Cool Game for NYC Dwellers
This is clever: A game called StreetWars: Killer - NYC. Instead of being a board game or a video game, this game is live-action. Each player is given a packet of information about their intended target–things like name, place of residence, and a photograph. Once they get their information, they are to “find and kill (by way of water gun, water balloon or super soaker)” their target(s).
There are a few safe zones–the block around your place of work, subway cars (but not stations), and buses for example–but otherwise, you’re not safe anywhere. You could be walking down Fifth Avenue and suddenly–SPLAT! You’re soaked with a water balloon.
The game is arranged as a round-robin tournament, and the winner gets an undisclosed amount of cash (which comes from the $17 entry fee).
Doesn’t that sound like fun? We ought to arrange something like that around here….
July 27th, 2005 at 1:34 pm
I’ve done something like that before, but instead of getting splatted with a water balloon, they had to stick a piece of tape on your person somewhere. It only works though when you really know everyone playing. I wouldn’t want to ‘hit’ a total stranger.
July 31st, 2005 at 12:08 am
Dave Barry had a bit about this in his book ‘Big Trouble’. In his book it got his son (and son’s friends
in heaps of trouble {funny trouble of course}).