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As I don't use Slack, I'm totally building an IRC version of this. Actually, I'd prefer frontend-agnostic, so I can hook the logic to IRC/matrix/XMPP/websockets.
But ruby might be good, too.
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And there is this great story in Wired on the history and popularity of this game, especially at tech conferences: http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2010/03/features/wer...
Once I attended a math olympiad training camp, and was told a story explaining why we were not allowed to play "Mafia": The previous year, students had arranged a real-time version of the game, so that, each night, the mafia would vote and eventually someone would go knock on the victim's door. At some point, a maid found a piece of paper in someone's dorm, listing a "God", the names of people who had been "killed",…
Hopefully the police is not alarmed by bits of paper with labels as "wolf" (mafia), "dog" (guardian angel), "shepherd" (detective) and "sheep" (civilian)...