Senior spies is a game seniors play at the school annually. It has been a tradition for many years and is something many seniors look forward to. This year, the game has once again taken over the school with students competing to eliminate their targets. Behind-the-scenes, the game is carefully organized by Evie Price and Anna D’Itri, the president and vice president of the class of 2026 Student Government Association (SGA). Evie and Anna shared the behind the scenes of the game.
To join the game, each player must pay a fee, and each player can buy back once if they are eliminated. The winner gets all the money as their prize.
“Our main responsibilities as organizers are to get everyone to sign up for the game and collecting all the money from people through Venmo as well as cash,” Price said.
One of Price and D’Itri’s biggest responsibilities was to assign targets in a fair way. Each player is assigned one target, and once they get them out, they receive their old targets target. They had to keep track of everyone’s targets and eliminations in a single spreadsheet. To assign targets, they used a random name generator that produces an unbiased, continuous chain, so each player always has one target.
“Once the game started, we had to sign all the targets, which we would do using a website called randomlist.com,” Price shared. “We would plug in everyone’s name and then generate a random list… so it was one giant chain.”
Managing the game quickly became time-consuming, especially in the beginning. In the first week, Price and D’Itri had to contact every participant individually.
“We honestly spent a lot of time managing the game, and it definitely took a lot of time in the first three weeks because there were so many people playing,” D’Itri said. “I had to send out over 200 targets individually, to find everyone’s Instagram and text them something different, [which] took like three to four hours,” Price said.
To keep the game fair, eliminations must be recorded on video. Without a video, it is hard to prove someone got their target out fairly. This led to some challenges that the organizers had to face.
“The hardest part was when people would argue about if they were out or not, and we had to come up with a solution,” D’Itri said. “It was hard to make everyone happy.”
In most cases, the organizers try to stay out of any conflicts and let the students resolve disagreements on their own. Still, they had to adjust rules as unexpected situations arose, such as whether stairs at school and Generals Period were considered safe zones. Despite some complications, the game continues to grow more popular every year, drawing large numbers of participants.
“I think senior spies are so popular at our school because everyone plays, and even after the game starts, so many people try to join late because they see how much fun everyone’s having,” Price said.
