CREWMATES! Or… Birthmates…?

No. Nevermind. That’s weird.

Among Us officially turns 7 today! 🎉 While we’ve been celebrating all week with a free cake cosmetic (claim it now) and decorating The Skeld (wow!), we have a special little treat for you.

I present to you THE ORIGINAL AMONG US GAME. Also known as the real life game PuffballsUnited, Fortebass, and their friends used to play in college. This game, called Mafia (or Assassin), would ultimately be one of the biggest inspirations for Among Us!

There are many variations/versions/house rules for Mafia, but this is the one they ended up playing!

THE GAME

Requirements:

• A deck of cards
• A house (preferably large, plenty of rooms, and with a layout that has some sort of loop between everything)
• Ideally 5+ friends

How To Play:

• Take a deck of cards: Jacks are Impostor, so put in 1-2 depending on what you want.
• Number cards are Crewmates. Take as many as you need so that the number of cards reflects the remaining number of players.
  • So if you have 10 people playing and 2 Jacks, then you’ll need to add 8 more number cards.
• Shuffle and hand everyone a card face down. Everyone looks at their card then puts it away.
• Assign one room to be the designated meeting room.
• Start the round.
• Wander aimlessly until you die or find a dead body.
• Impostors kill by drawing a line over your neck with their finger. If you’re killed, don’t make a sound and ragdoll on the floor.
• Impostors can move dead bodies. (Gentleman’s rule that the dead body helps the Impostor move them around. No heavy lifting here!)
• When you find a dead body you shout “dead body!” and everyone meets up in the designated meeting room for discussion.

And that’s it! Extremely simple and easy to set up – if you end up playing it, we hope you enjoy it as much as Puff and Forte did. While they loved this game, having to constantly find houses that were big and interesting enough to play in was tough! And that’s got the whole Among Us idea rolling – to be able to play this without needing a physical space.

Thanks for all of the support over the years, we can’t wait to show you what we’re scheming up next!

Off to buy a house in this economy,

Victoria