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May 25, 2003
A Great Group Game!
Graduate Mafia Brotherhood of Princeton University
Okay... this website is a club at Princeton that plays the group game "Mafia"... I have a copy of this game that is published with a different theme called "Are you a Werewolf?" I had read much about it some time ago, but had never played it... I tried once to get a large game of it going at a Games@Six game night when everyone arrived early, but it didn't fly very well... and no one had wanted to play it since.
Earlier tonight it finally "took" but on a different group of people... most of them from my church! We played one round of it, and the first time it was a little awkward, but people found it interesting enough to want to play again... After the 2nd game we were hooked and wound up playing it the rest of the night... 5 or 6 times, I'd say... So much fun.
I highly recommend it. It takes some willingness to get to talking, though... If everyone sits around and just stares and randomly votes people out, it doesn't work. People need to get into it and try to "root out the werewolves" -- or mafia... whatever theme you're using... After we got it and everyone understood how it worked... it was the hit of the night.
Posted by Andrew at May 25, 2003 02:10 AM