Editing Assassin (game) (section)

==In popular culture==
* ''[[Tag: The Assassination Game|TAG: The Assassination Game]]'' is a 1982 film based on this game starring [[Robert Carradine]] and [[Linda Hamilton]]. It was originally released under the title ''Everybody Gets It in the End''.<ref name=imdb-tag>{{cite web| title=Tag: The Assassination Game (1982)| url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084756/?ref_=nv_sr_1| website=imdb| access-date=28 June 2014}}</ref>
* ''[[Gotcha! (1985 film)|Gotcha!]]'' is a 1985 film, starring [[Anthony Edwards (actor)|Anthony Edwards]] and [[Linda Fiorentino]], also based on this game but using [[paintball]] guns instead of dart guns.<ref>{{cite web| work=[[The New York Times]]| title=The 'Gotcha!' Game| author=Vincent Canby| date=1985-05-03| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/03/movies/screen-the-gotcha-game.html?pagewanted=all| author-link=Vincent Canby| access-date=2017-02-05| archive-date=2020-06-28| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200628045350/https://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/03/movies/screen-the-gotcha-game.html?pagewanted=all| url-status=live}}</ref>
* ''[[List of Star Trek novels#Starfleet Academy (2010–2012)|Starfleet Academy: The Assassination Game]]'' is a 2012 novel by [[Alan Gratz]] incorporating this game as a major plot element, except the required game weapon is a [[spork]].<ref>{{cite book| last1=Gratz| first1=Alan| title=Starfleet Academy: The Assassination Game| date=2012| publisher=Simon Spotlight| location=New York| isbn=9781442420595| quote=The rules are simple: Draw a target. Track him down and "kill" him with a spork. Take your victim's target for your own. Oh, and make sure the player with your name doesn't get to you first. No safe zones. No time-outs. The game ends when only one player remains.}}</ref>
*In [[Dave Barry]]'s 1999 novel ''[[Big Trouble (novel)|Big Trouble]]'' and its [[Big Trouble (2002 film)|2002 film adaptation]], a high school game of "Killer", using squirt guns, is the catalyst that leads to the major characters meeting each other and setting the main events of the plot in motion.
*[[Janet Evanovich]]'s 2003 novel ''[[To the Nines (novel)|To the Nines]]'' (part of her [[Stephanie Plum]] series) centers around a game of Assassin devoted to real murders, the players of which are linked online to an anonymous webmaster.
* In the ''[[Gossip Girl]]'' episode "[[Gossip Girl (season 3)|Inglourious Bassterds]]" the characters play a capture version of Assassin where players wear [[instant film|Polaroids]] of themselves strung around their neck and are killed once these Polaroids are ripped from their necklaces. Once a player is eliminated they give the stack of Polaroids they have collected over to their assassin and the person with the most Polaroids wins.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Ferguson|first=Gabrielle|date=Spring 2016|title=Journal|journal=Journal|pages=219}}</ref>
* The sitcom ''[[Community (TV series)|Community]]'' has episodes that feature characters play a game of "Paintball Assassin". 
* In the ''[[ICarly]]'' episode "iSaved Your Life" Carly, Sam, Freddie, and Spencer engage in using "paintball blowguns"...in the beginning of the episode it is established that Sam and Spencer are the only ones left.
* In the 2015 [[young adult fiction|young adult]] [[romance novel]], ''[[P.S. I Still Love You]]'', Lara Jean and her childhood friends come together to play one last game of Assassins.
* A form of Assassin called "[[senior assassin]]", which utilizes water guns, is commonly held by senior high school classes at the end of the year before graduation.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Deminski |first=Jeff |title=What's Senior Assassin and why is it taking over NJ high schools? |url=https://nj1015.com/whats-senior-assassin-and-why-is-it-taking-over-nj-high-schools/ |access-date=2023-05-02 |website=New Jersey 101.5 |date=23 March 2023 |archive-date=2024-08-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240830185855/https://nj1015.com/whats-senior-assassin-and-why-is-it-taking-over-nj-high-schools/ |url-status=live }}</ref>