The Assassins' Guild

Upcoming games...

The Michaelmas 2025 game will be umpired by Rhiannon Gibbs (she/her) of Corpus Christi, and Genevieve "Fen" Hyatt (they/them) of Trinity Hall.

The theme is Fairy Tales and Folk Lore and you can sign up here.

The form will close to players on Friday 17th October, so make sure to sign up soon!

If you'd like to chat to the umpires, you can message them on Discord or Instagram, or email them :)

About Us

The Cambridge Assassins' Guild is a student-run society which organises termly live-action games in which players track down and eliminate each other with a variety of harmless (and often comically inventive) weapons. These weapons range from the quintessential pen labelled 'knife' to stuffed attack animals, water pistols and foam dart blasters. It is in no way a society of actual assassins. (Apparently we have to clarify this...)
Games are usually run for the duration of the Michaelmas and Lent terms, with a special May Week game following exams. We also hold friendly socials and varsity matches against other guilds across the country.

Join Us

To get started, we suggest you read the FAQ for a general overview of the game, then read the pocket rules. Reading the main rules and weaponry rules at some point is also a good idea. If you want to see how a game usually runs, you can check out the reports from past games in the archives.

If you have any questions, please email the umpires at assassins-umpire@srcf.net and we'll be happy to help you out.

Happy Hunting!

May Week 2025 Game

The May Week game is now over.

This game's theme was Piracy and Skullduggery. The world has flooded, and the streets of Cambridge have become the High Seas! Assassins now sail the treacherous waters as pirates, and compete for the glory of becoming the most fearsome captain on the sea.

This game's Umpire was Captain Hook aka Axel Agrawal (they/them) of Trinity Hall.

The format of the May Week game is a little different from the main game, and you can read about the differences here. To summarise the major changes:

All Full Players are licit targets to all other Full Players, instead of having set targets.
Players respawn 4 hours after reporting their death, and only lose a small portion of their points upon dying.
There are optional minigames throughout the week to earn even more points for the main game, or to just have a fun battle. Non-players are also invited to play in all the minigames! Bring your friends along, and maybe even get them to join you as a casual player.
Players can join as "Full" or "Casual", choosing to publish their address or not. Casual players still have some chance of making the final through minigames, but cannot kill players outside of minigames.
Players can sign up with their friends in crews of up to 4 full players.

Lent 2025 Game

The Lent 2025 game has now ended.

This game's Umpires were Dido Coley (of Trinity) and Kestrel (Kez) Zakharov (of Newnham).
This game's Theme was Mind Games
The game is now over, and Anastasiia Kreslavskaia (Girton) was our winner! Thank you all for playing!

Varsity

On February 22nd 2025, we played against Oxford in Cambridge. Assassins Guilds from Leeds, Staffordshire, Royal Holloway and Sheffield also joined. The result was 12-5 to Oxford.