PopCap's VP of social operations on why MAUs may not tell the whole story,play mafia online now!
It's about freedom; it's hard to predict who will win. So people don't have the advantages of the past: education, knowledge, rules, experience."

The UNICO group's president, Andre' DiMino, has written to Take-Two chairman Strauss Zelnick – demanding that the publisher delay the game from its August 24 release, until it is able to expunge any and all references to Italians and Italian Americans.
But in 1997, things changed, when Mafia arrived in New Jersey, where one Martin Eiger was running gaming parties. A friend came along and taught the crowd Mafia. It was a hit, so when Eiger attended the National Puzzlers' League convention later that year, he decided to teach a group of players. It proved just as big a hit; games ran late into the night.

Now that everyone has their identities it's time for the mafia to meet each other. Everyone must close their eyes. Then tell the mafia to open their eyes and reveal themselves to each other. The two mafia players (the people with the queens, remember?) will open their eyes and look around to see who the other mafia is. When they've had enough time to do this, tell them to close their eyes and have everyone open their eyes. That's the first night.

It is unlikely the move has anything to do with long-running disputes over the mafia game's copyright, with Yotta Game settling out of court with mobile developer Digital Chocolate, who released a game by the same name previously. Yotta Game in turn has sued Playdom over similarities with its game Mobsters, but this has also been settled out of court.

In the showdown, the two townspeople must shake hands to win while the mafia members would like to shake hands with a townsperson. This can take a while but, eventually, someone shakes hands with someone (the mafia are not allowed to shake hands with each other) and the game is over. If the two people who shook hands are both townspeople, the town wins and the mafia loses -- good has triumphed over evil and the world is a better place! If, however, one of the mafia shakes hands with a townsperson then the mafia wins. Evil has won and our children are enslaved by the dark forces!
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