![Lucy Millwood [left] and Sophia Streetman [right] with water guns in hand, getting prepared to eliminate their target(s).](https://thsmaroonandwhite.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/senior-a.jpg)
Final exams and graduation can add extra stress to seniors’ final days of high school. To offset this, they have continued the tradition of playing “Senior Assassin.”
This fun, sometimes highly competitive game brings the class together before graduation. Hosted by Max Minor this year, the objective is to get people out by “shooting” their target with a water gun and to be the last person standing.
You can get “out” if someone assassinates you with a water gun. There are occasionally “purges” that can happen where anyone can get any person not wearing goggles or safety gear out, creating a suspenseful atmosphere.
“It’s good to host because it’s fun for everyone involved,” Minor said. “[It’s] a good way for the senior class to grow closer.”
While some seniors join for fun, others take the game quite seriously. These players wait for hours outside their target’s house to get the perfect opportunity to hit their mark.
Senior Chloe Whitt went full stealth-mode in an attempt to assassinate her target.
“I put a cardboard box in front of my target’s house to try to get her to come outside and eliminate her. She never came outside, but then a purge started, so I went to get somebody else eliminated,” Whitt said.
Whitt had seen a person on the map who was nearby, so she drove to his location.
“He was sitting in his car with the passenger window down to talk to their other friend parked beside him,” Whitt said, “so I ran and eliminated him through the window.”
Others, like senior Zoe Zimmerman, found themselves on the receiving end of a serious assassination.
“There was a car parked up the road, which I figured was just [helping with the] construction. As [I was] walking to my car, a senior girl gets out of the car and yells, ‘YOU HAVE YOUR GOGGLES ON?’” Zimmerman said. “I scream[ed] because I [knew I was] going to get eliminated, and then she spray[ed] me with her water gun.”
Overall, senior assassin is a fun way to bond the senior class together; it has been a tradition for years and allows seniors to relieve stress while connecting.
“It brings the grade together in a fun and non-conventional way,” said senior Ian Gassiot.
