randomly pick a card.(Make sure that no one shows their card. )

The narrator explains that whoever has the queens are called the mafia, whoever has the king is the sherif, and whoever has the jack is the doctor. All others with number cards are called townspeople.

The narrator says, "Everyone in the town of " make up a name for your town" goes to sleep. While everyone is sleeping the mafias awake and kill one person off. All the mafias open your eyes, don't say a word and pick one person to kill off. Ok, the mafias go to sleep. The doctor awakes. Pick someone or yourself to save from the mafia killing without saying a word. The doctor goes to sleep. The sherif awakes and point to someone and I will shake my head yes or no if they are one of the mafias. Ok sherif asleep and the townspeople awake."

The narrator then tells the town who the mafia killed off and if they were saved or not by the doctor. If they were not saved they now are out of the game.

Next, the town votes on 2-3 people who they think are the mafia. The sherif can persuade someone they should vote on if they choose to. A lot of times they don't say anything the first round since then the mafia will kill the sherif off so they can no longer help the town.

Once everyone votes whoever gets the most votes is out of the game and the narrator will tell you if they were mafia or not.

You continue playing until you either kill off all the mafia or the town diminishes. (Every time I played we killed off the mafia before they could kill off the town.)


It is such a fun game with a group of people! We really enjoyed it and I hope you guys do too! If you have any more questions  or need more explaining, let me know!