It is official, the Hunger Games are underway at SMCHS.

While the Hunger Games are fought with bow and arrows, axes, and lethal berries, this game is purely battled with water guns — but don’t doubt against their lethal ability.

Senior Assassins began on Feb. 9 with 139 senior tributes, and over 50 have already felt the overwhelming power of the water gun.

The first senior to be assassinated was Nicole Demirbey, who died only hours after the game started.

The competitors were given two weeks (until Feb. 23) to make a kill before being put on the bounty list.

What is the bounty list? It is every senior assassin’s worst nightmare: free game for all competing assassins to kill any senior who is on this list.

One senior who is not a foe of the bounty list, but instead an ally is Carlie Boschetti. She has assassinated more targets than any other senior assassin with ­­­four kills.

“Once on the bounty list, the only way to get off of it is to kill your assigned target,” said Senior Assassins director Claire Archibald.

Boschetti is in the lead for the most kill’s prize of $250 as of this point in the game, but the grand jackpot of $450 is still open-game for all opponents. The odds become more in the standing assassins’ favor with each gaining kill.

Senior Assassins has developed from a trivial senior class game to become a manner between live and death, figuratively of course.

“There are many people taking the game seriously,” Archibald said. “It is really entertaining to receive the kill videos.”

To view the videos of seniors who have been assassinated follow @sm_seniorassassins2015 on Instagram.

Some seniors have exceptionally entertaining stories of how they escaped being “taken out.” Seniors Jack Jennison and Andrew Mendoza tell their stories.