There's a mouthful of organization for you. As long-winded as their title is, the GMBOP have dedicated a fair portion of their school career (and a fair bit of their post-grad career) to mastering a game of elegance and chance: Mafia. For those unaware of the game, it is played something like this:
From a group of about ten people, one person is chosen to be a Narrator and two or three are selected randomly to be the Mafia (usually chosen by playing cards). The game begins when everybody closes their eyes but the Narrator and the Mafia, who then agree on a target to kill. When everyone opens their eyes again, the Narrator announces who was killed. Then everyone (Mafia included, since their identities are secret) discusses amongst themselves who they think the Mafia are. When everyone is in agreement, another person (hopefully Mafia) is killed. Then the game repeats itself from the "everyone closes their eyes" section.
What will eventually transpire is either both Mafioso are killed (where everyone else wins) or all the other players are killed (where the Mafia wins). Seems simple enough until you start to add characters. The more commonly played game also includes the character of the Angel, who opens her eyes after the Mafia closes theirs, but before everyone opens their eyes together. It's her job to choose one person she wants to know about. The Narrator tells the Angel whether or not the person she indicated is Mafia or not. Puts a little twist on it, huh?
It starts to get even more complex when other characters are added, like the Miller who is not Mafia but appears to be so while being inspected by the Angel. Tricky.
Find rules better than the ones I wrote above and literally dozens of variant roles at the GMBOP website here.
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