After all of this plotting, the plan is finally in action, you’re shaking as the adrenaline builds and your target comes around the corner. Phone in hand you jump out and spray them and send the video as proof on Twitter. All of this results in you surviving one more week. Sabotage, betrayal, extreme tactics, and deception are all guaranteed aspects of every annual assassin game at Platte County High School.
Assassin is a student-run, school-wide game, in which every student who signs up and pays the 5 dollar fee is given a target that they have to get out by shooting with a spray bottle or water gun. Students are eliminated if their target shoots them or if they don’t eliminate their target,by the deadline. Juniors and seniors are the only grade levels allowed to participate in the Assassin game. It takes place every fall and is a common game in many high schools. There is a pot of money that the winner receives, and depending on how many people play the pot will go up or down, but it will usually stay around the $500 mark.
This year the game makers may have added a new element, in which friends are selected as each other’s target, to add a new dimension to the game.
“I think they are purposefully pairing friends with friends, to make the game [funnier],” senior Ella Stickler said.
This new addition has certainly caused more drama and tension between parties that already know each other pretty well, a perfect example of this is Junior Owen Bane’s experience in the game
“My friend [Senior,Ben Letcher] led me into his car, and he told me he had[senior] Owen Rawlings when he really had me[…]I was upset that I didn’t play longer, but I wasn’t upset at him because I probably would have done the same thing,” Bane said.
This new element allows for some unique and creative strategies to get friends out. However, there was another new idea that was also implemented this year, a $20 buy-in after the first round, for anyone who wanted to buy back in or who didn’t get to participate in the first round.
Junior Cole Johnson participated in this buy-in after originally getting out in the first round. Although his experience with the buy-in may not have been beneficial to his assassin experience.
“I would not have done the buy-in,”Johnsons said…I got set up, I was going to go get my guy out[…]and then Tanner Jenks jumped out of a car and tried to chase me down, and I am not outrunning a cross-country kid.”
However there are some mixed opinions on the buy-in, some people believed that it shouldn;t have been implemented.
“I think you should only get one chance, I think its dumb to be able to buy back in,” Bane said
All of these new and interesting add-ons to the assassin formula have made this particular year’s game one to remember for years to come.
