As Red as the Red Sea

A bunch of us went to Suzie’s on Saturday night to celebrate the 30th orbit of the Earth around the sun since she was born. To mark this achievement for the Earth and safe in the knowledge that for now (at least, and indeed at most) it continues to rotate, we ate pizza, snacks and cake, drank mulled wine (and attempted “vin chaud”) and played party style games.

One game in particular that I enjoyed was “Mafia”. For those that don’t know what this is (as I didn’t), I explain…. now

All players sit in a circle and one is designated “Gamemaster”. The gamemaster takes an ace and 2 black and the rest red cards from a deck and shuffles and gives out one to each player. They then look at it, try not to laugh and close their eyes. Once all eyes closed, gamemaster asks mafia one (black ace) to open their eyes, then mafia two. The mafia now know who they are and try not to laugh. They close their eyes again and then everyone opens their eyes. Everyone who is not a mafia member is a civilian.

The aim of the game for the mafia is to get $civilian_count == 1.

The aim of the game for the civilians is to get $mafia_count == 0.

Players are killed in two ways. Firstly, the entire group discusses who they want to take to court to stand trial. That person then has the option to defend themselves against their accusers. The default defense on this is “my card is as red as the red sea” . A vote is then taken on whether or not to kill that person (at this point the mafia are acting as if civilians, and so accuse and vote in the same way).  That person is then dead or not. Everyone then closes their eyes again and mafia one is asked to open their eyes, indicate who they wish to assassinate and the closes their eyes. Mafia two then does the same and if they independently vote for the same person, that person is dead. The game continues until one team wins

At this point I wish to congratulate the best liars actors in the group. Izzy for successfully convincing me that she was innocent, causing me to vote to kill Martin (sorry dude ) and Dania and Suzie for managing to get the rest of the group to kill me after my “accuse and see the reaction” backfired into “you accused first so it must be you”.

Following this we had cake. Minor destruction confirmed it was a party as half of the cake went flying onto the floor following about 30 seconds of dramatic “quick save the cake” attempts

Twas an awesome night, cheers all

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