Mind-Blowing Game Invented by Russian Sociology Student 🤯

[@dimzen5406]

Highly popular game in Russia, they call it "Mafia"

[@kitkakitteh]

It switched to werewolves when it went onto an app to play.

[@jipke]

​@@kitkakittehNope, I've been playing the game for years and it's been called Werewolves for as long as I know.

[@Arkantos117]

Mafia is a more complex version of it isn't it?

[@dimzen5406]

@@Arkantos117 I can't remember significant differences, but last time it was twenty years ago, and I'm not sure 😎

[@filtheski1509]

Same in Poland. Some great times I've had playing it ^^

[@AresLeviathan]

1991: Oh you mean "Mafia." 2015: Oh you mean "Town of Salem." 2020: Oh you mean "Among Us." 2024: Oh..."Werewolf?" Sounds like a fun game.

[@taintedrageXX]

Bro acts like it was invented this year 😂

[@tessbessette5365]

werewolf was super popular in 2017 lmao

[@xPRODIGYxGAMER]

​@@uncoolgnome6840 No it was called Mafia first lmao. It was also called "City in Palermo" or Night falls in Palermo" in much of Europe. And again this used the Mafia theme. Andrew Plotkin was the first person to add the Werewolf theme to it a decade later because he found it more fitting with the hiding and killing at night. The Werewolf theme has obviously never taken off as large because the game still is mostly referred to by Mafia.

[@lorireed8046]

This is weird since any villagers with a smart person would've came up with a damned code to figure out the wolves. The wolves would've pretended and acted more friendly. The regular villager's would've been quietly wondering.

[@uncoolgnome6840]

@@xPRODIGYxGAMER So you research this stuff up and instead of going about your day you just reasearched it to tell someone a game made in 1987 was named thats crazy bro. Even though IDRC about what the game is called but I just know that the game being known as "werwolf" was not made in 2024 through tge original comment.

[@ADUHKIDFLASH]

Werewolf, Mafia, Town of Salem, Among Us, we as humans just love social deduction games

[@Lcsmu]

I wanna add The Resistance to your good list.

[@broobit7540]

The game in OP has no deduction. There's no info to go off of.

[@ADUHKIDFLASH]

@@broobit7540 The technical "deduction" in Werewolf is just trying to figure out if someone's lying to you, more than anything else

[@anthonyw9743]

Mafia was a really fun game in high-school.

[@thomasardizzone531]

​@broobit7540 did you listen to how the game works? If you cant figure the simole game out thats on you

[@mstevinson1568]

The game should be called GOVERNMENT.

[@James-jk8my]

😂

[@maxlunatic6545]

The difference is that in that case villagers first vote for werewolves - and it seems they don't remember who the werewolves are.....

[@casusolivas]

its important to notice, that in this game people is aware that there are 2 wolves, giving them already information... in reality people dont even know they are playing this game and are unaware of the qty of wolves.

[@chickenmonger123]

Well it’s about 3% by population. If you must know. However you can endlessly generate them via privation. I think the real villains are the lies villagers tell each other and themselves though. That they let drive them. They only really have to like themselves more than they like you. There’s this idea that humans are fundamentally good. A lot of Enlightenment thinkers thought that. Whereas a lot of collectivists thought people were fundamentally evil. Well in reality, it’s far easier to choose to be evil than good. There are 3% who are born ailing from malady of the mind. More who acquire it young. The conclusions of enlightenment thinkers allows for the most to choose approximate good most efficiently however. Funny how that ruse was pulled. Now villagers are naive, dependent, and weak. Because they don’t know what they are capable of. The strong on the other hand are considered werewolves because they don’t know what actual werewolves look like. And so those capable of both strength and compassion are the most susceptible to accepting that accusation. To failing to be what they ought.

[@benry007]

Scary thought

[@dorian_anna]

Idk, I think some of us know we are in this game.

[@casusolivas]

@@dorian_anna ah yes but not everyone, I would say we are the minority

[@kylethedalek]

If more are waking up?

[@axelinedgelord4459]

in America, we call it Mafia, but now we call it Among Us

[@bidensniffed.myballs6894]

Nah, Mafia isn't what it was.. .now a days in the US it's called The Democrat Party

[@grgrgrgrgrgrgrgrgrgrgrgrgr3519]

In Russia we call it mafia as well

[@Kuhmodo]

It's also "Secret Hitler"

[@seyedmahdimobini4604]

In Iran we call it mafia or spy

[@anthonydella4127]

and you play it with a deck of cards and not have to buy a special game for it.

[@rhio_bimo]

In today's terminology, it's "Offline Among Us"

[@silverguy9605]

I swear if I go to a camp out and a scout calls Mafia/Wearwolf "Offline Among Us" that kid is going to be six feet under before the end of the night.

[@ItsChronoHawk]

Town of Salem. That was widely popular before among us.

[@seancurrie5488]

Amogus 🧯

[@lukeprice3945]

the OG@@ItsChronoHawk

[@pharaohatem6884]

Nah among us has task and things to do. It's town of Salem you kill at night and then the villagers pick someone to linch, and like in town of Salem the villagers have no chance to walk in on the killer and report them. That's why it's easier to beat the killers in among us.

[@iFixJunk]

Let's call it Democracy. Only instead of a game... Nevermind.

[@graemefenwick6925]

At last, someone else realised it’s not a game

[@pakem847]

"Ever heard of a game called werewolf?" "No" "Well its just mafia"

[@mubashirmohiuddin5346]

Nah werewolves is way more fun. More roles assigned to people makes it more interesting

[@zapilux2278]

Idk about mafia but in France it’s called werewolf (loup-garou)

[@maratnugmanov]

​@@zapilux2278Le Werewolf

[@jonahdza]

Among us :3

[@matis2303]

​@@mubashirmohiuddin5346you know that you can modify the mafia and just add enough characters for almost everyone?

[@Sams.Videos]

"When you have hidden information, you can completely manipulate a large group of people." - Well said!

[@CJ-dt5mh]

Jesus said this, according to Luke ”For nothing is secret that will not be revealed, nor anything hidden that will not be known and come to light.“ ‭‭Luke‬ ‭8‬:‭17‬ ‭I genuinely feel bad for people thinking God is not omnipresent. I mean, I been there but I ain’t going back either lol

[@RaymondTorres.49ers]

Like the laws our government make after laws they make for the public.

[@mffthefrog1307]

@@CJ-dt5mhYou can’t count it as useful information until you prove it

[@metalicminer6231]

So whats the hidden information?

