Senior Assassin is a popular game among high school seniors that is usually played just before graduation. The game involves being assigned a target that they are challenged to eliminate by squirting them with a water gun and having proof of the watery “assassination” on video.

Senior Assassin is once again starting its annual tradition at Stoughton High School, and one of the most significant problems faced by students who sign up is a lack of participant

The primary purpose of this article is to help alleviate this issue and highlight the teams competing against each other.

This year’s Senior Assassin at SHS is under orchestration by senior Theodore Kohlhoff, who says he took charge because of his concern that nobody else would organize the game this year.

Along with arranging the game, he also made a list of rules for participants to follow in an attempt to keep the game running smoothly and without confusion. The rules of the game are officially listed on the Instagram account @-shs-seniorassasin2025, and the complete list of competing teams can also be found there.

Each team is randomly assigned two targets at the beginning of each round. You must eliminate the other team by spraying them with a water gun. You are allowed to move on to the new round by eliminating one of your two targets, but to move on to the round after that, one of the two people on your team needs to be alive.

Safe places include Stoughton High School, participants’ workplace (if clocked in), places of worship, and participants’ home, unless given parental permission to attempt an assassination.

Another critical aspect of the game is immunity. Wearing water goggles grants you immunity to elimination, but only applies to weekdays. Participants’ goggles must be worn over their eyes to count towards immunity.

Another important aspect of the competition is the winner-takes-all cash prize. Every team entered into the competition pays a competition fee of $10 ($5 for both partners on a team), and the total sum will be awarded to the winning team.

“Team Soak and Destroy,” made up of Shawn Houfe and Zachary Koshollek, decided to participate after reminiscing about senior friends who participated last year.

“Everyone was doing it last year, and it seemed like a bunch of fun,” Koshollek said.

Their team name, Soak and Destroy, is a pun on the military strategy Search and Destroy.

“We’re probably going to drive around in my truck and use a squirt-and-run tactic,” Houfe said.

Another competing team is the “Wet Bandits,” which includes Soren Vienneau and Seth Falk.

Their team name is a reference to the antagonist duo in the movie Home Alone.

Vienneau decided on the joining after a previous vivid experience where he witnessed a Senior Assassin “kill.”

“I was at a party for the Norwegian Dancers, and this guy came in wearing his goggles because he was really worried that somebody was going to try and get him, but the people he suspected had left, so he removed his goggles. But just when he thought he was safe, these other guys came in and got him. I just thought it was really cool to watch,” Vienneau said.

Falk and Vienneau decided to team up because of their long-standing friendship and mutual interest in Senior Assassin.

Another competing team

“The Wetter the Better,” consists of Autumn Bonti and Brianna Woelke, who decided to join the game because they viewed it as a new and exciting opportunity.

“We’re kind of going into it blind,” Bonti said.

“All I know is that we will wear our goggles no matter where we are.” Bonti says that she and Woelke were selected to be a team by her dad, who was the one responsible for the team selection of the pair’s friend group.

“Our entire friend group had my dad randomly select the teams. That way, we didn’t have to pick and choose between us, “ Bonti said.

Thirty-one teams have entered into this year’s Senior Assassin, but only one will win the cash prize. The game officially began on April 14.