The City
8+ players · Setup
The Lamp and the Lancet
The teaching deal. Eight chairs, one lamp, one lancet — and two knives that already know each other.
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8+players + host
3night wakes
2Mafia cards
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How this deal plays
This is the first named deal most tables should learn once eight chairs are filled. Eight living players, three night wakes, and nothing to track beyond a kill, a save, and a check. The Mafia is two Assassins who know each other from the first night. The City is a Policeman quietly gathering facts, a Doctor guessing where the knife will land, and four Citizens whose votes decide everything. One honest warning: two killers against eight is tight. The City holds the majority, but one kill plus one wrong vote brings the Mafia within reach of the end.
The deal: who gets which cards
The Mafia
Mafia
Shuffle exactly these cards for 8 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
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.
Tips for this deal
If you are City
Every vote is precious at this size — one bad lynch and the Mafia can smell the end. Listen for who steers the table away from certain names, and if you draw the Policeman, keep it to yourself. A known cop rarely survives the night.
If you are Mafia
Patience wins the small room. Kill quietly, vote like an innocent, and never defend your partner too hard. At eight chairs the numbers turn in your favour faster than anyone at the table expects.
If you are hosting
Three wakes, same order, every night: Assassins, Doctor, Policeman. Count the living before every single night — at this size the game can already be over without anyone noticing.
When a ninth player arrives, add a Citizen and you are dealing The Ninth Chair. From there the published lists climb all the way to twenty-seven.
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