The Assassins' Guild

This is the website for the Cambridge University Assassins' Guild. The Michaelmas 2005 game was umpired by Martin Lester of Gonville & Caius College. Queries about that game and its rules should be sent to him.

If you're not on the Guild's mailing list and would like to be, please e-mail assassins@srcf.ucam.org.

Michaelmas 2005

• Updates
• Headlines
• Week 1 news - the game begins; numerous bounties placed.
• Week 2 news - the first incompetents appear; the first incompetents disappear.
• Week 3 news - poisoned letters stop counting for competence; the legendary Philip Bridge goes wanted.
• Week 4 news - more players die, but not quickly enough.
• Week 5 news - the mysterious Wei Li is finally found; the game is reduced to under ten players.
• Week 6 news - four players are defeated; four players remain; corruption in the police force.
• Week 7 news - nobody dies until the duel.
• The police
• Wanted list
• Incompetents

• Game statistics
• Game awards
• Amusing e-mails sent to the Umpire

• The rules
• Allowable weapons
• Changes for this game
• Rulings and clarifications

Social:

• Socials Page - a list of the social team, and an introduction to the social side of Assassins.
• Events - what's going on in the Guild.

Links:

• The archive of past games (1993-2005) including May Week 2005
• The list of Master Assassins
• Other Assassins' guilds
• Newsgroup: ucam.rec.games.assassin - for important guild discussions. [web interface]
• Information about the AutoUmpire software

• What is the Assassins Guild?
• Various administrivia about how the Guild is run.
• The list of frequently-asked questions and answers — freshly revised!
• Björn Holzhauer's little page about Assassins, which is getting a little dated

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