At the end of the school year in New York City, many high schoolers participate in a game called Killer, which is run by their high school. One of those schools is St. Ann's, a private school in Brooklyn Heights. St. Ann´s version of Killer is a last-man-standing-water-ambush role-playing game with a rule book, entry fee, and safe zones. There is a maximum of four members per team, and one non-participating senior student acts as a judge to decide rule-violations and the “order of killing assignments.“ While many people rule the game as violent and inappropriate, Killer, and other role playing games with simulated violence are diverting for kids. Killer pushes its participants to use logical thinking and strategizing, as well as learn and practice useful skills.…show more content… Assassins have to find where their target will be, where to kill them, how to get them out in the open, and how they will be shot (water gun, squirt fish, more.). Quick thinking, recovery, and strategizing is needed by all players. The person running the game, or the judge, also has to think because he/she has partial control over the game. “I’ve arranged at least one boyfriend-girlfriend kill that could be interesting” (Martin, 2009, p.X), the judge said. In order to do so, he/she had to think about which teams the couple were on and how to incorporate it in the order of killing
