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About the game
How Mafia works, where it came from, and how to play it better.
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AI players have joined the table
No full table? AI players take the empty seats: they talk, listen, remember the votes and bluff as mafia. How they play, how good they are and how to start a game with them.
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City mafia and sports mafia: one game, two philosophies
A doctor, a maniac and a host who tells stories — or ten seats, a judge and a one-minute speech. How the party game differs from the sport, and which one to play.
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Can you really read lies on a face, like in Lie to Me?
People catch lies 54 percent of the time — a coin gives 50. And watching the show makes viewers worse, not better. What the research says works instead.
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Werewolf and Mafia: two names for one game
A psychology student in Moscow invented it in 1986. Eleven years later it grew fur. What actually changed — and what did not.
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