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adapted from original rules written by Stuart Reges
This document describes the rules that will be in effect for the optional assassin game being played by members of this quarter's CSE 143 course. If you are not participating, you can ignore this document.
To assassinate your target, you must establish physical contact with the person and then say the phrase, "You're dead." You can establish contact by touching them, e.g., tapping them on the shoulder. You do not have to maintain contact while you say the entire phrase. For example, if you tap someone on the shoulder and then say the phrase as they try to run away, you have still assassinated them. The key is to first make contact and then say the phrase.
You can also establish physical contact by manipulating some kind of device that establishes contact between you. For example, you could use a 10-foot pole to make the contact. If you can manage to touch them with a piece of string that you are holding, then you have established contact through the string. Silly string will also be considered a legal device for contact for the purposes of this game.
You can't, however, claim that the air or the ground is the device you are using and you can't use a light-pen or other light-based device to establish contact. Also, simply propelling an object towards a person is not the same thing as establishing contact. You can't, for example, throw a ball at someone, use a pellet gun, toy gun, water balloon, etc. and claim to have made contact.
When you assassinate an individual, you should ask that person for the name of their target. This becomes your next target. You also must send email to the game administrators telling her who you assassinated. When you have been assassinated, you should also send email to the administrators telling us that you have been killed and who killed you.
When the game gets down to just two people, it may be difficult to determine who wins. They might both make contact at more or less the same time. In that case, the person who first finishes saying the phrase will win the game.