Too Cute

A party game without drinking isn't a party game. all the "infected" should have take a shot, so their walk is more similiar to real zombies.

Yea, because little kids should be drinking! That's smart. How about YOU take a shot of something and go play in traffic.

I'm drunk.

...instead of "I'm a zombie" have the infected say "brainzzzz"?

You let children play this game ??? This is terrible. You're teaching these children horrible values. I will shun your wicked ways and raise my children properly. I will raise them to understand that Running zombies are NOT proper zombies and should not be condoned in any way. To teach children that running zombies are 'okay' and 'natural' should be considered child abuse. The running zombie is a cancer upon the genre and It'll take a helicopter blade lobotomy to convince me otherwise. I said good day, sir.

While I agree that running zombies are a blight on the genre, the game would be boring otherwise. Perhaps an adult version of the game with booze and slow moving zombies is in order.

You taught them how to play tag? Ingenious.

DAMN THAT SOUNDS SWEEEEET. I wish I was 5.

You are great! As a zombielover, I agree that 97% of the movies are crap - thank you! This is an excellent game. congrats on your cleverness.

I think this would be a great idea for little kids and the fact that some people seem only able to have fun by incorporating alcohol is just pethetic. I really hope that people wake up.

I too love zombie movies! A few weeks ago after watching the new Day of the Dead on dvd as soon as it came out,I made up a zombie game with my two nephews. Basically I just turned off the light and pretended to be a zombie chasing them around. I was pretty convincing if I do say so myself. I mostly made zombie noises and tickled them and occasionally nibbled on them a little bit. They\'re 10 and 9 years old and we\'ve basically raised them on horror movies so they didn\'t get too scared. Though after not breaking character for about 20 minutes I did spook one of them. We\'ve played it one other time where there was more room to run around. They\'ve been begging me to play it everyday since that first night. I\'m the fun aunt!

Great game....I will be sharing with the kids after school today. Maybe there is an an adult version you can throw together as well....your creative, I'll play!

If you wanted to be edgy, you could tell the kids that instead of becoming zombies, they were infected with AIDS

This is awesome. They sell spray on chalk in toy stores and you can make your boundaries odd shapes (to create alleys and such where it is easier to catch the foolish). What a great summer ideas for the not-so-prudish (which fortunately includes almost all kids)! Thanks for sharing.

Cool. I've done this for years. I tended to be the local playground for the neighbourhood kids so one day when the kids wanted to play tag again and I was tired, I decided to even the field. You can tire out a few kids but not a dozen or more because they naturally take shifts and the active ones want the attention of the grown up. I came up with zombie tag to even the playing field. Our rules are slightly different:
1) Zombies can only walk and must hold out their arms in front of them (this gets sore in long games).
2)The area of play is limited and anyone who leaves it is automatically a zombie.
3) We start with one zombie.
4) Anyone tagged by a zombie who is sticking to rule 1 is automatically a zombie.
5) Non-zombies can run but there are (generally) no time outs in zombie tag (the exception has been a car in a cul-de-sac) because the zombies move slowly.
6) The last person caught by the crowd of zombies is the first zombie of the next game.
This is a good game that can be played with a mixture of ages. The smaller kids tend to get caught earlier and then enjoy hunting the bigger kids. The bigger kids enjoy the challenge of the end game. The game starts slow but speeds up as the number of zombies increases - the last few people need to run quickly and skilfully to avoid the zombie crowds. The new first zombie always starts tired. The play area has to be well defined and sized appropriately for the number of people. The game has been very popular in our area. Our zombies don\'t tend to make sounds but one kid started saying "brains" and I changed it to something far scarier - for a couple of years we had a large number of zombies stumbling around moaning "Broccoli...broccoli..." I won't even start on the Broccoli monster game.

Sounds like fun but if you really want to test out your zombie survial skills you should check out the browser based MMO RPG zombie games www.zombiepandemic.com, www.urbandead.com or www.brainchef.com