Senior Assassin is a high-stakes game for a reward of about $1,000. In this activity, LHS seniors split into teams to battle with water guns until the last group standing gets the cash prize.
In the game, a senior can protect themselves from getting sprayed by wearing pool equipment, like goggles or inflatables. But this can be counteracted in a Purge, which is activated by the game-makers, meaning the pool gear doesn’t work as a safety net. Game-makers also decide if players are fairly eliminated, as seniors can’t target someone at work, at school, or in their home.
Emery McKarcher, a junior, is a game-maker.
“Senior Assassin is a lot to take on. Having a good, helpful community to assist you is definitely ideal due to the responsibility and stress you have to endure,” she said. “Sometimes I would just have to walk away and come back to a situation to make sure I was making the right call.”
Many seniors have strategized, working as a community to win the prize. Students this year have had some especially wild experiences in the game, and four people have been noted as the best of the best: Samuel Huff, Fletcher Wadsworth, Morgan Cook and Jace Krugg.
Huff is part of the Wet Dream Team. As of late May 2026, he had eliminated at least four people from the game. His gre
atest battle was during a Purge, he said, while there was a 4-hour standoff at his teammate’s house.
Huff compared this battle to the Alamo. After that, Huff was planning his team’s next step for victory.
“Now, I can’t divulge everything, but basically it’s finding the weakest links in our opponents and getting them,
” he said.
Wadsworth is in the Wetness Protection Program, and has taken out seven seniors in the game. He takes off his poo
l gear in his car or house, but during a Purge, Wadsworth immediately goes to hunt for
more kills. He doesn’t have much else to say on the matter.
“They have all been kinda easy,” he said of his targets.
Cook was with Spray and Pray, but she was eliminated. Even so, she helped her team in any way she could. Normally, in a Purge, she would sprint out of school and check locations before her shift was over at work. Cook’s most glorious kill happened when she hid in someone’s car.
“When I hid in someone’s trunk for an hour. She took off her goggles at a drive-thru, and I snipered her,” Cook said.
Krugg is part of the famous Squirtstein Files, and has a kill streak of eight. 
“You know, all in cold blood, a couple days ago, I killed three in one hour,” he said.
His weapon of choice was a little water pistol, but he took on a pink automatic from his friend who got eliminated. Krugg also emphasized that he never takes his pool gear off.
“Dude, I eat, sleep, shower with these things still on. They don’t leave,” he said.
