Mafia tactics. Mafia game strategy for the mafia Search for civilians

Mafia (“black” suit) is the second most important playing force. The basis of the strategy of playing mafia for the mafia is the desire to stay alive by killing everyone else. The tactics of the mafiosi are focused on such a turn of affairs, so that, without betraying themselves, they introduce confusion into the ranks of civilians. Then, you see, the townspeople will put one of their own in prison.

The successful implementation of the strategy of playing mafia for the mafia is directly related to the ability of the mafia to quickly adapt to the situation that is developing at the table at this particular moment. Some of the typical techniques used will be discussed in this article.

The mafia surrenders its

The "black" player may try to get lost in the crowd of civilians. He expresses his suspicions and can even vote against the same mafiosi as himself. This gives him the opportunity to ingratiate himself with the townspeople. Such a provocative tactic can be effective in the event that one of the mafiosi falls on the clear suspicions of civilians. The Commissar, who at night has the opportunity to verify the “mafia” of the players named by him, can strengthen the credibility of the mafia-traitor. The main thing is not to overdo it and not be the object of verification yourself.

The end is the crown of the whole thing!

The last word in the discussion should always remain with the mafiosi, since the final arguments in each daily round of voting are better remembered and affect the result. When agreeing on the sequence in which night shooting will be carried out, one should not forget about this factor.

The secret of the third night

One of the mafiosi's tactical moves is their deliberate miss on the third night of the game. It is effective with 10 players at the table. On the first night, the mafia only gets acquainted, and on the first day it is not customary to put them in jail. After being killed on the second night and convicted on the second day, the mafia can take a chance and miss if there are three mafiosi left in the game. The miss is designed to confuse civilians and, deceived, during the day they can kick out their own. Then, after the fourth night, the mafiosi celebrate the victory with a score of 3:3. With a strong Commissar, this tactic may not work. But playing Mafia involves risk.

best plan

Sometimes the absence of a definite plan in the game is the best plan. Suppose that on the first night, the mafiosi did not decide on a specific plan for the nightly murders, but agreed on how the victims would be assigned during the game. This tactic is dangerous, but it can also be effective.

It would be good for mafiosi to decide on a secret sign (twist the ring, straighten the tie), with which Don can transfer information about the Commissar to his people if he can figure it out.

The categorical statement of the player that he knows exactly the “suit” of another player speaks of his “mafia”. Only mafiosi know exactly the status quo.

With the Commissar killed, the player of the “black suit” should vote with other mafiosi fearlessly, since there will be no more checks.

The recommendations given in the article are not a recipe for success. They must be applied wisely. They have developed over the long years of the game's existence, and only practice will help to verify the validity of the proposed strategy for playing the mafia for the mafia.

A successful game directly depends on the effectiveness of the chosen strategy and the ability to implement the right tactics at the right time, based on the situation at the table.
This section will help you with this.

1. Sheriff showdown with 8 or fewer players at the table (unofficial sheriff rule)

Situation: You are the sheriff of the game, there are 7 or 8 people left at the table.
Your actions: You need to show up before the next vote and tell the table exactly who and in what order you checked in order to help the table take down the black player, not the red one.
Otherwise, if there are three mafias at the table, and a red player is killed during the day, civilians will lose in the same second (if there were 7 people at the table before the vote) or the next night (if there were 8 people at the table before the vote, and at night the mafia will kill another civilian), as there will be 6 people at the table, 3 of which will be the mafia (situation 3 on 3).
Exception: If one of the players who have already left the table at this point was checked by you and turned out to be a mafia, you can not show up.
Similarly, you need to do if there are 5 or 6 players at the table, and you still have not opened up (to avoid a 2 on 2 situation).

2. Shooting your own

Situation: You are a mafia.
Your actions: Active game, "zakos" as an ordinary civilian, suspicions and voting during the day against other black players.
In this way, you can earn the trust of other red players who share your suspicions and divert suspicions from yourself. Your chances are increased if the sheriff checked the players on your team at night, whom you accused of being "black". The main thing in this situation is to avoid the sheriff's check yourself.

3. Remove the sheriff

Situation: You are a mafia don.
Your actions: On the first night when the mafia gets acquainted, you can agree with your "colleagues" how you will indicate to them the sheriff, if, of course, you figure him out on one of the following nights.
For example, it can be a left hand nod, a certain gesture at the time of your nomination, or a sheriff's speech. Noticing your secret sign, the whole mafia will unanimously shoot at the sheriff at night (or vote for him during the day) - he will be killed. Thus, you will deprive the opposing team of an important trump card

4. Search for civilians

Situation: You are the sheriff.
Your actions: Sometimes it makes sense to check players at night, not looking for the mafia, but looking for strong red players who can lead the game.