[@CJ-dt5mh]

@@mffthefrog1307 no, that’s incorrect You can’t count anything Jesus says as useless until you disprove Him. No one has ever disproved Jesus, ask C.S. Lewis There are 7 types of light known to man, 6 are invisible to the naked eye. Don’t deceive yourself friend, put in the work If you genuinely want to know God, He’s made it incredibly easy & He will bear witness of Himself by His Holy Spirit ”Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”“ ‭‭John‬ ‭3‬:‭3‬-‭8‬ ‭

[@rudra3357]

And now we call it "Among Us"

[@Radon-220]

In among us evidence can be found but not in this case

[@DP-gb8qu]

@@OcesnepXav 2 imposters with rounds of conversation to find them how in the world would you classify that as very different that’s like saying then shape of a 🏀 and ⚽️ ball are very different

[@HangMan.Actual1017]

​@@DP-gb8quonly problem with your comparison is that in among us you can see the imposter actively kill and you're able to report it, in mafia/werewolf no one is able to see who killed who

[@Notf1re3nough]

​@@DP-gb8qu also you can watch people do tasks to clear them or to get them voted out which makes it so that you can counteract the imposters and inform the majority.

[@pristika9007]

I mean... one is a card game and the other is on a pc/mobile. Of course it has to be more to make it interesting. But it's pretty much the same idea. So maybe the among us creators knew about this experiment

[@acewholegaming6233]

Lore accurate when describing western people

[@nattananchunbunluesook8474]

“Have you ever heard of a game called werewolves?” “No because it’s called Mafia”

[@alejandroduranalvarez2431]

The top comment made before this wrote the same thing...hmmmm

[@ruthrowson]

@@alejandroduranalvarez2431no one gives one smart arse

[@ArwinHessel]

​​@@alejandroduranalvarez2431not the same thing bro

[@hamza3461]

In France this game is named werewolf

[@alejandroduranalvarez2431]

@ArwinHessel both say that the original is the mafia they're just frazed differently

[@haidera1779]

Moral of the story: Among Us was created by a Russian sociology student 💀

[@savadove]

Literally my first thought was among us 💀

[@jonbong8547]

Kids these days have never heard of trouble in terrorist town smh

[@savadove]

@@jonbong8547 want to share your knowledge? Lol

[@aw3someisme469]

@@savadoveIt’s a game mode in the sandbox game “Garry’s Mod” with a similar premise. There are some amount of traitors whose objective it is to kill all of the innocents. The traitors know who is on their team or not. The innocents have to kill the traitors but they don’t know who is on their side or not. Also everyone has guns. Among Us follows a similar premise, and it seems like both were derived from either Mafia/Werewolf or something similar.

[@savadove]

@@aw3someisme469 seems like it, this version seems scarier 😂

[@anialator1000000]

Do note that in Werewolf ,you actually get no information as the town. Unlike Mafia, Town of Salem, Among us, there is actually tons of information the town gets to figure out who is evil. Locations, timing, investigations, the superpowers of the Roles, you can actually find the bad guys by literally catching them in the act. You can't do that in Werewolf, its pure guessing.

[@olex3061]

“you ever heard of werewolf?” “no.” “ok well have you ever heard of Among Us?” “oh yeah.” edit: the reason i chose among us to reference was because it was at least relevant in the past few years, my bad i didn’t know about a 40 year old game.

[@blackpalacemusic]

Exactly 😂

[@jacobhedges3710]

It's more like town of Salem then amoung us

[@th3g00se]

Among Us and Town Of Salem are video games inspired by this original game.

[@cierralopez5698]

What about TTT?

[@naomikirisaki]

​@@th3g00seexplaining to newborn just wasting your time brother.

[@peppermint3288]

I always knew it as “mafia” where there is two mafia killers, one detective, one doctor, and the rest are villagers

[@mr.giangius6203]

In Italy we call it Lupus, and it's like the guy explains it. Except for some different figures, like the "curious child" who's the only villager allowed to open her eyes by night without getting noticed by wolves lest she gets killed. It's a very fun game to do.

[@mr.bojangles9215]

You can also play with a vigilante

[@remylebeau5212]

​@@mr.bojangles9215can you explain how the vigilante fits in the game?

[@kamig8108]

i know both wersions

[@Ilariona]

Basically Werewolf, Mafia, Town of Salem are different versions of the same game, and each has their own extra roles, mostly for villagers because, as was said in the video, without those roles villagers lose most of the times

[@The_HonnoredOne]

Back then: “it’s called werewolf” Now: “it’s called among us”

[@pokemaster6573]

No it’s called mafia now

[@seabas12]

He's talking about the video game among us and has the same rules but with a added way to win

[@pokemaster6573]

@@seabas12 Yes bro I realized but the real life game is called mafia. You don't go to a party and be like "hey guys wanna play among us in real life? 🤓🤓" do you?

[@The_HonnoredOne]

@@pokemaster6573 no id say “Hey guys wanna play werewolf”

[@GodspeedSuperbeast]

This

[@keith_macpherson]

Sounds like most governments play this game on a daily basis

[@tack3411]

That was his point I believe. And the students

[@yoyoyoyoyoyo6]

government actually tired to pull the “ uk hasn’t got enough troops” card but not even 2-1 weeks ago they announced their sending another 2 billion to ukrane 😂😂😂

[@Sarge_18]

@@yoyoyoyoyoyo6 There's 8 billion people in the world, but the UK has 67 million citizens, so a 4th of the world has offered their troops to the UK? 💀

[@paulhope3401]

​@dash7661 How is not having enough troops at idds with sending Ukraine money?

[@ideservesomehappinessinmyl5500]

my type of games

[@MrLogicAndReason]

“AmongUs” before it was digital. I played this version, but we called it “mafia” and there was a “doctor” and a “sheriff” who could save/investigate people during the night.

[@Torqyboi]

I played mafia and werewolf exactly once each. I wish more people played games like these in college than being on their phone or going out for a smoke during breaks.

[@Bubbagaming90000]

No actually its town of salem not among us.

[@Electronite1978]

Ah, used to play the same game with different names. We used chess related names as it was chess club. A very interesting game indeed

[@supermariosubpoena8793]

AMONG US

[@epiidemiktv1761]

Bro that shits town of Salem

[@whcw11]

In a few years, someone somewhere will ask "have you ever heard of a game called Amogus?" with a completely serious face

[@justacatwithasadface2692]

I dearly hope the meme name completely overwrites the real name soon

[@kapitankapital6580]

"two people are designated as what they would call a 'sussy baka'..."

[@Chaos9883]

​@@kapitankapital6580"so...what a buffalo covered in sauce gonna do in this game exactly?"

[@rjroberts8625]

Town of Salem came before and actually has a werewolf role...

[@surge123456789]

Have you ever heard of a game called "Town of Salom"

[@aashishranjan8050]

Thats just offline AMONG US

[@RabidWildCreature]

No it’s mafia be quiet gen alpha

[@sebastianmoreno1572]

Kids Call it “among us”

[@RandomCommentMakerPerson]

noooooo there's a big difference

[@MWB2Bleachfan]

give you young folks some credit about improving something from before the 1800s and the Russians claim it's their's

[@AnthonyGillis-r5s]

​@@MWB2Bleachfan well Town of Salem is where the credit is due given it's the same game lol.

[@dragonsilencer7962]

Nah its called town of salem 😂

[@MWB2Bleachfan]

see This person >@@AnthonyGillis-r5s

[@Zurui_Kitsune]

Ah yes, the OG among us.

