Family Business (Danish)

Family Business takes mafia warfare to a new level of backstabbing, vengeance, and overall bloodthirstiness, which is what makes it so great to play.

Each player controls a 'family' and plays various cards on other players' family members. In a game with this little structure, it is possible for everyone to gang up on one unfortunate soul, or for the damage to be somewhat evenly distributed. Either way, the last family standing wins.

Each player starts with a group of nine characters. To try to get rid of other gangsters, contracts are played on them. If these contracts are not blocked by anyone, the targeted gangster is placed on the hit list. As soon as six gangsters are on the hit list, a mob war starts. This means that the first character on this list is eliminated at the start of each turn. This continues until the list is empty. Mob wars can also be triggered by playing cards.

When no more than the last six or fewer characters are in play, a constant mob war takes place until only one player has characters left.