TACTICS FROM GUEVARA

1. Closing planning

Tactics can be applied if the mafia cards were drawn by the players sitting under the first numbers.
The point is that they should be the last to speak each round. This is achieved by shooting off the reds sitting further in the circle.
That is, with black players 1 and 2, it is necessary to remove players 3, 4, 5. Thus, from the second round, the last speech will be at one, and already from the third, 2 black players will close the circle.
You can also use this tactic if Black is sitting at the end of the circle, removing the first players. Even with the seating “through one”, you can assign it in such a way as to remove the gaps between the blacks and make them last in the circle.

Benefits: Players who speak last often decide the outcome of the vote.
- Disadvantages: the use of tactics involves bringing it to the end, which abstracts it from the current moment when it is necessary to change the order of shooting (opening the sheriff, the need for crossbows).
- A nuance: the false sheriff must reveal exactly the black who speaks earlier, so that the trailing blacks have the opportunity to support him.
- Authorship: for the first time in my memory, Mr. Peach applied.

2. Two nights

Don appoints himself for the second night, and for the first and third of any of the Reds.
As of the end of the second day, two reds must be taken out - one on the first night and one on the second day. The second night - shooting at the don.
The point is, it's a lot easier to find the sheriff on the second night. There is a simple mathematical calculation: 8 players, 3 of them are our own and one is verified on the first night. 8 - 4 = 4.
In this way? of the four reds, you need to calculate the sheriff. Even if the check fails, you can easily guess by elimination, choosing the most sheriff player from the remaining three.
What follows is a "surprise" murder and an autopsy by the sheriff. In this case, the real sheriff is called black plus checking someone else.
Thus, the false sheriffship looks very convincing, despite the fact that the “verified black” in his speech is revealed by the sheriff. The ratio at the table is 5:2.
During the day, the real sheriff is removed (4: 2), then it's up to skill, but in the optimal scenario, the table is incredibly tangled, which makes it easier for the mafia to play.

Advantages: beautiful and interesting mafia game, high probability of winning.
- Disadvantages: a lot of moments when something can go wrong. Of the most likely - these are situations when the sheriff is killed on the first night, then it makes sense to re-negotiate; on the first day a black is killed, then it is more risky to shoot at the don and it is more difficult to find the sheriff; or the false sheriff was simply not believed.
- A nuance: black's super-team play aimed at opening the don is supposed to be the turning point of the game.

3. Daily planning

Don does not appoint at night, but beacons with his own during the day.

Advantages: tactics are fully consistent with the current moment, the relevance of what is happening; Nothing demobilizes a table like a quality shot.
- Disadvantages: the risk of "getting caught".
- Nuance: at night it is necessary to work out beacons; closely follow the don, but you can make a decision “mutually”, but for sure.
- Authorship: for the first time in my memory applied by Mr. Ferrari.

4. Miss on the second night

The mafia's slip weakens the civilians, serves as an excuse to confuse them; a planned miss does not demobilize the mafia, which is important so as not to get caught.
Further, pure mathematics: the third round - 8 players (one killed on the first night, the second on the second day, on the second night nobody). If 3 of them are black, then the demolition of one red and a shot at night is a victory for the mafia (3: 3).
But more importantly, under these circumstances, there is the possibility of a shootout (an even number of players). There is no need to explain how important it can sometimes be.
There is a mathematical factor "+1". In the usual situation on the third round (4:3), Black's victory comes during the day with the demolition of one red, which is very difficult to implement.
In a scenario with 8 players (5:3), the demolition of a peaceful one is easier, because. the choice is wider. Then the “+1” factor affects - the game ends at night when the mafia hits.
Tactics involve active sheriff's autopsies; carry away both players; coloring blacks by initiating shootouts.

Advantages: the possibility of speculation on the slip; factor "+1"; skirmishes.
- Disadvantages: a miss is a miss, with a strong game of the reds it can work against the mafia.
- Nuance: does not imply a team black game, the scope for improvisation will allow you to change tactics, manipulate correctly.
- Authorship: His Majesty the case.

• You talk a lot;
• You don't talk much;
• You do not look the interlocutor in the eye;
• Be aggressive towards another player;
• Sit in a "closed" position;
• Behave differently than in the previous game;
• The suspect was abruptly changed;
• They stood up for a player who turned out to be a mafia.

