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Online Mafia is interesting and useful

The townspeople resolutely opposed the bandits, intending to put them all in jail and put an end to the crime spree. But the mafiosi are not idle either. They plan to destroy all peaceful citizens, turning the town into a criminal capital. Times of life-and-death battles are coming! 'Son, will you help us?' – hope gleamed in the old man's faded eyes.

This is not the beginning of a mafia movie. It is 'Mafia' – an entertaining role-playing game that anyone can play online, ready to side with the bandits or the peaceful citizens. Once, 'Mafia' was a parlor or club pastime, but today it has moved to the Internet. Playing mafia online is just as interesting as with participants present at a club table. The distribution of roles in the game still happens randomly. Previously, a participant's affiliation with a team was determined by the suit of the card they drew. Black suits went to the mafiosi, and red suits to the peaceful citizens. In the online version, role distribution happens automatically and randomly.

As before, the game night alternates with day. And each period has its own order of actions. The peaceful citizens of the town sleep at night. They are numerous but careless. By the rules, none of the participants knows who is playing which role, but the criminals are allowed to get to know each other on the first night. They develop a plan to eliminate the peaceful citizens and will kill one townsfolk each night. Moreover, the mafia strikes without error, because the clan members know each other by sight. Since the criminal group is small, it must carefully develop a strategy of playing mafia for mafia to progress step by step towards victory.

But the peaceful citizens also want to win. For this, they need to have a good head on their shoulders, healthy suspicion, and caution. They organize their defense during the day. For this, the townspeople hold general discussions, at each of which they can jail one of the most suspicious citizens. The problem is that along with law-abiding citizens, criminals also participate in the discussion, seeking to confuse the peaceful citizens and frame an innocent person. Participants convicted during the day and killed at night are eliminated from the game. The team that kills all opponents wins.

The thrilling psychological game will make the participant find themselves at the center of events, personally take part in fateful decisions that determine a lot. Of course, this is just a game, but it is a fairy tale that contains a hint. This game has not been adopted by the higher schools of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of our country for nothing. It has a practical side that can be very useful in life.

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