Joe Swoveland

Theories of Leisure and Recreation

Game Assignment

3/25/02

Assassins

Game Name: Assassins

Ages: 9 and up

Equipment: Deck of cards

# of players: Large Group

Game Rules:

All participants sit in a circle holding hands with their arms crossed.

The number of cards equals the number of participants in the game. The cards

are shuffled and passed out among the players. All the cards are insignificant

except the Ace of Spades. The person with the ace of spades becomes the

Assassin. Next, the Assassin squeezes the person's hand on either side of

him/her any number of times, and then that person squeezes the next person one

time less until the count is down to one. The person who gets their hand

squeezed once is out of the game. The Assassin is the only one who can start a

chain. Example: The Assassin squeezes a person's hand 5 times that person then

squeezes the next person 4 times. The other players just try and guess who the

Assassin is. If a person guesses wrong then they are out of the game. The

person who can eliminate the most people before getting caught wins.