Talk:Assassin (game)

Specific Rules
If you have specific rules about assassins, please do not include them in the article unless you can generalize them sufficiently! It has been suggested that:

It sounds like several people here have a lot of specialized information to share, in more detail than an encyclopedia article can support. Have you considered starting up a project at Wikicities or other Wiki provider? That way, you could really get into the nuts and bolts that are specifically useful to Assassin players. FreplySpang (talk) 03:58, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Hmm, this is a good idea FreplySpang. I will check this out RyanTMulligan (talk) 03:12, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Split Article?
It seems that there is a lot of content for various Assassins guilds throughout the world. Maybe it would be a good idea to split the article about the game into the game article and an article detailing the history/ current status of assassins guilds all over the world.

Comments? RyanTMulligan 14:48, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Size
This article gives no indication as to the size of the group playing, how players are selected, etc. Can someone insert and reference this information? /Blaxthos 16:52, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

I have some good data on this via my website sassins.com I will try to collect it in a sharable page RyanTMulligan (talk) 03:12, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Usually this "game" is assoceated with friends and people who want to become friends. Also groups may be from 2 to 20 depending on what happens.


 * University campus games are often very large. I know the Cambridge University Assassins' Guild usually has about 100 people, and I believe the Oxford University one is similar. In large games like this one common variant rule is that you get emailed three targets' names, not just one (and correspondingly three people around the university have you as a target). --AlexChurchill (talk) 10:17, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

Origins and oldest groups
Does anyone know the origins of the game? Steve Jackson's Killer might be one, but the concept may have been around before. The name 'Assassins' Guild' comes from Terry Pratchett, but not the actual game mechanics. As far as guilds/groups go, I think the MIT guild may be the oldest. Cambridge is quite old too - dating to as early as 1993. 86.21.227.237 (talk) 22:41, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

People have told me they were playing it in the 70's RyanTMulligan (talk) 02:26, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

1993 is "old"? Hmm ... I was personally involved in an Assassin game in college in 1982. Now, where did I leave my dentures and my truss? ... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.65.224.28 (talk) 02:24, 26 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Yes, I was playing at UMR/MST in 2002, I know it was run electronically the year before, and I've personally been hosting the server to run it electronically there since Winter/Spring 2006. But one of my old floormates said his uncle had played Assassins at UMR back in the 70s or 80s as well.  How many other campuses run it electronically?  Perhaps a mention of UMR's (well, one hall particularly) is due in the article?  http://assassins.webhop.org/  Yes it is hosted in a basement but I am working on transferring it to a more stable hosting solution.  It was in my dorm room before the basement.  Chief1983 (talk) 22:40, 9 August 2010 (UTC)


 * According to a forum discussion at http://www.simpletxt.com/getupgames/blog/?cat=2 "The earliest record of the game’s existence can be found in the autobiography of Harpo Marx. The book, Harpo Speaks! was published in 1962, however the portion describing the game takes place during the 1920s." PoisonedPigeon (talk) 11:41, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Can we make a simplified version?
You know, for the kids/high schoolers who want to play, but can't understand the vocabulary in the page. We could make a new Wikipedia translation, A Simpler Wikipedia, or something. Put all the games there, and help the children (and the children-at-heart), and those with a not so big vocabulary.

Just a suggestion. Salosin2009 1 (talk) 08:19, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

I'll have you know I have an immense vocabulary, thank you very much. If anything needs to be edited, it's the size. Sincerely, The highscooler — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.78.115.77 (talk) 12:54, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

I suggest translating it into a page on the simple english wikipedia. --144.124.59.200 (talk) 13:36, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Clean-up
I've gone through and cleaned up a lot of content in the article that wasn't on par with our guidelines and policies. In fact some of the stuff I removed as OR was added in a huge edit awhile back with the edit summary "adding stuff from my personal experience". Also see WP:NOT and WP:EL regarding the links in the article. There is still a great deal of it unsourced though and I suspect most of the rules section can be removed as they seem to be personal additions as well.--Crossmr (talk) 16:17, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

MOVIE ???
Why is the movie Tag: The Assassination Game not part of this article? It sure seems like a no brainer to have a movie based (loosely) on this game at least mentioned. Even more amazing when you see that the article for the movie links directly to this page. 66.97.209.215 (talk) 03:37, 28 June 2014 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 19:46, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

To become an assassin u have work hard like me but I'm an assassin 20158878n (talk) 00:16, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

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