Mafia alternative

As a slight alternative to Mafia next international breaK.

1. Cluedo. Very vaguely based on the boardgame- but not really- it's actually more similar to an old game I had on the Spectrum as a kid that I think was called Murder.
   
   Basically the premise is- everyone is summoned to an old mansion in the country. The mansion has various rooms (how many there are depends on number of players) - use traditional Cluedo sounding rooms. "Ball Room, Kitchen, etc" - I suggest not too many rooms.
   
   People are divided into two groups. Guests and Murderers. There will be a disproportionate number of murderers (maybe 5 in a game of 16 players) but they are all independent- not on a team. Murderers will be secretly assigned names like "Professor Plum" or "Miss Scarlet".
   
   Beginning of each day the Murderers will be given a list of victims they are assigned to try killing that night (just a couple). Each day there will be a lynch.
   
   Before nightfall every player gives a list of three locations they will visit during the evening before bed.
   6pm
   7pm
   8pm
   
   If a murderer and a guest he is targeting end up in the same room at the same timeslot then in the nightly log it will be written something like: (assuming Colonel Mustard is told to kill Tobes and they both pick the library in their 6pm slot).
   
   "6pm In the Library the lights go out- there is a scream. Colonel Mustard has killed Tobes in the Library with the poison". (murder weapon just chosen at random just for effect).
   
   Everyone who was not in the Library are told who their alibis were at that time (who else was in the room that they were in at the time of the murder). By everyone combining their alibis they need to eliminate who was missing- murderers of course can bluff and make up a fake room they were in.
   
   It might be easier than normal to locate and hang a murderer- that's why you need more of them. Probably more work for the host than normal- but I could probably write a quick computer program that will automatically say what the output to everyone should be based on their locations to help out.
   
   Players couldn't coordinate a strategy of where to go because that would let their would-be murderers know where to go to kill them. Guests don't have special roles but I don't think they will feel left out because they all get told their alibis when a murder occurs and all get to pick what rooms to go to each night... so in a way it's like everyone has a special role.
   
   Unless we got a lot of people playing- I wouldn't suggest more than 4 or 5 rooms. Could increase the # of timeslots to increase liklihood of murderer finding their designated target for the night (or reduce # to lessen chance of murder).

Not sure how to make day 1 more exciting. May need some tweaking... But as a basic idea for a game in the Mafia vein how does the general idea sound?

 

Summery?

 

Could be interesting.

Like you say about day 1, there is probably even less to do in day 1 than normal mafia games where have nothing to go on, so not sure what you do for the 12 hours in day 1 and what to talk about etc.

Perhaps have a short day 1 or people have a couple of tasks to try complete during the day to get something to help them at night etc?

 

Maybe you ask every participant for their first choices prior to the game starting?

 

I like the idea.

I would ask that some randomised means to assign rooms to pwople who dont enter is required

I agree with jurgen. Start day 1 with results of the first murder. Perhaps create a fake character who gets killed and then use the thought to preselect the rooms by each player.. then day one can be right into the alibis

 

Maybe you could use football stadiums rather than rooms?

 

Problem with that is that nobody would go to Goodison Park.

 

Didn't #readtherules but in

 

I'll play

 

I'm in.

 

Sounds gash, but I'm in anyway

 

I don't have time to host one this month. I was throwing out an idea to see if it sounded feasible.

I'm going to start work on my mafia hosting software once inlaws leave after this coming weekend in the evenings. I've got some good ideas for that... Some things that can't be done when hosted by a human such as "poisoning to make people delirious" - (mafia could poison someone making them delirious for a day then they die after 24hrs of deliria. When delirious 75% of the posts you read will be randomly changed to gibberish so you won't know what others are saying... Also 75% of your posts are recorded as gibberish (but you don't know which).

Also some AI roles.

I'm hoping to be done by September international break.

 

Sounds good, especially if can use random names so know one knows who is who.

Only issue is itll take people away from the site completely when playing I guess

 

Also anyone not realised is new sign up on toon board for game next week

 

Yes. That will be its main Problem. Its not on here.

 

I didnt but I can't. Work to catch up on now.

 

Sounds great to me

That's a good thing #unknownnamestoo

 

Yes. The plan I had envisioned was whoever configured a game could decide as part of the config settings whether the game is anonymous or not.

If anonymous it would randomly pick a temporary name for each player consisting of one random adjective and one random noun for example: (to be used for that game only... A new random name will be assigned for each anonymous game)

"Blue Starfish"
"Hairy Waffles"
"Chocolate Beaver"

When you die it would reveal who you really are.

"Town has lynched 'Fat Batard' he was the Mafia Don. 'Fat Batard' is revealed to be Gerrez".

 

The biggest advantage of course will be instant night. If it's all automated the moment night falls you'll know everything that happens.

 

RIP