Rules of Sawed-Off Shotgun Tag (from The Dangerous Book for Boys)

Sawed-off shotgun tag is great fun, and a lovely way to spend a warm summer afternoon. Plus, the rules are simple and easy to follow!

What you need:
Some pals
A sawed off shotgun

How you play:
The game starts whenever the player with the sawed-off shotgun starts shooting. Eventually, he will hit another player. The player who was hit is now “it,” and it is now his role to haunt the shotgun-wielding player throughout the rest of his life; at college graduation, at his wedding, at the birth of his first child, etc. If the player who was shot is still alive, he now takes the shotgun and attempts to shoot the other players. See? Easy as pie.

Variations:
Multiple shotguns: Multiple shotguns means multiple mayhem! Other rules remain unchanged.
Traditional shotgun tag: Don’t have a saw? Just pick up a pump-action Remington 870 or a semi-auto Remington 1100, and find some buckshot or a couple slugs laying around.
Blunderbuss tag: An arcane version of shotgun tag now mostly played by reenactment enthusiasts.
Sane person science tag: In this version there are no ghosts, and players who get shot simply bleed to death and are never heard from again. This version is probably the least fun.