The City
9+ players · Setup
The Ninth Chair
The classic table of nine. Two killers, a cop, a doctor — and the vote does the rest.
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9+players + host
3night wakes
2Mafia cards
Classic ninethe original table
How this deal plays
The Lamp and the Lancet with one more seat pulled up — the classic nine-chair table. Nine 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 everyone else — a Policeman quietly gathering facts, a Doctor guessing where the knife will land, and Citizens whose votes decide the whole game. That extra Citizen matters more than it looks: one more vote with no night job attached, and one more face the killers have to imitate.
The deal: who gets which cards
The Mafia
Mafia
Shuffle exactly these cards for 9 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
The vote is your only weapon, so spend it well. Listen for who steers the table away from certain names. And if you draw the Policeman, do not announce it on day one — a known cop rarely survives the night.
If you are Mafia
Kill quietly and vote like an innocent. Your best cover is agreeing with the table — right up until the moment it turns on your partner.
If you are hosting
Three wakes, same order, every night: Assassins, Doctor, Policeman. Keep your verbs identical and your pauses even. The spoken lines are written out on the narrator script page.
When this deal feels easy — when the table runs a whole night without asking what to do — move up to Sherlock's Demise.
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