Capture The Flag (Night Edition)

Here are the rules for our capture the flag game this Friday. Please read the rules as you will be expected to know them for game time. If you fail to follow the rules or say something like, “I didn’t know that was a rule!” you will face the consequences (TBA).

CTF Base Rules:

• These are the base rules to Capture-the-Flag, as clearly as I can state them.

The game space is divided into 2 territories and 1 neutral space. (There may also be forbidden territory, which no player may enter at all during the game.) The team territories must be separated by at least six feet of neutral space. You are within the other team’s territory if either foot touches or is within that territory.

• Six feet is assumed to be wider than anyone can spread their legs. So no player can be in more than one territory at a time. Note that territory is a three-dimensional volume; you are still in a territory if you jump up from the floor.

If you touch an enemy, and both of you are in your territory, he is captured by you. You must lead him to your jail at reasonable (steady walk) speed. Once there, the prisoner must “enter jail” by touching either the Jail or another prisoner already in jail. A captor may not make any more captures until his prisoner has entered jail.

Prisoners may move around freely, as long as they all remain in constant contact with the Jail (either directly or through a chain of other prisoners.)

• It doesn’t have to remain the same chain. Prisoners may rearrange themselves, or form multiple chains. However, it is considered polite to enter jail and form a single queue (line), so that the people who have been captive longest are closest to freedom.

If you touch a prisoner in another team’s jail, he is freed, as long as his freedom does not break the chain of captivity for any other prisoners. Both of you must then return to your home territory at reasonable speed; you need not remain together. Both of you are immune to capture until you re-enter your home territory.

• If you touch someone in the middle of a prisoner chain, he is not freed and you are not immune to capture; the touch does not count at all. He cannot wait for his neighbors to join hands and then leave; you would have to touch him again after they join.

Please note: you may only free one person from jail at a time. Touching the person at the end of the chain only frees the person on the end of the chain, not the whole chain.