http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassin_%28game%29

Has anyone ever played? The CSS (Computer Science Society) at my school is sponsoring prizes (first place - $150 FutureShop (like Best Buy) gift card, second place - $50 gift card), 39 people signed up. This is the first day, and three are dead already. We have until Feb 22nd. All we get is our target's name, school email address, what year they're in, and a picture. Great fun.

I thought this was going to be about the amazing Chicago based band Assassins.

http://www.myspace.com/assassins

EDIT: Oh never mind this isn't the same as the game I was thinking of

There is something called "AP Assassination" at my former high school. It's for anyone who took an AP course. It consisted of firing nerf shots at your targeted person.

Of course, certain parents were concerned about this school tradition, claiming it PROMOTED GUN VIOLENCE.

It's really fun. Makes you paranoid though.

Sounds like fun. If I had any sort of motivation I'd see if I could get something like that going at our University. That kind of game would be really tense if it was done on one night at the Student Guild. For everyone not involved, just a normal night out drinking and dancing. But for those hidden few...

Aye, it sounds pretty damn good.

And now I want to go buy a NERF gun.

May I reccommend the Nerf-freaking-sniper rifle?

We play it at our school, but with a stupid version of the rules.

ohmygosh I want to get into highschool and get a game of this going. I have friends who love this stuff.

Hmmm.

The people in the Assassins' Society at my uni were the scary people who never left their rooms unless carrying a piece of card with "Knife" written on it or a bag full of D&D board games.

It sounded cool on freshers' week, until you saw the makeup of 90% of the club. Maybe fun people do it at your place - but not when I was a lad

We have been talking about starting up a similar game here on our campus, but I doubt it will take off.

Still, between my suitemates, roommate, and myself we would probably have a bit of an unfair advantage:

Between the four of us, we have:

4x Nerf Night Finder (Basic Pistol)
4x Nerf Maverick (Six Shooter)
1x Nerf Firefly (P90-like assault rife)
2x Nerf Longshot (Sniper Rifle)
1x Nerf Reactor (Ball shooter)
1x Buzz Bee Rapid Fire Rifle (think Nerf Winchester)
1x Buzz Bee Double Shot (think Nerf Sawed-off Shotgun)
3x Barnet Bandit Crossbows
1x Sonic Grenade

And about 300 extra rounds of custom made ammo….

Nothing beats the stress of finals like a good old fashion all out Nerf war in the lobby….

Yeah, a game just started at RIT, and it's horribly set up.

They keep changing the rules, without posting on the official Facebook wall.
Rules such as: Originally, your dorm room was a safe zone. Then it wasn't, but they didn't tell anyone. And then they switched it to safe when you were sleeping. And then they changed it from no witnesses to the kill, to one witness is okay, to three witnesses is okay, and then back to one witness.

The people who organized the game are playing. So basically there is a pack of six people who are travelling together with a notebook with everyone's information on it, who are killing people left and right.

People are just locking themselves in their room, and not going out for anything.

People went out of town, so a bunch of people can't assassinate their targets.



And the freaking game only started on Saturday. As of posting, it's monday.

Those kinds of people aren't fun people? D&D is awesome.

Ouch.

Ach, I'll have to wait until September to see if theres anything like this set up at Glasgow.

The game was being played here at school last semester by members of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, a music fraternity. It was pretty heated for quite a while. They haven't played it in a while, though.

We did this on our floor last year. I managed to get one kill, but then my next mark was a loner that really was never seen outside their room. I don't think that game ever really finished, people just stopped playing after a while.

i've been involved with 2 games though we called it "hitman"

first game i was a hitman
second game i was the one handing out the "contracts"

the rules were mostly basic...
each contract had it's own set of rules specific to that contract
make it "look like an accident"
or "send a message" (make it look like a hit)
some specified no witnesses
some specified many witnesses
some even specified my favorite as a hitman... many witnesses hitman location unknown (prefect paintball sniper opportunity)
the rare hit even specified a very specific location, time, and method for the "kill"

and not all participants are hitmen... you could sign up as hitman or victim

my game as a hitman i scored 21 kills 9 of them were hitmen 4 had contracts on me at the time

the last kill had a contract on me... i poke him in the back and handed him a note saying "you have been injected with poison, have a nice day" i got home opened my mail and the letter said "boom!"

Yikes. This is all being coordinated by one guy, and he isn't playing. Also, it's in our rules that if you leave down you're out (though I admit this is hard to enforce).

Originally it was going to be no-witnesses, but it was changed (before the game started) to as many witnesses as you want, but lectures, class activities (labs, office hours, etc), CSS events (guest speakers and such), and the java lab (main hang-out for CS students at my school) are safe zones. No witnesses would be practically impossible, you'd basically have to luck out, or follow someone into the bathroom.

I play that game.

We just mod the guns so they shoot better/faster.

http://nerfhaven.com/homemade/boltsniper_far/#mat

We are trying to make twenty of those guns.

Plus we shoot paper darts.

http://tomshiro.org/pdart/index.html

I can't wait to go to college now. Thankyou so much for teaching me about this game.

I suggest Nerf Crotch Bats.

Exlax would make great poison.

Chocolate shakes on the house!

DePaul university, the college I went to, started it up. We called this year's game DeTag. I was a pivitol designer of this year's rules.

I see no reason why this game couldn't be played among highschool students.

Yikes, that set up blows. We had simple, non-changing rules;
room is safe
no player witnesses

If one were setting up such a game, what would be the best rules?

many in the group during both games i participated in were high school students

Is there any way for the target to fight back or defend himself?

Also, thats a pretty cool idea of having different ways that the contract has to be performed.

Except if something bad happens, and something will, the highschool gets blamed.

1. Make it real life like as if you were going to die. (It is called Assassins right?)
2. No safe zones. (Seriously people become ****ing cheap w/ their "safe" zones.)
3. No real weapons.
4. Mature people only. (I've tried playing with immature ones and they ruin the point of the game. Really not worth it.)

I'm talking with Axis about this right now...so many possibilities.

This should only be discussed by those who study game design. A lot goes into making the game fun, realistic, and rewarding to play. There's lots of possibilities, but really, there's a very narrow ideal margin for rules. We spent a month and a half developing this year's rules.

never played it but give me ideas about possible rules and weapons.

Idea for a 'bomb' a note posted with targets name and bomb written on it. if target reads the sign they have been bombed. you might have to put a limit on how big the 'bombs' - postit notes only or something. also have rules to allow for bodygaurds or police forces, so they can properly disspose of 'bombs' before targets see them.

ideas for placement of such 'bombs' (depending on what areas are safezones):

Bathroom stalls
Under windsheild wiper of target's car
dorm door
inside target's text book

Not very easily enforced.

They play this game at my school's dorm. I remember getting really pissed off one time when some girl sneaked into my roomate and I's room to get him in the middle of the night and she screamed as she tagged him. I wanted to kill her. Fat *****.

If I were playing with bombs, I would make a transmitter that sent a signal when my victim opened his car door. It would be pretty easy to make, and you could add a little siren and flashing LEDs to alert them that they've been bombed, and you'll have received a signal from the transmitter in case they try to deny it.

Wow, this sounds like fun. I should try to set up a game with some friends.

In DC there's "Water Wars". Large-scale, but I don't know if it's more of a Deathmatch Royale vs Assassin-type game. Either way, you eliminate your marks with water (ie, water balloons, super soakers, garden hose, etc)

During summer we sometimes play CTF with water guns.