The largest wiki for the Game of Mafia on the web.

'In the peaceful Sicilian village of Salem, a dark presence is about to make itself known. For years, the family based crime organization known as the Mafia has been establishing itself in the foundation of the community. Until now, the naive citizens have been unaware of the evil among them. Tonight, however, the Mafia makes its move. Tonight, someone will die, and until the Mafia has eliminated all opposition, the innocent will continue to die. Unless, of course, the Mafia is destroyed first...'

The above is a typical opening for the game called Mafia (Also known as 'Werewolves of Miller's Hollow' or 'Town of Salem'). The game can be played by an indeterminate group of people, each playing the role of either a murdering Mafia member or an innocent townsperson, along with a game moderator. At the beginning of the game, Night falls, and the Mafia family members become aware of each other (by communication from the moderator). They then choose a victim, and the moderator announces the death scene. When Day breaks, the town must try to weed out the evil by eliminating someone they suspect to be mafia.

The game of Mafia (in Meat World) is usually run with playing cards representing the possible roles in the game. The moderator secretly distributes the cards to the players, then has everyone put their head down/close their eyes. During the Night, the moderator 'wakes up' the mafia, and they silently choose a victim. During the Day, everyone discusses, argues, swears, and eventually votes for someone to eliminate. The cycle repeats until the endgame.

MafiaScum, however, is devoted to the online version of the game. The history of mafiascum.net can be traced back to a game moderated by mith in August 2000 on the Grey Labyrinth, a puzzle website. Due to the success and growth of the game on the GL, mith started mafiascum.net as a dedicated forum in March 2002. Online Mafia has the potential for more strategy and subtlety because it removes most of the possibility for cheating and provides players with a chance to form suspicion based on logic and voting patterns instead of facial expression. It also has the potential for just as many (if not more) laughs, because the players can act however they like, no matter how shy they might be in real life.

For more information on the game check out this article: Game of Mafia

To get yourself into a game the first thing you will have to do is go to our forum. You need to register an account with us in order to do almost anything, the link to register is in the top right corner of the index-page. Please be aware that to register an account you will need a valid e-mail address, as it is required to try and filter out a few of those darn Chinese bots.
All of our sign-up threads for games are found in the Queue subforum. To join a game, post something along the lines of '/in' in its signup thread. You will be assigned to a player list, and when the list is full, you will be instructed further on where to go and what to do. If you're new to the site, we don't recommend joining a lot of games at once in case you lose interest and flake out of all of them later on. If you decide that you want to abandon a sign-up list before you are assigned to a game, post '/out'.
For more details and information please read this guide: Quick Guide to Mafiascum

This month's featured role is the Finder!

The Finder is one of the site's newest roles!

New Year, New Role

That's right, we're still innovating after all this time!

This investigative role, also called the [role]-finder, is given a specific role to, well, find! It will investigate a player each night and find out whether they have the specific role or modifier in their name, even if it is merely a small part of their role, as is often seen in role madness games.

For example, is someone has the Doctor role, a Doctor-Finder would return a positive result.

It's always nice to see new ideas come to the site, so why not put it to use in your setups today to celebrate!

This month's featured setup is Black Flag Nightless!

You may not have heard of them, but the Flag series of games are a staple when it comes to competitive settings here on MafiaScum.net!

2021 is no exception! The year is starting off with Team Mafia, an exciting opportunity for teamwork across games, a rare experience for most players.

As mentioned, the Flag setups are highly used in these competitions, and the Black Flag setup has been chosen as the designated Flag setup this year. It is a modified version of the standard White Flag setup where the scum team must surrender when they reach 1 member. In this case, the scum team still has this restriction, but the town also must surrender at 3 remaining members. This change has been implemented in order to better balance the white flag setup.

We recommend spectating Team Mafia, and checking out the whole family of Flag setups! You might just want to run one yourself!

Without contributers this wiki wouldn't exist! Help us out by creating articles on mafia theory, keeping things tidy and organised, and producing content covering anything to do with mafia. Every little helps and we couldn't do this without the aid of others. To find ways you can help out either check the wiki-thread here or read the to-do lists here.