Mafia, also known as Werewolf, is a Russian social deduction game created by Dimitry Davidoff in 1986.

The game models a conflict between two groups:

- an informed minority (the mafiosi or the werewolves)

- an uninformed majority (the villagers)

At the start of the game, each player is secretly assigned a role affiliated with one of these teams.

The game has two alternating phases:

- day-phase

- night-phase

during which those with night-killing-powers may covertly kill other players,

and second, a day-phase, in which all surviving players debate and vote to eliminate a suspect.

The game continues until a faction achieves its win-condition;

- for the village, this usually means eliminating the evil minority

- while for the minority, this usually means reaching numerical parity with the village and eliminating any rival evil groups

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