Assassin (game)
Since an elimination attempt could occur at any time, successful players are obliged to develop a degree of vigilance.
Eliminations might include hitting the target with a nerf gun or striking them with a toy plastic lightsaber.
Some games have "police forces", sometimes composed of eliminated players, whose job is to track down rule breakers.
Those who are killed are not allowed to tell other players who the assassin is, but this variant is almost never played with a prize for winning to avoid accusations of cheating in this way.
Generally, elimination is carried out using items and methods that cause no actual damage and, in many cases, cannot be mistaken by bystanders or police for real weapons or acts of violence.
Other weapons include tennis balls, balled-up socks,[3] blue pens, or rubber bands fired by hand.
Basilisk rules count simply looking in the eyes of the target as a successful assassination.
Pulling a sticker off its backing is considered 'arming' which allows for accusation in killing circle based games.
This attachment may be a word document, audio file, or an image that shows that the target is dead and the assassin that killed them.
In the sticker-based variants, applying a sticker to an object that the target then uses is considered to be a bomb attack.
Other weapons include venomous animals (usually a rubber spider, snake, or lizard placed within the victim's backpack or book) and various manners of simulated traps.
If an innocent manages to find a trap or animal before the intended victim, there is no penalty; it simply does not function.
On December 5, 1981, Mike Reagan, a California State University student, was shot by campus police officer Sgt.
Stephen King after he observed Reagan and fellow game player Julia Gissel holding what looked like M16s.
The administrators of the school placed the ban after the police had been called by a person who observed one student bringing a Nerf gun to class.
"[6][7] On March 31, 2009, in Fife, Washington, a Costco, several car dealerships and small businesses were evacuated when a "bomb" was left by someone playing Assassin.
Several local police and fire departments responded as well as the Explosives Disposal team from the Port of Seattle, the FBI and the BATF.
[8] On May 12, 2009, an incident involving the Assassin game happened behind a North Hampton, New Hampshire, restaurant, where an employee spotted a man in dark clothing with a gun.
[9] In 2016, an assassin game held in Oakville, Ontario led to residents on Calloway Drive and Gooseberry Way's calling Halton Regional Police.
[11] In 2017, a group of high school students in Hopkinton, Massachusetts were playing Senior assassin with water guns when they thought they had entered an opponent's garage but it turned out to be the house of a 70-year-old woman.
