6 Laser Tag Games To Play
Classic Laser Tag Games
These 6 classic laser tag games are great for standalone outdoor laser tag guns where laser tag is played more like paintball than indoor laser tag. What's the difference? Outdoor laser tag's primary goal is to eliminate players from the other team by shooting their "lives" away, and indoor laser tag's primary goal is to gain points for yourself after shooting other players. So the following games work well with outdoor laser tag equipment, especially when you can preset the number of lives.
1. Basic Tag / Elimination
Each player starts with 2 to 9 lives depending on how long you want the game to last. The teams start on opposite ends of the laser tag field. When the game begins, it is best that for the first 2 or 3 minutes, the players are not allowed to cross the middle. This eliminates chaos at the beginning of the game, where players run all over the place without a real game plan. After 2 or 3 minutes, the referee yells, “You can cross, you can cross!” This is when the teams go after each other for closer shots. Always remind the players to stay 5 feet away from each other’s faces so no one gets poked in the eye with the gun. It’s the referee’s job to constantly remind the players of this throughout each game. NO Physical Contact.
2. Capture the flag (2 versions)
Base Flags
Each base has a flag. Capture the other team’s flag and return it to your base to win. In case each team has the other’s flag, the first one back to their own base and yells "Game Over" (or blows a whistle if playing on a large field) is the winner. If a player is “dead” while holding the flag (before he makes it back to his base), he must stand still until a teammate grabs the flag and advances it toward the base. Every player should start with only 1 life. When a player is “dead,” he must walk off to the side of the field unless he is the one holding the flag.
Center Flag
Place one flag in the center of the playing area. Both teams try to capture the flag and advance it to the opposing team's base to win. Every player should start with only 1 life. The same rules apply as in the Base Flags game.3. Paintball style
Everyone starts with only one life. When you’re “dead,” you hold your gun in the air, walk off the field, and wait until the game ends. The winning team is the one that eliminates) the entire other team. People play a lot more carefully with only one life. The game is the same as Elimination above.
4. Protect the President
Each team is assigned a president. Each team knows who the other team’s president is. The presidents start with 4 or 5 lives, everyone else with only 2 each. The game aims to protect your president and "kill" the other team’s president. The team that kills the other team’s president first wins.
5. Medic
Each team is assigned a medic. The medic starts out with four lives. Everyone else has only 1 life. As long as your team’s medic is still alive, you can run to the referee to get reset if you’re “dead.” But no one on your team can get reset when your medic is dead. Of course, the medics can never get reset. So the game's object is to protect your medic while going after the other team’s medic. The team that eliminates all the players, including the medic, on the other team wins.
6. Attack and Defend
Give each player on one team 9 lives. Give each player on the other team 1 or 2 lives each. The team with 9 lives is the attacking team, while the other team secretly hides randomly behind the bunkers; they are the defenders. The referee uses a stopwatch to time how fast the attackers can eliminate all the defenders. When done, the defenders become the attackers, and the previous attackers become the defenders. Whichever team can eliminate the other team in the fastest time wins.
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