[@That.guy_Mr.J]

yes and no town of Salem is the right answer

[@FlyOverZone]

The rules of the game manipulated the villagers , the werewolf's didn't. But the person who knows will always outperform the person who doesn't know. This game was invented by captain obvious.

[@snuffeldjuret]

@@That.guy_Mr.J why is that the right answer?

[@professorx4866]

Amoungusss

[@DkKobaADV]

​@@That.guy_Mr.Jare you serious ? Mafia has existed before the internet existed

[@codenamedaki]

We used to play this in elementary, but we called it "Mafia". Shoutout Mrs.Angie, you were a real one lmao

[@garfeeldlover]

thanks

[@wizardjunkie]

Thanks, but you were my least favorite student.....Go to the office!

[@KindaOffensiveHere]

les goo mrs angie 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@PolygonV2]

I played Werewolf. It was a card game that we referred to as Ultimate Werewolf and it had a bunch more roles

[@LivingLikeLarry12]

How’s that work? Is it a mob boss/Hitman instead of villager/werewolf

[@D2attemp]

We call it Mafia, but there is a board game version of Werewolf it’s really fun!

[@Laraluis78]

New bloods calling it “Among us” when it’s actually “Town of Salem”

[@judejameson3863]

Back in the day it was TTT

[@Tony-qt4zv]

​@@judejameson3863mafia*

[@Laraluis78]

@@judejameson3863 this too yes!

[@BobbyPartson]

"Have you ever heard of a game called Werewolf?" "Yes" *video ends*

[@lawrenceduarte6065]

This is pure comedy and an underrated comment.

[@michaelmurphy2112]

That was not the Werewolf (World of Darkness) that I had heard of and played

[@farisazim2941]

😂😂

[@audreychiwandire3467]

😂😂😂

[@tobisenpaii1]

im replaying this bcs if i commented it would get lost. about the moral of the game (information and lack of it) its bs, bcs it demonstrates power dominance, not dominance of information bcs they already know same thing, that there are 2 werewolf

[@Calm.Manicx]

You call it "Werewolf" I call it "Among Us"

[@Jackypoo67]

fr i was about to say that

[@demondofspeed]

same

[@bigfootbuthesmokesweed6766]

i call it town of salem

[@littlelexibaby]

this was the premise of among us

[@lography6917]

I mean, that just reveals your age lol. Clearly the older name is the correct one

[@Jamgwarn]

That’s such a sick way to prove a thesis

[@pythonboi5816]

Highly popular game among children, they call it "Among us"

[@yaaaboi5902]

): kids these days back in my day

[@victorianaharris1755]

I thought the same thing.

[@SOLO.SHAD0W-HAWK]

It's not, among us is cops and robbers in stealth mode

[@hasoaxe]

back in my day.

[@Nothing25568]

Yeah, though that’s a little different because you can catch them in the act.

[@ImTrans-Former]

“You ever hear a game called Werewolf?” “No” Explains……. “Oh you mean Among Us

[@divergentthg7925]

I was just commenting about that😂

[@bambam0284]

Literally this lmao

[@skootermcgavin]

among us was based off social games like this one. werewolf (mafia as it’s sometimes called) has been around since the 90’s, maybe earlier. among us was just the first version that’s actually fun for more than 8 minutes

[@dannyn6558]

Among Us definitely was based on the Russian Werewolf game.

[@skedichlavender2]

It's just town of Salem

[@alidemirbas3722]

"An Unimformed Majority Will Always Lose A Battle Of Information Against An Informed Minority" Welcome To Politics!

[@oldmanTav]

It's kind of sad that most people are more Interested in naming and dating the game.Just goes to show even when informed the majority choose not to understand but argue banality.

[@josipbrusic6709]

Even if the majority was to be given the information they need, not everyone but a major percentage would stick to their beliefs and information they have. Majority of people are stubborn, egotistical and arrogant i.e. not open to listen let alone adopt new information or belief.

[@hitteryoung6500]

Thats among for sure

[@danohanlon8316]

This video is soooo interesting. (Never heard of the game before.) And so simple. For one thing, it ably explains why the first target of a burgeoning elite is mass-education. By way of extension, the more ignorant become the masses, the more power gets concentrated until-like the Sun King, an Emperor or a Czar-it ends up in a single pair of hands. This is the battle the US is fighting at the moment. Fighting for it’s life!

[@DeborahHamilton-q1w]

And this game is being played on the western world right now. The woke agenda, the importation of unwanted migrants, all the propaganda against whites, and all the cancel culture is part of the game.

[@XhamlaPersent-f8k]

Nahhh Bro described among us 😂

[@YevgeniyShcherbakov]

The game is also called Mafia. The guy missed one important thing. Then everyone closes their eyes, the mafia guys can open their eyes and see who is mafia. The game is super interesting.

[@MonC8]

Nah different games in my country

[@Touchybanana]

Then how do they decide who to kill???

[@kelvindoang1228]

That is what he says , because minority of people have hidden information, they can manipulate others who dont know the information to kill each others

[@Navidoo]

​@@Touchybananawhen night comes, the mafia members open their eyes again and point to the person they want to kill, it's possible that they disagree but usually the godfather have the last say, after that the person who's making sure no one is cheating ask everyone to open their eyes and give them the news, of course there are lots of different possibilities but this is the simple answer to your question

[@thebeginfry442]

If I'm not mistaken point of both is same, though through time they differ from each other, as i recall mafia has certain amount of roles, when werewolf nowadays have almost everyone with different role but werewolves still bad guys

[@bandyboi3032]

Interesting! Never knew the origin, and I never heard it called werewolf before! I grew up playing this and we always called it Mafia, Assassin, and once I heard it be referred to as Silent Killers. We played it in Sunday school but replaced the werewolves and villages with Jedi and Sith. We also added a medic element who would wake up after the “Sith” killed and went back to sleep, and the medic would point at someone to save them. If the person the medic picked was the one the Sith killed, that person would be saved. If the medic picked the wrong person, then obviously whoever the Sith picked would die. In high school we played a version of this and my history teacher would use the deaths as a fun teaching method and teach us about ancient ways people used to kill each other ritualistically. He was a cool teacher.

[@ontheline3421]

I was sure that "medic" (we had mafia and police) was always in the game XD

[@AravaxElvor]

Yeah I’ve heard a Batman version where the commissioner was the one who saves but the main version I know is mafia, sheriff who checks people out each night to see if they are the mafia, and the doctor who saves.

[@dospinos1392]

We need more teachers like this..

[@codriverkarl]

Same

[@PorkMcBeans]

When did he say the werewolves were informed? Hid retelling of the rules seems incomplete. I had never heard of the gane before today

[@xrisku]

So basically, Among Us.

[@jonathan__g]

This was my thought too.

[@kuroru69]

The other way around...

[@Channel-23s]

Except this is older and killing is more sneaky as Among Us you can see a kill

[@tyschubert3711]

its what among us is based on.

[@bumbleb97]

I think more Town of Salem, just with 1 non-town role.

