The creator of Mafia is intensely private -- he agreed to meet Wired only within World of Warcraft. He grew up in an austere Russian town but now lives in Boston with his family and dog. (He describes himself as "self-played" rather than "self-employed" but has never made serious money from Mafia.) Davidoff invented the game as a teaching tool in 1987 while a psychology undergraduate in Moscow; it has since spread across the world. Hasbro considered commercialising it when Davidoff arrived in the US, but thought it "unprotectable". Mafia is now used to treat gambling addicts in China and troubled US teens in Christian summer camps. Davidoff is blasé about such evolutions of his brainchild: "I'm against taking it seriously all the time." So can he tell if people will be good at Werewolf or Mafia? "No one can. Mafia could be a test for a bunch of psychological theories, because there are almost none which could help you win. In the O'Reilly board room that fateful morning, what you'd have seen was three senior tech leaders throwing crisps at each other, all outraged at being accused. It was either a virtuoso display of the hardest kind of lying -- extended, emotional falsehood -- or something more peculiar.

The more you play, especially with the same people, the better you get at spotting their lies. You may think this is a flaw, but Davidoff is way ahead of you -- it's part of the plan. Good players learn to lie well, but also to get better at spotting others' lies. This form of ultra-civilised bloodsport dropped out of the spotlight during the middle of the century, but was revived by Stephen Sondheim. His legendary murder parties culminated in his 1973 movie The Last Of Sheila, a dark comedy about a group of characters, James Mason and RaquelWelch among them (and trapped, inevitably, on a luxury yacht), who engage in a parlour game that turns truly murderous.Pa još naziv - The Game... Asocijacija na usamljenog jahača koji uzima glavnu premiju jer je jači od sudbine. Pada mi na pamet i onaj film sa Majklom Daglasom, a odmah potom muški priručnik za zavođenje koji tu i tamo primetim u kjižarama...

The Game, inspirisan igrama na sreću (dizajn bočice podsjeća na žetone pokera), je novi muški miris kuće Davidoff. Opisan je kao svjež i dinamičan, namijenjen odvažnim i razigranim muškarcima spremnim na rizik. tako isto i ovaj miris.Simpatičan,može da se nosi,ali niti je prepoznatljiv,niti je sa nekim zavidnim performansama,ali za te pare i razumljivih je karakteristika. Those without a yacht, country manor or cadre of film-star friends may have found themselves playing the rather less elaborate Wink Murder. The game plays out over a period of "night" and "day" phases, controlled by the moderator. During the "night", all players shut their eyes. The moderator calls on any werewolves present to open their eyes and, using gestures and hand signals, they silently nominate a victim. When "night" ends, all players open their eyes and the moderator announces who has died. This player leaves the game and must not make any further comments, and especially not reveal whether he was a villager or a werewolf. Bočica lako skreće pažnju, izgleda dobro što da se lažemo, ali izgleda toliko napucano da to odmah postane sumnjivo - u današnje vreme svi smo navikli da se po pravilu krije ćorak iza tog "saću da te karam" imidža.So Werewolf has come full circle. What started life as a psychology experiment has once again become a psychology experiment; an exercise in role-play which has more in common with the Stanford prison experiment than Dungeons & Dragons. What Werewolf has to offer is a perfect marriage of statistics and psychology, of mob rule and democracy, reason and emotion. Is it any wonder it's taking over the world?