Mafia is a social deduction party game where players are secretly assigned roles as either innocent “villagers” or murderous “mafia” members.
During “night” phases, mafia members secretly choose villagers to eliminate. During “day” phases, all surviving players debate and vote to execute someone they suspect is mafia. The game continues in these day/night cycles until either all mafia members are eliminated (villagers win) or the mafia outnumbers the villagers (mafia wins).
The fun comes from deception, strategic accusations, and trying to identify who’s lying based on behavior and arguments.
It turns out that AI is rather good at playing Mafia, which makes you wonder what this all means for humanity. 🤷🏼