[@celestialki]

Which is the reason why they call conspiracy theories crazy…No one doing something nefarious is going to wave a banner over their head exposing what they’ve done

[@Arcian]

My man's here describing Among Us like we don't know it.

[@Zero-mz9xx]

Eh its more like town of salem then among us

[@la8ball]

The game he's talking about is very old before tv and such.

[@donkeykong6669]

@@Zero-mz9xxthank you someone said it

[@waltmarek]

Mafia 1987 Are you a Werewolf? 1997 Town of Salem, Among Us and other online social deduction games teens or later.

[@Unsub223]

Guess he’s never herd of Among Us

[@TenheadLife]

The problem is there’s a MAJOR issue knowing what you’re being informed with and how accurate or twisted it is.

[@EmilTorge]

Good day to you sir. If you and your friend gets chosen as werewolves. You understand how you know all the others are villagers, right. That is the information he means. Noone else knows who is a werewolf and who is a villager. The werewolves know. They thereof have hidden information. There is no problem with knowing the accuracy of that information. What you're probably referring to is the information the other players give you during the game. That is not the hidden information that gives the advantage that was the main point of the clip. If not then please elaborate. Sincere regards.

[@TenheadLife]

@@EmilTorge I was just referring to the fact he was commenting about the nature of the game. That an uninformed group is dangerous. I’m simply saying that it’s also just as dangerous to have an “informed” group of its fake or twisted information, which unfortunately our society is riddled with.

[@godswill2260]

@@TenheadLifeguess you have to decide Trust your intuition and eyes and not what others want you to believe.

[@Dmuneee]

Pretty straight forward tbh. If Obama, for example, supports it. You do the opposite. Because he is essentially Satan. Same goes for Hillary Clinton, Justin Trudeau etc. If a group of demons want you to do something, you do the opposite. It’s actually never been more clear.

[@Keshalee86]

I understand where you're coming from, and it is a good thought to keep in mind, but the word "informed" implies proper and correct information. Essentially, the game is proving the point that you are making here

[@hollyjohnson2894]

There are several of these games, "one night werewolf", the expansion pack " ultimate werewolf", " town of Salem" (online game), "Mafia", etc... Even "among us" (online) and "good cop, bad cop" are similar. My teen LOVES these games and we often play them in large group game nights. This is an interesting view of the game and I agree with it 100%. We actually use these games for critical thinking and debate. I do remember when we started learning these games I looked at my husband and said "oh crap, we are teaching our kids how to lie" 🤣 To win the game (no matter the side you are on) you need to employ statistics, reasoning, probability, debate, persuasion, lying, keeping a poker face, etc.... your teammates are pretty important too and leading is another skill in this. There is a lot to be learned while playing these games.

[@hush3956]

The fact you left out trouble in terrorist town is criminal

[@vanessamccarthy7807]

This sounds like basis for the BBC TV gameshow The Traitors. I didn't think I'd enjoy watching it but honestly became quickly obsessed.

[@Raderade1-pt3om]

"Among Us" too?

[@CaissonHogue]

Glad you mentioned One night werewolf and ultimate werewolf. I played them both and they’re really fun!

[@Vivienne-sf9gs]

There’s a cool game called Wolvesville that is very similar to

[@bluntbeagle797]

i can't believe the werewolf is the bay harbor butcher !

[@dhruvbatra2478]

This game is also quite popular in our country. Its called "elections".

[@Lync1111]

Lol Wow

[@wuttaworld]

Vivek for vp. A wolf in sheep's clothing. ijs

[@musiccreators6683]

Perfectly said

[@Lync1111]

@@wuttaworld wow

[@TheRiceExperimentsHelpsyou]

Rothschilds...

[@youtubefan6158]

English speakers call it werewolves, in Poland we call it Mafia and i gotta say it's an entertaining bonding experience, a good brain exercise, a group psychological adventure and it holds so much potential as we would always add characters with their own roles assigned to them. Love this game, too bad i dont get to play it anymore

[@enterchannelname8981]

English speaker here, I've always called it Mafia, but a friend of mine who is also an English speaker but was raised pretty far from me calls it Werewolf

[@memes-ou2dn]

I speak English and have never heard it called werewolf

[@sebaschan-uwu]

In america we call it mafia

[@Day-nw6xh]

I'm an English speaker and I immediately opened up the comments to see who remembers it as mafia. We also had added rules tho such as sheriff's and nurses and a jury etc. the more people playing the better

[@Trimper]

Im 9 and i call it among us

[@EweAreEwe]

Better yet, don't tell anyone if they killed a villager or a werewolf and they only find out when a set number of turns passes. Give the wolves an opportunity to not kill overnight sometimes. If the game doesn't end immediately, the villagers may continue to kill even after both wolves are dead. Let's take the sociopathy deeper, guys

[@JokingAroundInternet]

Interesting but when do they know team A or team B won?

[@TheIcecreamtaco]

@@JokingAroundInternetyou have to basically decide collectively “okay no one has died for three nights, I think we won” but then the strategy is to kill one person as a werewolf then just go dead silent, so you have to have a maximum number of nights before the werewolf starves or something

[@djrulez6653]

There's an online game that's very similar with many other variables you can add if wanted called Town Of Salem. You can add things like a jailer who can jail someone for the night, a sheriff who has a gun with 3 shoots and can kill someone they suspect but if the person is innocent they die instead.

[@user-pt3uu4wq3i]

That would just be a zero sum game then... because everyone would be paranoid that the wolves are still out there and keep killing and turning on each other

[@peichihe6275]

this is in fact how you play it; I've never heard of anyone playing it the way he's describing here. The judge isn't supposed to reveal the identity of the dead until either party wins.

[@Junock]

We have that game in Argentina as well, and it's called "Mafia" too 😂

[@zaakir1255]

“An uninformed majority will always lose a battle of information against an informed minority.”

[@mvo9975]

I've watched the video too

[@MatNotMatt]

​@@mvo9975 I've read the comment too

[@FeeForDreams]

wow this comment adds so much that the video couldn’t…

[@mrjonesyyy]

@@mvo9975thanks fitness bro 😂 Einstein over here

[@GrantWine-pc3dl]

The sad thing the uninformed majority like it that way

[@c.h.r.i.s.t.i.n]

"An uninformed majority will always lose a battle of information against an informed minority"... let that sink in.

[@tomakky1]

why is there a sink outside my door?

[@QBL11104]

​@@tomakky1 did you let the sink in ?

[@catfoodbob1]

But the minority loses real fast when the majority does have useful information .

[@invictuz4803]

What about what the dude said in the short, I'm currently letting that sink in. Not sure I can let two things in the sink at the same time.

[@Pmak]

@@QBL11104 He shouldn't let the sink in. That sink is a vampire :(

[@I.Read.The.Hobbit.In.1937]

I played a game like this in middle school called “Psycho”. Same rules, but only one killer, or psycho, in a group of 15 kids. Shoutout to Mrs. Harper for arranging the games at recess.

[@louskunt9798]

Classic Mrs. Harper!✌️✌️

[@theraptor8096]

Same played this in year 6 I think it has different names like mafia or something played in uk

[@chriselliott5089]

Was this in Tampa? Had a elementary teacher named MRS Harper very nice lady.

