Games Part III

Games Part III
by Marty May

In my last article, I suggested three banner games, you can play when you’re tired of capture the flag and elimination. If you’ve played them, send me an email and let me know what worked and what you changed to make the games play better. For today, I’ll tell you about three more games to help you mix it up a bit.

Since a lot of the games have rules that are the same, I’m listing rules common to all the games first. These apply to all the games unless noted otherwise.

Number one is the most important rule:

• DEAD MEN (or Women) DON’T TALK! That means players who are eliminated may not, by word or gesture, indicate any intentions or locations of the opposing team members. Get it? Good!
• All games start at home flag station and no one can move until the game has begun.
• Players who are hit are out of the game.

Any rule can be modified based on “house rules” of the field. For example, gun hits do or do not count or the ball must break to be counted as a hit.

The first game is full of espionage and intrigue and best of all only one person gets killed by a single splat. The rest get unlimited resurrections. I call it Linchpin.