The City
11+ players · Setup
A Death Off the Books
The Bishop taxes the Assassins’ knife. The Terrorist’s exit does not go through the parish.
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11+players + host
4night wakes
3Mafia cards
Two ledgersnot every death is equal
How this deal plays
Two Assassins do the regular killing, and the Priest taxes them for it: if they kill him, their next night is cancelled. But the Mafia carries a way around the parish — the Terrorist, who once per game points at a player and takes them down with him. That kill is not an assassin kill, so the Priest's protection means nothing against it. The City has a Doctor and a true-speaking Policeman; what it does not have is certainty about which deaths went through which ledger.
The deal: who gets which cards
The Mafia
Mafia
Shuffle exactly these cards for 11 or more living players, plus one host, and deal one face down to each person. Look at your card once, hide it, and say whatever you like for the rest of the game — the card is the only proof of anything.
Night order for this setup
The host calls these wakes in this order, every night, reading from a written list. Skip nothing, rush nothing — the spoken lines are on the mafia game narrator script.
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01
Assassins
They wake together, agree on one victim in silence, and point.
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02
Terrorist
Once per game, may pick a player. Both die. He may also sleep without pointing.
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03
Doctor
Heals one player. Not herself two nights in a row.
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04
Policeman
Checks one player's team each night. The answer is always true.
Tips for this deal
If you are City
A two-body dawn means the Terrorist has moved — and one of those bodies is his. Read that morning carefully; it is the loudest clue this deal produces. And if you are the Priest, do not advertise: your card only punishes the knife, not the vote.
If you are Mafia
Spend the Terrorist like the last banknote he is. Trading one-for-one with a Citizen loses the game; trading for the Doctor, the cop, or the Priest can win it.
If you are hosting
Track the Priest exactly: only an assassin kill on him cancels their next night. A day vote does nothing. The Terrorist does nothing. When the cancel fires, run the Assassins' wake as a dummy so the table cannot hear the hole.
The Priest's exact rule, and why a vote never triggers it, is on his card page and in the mafia game rules.
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