How to Play Mafia with One Phone: Roles, Night and Day
Mafia, also known as Werewolf, is the party game of secret identities. A few players are secretly the Mafia. Everyone else is the town, and most of the town do not know who anyone is. Each night the Mafia quietly eliminate someone; each day the town argues and votes someone out. The town wins when every Mafia member is gone. The Mafia win when they equal the rest of the town.
The game needs a narrator who does not play, and dealing roles fairly is usually the awkward part. This page does both. Type the names of everyone who will play, five or more, and choose how many Mafia members there should be. The suggestion is about one for every three or four players. Choose whether to include a doctor and a detective. Then press Deal and pass the phone round. Each player taps to see their role privately, and Mafia members also see who their partners are, then hide it and pass on. When everyone has looked, the phone goes to the narrator.
From there the narrator screen runs the game. At night it shows the lines to read out, in order: everyone closes their eyes, the Mafia open theirs and silently agree on a target, then the doctor chooses someone to save and the detective points at someone to check. The narrator records each choice. For the detective, the screen tells the narrator whether to nod or shake their head, so nobody has to remember who is who. If the doctor or detective has been eliminated, the screen reminds the narrator to read their lines anyway and pause, because going quiet would tell the table they are gone.
In the morning the screen gives the narrator the announcement: who was eliminated, or that the doctor saved them. You can choose whether roles are revealed when someone is out. Then comes the day: the town discusses, someone is nominated, and the narrator records who was voted out, or that nobody was. After every elimination the game checks whether either side has won.
The narrator can open a panel at any point to see every role and a log of what happened each round, which helps settle arguments afterwards. When the game ends, everyone's role is shown, and one button starts a new game with the same players and fresh roles. Nothing is uploaded or saved; it all stays on the phone you are using.
How to play Mafia Game Narrator
- Type the names of everyone playing, five or more. The narrator does not play and is not listed.
- Choose the number of Mafia members and whether to include a doctor and a detective.
- Press Deal and pass the phone round so each player sees their own role, then give it to the narrator.
- At night, the narrator reads each line and records the Mafia’s target, the doctor’s save and the detective’s check.
- In the morning, read the announcement, run the day’s discussion and vote, and record who is out. The game calls the winner.