[@I.Read.The.Hobbit.In.1937]

@@chriselliott5089 no, Lodi.

[@mariahthebee06]

That sounds so familiar! I know that I've had to have played this somewhere as a child!

[@_l4m3n1g6]

Well we know where among us came from

[@Silver10137]

I always knew this as Mafia, and at Camp, we would play with the: Mafia, the killer The angel, who can save one person And the milkman, who can give someone milk( it’s pointless) And it would go for multiple rounds until they voted out the mafia or oh, but (predetermined number) villagers died. But then I recently discovered a game called One Night werewolf, which has many roles, is run by an app, the werewolf doesn’t kill someone, but instead they have to get the villagers to convince them that the werewolf is someone else.

[@TheKing0fBacon]

The point of the milkman is that you know he isn’t the murderer if he gives milk, so almost useless but adds slightly more strategy

[@Yotubeuncaballo]

In Spain we call la puta (the prostitute) but we keep our eyes open. There IS a killer, a police, a prostitute and rest are civilians. The killer kills winking his eye to a civilian, if he winks at the police he looses, if the police sees him wink he looses too. The civilians do nothing and the prostitute can revive someone by throwing a kiss

[@s1deamv]

Milkman 💀

[@Hellakurou]

i think the point of a milkman is that he delivers at night and if a person is mafia he can't be out and killing at that night. So if milkman delivered to someone and no one got killed you know who is mafia

[@johnny2143]

I AM THE MILKMAN, MY MILK IS DELICIOUS

[@kobrakuddles568]

There are many games like this. The one I usually played was called mafia, but there was one killer; one sheriff, and one medic. Mafia is the murderer, sheriff is a good guy who can also kill who he thinks is the murderer, and the medic can save/protect a person and prevent them from getting killed

[@majinplaton]

Us Germans have a variation as well: Numbers of werewolf's depend on the players, usually a 5:1 ratio. Within the villagers there are normally 2 witches, each having a potion of murder and one of healing, a thief wich can steal your card, a hunter who can take out another player if he's eliminated, a armour who makes 2 people's lives connected (if one player dies the other does to, there is always only one pair of loved ones) and a mayor who is elected by everyone on day 0 and has his regular vote plus a extra vote. All in all, this can possibly lead to: 1 Werewolf kill 2 Witch kills 1 Hunter kill 1 Loved one suicide 1 Vote kill All in all that's 6 players out in day one. Very cool

[@JagnaJagoda]

I once played a version where we had double roles and I was a lover (dies when the other lover dies) and a suicidal person (at night is just one of the villagers, but if is killed by the villagers during the day - winns whole game). I stirred villagers into believing that my lover lied and was actually a mafia member, they believed me and sentenced her, what killed me by proxy and I won😂😂😂😂.

[@coral8164]

In Belgium we have this: 2 warewolfs 1 witch 1 cupid Villagers (depends how many there are playing) And 1 sheriff (I think, I haven't played it in a long time) The witch can kill one person and protect one person from getting killed for one round. The cupid can pair up 2 people to be in love, when one partner dies, the other one dies too.

[@fartingfox8072]

We play it in school whenever we have free time

[@AnthonyGillis-r5s]

Your thinking of Town of Salem

[@crazyboi1818]

“Have you heard of a game called werewolf” “No” “But you’ve heard of among us right”

[@paplooEscobar]

Not the same u mong.

[@AndrevusWhitetail]

​@@paplooEscobar It is the same rules. a set of impostors have to kill crewmates until there's at least as many of the impostors and crewmates left (since that's when they can't be voted out anymore so they auto win) And you can also make a vote where you could throw an innocent out. Yes, Werewolf (Or Mafia, if you're playing the russian version) came first, but it is definitely "the same" game concept in among us too. Only instead of everyone taking turns there's a visual aid and tasks to do to distract people.

[@joshs3499]

sus

[@paplooEscobar]

@AndrevusWhitetail no it's not, you are a sped. They have some rules that are the same, doesn't make them the same. Cheese and milk come from cows, are they the same? Use your fxcking brain u mong

[@regularname1825]

You missed the entire point of the game though, whereas in among us you actually have clues that lead you to suss out the impostor here you have nothing and have to rely on uninformed judgement. They are nothing alike since one is meant to be a thought experiment and the other a game .

[@ChaoticDoctorBright]

I played a version of mafia that used playing cards. Legend as follows King = mafia (kills a target) Queen = Police (find the culprit) Jack or Joker = Medic (tried to save whoever was killed) Ace = you write in blood and point to two people who are not the culprits (only at half players) All other cards = civilian Voting system to determine who was mafia announcer had two options Mafia defeated Mafia remains Cop dead = game over 1 mafia, one medic, one cop. Announcer would say mafia chosen, medic chosen, police chosen after the first card of each kind was selected, all others of the same card were civilians.

[@SuperNaois]

The one thing he failed to mention is the math that has been done subsequently on this game. It turns out in order to have a greater than 50% chance of villagers winning, the number of werewolves needs to be less than the square root of the number of villagers. This gets really mind boggling at large numbers when you consider 101 werewolves have better odds than 10,000 villagers.

[@DrakeOola]

It's not mind boggling at all, the 101 werewolves have the advantage of knowing who their teammates are meanwhile the villagers have to assume everyone else is guilty by default... It also doesn't actually work out at that scale, never gonna get 10,000 people to cooperate or sus out the werewolves.

[@netecrivernetecassassins2945]

​@@DrakeOolawhich is a good argument as for why humanity will fail. The power system gives a group of people control, and the remaining billions are too ill-informed to do anything about it.

[@NotSeriousGamer]

I'm pretty sure that maths is kind of flawed. Based on that maths if there's 4 villagers at the start and 2 werewolves, 6 people total. There's a 50% chance of werewolves winning. There's a lot of games based on this, and I can tell you that in this scenario, werewolves win nearly 100% of the time. If I had to guess, the maths equation assumes some level of perfect play, which is rarely ever the case.

[@sheridan891]

@@netecrivernetecassassins2945it’s entirely dependent then upon the altruism of the “informed minority”. Which is kind of the whole name of the game when it comes to democracy. Empowering the correct “werewolves” as it were.

[@gameraccount7193]

Among Us!!!!???

[@kierankennedy6971]

I know it by the name of “Mafia” and it was one of my go-to games when I was teaching musical theatre to kids. We also had a couple other roles including “medic” where they could choose someone to save, and “detective” where they could guess if someone was the werewolf and if they got it right they’d have to convince everyone else who the actual werewolf was during the group meeting without giving away their role. It gets people thinking and problem solving, and specifically gets them paying attention to body language and non verbal clues. I think it’s actually a wonderful lesson in how to read people when they’re lying or withholding info.

