
The club organizes games, rates players, and awards prizes (including a Sicily trip for their tournament-series champion).

In March 2006 Ernest Fedorov was running a Mafia Club in Kyiv, using his own patented variation of the rules. From there, Mafia has spread to numerous online communities. Both The Grey Labyrinth and sister site MafiaScum claim that this was the first game of Mafia run on a forum board. In August 2000, a user under the alias "mithrandir" of The Grey Labyrinth, a website devoted to puzzles and puzzle solving, ran a game of Mafia adapted for play on a forum board. The werewolf theme was also incorporated in the French adaption of Mafia, The Werewolves of Millers Hollow. In September 1998 Mafia was introduced to the Graduate College at Princeton University, where a number of variants were developed. Developing role-playing games 'Mafia' and 'Murderer' for a course on Visual psychodiagnostics, to teach reading body language and nonverbal signals. In 1998 the Kaliningrad Higher school of the Internal Affairs Ministry published the methodical textbook Nonverbal communications. The Werewolf variant of Mafia became widespread at major tech events, including the Game Developers Conference, ETech, Foo Camps, and South By Southwest. Mafia and a variant called Thing have been played at science fiction writers' workshops since 1998, and have become an integral part of the annual Clarion and Viable Paradise workshops. Īndrew Plotkin gave the rules a werewolf theme in 1997, arguing that the mafia were not that big a cultural reference, and that the werewolf concept fit the idea of a hidden enemy who looked normal during the daytime.
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By the mid 1990s a version of the game became a Latvian television series (with a parliamentary setting, and played by Latvian celebrities). In the 1990s it began to be played in other parts of Europe and then the United States.
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It became popular in other Soviet colleges and schools, often associated with hugely popular TV series La Piovra, which first ran in 1986. He developed the game to combine psychology research with his duties teaching high school students. Wired attributes the creation to Davidoff and also dates the first game to 1987. He dates the first game of Mafia to spring 1987 at the Psychology Department of Moscow State University, from where it spread to the classrooms, dorms, and summer camps of Moscow University.

