I played RunningMan Superpowers Elimination Game with 11 friends in germany

[snowdjinn]

Superpower Elimination Game (Germany)

 

Special Thanx to Delfish who encouraged me to play an Elimination Game w/friends. This happend years ago, but i will just post my report here in OH forum. On Saturday, 22nd December 2012 I invited friends to play a RM Elimination Game. I planned and organized the event and was the PD. No Cameras. After the Game, i interviewed each player and he told me what he thought and what happened to him during the game. From this info, I was able to write this report.

 

11 players (all guys) , 1 PD (me).

 

 

RULES

 

1. Individual battle. Each player gets a paper-bracelet which he wears on his wrist. If the paper-bracelet is ripped off, you are eliminated. Game continues until only 1 player is left. This player wins the game.

 

2. Each player gets a superpower. Superpower cards are shuffeled and player draw powers by random.

Each player starts the game at a different location on the playing field. Each player knows where the prison is, so he knows where to go to when he got eliminated.

 

3. Each player + PD have mobile phone. Only the PD is allowed to send messages. PD will make official announcements and info updates on the mobile phone.

 

4. If you get eliminated, no discussion. you must run (not just walk) immediately and directly to the Prison and tell the PD you are out. you stay in Prison until the game is over.

 

5. Playing Field is a big urban park with trees, bushes and wooden benches. I picked the park because it’s a wide area and we don’t really disturb people there when we shout and fight. Also, in the park you can hide a little bit behind bushes and trees.

 

6. PD must be fair and objective. PD has final say. No Discussions about PD decisions.

 

7. When you get eliminated, the PD will reveal the name of your superpower.

 

8. Only the Bomb Superpower is announced before the game. All other superpowers are secret.

There is a player who is The Bomb ! the Bomb's superpower is that he automatically eliminates the person who eliminates the Bomb. It doesn’t matter if he gets eliminated by paper-bracelet or by superpower. The Bomb automatically eliminates the person who eliminates him.

 

 

Superpowers

 

#1 SuperHealer (3times only)

you are the SuperHealer ! you are given 3 revive paper-bracelets. If you put a revive bracelet on any player who is already eliminated and in prison, that players is revived and back in the game. you can only use your superpower on other players, NOT on yourself.

 

 

#2 Telepath (unlimited use + 5times only)

you are the Telepath ! unlike all the other players your power allows you to use the mobile phone to send messages to other players and they can reply back to you. when you send 1st message to other players make sure they understand that this is your superpower and that they are only allowed to message YOU because of your superpower. you can also ask the PD 5 questions that the PD must answer truthfully with a "yes" or "no".

 

 

#3 Power Thief (1time only)

you are the Power Thief ! you can steal 1 superpower of another player. When you eliminate a player, you automatically get his superpower. Ask the first player you eliminate to explain his superpower to you in detail. This only works for the 1st person you eliminate. After that, your superpower is the power of the person you eliminated until the game ends. Warning: The Bomb is immune to your power !!

 

 

#4 The Bomb (1time only)

you are the Bomb ! Whoever eliminates you is eliminated too. No matter if its by paper-bracelet or by superpower. Your power is the only power that is known to all players at the beginning of the game. There is no way to avoid your Bomb Power. It overpowers all other superpowers.

 

 

#5 Soul Traveller (unlimited use)

you are the Soul Traveller ! you can take off your paper-bracelet and hide it anywhere on your body. you can switch that place anytime. you are not allowed to hide it anywhere else but on your body/clothes. As soon as a player takes the paper-bracelet away from you and rips it into 2 pieces, you are eliminated.

 

 

#6 Zombie (unlimited use)

you are the Zombie ! Every time you get eliminated and arrive at the prison the PD checks the time. After 20 minutes the PD will annnounce "Help! The Zombie is alive again!" and then you are back alive and reenter the game. This happens everytime you get eliminated. If there is only 1 player left and you are currently eliminated, then you lose your power and are out permanently.