[@ninjasheeps3690]

In the swiss version someone is the "peaky girl" or "insomniac" and they are allowed to peak. Then theres the hunter who can take someone with themselves when they die, then cupid who can make 2 People fall in love and if one dies then both die, then the witch that can rescue someone on the brink of deatg once and kill someone once. Then theres the "seer" that can check one persons role each night. I also think theres a thief that can switch roles with someone.

[@damiandotson1642]

YESSS when I was in band back in middle school and high school I would always play this game it was so much fun because half of us would just pick to kill our friends.

[@bananainacup]

You cannot truly “read” people its pseudoscience

[@AlissaSss23]

Police too, right?

[@jiepark20]

Wow, I've heard of this other game that's pretty similar, it's called "Among Us", crazy

[@playtimewitht3523]

Sus

[@MrPriddy10]

Sus frfrfr

[@charmsician7225]

game created by Dimitry Davidoff in 1986

[@slowmomoose8546]

Wolvesville

[@sovvsuh]

Mongus

[@heidi2166]

wow that's explains the last 70 years exactly perfectly

[@kapitankapital6580]

The student's name was Dimitry Davidoff, and he invented it as a way of teaching psychology to high school students (who he was teaching at the same time as getting his college education). He originally conceived of it as "Mafia", which is a name it is still widely known by today. It was Andrew Plotkin, an American game designer, who came up with the name Werewolf.

[@jamiejennings6955]

And then later worked into a game called town of salem.

[@BoleDaPole]

I can see why it's so popular the premise is very intriguing and a poignant and fun way of teaching. They got some bright thinkers over there in Russia.

[@kingurameshi2183]

I was gonna say isn’t this just town of Salem

[@LuisRodriguez-kz7nt]

And then they saw "the Thing" and the story went to space....

[@ncpolley]

Yeah, I was thinking to myself ... Mafia is the original.

[@AlexanderMohr-to8lt]

It's a extremely popular game all over the world. Especially in the US. It's called Politics.

[@gordon1545]

It's a complete distortion used by imbeciles like Linehan to make themselves feel better about their stupid opinions.

[@katiejon17]

“Uninformed” is now synonymous with “liberal”.

[@privatevideos3430]

😅

[@Reece-u3f]

@@katiejon17coming from the “alternative facts” camp , that’s f**king rich. 😂 Il be laughing when your orange Mussolini loses in November 💙

[@jiahmiller3861]

I think you mean "joke" not "game" jk jk 😂

[@TheMagicAround]

I'm russian and never have I heard about a game called Werewolf. That he describes it very much like Mafia game

[@CristiNeagu]

I think Werewolf is a Western adaptation. But yes, it's the same as Mafia.

[@frankendudi3s608]

@@CristiNeaguWhile Mafia isn’t as popular in the USA, I remember some kids used to play it in fifth grade. It was called Mafia.

[@DrPeppering]

"Werewolf" is the commercial game you can buy with fancy cards. But many Americans have been playing it for decades without printed cards and rules. We also call it Mafia.

[@Bminutes]

@@DrPepperingWerewolf is a better name, though. Mafia don’t go around killing randomly like werewolves do.

[@DrPeppering]

@@Bminutes And in the game werewolves don't kill randomly either. The two werewolves pick someone together. They are a conspiracy working together. This clip literally talks about that aspect.

[@christinahill1546]

Mans just explained the back story of among us 😂

[@ignacystankiewicz7917]

In Poland this game is called "Mafia" and many youngsters and students play it. It's a lot of fun 😅

[@durrrp]

I'm american and also know the game as Mafia

[@darkangel9220]

В России она тоже мафией называется

[@jeffsorrows]

Werewolf, mafia, paranoia, traitor in terrorist town, among us

[@jeffsorrows]

​@@Canodiabloin Norway do you play it as guess who has chlamydia?

[@wckvn]

No, tak, to jest Mafia.

[@matthewflores7667]

I played this at a lunch table when I was in school, but we called our mafia

[@airsoftbb2989]

Werewolf has cards, we used to tap for mafia. Plus we had doctor and detective in ours

[@FennicsRhythm]

"Boss! We got a rat!"

[@Sk83rNinja]

I loved mafia but I was always first out I still don’t know why

[@ruben3305]

Among Us: hold my task! Ima end Red’s career.

[@bradfletcher1991]

U actually think among us was an original idea???? Lmfao young kids too narcissistic to realize there’s games like this dating back over a hundred years. Among us is far from being the 1st

[@R37961]

​@@bradfletcher1991They never said they thought among us came first they're just making a joke, calm down

[@teydre3017]

​@@bradfletcher1991 Your brain is smooth my dude my condolences 😢

[@thatonefirekestral]

Um yeah so this game is what among us is based on

[@bickyboo7789]

​@@thatonefirekestral pretty much

[@KubIsNotShort]

Here I Germany this game is VERY popular but we play a “nerfed” version of it with more roles so it’s more fair

[@dannyvelvet4454]

An uninformed majority will always lose the battle of information against an informed minority 👈🏻

[@them4309]

Thank you. I didn't want to have to say it.

[@elrey8876]

*AN UNINFORMED* majority will willingly sacrifice themselves for the benefit of the informed minority... is what MAGA America has taught me.

[@midas2706]

Its pretty well balanced actually

[@supercake2270]

White people werewolves

[@4kShotta]

exactly what is happening right now

[@sicdav1d0ff]

I've played this a lot of times, but i've never connected it to the implied motto: the power of information. Cool short.

[@ericscaillet2232]

provided your information is correct

[@veronicaodonnell2893]

I love these kind of stories. Unfortunately there are fewer and fewer people having the realisation that this type of thing is played out in real life and is indicative of human nature.

[@foxxy46213]

It really is an, they think your nuts for saying it

[@eshelmen]

You underestimate the common person. It's not that we don't understand what's going on, it's just that we all have shit to do.

[@Bmd-gc]

I think everyone knows. That’s why political leaders fear monger. They can secure elections by dehumanizing their opponents and in turn the people who support the opposition. Just had a friend say “okay after this election we should really change this government stuff cause no one is happy about what’s going on” He fears he has to wait because he’s afraid of his team losing even though he doesn’t support who he’s voting for. Tbh I feel like this will never change. Listen to most Americans. Most if not all say the government needs to improve significantly no matter who they vote for and admit they aren’t happy. It won’t happen till the people are sick enough to actually do something.

[@ronrico2620]

​@@eshelmenit makes for a good distraction and excuse to be ignorant

[@eshelmen]

​​@@ronrico2620 That has nothing to do with it. People can't just disregard their own personal responsibilities to their families, based on an ideal that we generally don't agree with. That's insanely foolish.

[@kellykizer7014]

The Iron Law of Oligarchy Rules. 🇬🇧Triple Cross.

[@byoutifulmusic]

Sounds like your typical day in a toxic corporate workplace

[@rosssivertson6339]

Everyone in the comments section is totally missing the point. This has and continues to this day been done to the masses. The wolves are the elite.