Good bad evil

Players will be able to continue this list. But it is already clear that many of its points will contradict each other. How to be? As an option - rely on intuition and behave naturally, remembering that everything that happens is a game, and no one really feels negative towards you. At the very least, this will save the novice player from emotional stress during the game.

The civilian is always under threat

Let's talk about the rational aspects of the game. A civilian is always under threat. During the day, the townspeople can kill him, and at night, the mafia. The mafia is only under threat during the day (unless a maniac or a sheriff is involved in the game). This often determines the behavior of the players.

An ideal civilian should be absolutely logical and mobile. He will ask incriminating questions, provoke, remember the "connections" between the players. Who voted for whom, who suspected whom, who suddenly changed their minds. A peaceful person can only be 100% sure of himself and therefore will change his mind about the suspects less often and will not succumb to the provocation “you suspect me, so I will suspect you.” Vendetta is unconstructive and therefore harmful to survival.

Civilian strategy

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is to look for the hidden motives of other players and answer the question "He did it because ...". The more metrics a civilian tracks, the more accurate his conclusions will be.

Beginner players can focus on tracking one metric. For example, who the players vote for. The task is to understand why a person votes for this particular person. To identify the mafia will help you change the suspect player without good reason.

Team up with players you consider peaceful. Over time, other players will join your tandem. Strength in unity!

Memorize or write down how people behave. If in the last game a person was closed, spoke succinctly, tried not to stick out and turned out to be a mafia, and in this game he is sociable and cheerful, then most likely he is a civilian and not dangerous.

If you are playing with newbies, then those who got the role of the Mafia will most likely try to become as inconspicuous as possible. They just don't know how to behave.

If you are a commissar and recognize a civilian at night, use this to detect the Mafia. Start actively suspecting a civilian during the day and see who will support you in knowingly wrong suspicions. The Mafia does not like to launch active hostilities on their own during the daytime voting, but they are happy to join in when civilians want to make a mistake and kick out their own.

mafia strategy

Seasoned mafiosi know that the best strategy of behavior is to copy the behavior of civilians. They also provoke, analyze, rarely change their minds, and on occasion may even initiate the murder of their less experienced accomplice in order to gain a margin of confidence for themselves. An inexperienced mafia will act passively and shy away from putting other players up for a vote.

If one of you began to be suspected from the beginning of the game, then you can put a colleague up for a daytime vote and thereby divert suspicion from yourself.

The last speaker in the day's discussion has the most influence on the opinion of the players. Kill a civilian so that the mafia will speak last.

Use the time before the start of the game to understand how people behave in a relaxed environment. Ask your neighbor a couple of questions, pay attention to his posture, mood. If a person was cheerful, and then suddenly became nervous - perhaps he is "on the black side."

Take a notebook with you to the game and make notes in it as you play. So it will be easier for you to argue your point of view and divert suspicion from yourself. Write less - better draw diagrams. For example, sketch out a table with players and arrows to mark who voted against whom.

Don't make excuses. That way you'll bring more suspicion on yourself. If there are several arguments against you, refute the weakest one. Refer to records and statistics, even if you don't keep them.

Be consistent. If you put a suspect to the vote, but he remained in the game, put him up again and prove the reasonableness of your choice with facts. So you will quickly gain credibility.

Agree on the rules of the game. It is important to play by the same rules, otherwise the game can turn into a quarrel, end quickly and not be fun.

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“Night falls, the inhabitants of the city fall asleep soundly, and the mafia wakes up.” Do you love this game? If so, then you already know what we are talking about. And if not, then be sure to try to somehow play in a friendly company. Before the start of the game, everyone receives a card with the designation of their role - a peaceful citizen with an indication of the profession or a mafia villain. Well, then each participant talks about himself. Civilians tell the truth, and the villains pretend to be civilians. The task of the first is to bring the mafia to clean water, the task of the second is to slowly exterminate the peaceful citizens and seize power in the city.

First, it's exciting and fun. And secondly, at the same time you will conduct nothing less than a scientific experiment, testing the guess of psychologists Nadav Klein and Nicholas Epley. They have long been studying our ability to distinguish lies from the truth. An ability that, honestly speaking, can hardly be called outstanding. For example, a meta-analysis of studies on this topic shows that, on average, we are able to say that the interlocutor is telling us the truth about 61% of the time. But we recognize a lie on average only in 47% of situations 1 . In general, fifty-fifty, heads or tails.

By the way, the fact that we have known our interlocutor for a long time also does not at all guarantee that we can easily determine whether he is telling the truth or being cunning. Research shows that we recognize lies from friends or relatives about as often as lies from strangers 2 .

