Where to publish a paper on the Mafia game? I wrote a research paper "A mathematical model of the Mafia game" (arXiv:1009.1031 [math.PR]). However, I do not know where to publish it. As an undergraduate studying majorly physics, I have little knowledge of mathematical journals. Moreover, its not easy for me to classify its subject.
The paper itself is generally "using applied mathematics (and physicist's approach) to model a party game (psychology)". Just to give some of its features:


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*Uses pure death process and gives its closed-form solution

*Is elementary and didactic (a tricky use of generating functions, Wallis formula, ...)

*Somehow "cool" topic


I thought about The American Mathematical Monthly. Besides the obvious advantages I see two drawbacks:


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*In AMM there are usually an old results in a nice/didactic/cool form or short findings

*It won't reach to psychologists who might investigate the Mafia game experimentally


Can you recommend me any proper journal? (popular mathematics, mathematics and psychology, ...?) 
Any other advice are appreciated as well. 
 A: You could consider the journal Involve, which aims at publishing high-quality research paper at least partially written by students. See http://mathscipub.org/ for more details.
A: The MAA also publishes "The College Math Journal", and a brief lookthrough of your paper suggests to me that it is of a good level and topic for that journal. Also, the journal Integers is a "real" math research journal, and has an official policy of being interested in games.
I can't speak for others, of course, but certainly at my grad school (mid 1990s) everyone had played and enjoyed Mafia a couple of times.
A: If you want to reach psychologists with a mathematical background, then you should try the Journal of the Mathematical Psychology. This is the official journal for the Society of Mathematical Psychology. It publishes theoretical work with a decent amount of math usually of the probability/statistics variety. However, you will have to be careful with language (i.e. avoid physics jargon and more sophisticated math jargon) to better appeal to the audience.
A: I have only glanced at your paper, but one possibility is to submit it to The Mathematical Intelligencer, in particular to Michael Kleber, who edits the "Mathematical Entertainments" column.  This is a great place for serious mathematical analysis of problems with a recreational flavor.  The Intelligencer has a wide readership, which is what you want for your article.
By the way, contrary to some other commentators, I don't see any reason why you necessarily need to find a mentor just because you're an undergraduate.  Your paper seems to be well-written enough.  Of course it doesn't hurt to find a mentor but what matters is the quality of your writing and not your employment status.
Also, regarding KConrad's comment that only existing players of the game will find it interesting, I don't believe that this is true.  First of all, as you note, Mafia is in fact a pretty well-known game.  Secondly, the subtlety of the game means that there is a lot of interesting mathematics buried in it.  If your article can draw more mathematicians into studying it, that would be a very good thing.
A: Here is another paper on Mafia published in Annals of Appl. Prob.:
Mark Braverman, Omid Etesami, Elchanan Mossel, "Mafia : A Theoretical Study of Players and Coalitions in a Partial Information Environment", Annals of Appl. Prob. 18(3), 2008
ps: I agree with Andy Putman's comment under the question.
