What is Mafia (party game)?
{{Infobox game |name=Mafia |other_names=Mafia |image_link=File:Playing mafia game.jpg |image_caption=Players making accusations in a game of ''Mafia''. |designer=Dmitry Davidoff |players=At least 6 for classic |setup_time=< 6 [[minute]]s |playing_time=15–60&nbsp;minutes |random_chance= |skills=[[Strategy|Strategic thought]], [[Team|team play]], [[social skills]], [[roleplay]] }} '''Mafia''' is a hidden role game made by Dmitry Davidoff in 1986.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://jeuxsoc.fr/jeu/mafid|title=Questions to Dimitry Davidoff about the creation of Mafia on the French website|last=Haffner|first=François|date=1999-02-22|website=Jeuxsoc.fr|access-date=2011-04-11}}</ref> It is also called '''Werewolf'''. == How to play == The game is usually between two teams. There is an evil team that less players belong to. This group knows who is good and who is evil. They have to hide that they are evil from the good team. There is the good team, called the village, that has most of the players. People in this team have to find out who is good and bad. Everyone is given their role at the beginning of the game by a person who is not playing, called a moderator. All players sit in a circle. The game has two stages, day and night. At night, everyone closes their eyes. The moderator tells the evil team to open their eyes. They choose someone to kill or remove from the game. Some other roles on both teams can do things at night. In the day, everyone from both teams opens their eyes. The players that are still alive will talk to each other about everyone's roles. The players on the evil team must keep their identity secret. The players then vote out who they think is on the evil team. The game keeps going until either all members of the evil team have been eliminated or all members of the good team are 'dead'. == History == Dmitry Davidoff ({{lang-ru|Дми́трий Давы́дов}}, ''Dmitry Davydov'') is usually said to have made the game. He says he first made the game in Spring 1987 at the [[Psychology]] department of [[Moscow State Univer