 

 

#7 Lucky 7 (10times only)

you are the Lucky 7 ! you have 10 extra-paper-bracelets in your pockets. When your paper-bracelet gets ripped, you are not dead yet. you shout: "if you don’t play the game you lose. Paper Scissors Stone. On 3... 1, 2, 3!" then show paper, scissors or stone. The player who ripped your paper-bracelet must show the right hand to beat your hand or you can just take out the next paper-bracelet and put it on. If it’s a Draw, immediately play another round by saying "On 3... 1,2,3!" ! If you run out of paper-bracelets, you can no longer use your power. No one is allowed to steal your paper-bracelets from your pockets.

 

 

#8 Ghost (unlimited use)

you are the Ghost ! When you get eliminated, just tell PD on your mobile phone but you don’t have to go to jail. you lost the game but you can still walk around and do whatever you want. You can still talk with players, give information, you can hold other players so that someone can rip off their paper-bracelet. Only exception: you can no longer rip paper-bracelets yourself. Because you no longer have a paper-bracelet, you cannot be destroyed anymore unless a superpower is used that can cancel your Ghost Power.

 

 

#9 Sun (1time only)

You are the Sun. There is another player who is the Moon. If you find the Moon player and touch him and you say "I shine so strong" and the Moon player replies: "i sleep with the stars" then both of you activiate the SUPERNOVA the most powerful power in the game. The Supernova will immediately kill up to 3 players. The Sun and the Moon must agree on those players and send via Mobile Phone to the PD "Supernova" and the names of eliminated players. Both of you must send this message at the same time to proof you found each other. Supernova only works once.

 

 

#10 Moon(1time only)

You are the Moon. There is another player who is the Sun. If you find the Sun player and touch him and you say "i sleep with the stars" and the Sun player replies: "I shine so strong" then both of you activiate the SUPERNOVA the most powerful power in the game. The Supernova will immediately kill up to 3 players. The Sun and the Moon must agree on those players and send via Mobile Phone to the PD "Supernova" and the names of eliminated players. Both of you must send this message at the same time to proof you found each other. Supernova only works once.

 

 

#11 Exorcist (1time only)

you can delete a superpower that you know of. Use your mobile phone and tell the PD which player and you must be able to describe his superpower. If your description of the power is correct, the power is deleted. The player will be informed by the PD that for the rest of the game he is just a normal human and that his superpower is gone. This power can only be used 1 time. Exception: you cannot delete the Bomb Superpower.

 

 

 

GAME STARTS.

 

All players start at different locations in the park.

 

PD Mobile Message: "The Game starts. Good luck. I invite all players to meet at the prison to talk and find out each others powers. Its up to you if you accept my invitation."

 

Soul Traveller takes off his paper-bracelet and puts it into his right shoe.

Moon Player decides to not go and stay away from other players. He hides behind bushes.

Exorcist decides to not go and stay away from other players. He hides behind bushes.

 

Bomb and Superthief meet. Superthief says he is the Bomb. Bomb says he is the Bomb. They don’t believe each other. Still, both player agree to make an alliance until all other players are out and seal the deal with a handshake. They decide to not visit the prison and instead go into the other direction, far away from prison.

 

Zombie and Sun meet. Zombie immediately attacks. They fight. Zombie rips Sun's paper-bracelet. Sun is already eliminated. Zombie apologizes to Sun and explains to Sun that he plays so aggressive because of his superpower.

 

PD Mobile Message: "Player #6 eliminates Player #9. He was the Sun."

Moon reads this and is shocked that his partner Sun is already out. Moon stays hidden.

 

Ghost and Lucky 7 meet. Lucky 7 tries to talk but Ghost attacks. They fight. Lucky 7 warns that he is the Bomb. Ghost does not care and rips Lucky 7's paper-bracelet. Lucky 7 shouts: "if you don’t play the game you lose. Paper Scissors Stone. On 3... 1, 2, 3! Ghost is just confused and shows nothing. Lucky 7 wins ! Lucky 7 is still in the game and puts on a new paper-bracelet. Lucky 7 explains to the confused Ghost the Lucky 7 superpower. Ghost makes fun of the weird superpower and they go together to the Prison.

