The City
6+ players · Setup
The House Is Small Tonight
When only six friends could make it, you still light the lamp and put the lancet on the table. One knife is plenty in a room this close.
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6+players + host
3night wakes
1Mafia card
One knifea close room
How this deal plays
This is the smallest official table in the box, and it is still a proper game of mafia. Six living players sit down with a host. One Assassin hunts alone. A Policeman checks one face a night. A Doctor tries to guess where the knife will land. Three Citizens have no night job at all, and their votes decide almost everything. There is no partner to cover for, no second killer to avenge you, and nowhere in a room this close to hide for long. One night kill plus one wrong vote and half the chairs are already empty, so every word has to earn its keep. The night is short and kind to a new host: Assassin, Doctor, Policeman, the same three calls every time, and the spoken lines are waiting on the narrator script if you would rather read than invent them.
The deal: who gets which cards
The Mafia
Mafia
Shuffle exactly these cards for 6 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
Assassin
He wakes alone, points at one player, and sleeps. There is no partner to agree with.
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02
Doctor
She picks one player to heal. If she guessed tonight's victim, nobody dies — and nobody finds out why. She cannot pick herself two nights in a row.
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03
Policeman
He picks one player, and the host shows their team: City or Mafia, never a role name. The answer is always true.
Tips for this deal
If you are City
Treat every vote as if it might be the last one you get. Listen for the person who steers the table away from a name without quite saying why. If you drew the Policeman, keep the badge in your pocket — a known cop in a room of six rarely sees a second dawn. And if you are the Doctor, remember that one good save can change the whole evening, because only one knife is coming in.
If you are Mafia
You are alone, and that is both your danger and your cover. Vote like a neighbour who is trying to help. Do not come out swinging like a detective on day one; in a six-person room there is nowhere to hide afterwards. Kill quietly, stay ordinary, and let the table argue itself into a mistake.
If you are hosting
Call Assassin, then Doctor, then Policeman, in that order, every night. Keep the verbs identical and the pauses even. Count the living before you close eyes again — at this size the game can already be over while people are still reaching for their drinks.
When a seventh friend arrives, do not invent a second Assassin. Add a Citizen and deal A Chair Brought In. When you have eight, The Lamp and the Lancet is waiting, and that is when a second knife comes out of the box.
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