Guides
Everything about
word assassins.
The rules, the words, the strategy, and how to host it for four friends or four hundred wedding guests; written by the people who run the game.
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The rules
7 min
How to play Word Assassins
The complete word assassins rules: setup, targets, secret words, what counts as a kill, and how a game actually ends, with or without an app.
Read the guideWords
6 min
The best words for Word Assassins
What makes a word deadly, what makes one useless, and word lists that actually work; all drawn from the packs behind thousands of real games.
Read the guideHosting
8 min
How to run Word Assassins at a wedding
A step-by-step host guide for playing word assassins with a whole wedding: timing, words that fit the room, and putting the game on the big screen.
Read the guideStrategy
Aug 10
Word Assassins strategy: how to actually win
Steering conversations, hiding your word, reading your hunter, and the mistakes that get people eliminated in the first hour.
Hosting
Aug 13
Word Assassins for team building (that people actually like)
How to run a multi-day word assassins game across an office, a retreat, or a season: the setup, the words, and the rules that keep it fun.