 

PRISON. 6 players arrive: SuperHealer, Telepath, Soul Traveller, Ghost, Zombie and Lucky 7. They talk. No one wants to reveal his superpower or they lie and claim to be the Bomb. Hot Topic is Player #5 (Soul Traveller) who wears no paper-bracelet. Players try to find out his power but without success.

Zombie waits until some players are off-guard, then he attacks ! Zombie rips Lucky 7's paper-bracelet. Next, Zombie tries to rip Superhealer's paper-bracelet but all players team up and grab the Zombie. Lucky 7 shouts: "if you don’t play the game you lose. Paper Scissors Stone. On 3... 1, 2, 3!" Zombie is fighting for his life against other players and has no time to listen or play the game. Lucky 7 wins! Lucky 7 puts on a new paper-bracelet. All players trap the Zombie! SuperHealer rips Zombie's paper-bracelet.

 

PD Mobile Message: "Player #2 eliminates Player #6. He was the Zombie."

PD secretly checks time because of Zombie's superpower.

 

Lucky 7 explains his superpower to the other players. Soul Traveller attacks Lucky 7. Lucky 7 tries to fight back but realizes that Soul Traveller has no paper-bracelet that he can rip. Lucky 7 asks for help. SuperHealer and Ghost attack Soul Traveller. Soul Traveller tries to run away but they catch him. They don’t know what to do with him and think that Soul Traveller has no paper-bracelet and must be killed with another method.

 

Telepath reveals his power to all other players who are present. He asks PD directly and all players who are present can hear the answer too.

 

Telepath Question 1: "Does Player 5 have a paper-bracelet we can rip to eliminate him ?" PD: "yes."

 

Superhealer and Ghost search Soul Traveller' clothes. Soul Traveller offers an alliance to anyone who helps him escape. No one is interested. They start touching him everywhere and Soul Traveller protests. After some time, they finally take off his shoes and find the paper-bracelet. Soul Traveller makes a last attempt to form an alliance and promises to be the best ally ever, but no one listens. Ghost rips the paper-bracelet.

 

PD Mobile Message: "Player #8 eliminates Player #5. He was the Soul Traveller."

 

Telepath asks PD directly and all players who are present can hear the answer too.

 

Telepath Question 2: "Is one of the other 3 players who are with me right now, the Bomb ?" PD: "no."

 

SuperHealer, Telepath, Lucky 7 and Ghost agree to make an alliance and eliminate the other 4 players first. They reveal their superpowers to each other. Telepath uses the mobile phone to message all other players who are hiding and who did not come to the prison. He explains his superpower and asks them to tell him where they are so he can make an alliance with them. (which is a trick) No one answers him. The 4-player alliance leaves the prison and looks for the other players. SuperHealer & Telepath go in one direction, Lucky 7 and Ghost go into the other direction.

 

When all active players left the prison, PD gives Zombie a new paper-bracelet that he can put on later.

 

Meanwhile, Bomb and Superthief agree to reveal their real powers to each other to show their loyality. Bomb says he is really the Bomb. Superthief doesn’t believe him and doesn’t want to reveal his power. Both start to argue. After a while, Superthief tells Bomb that his real power is that he can bring eliminated players back to life. (which is a lie.) Bomb believes him. Telepath sends them a message and reveals his superpower. He wants them to msg him where they are, so he can make an alliance with them (a trick). Bomb wants to reply but Superthief is against it. Superthief persuades Bomb not to answer and they make a deal not to ally with anyone else. Bomb suggests to give Telepath their position and then eliminate him 2 vs 1. Superthief is against it and wants to wait because Telepath might share more information in mobile phone messages.

 

Exorcist stays hidden. When he receives the message from Telepath, he decides to not answer. His reason: doing nothing seems to work. 3 players are already out. He wants to wait until at least one more player is out and then make his first move.

 

SuperHealer & Telepath find Moon player. Moon player tries to run away but SuperHealer is a fast runner and catches him. They threathen to eliminate him but Moon says he wants to join them, his power is now useless anyway. He tells them that he is the Moon and that he needs the Sun player to use his power but Sun is already eliminated. Telepath agrees to make an alliance if Moon tells the truth. If he lies, they will eliminate him.

