After four years of high school, the seniors have resorted to killing each other – with water guns. 

One night, senior Brayden Haase was just minding his own business, trying to shop in Dillons, when all of a sudden senior Jace Fry runs up on him and eliminates him in the senior class game of Senior Assassin.

Fry is currently the person with the most eliminations. He got four people out in one week. 

“It really is just luck,” Fry said. “I do not have anything to do later at night, so I will just be bored with my friends and check to see if someone is around.” 

Senior Assassin is a game that the senior class plays. All players must download an app called Splashin which assigns each player a target and allows you to see your target’s location. Whoever is the last person standing receives the money pool of $74.

 The only way to have immunity from getting eliminated is by wearing swimming goggles over your eyes, and the only way to get someone out is by shooting someone with a water gun or pouring water on them. 

Senior Cassie Williams-Valdez is the game manager but she is also allowed to play the game.

“I am able to play just because of how the app works, it hides who’s targeting me and anything that might help me cheat,” Williams-Valdez said. “The best part is probably being able to play and not really being biased towards anything. I just wanted to play.”

This year Williams-Valdez created the new bounty rule, because of people being disrespectful to her, along with the new purge rule. If a bounty is placed upon you, you are fair game to everyone and your location is shared to everyone. The purge rule allows people to get anyone they want out. Also during the purge if you have not eliminated anyone, you have no immunity. Senior Tessa Snyder thinks the new rules make the game go quicker. 

“I like the bounty rule,” Snyder said, “it is a good consequence for people causing issues. I also liked the purge rule, it cleaned out some people.”

Cadence Foth eliminated Snyder during one of the purges at the South vs. Central softball game. 

“The purge was going and I had my goggles on my head, but not on my eyes,” Snyder said. “I got snuck up on. Honestly, I was kind of relieved. I did not want to keep wearing those goggles around.” 

Snyder said she decided to sit back and watch when she could not get her target out. 

“I look forward to seeing people I know get out,” Snyder said. “People’s response to it is the best part. There was a student who went berserk in the Senior Assassin instagram comment section. It was completely unprovoked and so funny to watch unfold.” 

Snyder said that Senior Assassin has done the complete opposite of bringing the senior class together. 

“I think for my class, this was the breaking point for lots of people,” Snyder said. “It sort of solidified the division between people.”