How to be? Firstly, do not be alone with liars, and secondly, be sure to discuss what you saw and heard. That is, to do exactly what the players in the "Mafia" do. After the performances, they are almost exclusively engaged in discussing who is really convincing in the role of a baker, bus driver or student, and who, it seems, hides his mafia essence under the guise of a civilian. Here your friend made an impassioned speech about how he would not hurt a fly in his life, because he is breeding flowers, and immediately went to drink water in the kitchen. Maybe he really wanted to drink? Or maybe he wanted to avoid unnecessary questions? And by the way, his eyes were somehow suspiciously running around, don't you think?

This is how it is possible to bring liars to clean water, Nadav Kline and Nicholas Epley are sure. In their study, 3 groups of volunteers were shown videos of various people speaking. The task was to determine whether the speaker was telling the truth or not. At the same time, in half of the groups, the participants could not communicate with each other: everyone only wrote down their own opinion, and the general verdict was made based on which option received the most votes - true or false. In the other half of the groups, the participants had the opportunity to discuss the videos they watched and work out a collective decision. And the solutions of these groups turned out to be much more accurate.

Many psychologists find this result quite surprising. It, for example, contradicts the idea that we are all prone sometimes to the manifestation of herd feelings. And don't mind without too much thought to join the opinion of some passionate and charismatic speaker, who may well be sincerely mistaken or meaningfully try to confuse us.

In the Mafia game, the role of an ordinary civilian may seem less interesting and important, but it is not. This is a very important character in the game. We can give several recommendations when the correct tactics of playing the mafia will allow an ordinary citizen to lead the entire team of civilians to victory.

If the city dweller has to say his word, then he should speak evenly, calmly. The citizen is absolutely clean in front of the population of the city, and he has nothing to fear. It is better to immediately determine for yourself the circle of suspicious persons in order to observe them more carefully during the discussion.

You can admit that you are a peaceful city dweller, the mafia already knows this, and for the representatives of the townspeople team this can be a sign of trust if it is accepted sincerely. Such tactics of playing the mafia can somewhat alleviate the situation among their own.

During the discussion, you need to speak specifically and to the point, and the main information should be laid out at the end of the speech. It is better to support your suspicions with facts or examples, unfounded suspicions are usually made only by inexperienced players.

A good mafia tactic is to ignore whoever suspects you throughout the game. This is possibly a citizen who is confused, and, suspecting him in response, you can divert the attention of your team from the true mafiosi.

You have to keep track of the game. How many times the mafia fired, how many checks the Sheriff carried out, how many voting cycles have passed, what is the ratio of players at the moment based on the results of the past “days” - all this information will help you better navigate the current game situation.

If, nevertheless, suspicions fell on you and your candidacy was put up for a vote, keep it natural, do not show aggression. During your speech, speak calmly and smile, use the word "truth" a couple of times - people like it. Pay more attention during your speech to those who doubt rather than have already decided that you are a mafia.

How to play doctor?

The doctor must be a very perspicacious player in order to accurately calculate and help a civilian in need of "treatment". It is better not to be opened by the doctor until the critical moment, otherwise the mafia and the maniac will react very quickly and can take you out of the game.

How to play sheriff?

If you are the Sheriff, then always check the player who put you up as a suspect. Also check who most of the players suspect in the previous round. Because if this is a player of the civilian team, then there is a possibility that in the next round he will be taken out of the game.

There is a “false sheriff” tactic, this is when a civilian, not being a Sheriff, declares himself to be one, thereby putting himself under attack and diverting suspicion from the Sheriff.

How to play mafia

The mafia, in turn, can also use the “set-up” tactic, when a mafia player points out a member of his team, thus diverting suspicion from himself or a more important mafia. Or the "crossbow" when one mobster votes for another mobster to be taken out of the game.

How to play prostitute?

The role of the Prostitute in the game works well for people with an adventurous temperament. Due to the fact that the “life” of any player depends on the invitation of the Prostitute, unlike other characters in the game, she does not try to hide her role. Especially when playing for civilians, feeling their impunity. If the Prostitute is playing as the mafia, civilians need to keep track of who she is protecting. Playing for civilians, the Prostitute can both protect them from the "shots" of the mafia, and "neutralize" the city at night from dangerous mafiosi.

How to play a maniac?

The maniac alone can win if left alone. He kills at night, and during the day he plays for civilians. It is important for a maniac to maintain a balance between civilians and the mafia. On the one hand, the mafia helps the maniac achieve his goal - to kill civilians, and on the other hand, the mafia is dangerous for the maniac, because it can also take the character out of the game.

Let's hope that this mafia game tactic will help you.