 

Telepath Question 3 Mobile Message to PD: "Can player #10 only use his superpower when the Sun player is still alive ?" PD replies: "yes."

 

Telepath & SuperHealer allow the powerless Moon to join them. Telepath uses mobile phone to message his allies Ghost & Lucky 7. He informs them that Moon joined their alliance. He also asks them if anything happened. Lucky 7 sends message back that they found no player so far.

 

SuperHealer ask Moon what kind of team superpower Moon had with Sun. Moon answers: "Eliminate many players at once." A while later, SuperHealer suddenly rips Telepath's paper-bracelet. Shocked Telepath ! SuperHealer tells Moon to follow him to the prison. He wants to revive the Sun and then make an alliance with them and they can use the Supernova. Moon accepts.

 

PD Mobile Message: "Player #1 eliminated Player #2. He was the Telepath."

Lucky 7 and Ghost read this and realize that Player #1 betrayed them. They want to take revenge. They run into the other direction to find SuperHealer.

 

After the 4th elimination, Exorcist leaves his perfect hiding spot. He is on his way to the prison to find out from eliminated players what happened and to find out superpowers of active players. (to be able to use his power later.)

 

SuperHealer and Moon run to the Prison. (together with Telepath who joins the others in prison)

SuperHealer takes out his 1st Revival paper-bracelet and revives the Sun.

 

PD Mobile Message: "Player #9 ,The Sun, is revived and back in the game."

 

 

Sun and Moon handshake and say ""I shine so strong" and "i sleep with the stars".

Sun and Moon discuss and tell PD the 3 players they want eliminated. (I told them they can tell me directly and don’t have to use mobile phone because we were all together anyway).

 

This is how they explained their decision later in the interview to me: SuperHealer is our ally and his power is not dangerous to us. we must try not to kill the Bomb because the Bomb power will kill us if we do. Sun knows that Telepath found out that player #7 + player #8 are definitely not the bomb so we kill those two. Addtionally, we just have to guess and hope we don’t kill the bomb player. we randomly kill player #3.

 

PD Mobile Message: "SUPERNOVA! Player #3 SuperThief eliminated. Player #7 Lucky 7 eliminated. Player #8 Ghost eliminated."

 

The superpower of the Ghost is activated. He lost the game but he is now a Ghost.

 

 

SuperHealer, Moon and Sun are stilll with the eliminated players (prison) and talk about what to do next.

 

PD shouts : "HELP! The Zombie is alive again." and also sends it as mobile message.

 

Zombie jumps up and surprise attacks Moon & Sun. Zombie rips Sun's revival paper-bracelet and a moment later Moon rips Zombie's new paper-bracelet.

 

PD Mobile Message: "Player #6 eliminates Player #9. He was the Sun. Player #10 eliminates Player #6. He was the Zombie."

 

PD checks time and gives Zombie a new paper-bracelet.

 

SuperHealer tells Moon he has an idea. When he revives players their used-up superpowers are back and can be used again. (a lie) He asks Moon to just get eliminated. Then SuperHealer promises to use his last 2 revival tags to revive Moon + Sun. (a lie) After that, they can do the Supernova again and kill more players. (another lie) Moon is not sure and doesn’t want to do this, because his superpowercard says that Supernova can only be used once in the game. (correct) They start to argue.

 

Exorcist arrives at the prison. SuperHealer and Moon see him coming. Moon is distracted and only looks at Exorcist, SuperHealer attacks quickly and rips Moon's paper-bracelet.

 

PD Mobile Message: "Player #1 eliminates Player #10. He was the Moon."

 

Only 3 active players are left:

 

#1 SuperHealer #11 Exorcist #4 Bomb. (and the Ghost is still walking around)

 

Bomb is all alone, because Superthief was killed and went to the prison. Bomb walks around in the park to find the other players. But all other players gathered at the prison. (except for Ghost but he is on the other side of the playing field) After a while, Bomb gives up looking for other players and is on his way to the prison.

