My little page about Assassins

Now this page has had to move to a new server and while moving it I did some further updates, particularly to the performance score table. This page started in 2002 after I joined the secret government sponsered witness protection scheme code-named "Graduation", at first mostly because I had to move several bits of game data analysis and a bunch of photos/pictures to a new location. There are various things either related to the assassins game in general or the game played in Cambridge. There is also an extensive links section, which includes a lot of guilds I know (and some I have never heard of) - everyone now and then even the incompetent the other place does appear to have a game running. Another thing I recently produced is the assassins equivalent of the Tompkins Tables.

I am also writing an article (not yet finished - possibly it never will be - see below) about the game, which includes a bit of history, advice, commentary on rules and some mathematical game theory (or some starting points for that). There will be a slightly updated version of that article very soon.

On this page

• A Weapons Guide (with pictures of most weapons mentioned) - content bound to be extended in the near future
• Here is the assassins equivalent of the Tompkins Tables. This is probably mostly of interest to people in Cambridge (now updated to include Lent 2004)
• Commented rules (based on the rules of the game Ed Nokes and I umpired in Cambridge in Lent 2001) and some more recent rules used in Cambridge (uncommented Lent 2002 rules) - Note that these rules may not incooperate some recent practical/legal developments and I would recommend to also look at the most recent rules used by the Cambridge University Assassins' Guild.
• My Assassins photo gallery
• A selection of assassins' quotes
• Some attempt at getting things set up for doing gametheory for assassins games
• Analysis of the Lent 2002 game of the Cambridge University Assassins' Guild (some of the statistical modelling is a bit simplistic and possibly using a not so good model, but it's still potentially quite interesting)
• The 'unexperienced' 1st year's guide to assassination (.pdf format), an article on the assassins game, not yet finished The .tex file for the document and the graphs included in the file are also available due to popular request, I'll try to keep them up to date as well. There is also a .zip file with some graphs related to May Week games. All of these files are a bit out of date, but I'll get around to updating these as well. It'll be quite interesting to apply some of the statistical methods from my thesis to assassins data.
• Some material on some past events related to assassins in some way
• A list of assassins' guilds all over the world with some information (additions welcome)
• My 207 kills
• A brief history of the Caius Mafia (not updated with the most recent accomplishments)
• A Holzi Number Calculator (JavaScript) - I shall have to update that sooner or later - at the moment it is more or less completely missing more recent players.
• For advice from a renowned expert:"Ask Dr. Lobachevsky!"
• And of course there has to be a card deck, or rather at the moment just one card.

Links to guilds and games

I am not responsible for any content on pages, to which these links lead (required German standard disclaimer). I have gone through these links (again) and had to remove quite a few of them, because it turned out that by far too many of them were broken.

• Cambridge University Assassins' Guild: the UK's biggest and best Assassins' Guild with a long tradition.
  The Cambridge University Guild's archives of past games and Varsity matches stretch back to 1993 (earlier games seem to be lost).
• MIT Assassins' Guild: The other Cambridge has one of the oldest still existing groups, which was running games at least as early as 1983.
• KAOS in NZ with a very long tradition, as well
• Durham University Assassins' Society: the UK guild closest to Cambridge in size and continuity
• The Manchester University Assassins' Guild
• The Sheffield Assassins' Guild: a rather new guild, with a very nice webpage
• Clarkson University Assassins' Guild
• A game in the Sydney area
• A now finished game at the CERN (Geneva)
• a small game in Fraserburgh (N.E. Scotland)
• Speed School Student Council Assassins' Game
• Huddersfield Guild of Assassins
• 'Ville Assassins at Millersville University in Lancaster county (Pennsylvania, USA)
• after a longer break there was something at the Oxford Guild again, but now it seems to be gone, again
• A game in a student owned and run housing cooperative in in Berkeley, California, USA

Links to organisations and companies

I am not responsible for any content on pages, to which these links lead (required German standard disclaimer).

• Steve Jackson games: publisher of the booklet "Killer the game of assassination", a very well-made manual for running/playing a "Killer" game
• Surefireproducts: rubber-band-guns, their products are quite popular amongst assassins in Cambridge (and the producers seems to have the good sense not to change time-proven designs)
• www.supersoaker.com (now part of Hasbro and hence redirection to http://www.hasbro.com/supersoaker/): producer of the most popular brand of water weapons - usually only the most recent supersoakers are on display (older models can be looked at e.g. at isoaker.com)
• Colonel's Shave Shops: one of the few places still selling the small duzi RBGGs.
• BBguns.co.uk: besides a lot of non-suitable weapons, this website sells the Edison Giocatolli Soft Rubber Pellet guns (RPGs - note: not necessarily all that suitable for assassins)
• IwantOneOfThose.com: a page with a lot of strange things, has RBGs, the same RBGG as Surefireproducts, disclaunchers and dartguns.
• An explanation of what assassins ist about (vaguely funny)

Links to personal homepages

Various links broke due to people leaving university, those still listed worked the last time I checked. I am not responsible for any content on pages, to which these links lead (required German standard disclaimer).

• Alex Churchill's webpage: includes "The many deaths of Alex Churchill", webpage of a former CUAG umpire and MA
• Webpage of Ed Nokes: webpage of former CUAG umpire, MA and renowned backstabber Ed "The Moustache" Nokes
• My personal homepage: there are a couple of things there, but they are a bit out of date.
• Formerly a linke to a Stanford assassins webpage, now it redirects to someone's weblog, so I left that link in for the time being and just moved it to a different section.

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Things I'd like to find out about (in no particular order and in fact I haven't found out anything about any of them in the last 3 years)

• more about the origins of killer/assassination games
• more about the history of the Cambridge University Assassins' Guild, for example:
  • Who won Easter 1993, Easter 1994 and what happened in May Week 97 and 98?
  • What was going on before 1993 (when was the Guild founded?)?
  • What was going on with the CUSFS?
• Game data from other games (non-Cambridge) would be interesting for statistical analysis.

I would like to thank the following people, who have contributed to material on this page: Alex Churchill (Cambridge), Jenny Chase (Cambridge) and Nick Johnson (Sheffield).

Disclaimer: I am not responsible for any content on pages, to which any of my webpages link.

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