[@seanoleary3428]

True. Only problem here is that I've looked through 100 comments and every single one has read "this game is called ______ in my country"

[@NothingKingKN]

No, I just think that the point being made is so fucking mind-numbingly simple that everyone is just talking about everything else. Like no shit the informed few are the elite and the ignorant masses are everyone else, thusly they try to keep the masses ignorant to make them easier to manipulate. Hence why most reprints of the game have other roles outside the villager and the werewolf. Because the original game is fucking boring.

[@v3ngence138]

That's because people only listen to what they want to hear, not what is said. Literally why politicians can shit on people

[@DklassEnt]

Right now the wear wolf's are pushing civil war in America!

[@RonPaul4MMXII]

​@@NothingKingKNthere's I minority of informed masses you know

[@1776FREE2]

Today’s politicians explained in 40 seconds. Amazing

[@mxrc3604]

My first thought exactly

[@cyberhawk80]

thats vice versa.. 100+ werewolves.. maybe 2 good ones..

[@idothings5622]

Or pretty much any flavor of subversive party

[@jabressdolath7657]

It's not my first thought, not even any part of my thoughts. Now that you said it, it's eye-opening O. M. G. truth.

[@chiccngeorge3058]

Your mistake is thinking that politicians just started playing this game.

[@KHETTIUS]

The WEF are playing this game but with billions of people.

[@joshuaknight3746]

That's actually very intelligent to prove your point like that in that type of form

[@garyanthony5292]

Yep... this is how it's done and the basis of national psyops. The control of information is pivotal for all control because any narrative or social manipulation is weighted on the side of information holder.. a distinct advantage.

[@dr.tonielffaucet5988]

Noice Woyk

[@NewRSM1994]

The distribution of Information we have is an inverted Pyramid.

[@matthewkontos7741]

Exactly why no government ever tells the people the truth

[@babyvaso3855]

Well they do all the time, they just get voted and smeared out of office. When Madison Cawthorne exposed secret parties amongst Democrats and Republicans, he was forced out of congress.

[@THE-SOUP-CATS]

Bro among us Fr

[@andreregal]

What truth? (and how you know about it if it's secret?)

[@steveurkel1487]

Especially the USA

[@pollenzx]

you are not andrew tate bro waddle back tf out 💀💀💀

[@Jimmyisabot]

"have you ever heard of a game called werewolf" "yeah we played it in school like 20 years ago it's really boring" "the end" lol

[@spiral32]

We always call it mafia in school and you can get pretty creative with storytelling and also add new roles like Cupid, Doctor etc.

[@АртемПетров-с3с]

И комиссар, который по ночам "вскрывает" жителей, кто "красный", а кто "черный"

[@TheRiceExperimentsHelpsyou]

Rothschilds...

[@shadowhawkrine1947]

My family changed it to kidney switcher, or surgeon instead of cupid because we’re all related

[@Rittwalker]

Yes

[@scorpiongamer2555]

There's 2 werewolves AMONG US

[@hollyshobbies1050]

What is interesting is asking people why they chose the people they did. The individual styles of profiling and understanding of hierarchy, strategy are really fascinating.

[@seroogyw6238]

That’s why the MSM is so DANGEROUS and why we need Trump back in office!! #TRUMP2024

[@SomeCowguy]

In Werewolf Online the deduction usually just falls in the hands of "it was a 50/50 but this one is more careful"

[@SirEdwardeight]

They don't always win... it's a good training in spotting who's lying, and in learning to lie.

[@C43P9]

I'm from Germany. Here the game "Werwolf" is really popular, especially among young people, teens and kids. There is also a variant called "murder in Palermo", which referes to the Italian Mafia.

[@ZTTINGS]

In Germany I played something similar called secret hitler

[@burntsouffle]

you mean "especially _among us_"?

[@annebellefevre1510]

It's really popular in Belgium as well. I was a bit confused when they said that they hadn't heard of the game.

[@Btap5140]

​@ZTTINGS that's what we have

[@AndyDevious]

yeah, we call it mafia

[@zackgrey-fn9ms]

To everybody saying "Among us" and other such games. Its also called the movie "The thing". The movie has the same premise and is one the greatest movies of all time.

[@dolfinwriter5389]

James Arnes version, or Kurt Russell version?

[@zackgrey-fn9ms]

@@dolfinwriter5389 great question!, I should have made it clear. Kurt Russel/John Carpenter version.

[@lucifrmrningstr2992]

Also is a book

[@zveryok1]

One of the best sci fi movies of all time. Right up there with Star Wars, though not as glamorous.

[@nathanpyle3443]

As long as you're talking about the Kurt Russell one. 😅

[@ChiChisWorld]

What's more dangerous than not giving information is giving false information & having people believe it.

[@angelaa1611]

coughliberalscough

[@ChiChisWorld]

@@angelaa1611 Are those the ones banning books or the ones now being charged with perjury in court? I get confused.

[@Cruiser-tb5zc]

Or having a small group of ultra wealthy control ALL the media, and cause the citizens to be divided/at odds against each other. Makes us extremely vulnerable to be forced into totalitarian rule. And that is precisely what is happening. We citizens, on both sides of the aisle, have WAY more in common than that which we disagree about. Yet we're continually being pushed to believe 'the other side' are the enemy. Classic case of 'divide and conquer.' It's those seeking to take away all of our freedoms who are the actual enemy. And they are so well hidden behind layers of media, different groups, etc that most people have no idea that this is what is actually happening. Not good folks. We're on the verge of losing what's left of our country, and thus the free world. Which means one world government rule by a totalitarian regime. If they succeed it will be very similar to what would have happened if hitler had won - minus the white supremacy aspect. Keep in mind, hitler 'almost' actually won. It was only his refusal to listen to a few of his generals that lost him some key battles. That one man, one little country, and it took the entire world years to stop him. And we almost failed. Think about that folks. We need to focus on just WHO is pitting us against each other if we are to survive. God help us all.

[@JustifiedTruth]

Sounds like the western media

[@theycallme4799]

... counting bodies like sheep to the rhythm of the war drums...

[@JosephStealin]

An organised minority beats a disorganised majority

[@nolanc9344]

Many games like this and I adore all of them: Mafia Werewolf Town of Salem Avalon Secret Hitler

[@caresword]

Ever heard of Among us 😂😂

[@bear_witness]

Among us is a good example too

[@richhahl1340]

Secret Hitler has a bit more to it than this but I'm sure the rest do as well.

[@Caseyw462]

Check out "Blood on the Clocktower"

[@humodake817]

If you REALLY wanna get into it check out "White Chapel"

[@thebagelman1507]

He’s explaining the game like it’s a super rare game lol.

[@derisgaming9773]

You're assuming everyone past the age of 30 has heard of Among Us which brought this game far more to the mainstream across the World.

[@cherami-nox-fleuret]

​ @derisgaming9773 and ur the one assuming theyre talking abt Among Us depsite plenty of games like it that came before it following the same premise

[@roboy-u6v]

@@derisgaming9773I was playing this game at speech and debate tournaments 15+ years ago.... back then legit everyone knew about it. its really not that old. Thats like pulling out Shoots and ladders and being like, i invented this awesome game played on a board, i call it a board game!

