Special Game Rules

Terms:

Icons: Each team will have one or more icons. When all the icons on a team are dead, the fight is over regardless of who is still alive. If icons are optional this should be determined before picking.

First Blood: Any legal hit counts as a death.

Re-spawn: After a certain count, dead fighters become alive again. Unless otherwise noted, dead weapons may be brought with the returning fighter.

Games:

1. Circle of Iron

   1. The Circle is strictly honorable one on one combat, meaning no backstabbing

   2. You cannot start fighting the person to your immediate right or left

   3. Injured limbs carry over between fights

   4. You cannot hold back and must join in fights as they are available

2. Healing Queens

   1. “Queens” are designated before teams are picked and can heal teammates with a touch from an empty hand

i.      Queens could be all females

ii.      Queens could be only team captains

2. 2. Dead teammates are beyond healing

   3. A queen cannot heal themselves

   4. The queen may or may not be an icon

3. Court Points

   1. This game is to be played on a basketball court

   2. Going outside the court kills you

   3. Score points by hitting the other team’s backboard with a weapon

i.      Scoring kills you

ii.      You must travel along the outside of the court to the respawn location

iii.      If you get killed while scoring, the point does not count

iv.      The armless cannot score points

3. 4. If killed any other way besides scoring, you may go directly to the respawn location

   5. Respawn after counting the corresponding time and then travel around the outside of the court to respawn on at your backboard

i.      10 second respawn if scored

ii.      20 second respawn if died any other way

3. 6. Win by scoring one more point than the number on your team

4. Death Clock

   1. An area(s) needs to be marked and a counting spot near it needs to be designated

i.      If the size of the area is decreasing specify before starting

4. 2. When the first person dies, they go to the counting spot and facing away from the area silently count to 20 seconds and then call FREEZE

   3. When freeze is called, anyone without a living limb in the area is dead

   4. After the dead leave the area, those left alive call ready and lay-on and repeat as above until only one person is left alive

   5. After the first round, the last person to call freeze silently counts to 60 seconds and if no one in that time has died calls freeze and anyone without a living limb in the area is dead

5. Capture the Flag

   1. Each team has a flag. To win a team must have all flags at their base

   2. Intentional friendly fire does not count. No mercy killing teammates

   3. When you die go to the respawn location and count 60 seconds

   4. Return to your home base and touch the flag’s resting location to become alive again. If there is fighting around your flag say ALIVE loudly so everyone around you knows you are alive

   5. If your flag is not at your base when you respawn, you must go back to your base first

   6. If you lose an arm that is carrying the flag, you must drop the flag and may not switch hands. Once the flag hits the ground you can pick it up with your alive arm.

   7. Flags on poles used in capture the flag games are not weapons and cannot be used to attack

6. Hunt

   1. A large team and a small team are picked. The small team should be about 1/4 of the large team’s numbers

   2. The large team may only use a single sword. The small team may use any weapons

   3. The small team is given time (a few minutes) to hide and then the large team hunts them

7. Cards

   1. A deck of cards is needed. Everyone draws from the deck and the suit of the card determines who is on which team.

   2. Jokers can join any team they wish to at the start of the battle, but they are a team of their own with any other jokers who may or may not be there

i.      Jokers can only lie about being on the team they started on and once revealed cannot lie at all

7. 3. The number of cards can be fixed to produce even teams or left random for random teams

8. Warlords

   1. There are two classifications of people

i.      Warlord

ii.      Minion

8. 2. The game starts with everyone as a warlord

   3. When you die, you become a slave

i.      Take a knee or lie down and count where you die

ii.      Respawn in 10 seconds

iii.      Your warlord is the person who killed you or the warlord of the person who killed you

8. 4. A Warlord may kill one of their Slaves to regenerate one of their limbs

   5. If a Warlord dies all of their slaves go free and become warlords again

   6. The game ends when everyone is a Slave to one Warlord

9. Switch Game

   1. One person needs to volunteer to not fight and be the switch

   2. Set up locations for the two or more goals before picking teams

   3. The switch starts in the middle of the goals and each team starts lined up behind their goal

   4. If the switch is tapped with a weapon, they:

i.      Move in the direction of the team that tapped them if they were stopped.

ii.      Change directions if they are already moving

9. 5. If the switch gets tapped multiple times in a short period of time and lose track of which direction they should go, they are to stop

   6. When the switch reaches a goal that team wins

i.      With two teams a switch bomb can be played where the objective is to get the switch to the opposing team’s base

10. Knights Battle

    1. Each team has an equal number of knights

    2. Knights wear helmets and the only place they may be struck is the head

    3. Generally, the knight is an icon if there is only one, but not always

11. Path Battle

    1. Both teams start on the path

    2. Touching the ground off the path results in death

    3. Dead should be at least 5 feet from the edge of the path

12. Russian Military

    1. Each team starts with a set number of swords, generally less than the number of people on each team

    2. Any number of swords can be used by each person, but each team can only have that limit

    3. Upon death, swords should be dropped. Dropped swords may be picked up by anyone as long as the limit per team is not exceeded

    4. Swords on the ground cannot be called dead

13. Arena

    1. At least three teams are needed, but there is no maximum to number of teams

    2. Each team sends in a certain number of people (usually one) at a time who fight all the other people sent in

    3. When someone dies their team sends someone else in to replace them

    4. The captain must go in last

    5. Teammates are able to give warnings and advice if they are alive or dead (Cheering on your team is encouraged)