 

Prison. SuperHealer and Exorcist make an alliance and try to analyze the situation. They have to finish this game before the Zombie is alive again. One of them has to kill the Bomb and will be eliminated by doing so. The other one will automatically win. That’s a problem. Also, if one of them dies before they eliminate the Bomb, they cannot win anymore because the Bomb will kill the final player when he rips the Bomb's paper-bracelet. No one wants to kill the Bomb and lose automatically. How can they solve this problem ? Eliminated players in prison also listen to this.

 

Ghost visits prison. He explains how his superpower works. He says its time to punish the betrayer SuperHealer and grabs him. He asks Exorcist to rip SuperHealers paper-bracelet but Exorcist says no. He explains the Bomb Problem to the Ghost and the Ghost releases SuperHealer (cannot rip paper-bracelet himself). Ghost stays in prison.

 

Telepath offers his help. He says if SuperHealer revives him with 2nd revival, he will go and kill the Bomb and get eliminated. But for this, he wants to get revived after that with the 3rd revival. SuperHealer likes the idea but doesn’t want Telepath because he betrayed Telepath before and doesn’t trust him.

 

Instead, SuperHealer offers the same deal to the Soul Traveller. Soul Traveller accepts. SuperHealer revives Soul Traveller with the 2nd revival tag. Soul Traveller takes off the revival tag and puts it in his right shoe.

 

Some time passes, then Bomb arrives at the prison.

 

All players are now at the same place. Active Players are nervous because Zombie could be alive again any minute now. (they don’t know the exact time interval)

 

Superhealer and Soul Traveller attack Bomb. Exorcist stays in safe distance. Ghost just watches. Its mostly Soul Traveller vs Bomb because Soul Traveller has no paper-bracelet that Bomb can rip. Superhealer is helping a little bit but is very careful not to risk his own paper-bracelet. Bomb has no chance of winning this battle. Soul Traveller rips Bomb's paper-bracelet.

 

PD announces: "Player #4 is eliminated. He was the Bomb. BOOM! Player #5 is killed by the Bomb. He was the Soul Traveller."

 

SuperHealer wants to keep his promise and wants to revive Soul Traveller with his 3rd and final revival tag and then team up against Exorcist. But secretly, Exorcist sent PD a mobile message: "I delete the power of Player #1. His power is to revive players." SuperHealer gives Soul Traveller the 3rd paper-bracelet but PD says: "The paper-bracelet does not work. you lost all your superpowers for the rest of the game, SuperHealer."

 

SuperHealer is still shocked when Exorcist attacks him. SuperHealer and Exorcist fight with each other. Ghost attacks and helps Exorcist.

 

PD shouts: "HELP! The Zombie is alive again!"

 

Zombie jumps up and attacks but before he reaches the others, Ghost holds SuperHealer and Exorcist rips SuperHealers paper-bracelet. Ghost gets his revenge and helped to eliminate Superhealer.

 

PD announces: "Player #11 eliminates Player #1. He was the SuperHealer."

 

Now Ghost and Exorcist team up against Zombie. 2 vs 1 overpower the Zombie. Exorcist can easily rip off Zombie's paper-bracelet while the Ghost holds the Zombie.

 

PD announces to all players: "Zombie is out. Player #11 Exorcist wins the game !"

 

That was our german Superpower Elimination Game. We played it in 2012 but i think its okay to post it here and share with all of you. After all, i worked hard to write this report a few years ago. So i just thought... why not post it and share. I am also considering doing a new Elimination Game at the end of 2015. But i am not sure if i get enough friends together to do this.

 

 

Thank you for reading.

Leave a comment if You ilke.

[GodBot]

I cringe for you and your friends

[snowdjinn]

Ah dont worry, Mao. My friends and i had a lot of fun.

 

Anyone want to play RM with friends ?

Use paperbracelets and its supereasy to do your own RM Elimination Game with Friends.

[koreanesia]

Its cool, i wonder when i can play it too.

[snowdjinn]

If You enjoy RM elimination game, you can play it with Your friends on a b-day party. Just make simple nametags (or use paperarmwrist like we did in our game) and make some fun rules and find a big place where you can run and play. Everyone needs to play fair and stick to the rules, of course.

[Anti-fan]

I cringe for you and your friends