The idea of the game is that you have a group of players, on outside acting as a moderator, another one of which has a secret that he's a blood thirsty werewolf, and the rest are plain villagers who have to hold a discussion to figure out who the werewolf is. The game progresses in Three Phases. Day, Dusk, and Night. During the day the players are free to make wild accusations, act flippant, deny everything, and form alliances. At Dusk, the players are required to vote to kill another player, with no abstaining allowed, and the simple clear majority winning against the losing player who is killed and removed from the game (and has to promise not to laugh during the next phase). During the Night phase, all of the other players have to close their eyes, and then the werewolf opens his eyes and points as quietly as he can at the player he wants to murder while they sleep. The Moderator gives the thumbs up, the wolf quickly closes his eyes as not to be caught, and the Moderator wakes up the other players to announce who was murdered (that player has to also leave the game). Then the game continues with a new Day phase where everyone blames whoever voted for that guy the day before. The game keeps going until the villagers figure out who the wolf is and successfully vote to kill him, or until the last day when the wolf convinces the remaining two players to vote against each other so that he can kill them at Dusk and then at Night, leaving himself as the only one alive.
Here's a Wikipedia Link for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_%28party_game%29
Anyway, it's a really fun party game to play. The relevance to the Love community is that I think it'd make a fun concept to turn into some kind of client-server chatting game. I've seen a few concepts where people put together dice-throwing role-playing games in this fashion. And hell, this may already exist (which I'm sure either robin or slime will immediately point me at
).
