
But tell players to hang onto their cards and keep them hidden eventually during the game, everyone will end up revealing his or her card. Once players have picked their roles, it’s important they keep them a secret. If you have a larger group, try two of each.

If you have a smaller group, put one detective card and one mafia card in your deck. Assign the different roles to cards: so Kings could be detectives, Jacks would be mafia, and anything else would mark a citizen. You can accomplish this by pulling out cards from your card deck. So at the beginning of the game, you’ll have players draw cards to determine who are mafia, who are the detectives, and who are the citizens. Games with large groups will often have two detectives and two mafia members.

Citizen: Anyone else players who just play the game, hope not to die, and try to help discover who the mafia is.


What it is: A group game best played late at night, often at sleepovers.
