La Salle Oddity

By Tara Pizzo
Senior Staff Writer
October 11, 2006

While most students study or nap in between classes, sophomore Matt Szczerbienski thought of a game to play. The game is known as Spoon Assassin and can be found as a group of about 45 members on Facebook.

Matt Szczerbienski is the creator of the facebook group Spoon Assassin. Currently,
the group consists of 45 members - Tara Pizzo

Szczerbienski thought of how the game would work at La Salle, made up the rules and thought of all the technicalities. He began playing the game with just his friends, but then other people started to hear about it and wanted to join the group. The rules of the game are quite odd but involve skillful thinking. “You pitch in two dollars to get into the game. The winners are the last person surviving and the person with the most kills,” Szczerbienski said.

For interested students, Szczerbienski collects the money, takes a picture of them and puts their picture along with their full name on the Facebook group. The person then takes a spoon with a Post-It wrapped around it, which includes the name of the person whom they are set out to get.

The new player assisinate then goes on Facebook to view the picture of the person they are after and then try to find out where that person lives or where his/her classes are located.

“If you see [the person you are after], you walk up behind him/her and poke them in the back [with a spoon] and then you get his/her name and it keeps going down and down,” Szczerbienski said./p>

As of right now, there is a Spoon Assassin game occurring at La Salle, but the people who are already out of the game want it to end so a new game can begin.

“It’s crazy when people get their roommates. They set booby traps on the floor and everything,” he said.

Someone actually got Szczerbienski out of the current game during one of his classes. He was in lab mixing chemicals when the person who had his name came up behind him and poked him with the spoon.

Although Spoon Assassin may sound strange to some, it occupies Szczerbienski and the other members of the group during their free time. The game involves a great amount of strategy and is “really technical and everyone is a suspect,” Szczerbienski said.

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