A bad game

[benlehman]

Don't play this game.

Have a prime number of players greater than three. Seven is good. So's five. You could easily do 11 or 13. By the time you get to 17 or 19, wow.

Talk amongst yourselves.

After talking, everyone votes for a winner, secretly.

If one player gets the most votes, they win.

If there's a tie, all tied players are now ineligible to win (runners up, if any, are still contenders). Talk amongst yourselves, have another vote.

Repeat until there is a winner.

Comments

Ah, I see what you did there.

[xorphus.livejournal.com]

Catan--which I don't play either--has at least a set of mechanics with which one can interact, in theory. But in Mafia the only way to play the game is through social engineering on real human beings, who are punished in the real world (by boredom) for failure to play well.