Anyway, I'm sure some of you looked at the title and went something like this:" (O.O) MURDER!? FUN THINGS!? SOCIOPATH!!" Well, no... I am not crazy, nor do I have disregard for the consequences I receive... No, I'm talking about a game. A game that included me dying twice in a row. I've also killed two people in a row... Yes, you heard me - I committed fictional murder! Fear Me! You don't have to, but it would be nice if I saw a little more 'cower'.
So, back to the game: Murder!
It's really fun in a big group of people.. in fact, I will give you the recipe for the pot o' fun.
Ingredients
1. A group of friends who total more than 5...in fact, 8 would be nice...up to you though
2. A house... preferably a clean one - instructions to follow-
3. Light switches
4. A cup/hat/bowl/paperbag/plasticbag - only one of these - instructions to follow -
5. Pen & Paper
Steps
1. Combine friends and house for several hours until the outside lighting is dark. -may take some time, depending on when friends are assembled-
2. Count how many people want to play, including yourself, and subtract one. This is how many bits of paper you will need.
2b. Write 'No' on all but one of these slips of paper.
2c. On the remaining piece of paper, write 'Yes'
2d. Place bits of paper in the cup/hat/bowl/various bag
3. Decide which of your friends will be the Detective
4. Have everyone but the Detective take a piece of paper
5. Once piece of paper is drawn, and everyone has seen what they chose, place pieces of paper back in the cup/hat/bowl/various bag, and save for the following round
6. Place Detective in a separate room -bathrooms are generally the place to put them-
7. Once Detective is gone, turn off all of the lights on the level of the house you are going to play on
8. The Person who drew 'Yes' is the murderer. Your job is to silently tap someone to kill them. Make sure you do it so they know they've died - but don't be too loud, otherwise the other people will hear you.
8b. If you drew 'No' don't touch anyone, just wander around in the dark until someone dies.
8c. If you've been tapped by the Murderer, scream and fall to the ground.
-Step Eight could take a while depending on how sneaky your Murderer is-
9. Turn on the lights, look around and bring the Detective out of the room it was placed in. Detective look at the scene.
10. Everyone must now move to sit - perhaps around the kitchen table of in the family room, to be interrogated by the Detective
IMPORTANT: EVERYONE but the Murderer must tell the Truth. Murderer may to lie to his or her heart's desire
11. Questioning may take a while depending on how many suspects are in the room.
12. When Questioning is over, and the Detective is ready to make an accusation, s/he must say "I Declare (Murderer)killed (Victim)!"
13. If the Detective was right, s/he wins. If not, the Murderer wins.
NOTE: You may then choose another Detective, and have house guests redraw pieces of paper to start a new round. Repeat until sun rises...or guests leave.
"That's a great sounding game, Jereality! But, what if I want to play a game and it's daylight outside?"
Well, citizen, I've got a similar game for you to play while the sun is still high in the sky. It is called: Mafia!
Loot
1. Several people
2. Seating to accommodate however many people you've got
3. A Deck of Cards
The Hit-List
1. Take the King of Clubs, King of Hearts, Ace of Spades, Ace of Diamonds, and the Queen of Hearts from the deck of cards - these make up four of your players
1b. Count the remaining people and subtract one, draw that many numerical cards and place them with the face cards.
2. Choose a story-teller.
2b. Once chosen, the story-teller takes the chosen cards and mixes them up.
3. Every player chooses a card at random - except the story-teller - and keeps it.
4. The Kings are the police officers. The Aces are the Mafia. The Queen of Hearts is the nurse. Everyone else is an innocent bystander.
*Story Teller says it's night time. Every 'goes to sleep' by putting their heads down and closing their eyes.
5. The story teller then says "Mafia, please wake up. ONLY the MAFIA lift their heads and open their eyes. The ones that are still “alive” quietly and unanimously choose a person to eliminate by pointing to someone in the group. Once they have chosen, the story-teller must tell them to "go back to sleep" by closing their eyes putting their heads down.
6. The story teller now asks the Nurse to "wake up". ONLY the NURSE may open his/her eyes. The story teller will now ask the Nurse to silently choose someone to save. Once someone is chosen, the Nurse must "go back to sleep".
7. Story-teller must call, "wake up" the Police Officers. ONLY the POLICE OFFICERS may open their eyes. Silently, the Police Officers must point to a member of the circle and choose someone they think belongs to the Mafia. The Story-teller must nod or shake his/her head to indicate if the member of the group actually is or is not a member of the Mafia. Once the Story-teller knows all of this information, s/he instructs the Police Officers to "go back to sleep".
8. Story-teller tells everyone to "wake up," because it is now 'day-time'.
9. The Story-teller now has to tell everyone who died, and make a reason how they died. The dead Person must now leave the circle silently. Unless, of course, the Nurse saved them. If the Dead person wasn't saved, they leave and get to watch the game with the Story-teller.
10. The bystanders (along with the Mafia and Police Officers who try to blend in with them - DON'T BLOW YOUR COVER!!!!!) now vote on who they think killed the dead person. Once people vote on who they think did it, those people must give a case as to why they didn't - examples include describing how wonderful their friendship was with the 'deceased', things of that nature... Once the bystanders have heard enough, they vote on the remaining people. The person with the most votes leaves to watch the game with the deceased - if there is one - and the Story-teller.
11. After the Meeting, it is night time again, and everyone has to go back to sleep. The cycle continues until either the townspeople are all dead, or the Mafia members both get jailed. The Nurse is able to be killed by the Mafia. Police Officers are able to be killed by the Mafia.
"Wow, Jereality...both of those games have people killing each other... It's a little inhumane, don't you think?"
Ah, it seems we've got a justice-junkie on our hands...Well, this next game will be a bouncy one for you then, dear.
VAMPIRE! - not inhumane... because it's a vampire... :K -
Requires
-Any Human with a pulse - preferably more than 7
How To Play
1. Count the number of people you've got, and write 'no' on all but on pieces of paper...write 'yes' on the remaining one and put them all in a cup/bowl/hat/various bag
2. Have everyone choose a piece of paper. Once all have chosen and seen what they've picked, place papers back into container.
3. Begin shaking hands. Shakes hands with everyone... repeat handshakes...
4. The vampire must, while shaking hands - in order to kill someone - shake that person's hand and either squeeze their hand lightly, rub their wrist with your middle finger - anything to let them know they've died.
4b. If you're not the vampire and you've shaken hands with the vampire, shake a few more hands before screaming and falling to the ground.
5. Everyone continues shaking hands until people start to figure out who the vampire is... Once it is figured out, start the game over again.
Yep, those are some of my favorite party games... I learned the first one last night... I'm good at it... It's fun times, Murderer... I was the Detective twice, and I died twice and I killed people twice and I was a bystander once... Good times...
So, go ahead, get out there and start killing you friends!
^_6;; Jereality
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