COVID Cabin Fever Relief

There’s a game my siblings and I used to play. We called it Killer Eye.

You need at least 4 people for it to be interesting and hilarious. You write down on several slips of paper little notes; one of them denotes the killer. The rest tell each player they’re not the killer. You can be as creative as you like with the wording. We would often spend a few minutes just giggling over what we wrote down.

Each player chooses a slip of paper, hiding the words from everyone else. Sometimes, if you really want to spice things up and have a large group of people, you can denote up to three killers.

Once everyone knows whether they’re the killer or not, they mix up the slips and set them aside. Everyone sits in a circle, facing each other so that everyone has a line of sight to everyone else.

And then the game begins…

The killer(s) goal is to kill everyone without being discovered. If anyone realizes who they are, the killer(s) lose the game. Craftily, the killer seeks out a victim and kills them by winking at them when their eyes meet. No one is allowed to avoid anyone else’s eyes; they must meet everyone’s eyes in turn.

If someone winks at you and you see it, you die. Be honorable and acknowledge you’re now dead: you must announce your death (the more dramatic, the better and funnier) and remove yourself from the circle. And yes, even if you are one of the killers, you can still be killed!