The City
8+ players · Setup
A Visiting Card Returned
Final WitnessThe dead rise for one last vote
Still one lamp — but now one door hits back. Call on the wrong house at night and you will wish you had sent a note.
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How this deal plays
The same eight chairs as The Lamp and the Lancet, but one Citizen is now the Duelist — and the night is no longer safe for the Mafia either. The Duelist duels any enemy who visits him in the dark, and if the table votes him out, night falls and he duels one of his voters. He never wakes and never points; the trap simply sits there. And because an expansion card is in the deal, the dead close their eyes at night too — and rise for one last vote at the Final Witness.
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. If the victim is the Duelist, the visit becomes a duel — the host resolves it at dawn.
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02
Doctor
She picks one player to heal. Not 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.
Tips for this deal
If you are City
The Duelist is your minefield — let the Mafia find him the hard way. If you hold that card, stay quiet and stay ordinary. And remember the burned truth of small tables: one careless lynch is half the game.
If you are Mafia
Scout before you stab. A wrong visit costs a killer, and there are only two of you. Watch who the table protects without being asked — that is usually the seat with something printed on it.
If you are hosting
The Duelist never wakes; you apply his card when an enemy visits, and a vote against him becomes a duel with one of his voters. Resolve it as printed, not as a normal death. And with an expansion card dealt, the dead keep their eyes shut at night and vote once at the end.
What the final vote of the dead is, and who gets one, is in the mafia game rules.
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