[@bigbird4481]

Among us wasn't the first game to do this lol​@@derisgaming9773

[@DailyBasicG]

Amongus

[@elizacrafts4507]

Town of Salem…

[@bilbobaggins5938]

And Among Us.

[@itzakehrenberg3449]

Not really.

[@tonyravioli1982]

​@@itzakehrenberg3449it's actually exactly town of Salem. If you play standard, you just change out "werewolf" with "Mafia"

[@average_person444]

Blood on the clocktower...

[@morninglynn6281]

I used to play this with a deck of regular cards. King - police Queen - nurse Ace- mafia All the rest were villagers Mafia kills, nurse saves, police track down mafia one by one

[@ScreamingManiac]

Similar examples occur in the world. The police know there are criminals, the criminals know who their accomplices are. If they were to try catch them at random they would fail. The only way to catch them is by getting more information.

[@jashpaper8370]

No the police are the werewolves

[@echiko4932]

That's how more recent versions do it, at the very least there is one "detective" who can investigate one person each round. If they find a werewolf they have to convince the others without being so obvious that the werewolves kill them next round.

[@Madi_Ernar]

No, as one policemas has said in his video, if it was up to police, the drug dealing would've been stopped completely.

[@jashpaper8370]

Police are the problem

[@CassTeaElle]

We called it mafia in my youth group, and we also had a doctor and three police officers. The police officers would wake up and point at someone to inquire whether or not they were mafia. The narrator would either nod or shake their head. The police officers couldn't reveal the information to the townspeople directly, but they could use the information to sway the vote on who to kill. The doctor would be the third to wake up. There is only one and they would point at a townsperson they want to save. If they pointed at the person the mafia attacked, they would survive and the narrator would say the mafia tried to kill them but the doctor saved them. Super fun game for a large group. Especially if you have a funny, creative person like we did to do the narrating. He would make up creative stories about how the people died and stuff. It was lots of fun.

[@TrevorMcElhannon]

Thank you for reminding me about this original format. I was having a hard time remembering bc everytime I listened to this short, it made me forget more about the fun I had playing. We used to do a northern gangster accent. Like from New York or jersey, and refer to the doctor as a nurse. Nurse is funny to say in this accent. Like, nooice

[@malknight4197]

I only ever had 1 police officer not 3 and people could say “I’m the police officer” but it endangered them and/or risked the real officer calling them out if it was a lie

[@AaaaaaAAAAaaaaaaam09]

Yeah , I played both games and they are almost the same , just the characters a bit different, also for both werewolf and mafia there was cupid, for werewolf cupid was a bad character because he linked the lives of two people and if one was killed the other died too , for mafia I don't remember if the role was good or bad, also for werewolf there were Red Riding Hood , the Mayor and the Hunter, and some other but i don't remember and every one of the characters (except the villagers) , for example if the hunter was alive the Red Riding Hood would still be alive even if she was chosen to be killed because you can't kill her if the Hunter is alive . For Mafia I remember there were other roles but I can't remember sorry 😅

[@amandawayne2957]

Werewolf and Mafia are so similar and there are lots of extra characters in both but the difference technically is that werewolf has at least one partner and all werewolves know who the others are. Mafia traditionally only has one killer.

[@sibot7897]

We just have one detective, no need for 3

[@johnmiller5018]

One other moral is that the outcome shows that the “innocent villagers” are not as innocent as they think they are. They will conspire against their own to win and will demonise the innocent often making the werewolves look better than themselves.

[@WXSTANG]

The irony that this dude had knowledge of the game "among us" and exploited it is hilarious.

[@lexiaontube]

this is the best analogy to what governments do

[@haywire4686]

Literally amogus

[@robgeerds7659]

Sometimes governments, sometimes (minority) political parties that want to become the majority or that want to disrupt majority political majorities, sometimes foreign governments, sometimes global corporations. The problem is, people can be very convinced there is an 'other' being the werewolf, therefore being more susceptible of being lied to by the voices they see as credible. That's why it is good to be critical, but being critical only works if you are just as critical of your own beliefs as well. This includes examining voices that are credible to you that are implying someone else must be a 'werewolf'

[@monkeymangamertm2512]

Or rich people.

[@KatieVonA]

Just what I was going to say!

[@Richards80]

Pandemic .....

[@PunkNDisorderlyGamer]

What this man is saying is the truth, the game is 2 vs 10 for a reason, and that’s considered balanced for the informed minority.

[@Light-lp8rn]

Do the villagers have to kill someone each round ? If so it doesn't really work.

[@DedesFewscres]

this is what's happening in the society now. people think they're informed, but they're not. not until they join 4chan 😉

[@SquiddlyInk]

@@DedesFewscreslmao 4chan? Really?

[@DedesFewscres]

@@SquiddlyInk 🤣😂 want to go to 8chan instead? 🤣😂

[@sparagmos4748]

​@@DedesFewscres How is that fine lady Chris Chan doing? His poor mother🫤

[@TheCajunTiger]

There’s also One Night Ultimate: Werewolf. Even Vampire and Alien as expansions. Each player has a role to do during the night phase, except villagers never wake up. The Seer looks at a players card, the troublemaker exchanges cards between two other players, etc. So! You may very well have STARTED as a werewolf, but if there’s a troublemaker or a robber, you may not be that anymore. It’s pretty insane

[@samuelvis04]

I love this game

[@LowkeyBrick]

Town of Salem is the same thing with a couple extra roles and bad teams

[@AravaxElvor]

He’s talking about a simpler version of mafia. I guess that’s why the villagers have information gathering abilities though. Otherwise the mafia would always win. One night warewolf is very fun though I’ve never tried the expansion

[@Kot1026]

I know a version of this game that is more complicated: There are 2 killers (mafia) A medic and a detective. The mafia wakes up and chooses a victim. Then the medic wakes up and chooses who he wants to save, but he doesn't know who the mafia chose. He can also save himself once through the game, because he can also be killed by the mafia, which doesn't know who the medic is. The last one is the detective, who chooses who to arrest, but doesn't know who the medic was either. When everybody wakes up the conductor of the game announces who was killed, and whether the detective has caught one of the mafia members. If nobody was killed, then, fortunately, the medic has saved the victim. If the detective didn't catch of the rhe mafia, then the citizens take matter into own hands and choose who the execute. At the end of the execution the conductor reveals who the executed person was. The citizens can execute the medic or the detective as well, and the the mafia gets even more advantage.

[@DaydreamingRatMan]

Did y’all not play this as kids?? Missing out. We had doctors and detectives as well and held very intensive trials. 10/10

[@SmileyShorts900]

Fr i was playing this in kindergarten 😂

[@___idk]

yhh

[@EvaVevere-j4y]

Same here in Latvia! We call it mafia!

[@MK3_0]

We have a witch, i forgot the name but someone who can choose to see a person’s card, a little girl, she spies on the werewolves when they open their eyes. And i think that's it, i’m French btw and those are legit roles, buy the card game "loup garou" and you’ll see that they actually exist

[@MK3_0]

Oh ! Also, after a certain period of time villagers could vote for a mayor