Like the night you discover that everyone you know is a werewolf, a game of paintball involves hiding behind trees and running away from your friends. Be prepared with this Groupon.

Choose from Three Options

$19 for all-day paintball package for one (a $45 value)
$35 for all-day paintball package for two (a $90 value)
$59 for all-day paintball package for four (a $180 value)

Each player receives:

• One rental Tippmann 98 Anti-Chop Technology marker
• One rental JT mask
• One rental nitro tank
• Unlimited air refills
• 200 paintballs<p>

Players take to the paintball facility’s indoor and outdoor fields for assorted games, such as capture the flag or defend the castle. The fields are littered with inflatables, bunkers and barrels, arranged in layouts that change regularly.

In order to engage in colorful combat, players use paintball guns to spray their opponents with paint pellets. Learn more about this piece of equipment with Groupon’s guide.<p>

Paintball Markers: The Most Artistic Weapon

Most basic paintball markers—or paintball guns, as they’re commonly called—are powered by a propulsion system that runs on compressed carbon dioxide, nitrogen, or air. When the trigger is pulled, a paintball emerges from the hopper on top of the marker and is propelled out of the barrel thanks to a burst of this compressed gas. These sophisticated contraptions would be unrecognizable to early players of the game, whose pellet-spewing weapons were decidedly cruder and certainly not designed for combat play. Hayes Noel, one of the sport’s founders, recalled, “A friend of ours found a gun in an agricultural catalog that was used by cattlemen to march cows…We bought two of these things and had ourselves a little duel.” In the years since that first round of paintball was played, the sport and equipment have evolved substantially, with many different markers of varying calibers and firing powers available to players.

To ensure player safety and uphold fair-play standards, most paintball ranges make players chronograph their markers before play commences and at regular intervals throughout the course of the game. The chronograph process entails shooting the marker and measuring ball speed in order to calibrate marker speed so that it doesn’t fire too slowly––which results in paintballs not breaking upon hitting others––or too quickly. When firing the marker, players should avoid shooting from the hip and instead pull the marker tight into their shoulder, taking aim by looking down its barrel.