Can u help me with a game

[Mary K. Kuhner]

I want help.....I am required to arrange some group games for our
office, can someone help me with some innovative ideas. Dumb sherads
etc are not required thats why am here to get help. I want suggestions
for a game for around 25 people. I am the host and have the liberty to
divide ppl in groups and all. Please help me at the earliest but have
to kep in mind , its been organized for our office not my friend
circle. So please send in descent yet entertaining suggestion.

Try a web search for a game variously known as "mafia" or "werewolf".
Players are secretly assigned to be either villagers or bad guys
(mafia members/werewolves, the game plays the same). The villagers
must try to detect the werewolves among them by voting on who to
lynch, before the werewolves kill them all. It is easy to explain and
reality-TV fans should love it.

Mary Kuhner ***@eskimo.com

[Warren J. Dew]

Responding to a suggestion for a game for 25 people, Mary Kuhner suggests
Mafia/Werewolf.

Good suggestion. The only issue, as far as I can see, is how to keep the
identity of the werewolves secret when playing in person.

Have you played it? I have only looked at some web logs of some games. It
seems to me that it could be interesting with a group that didn't regularly
play games, but with a group of serious gamers, it looks to me like game
theoretic optimal strategies are too easy to find.

Warren J. Dew
Powderhouse Software

[Mary K. Kuhner]

Post by Warren J. Dew
Responding to a suggestion for a game for 25 people, Mary Kuhner suggests
Mafia/Werewolf.
Good suggestion. The only issue, as far as I can see, is how to keep the
identity of the werewolves secret when playing in person.

In the face-to-face version, the werewolf murders are done during a
phase where only werewolf players have their eyes open. I have not
played it, but my sister-in-law ran a couple of games with good
success (except for one experience with an MIT variant which turned
out to reach an impasse--the last villager alive could make herself
invulnerable to the werewolves).

Post by Warren J. Dew
Have you played it? I have only looked at some web logs of some games. It
seems to me that it could be interesting with a group that didn't regularly
play games, but with a group of serious gamers, it looks to me like game
theoretic optimal strategies are too easy to find.

I think there's enough social dynamics (trying to read expressions
etc.) that pure strategies are unlikely to arise. One of these years
I will run it as an event at Dragonflight and report back on its
success.

Mary Kuhner ***@eskimo.com