Journal Week 8

Mafia is a social game of deception.

Mafia uses analysis to a certain degree. I believe analysis works with people you are familiar with. E.g. if you were put into a game of mafia with total strangers, you may find there is a very quiet person in the game, you may suspect that player to be either police officer or mafia. However in real life, that person may just be quiet in general.

Mafia works due to the lack of information.

Depending on a person(s) aim of this game, several strategies can be used. For example, if the police officer and mafia work together, they are basically unstoppable.

This game could possibly be an online game. However, it would be hard to analyse player behaviour online. Even through the use of chat history between players, it would be difficult to extract information.

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