By: Audrey Demong and Makayla Wolins

Senior Spoons is one of the most exciting events for seniors. This game pits seniors against each other in a series of interesting challenges, as the seniors compete to be the winner of Senior Spoons. At the beginning of the game, every senior is assigned a “target” who they can only get out if the target is seen without a spoon in their hand. When someone gets their target eliminated, they then take on the target of the person they got out. This year’s spoons game was run by “the Spoons Overlord”, otherwise known as Senior Class President Selena Zhang ‘26. There were a total of 14 spoons conditions added on to the basic rule of “always have your spoon in your hand”. Some conditions included tip-toeing around the school, walking backwards, touching the wall and having the spoon on your nose, linking arms with the underclassman, and many more interesting spins on the game.

Zhang also decided to include a Google Form sent out to the grade which gave participants the opportunity to guess a 16-digit number that would grant participants immunity, or former participants the opportunity to re-join the game. Additionally, there were “moles” for one day, a group of 5 teachers and 5 seniors that were out of the game who could get players out. The grand finale of spoons was played on May 8th during class meeting, where the final group of players competed in balancing as many spoons as they could on their body in 60 seconds. During this event , AJ Bodenstein ‘26 won the whole game.

Selena Zhang ‘26 loved seeing people bond over the spoons games, and especially loved the numerous funny videos that were posted to the RCDS Spoons 2026 Instagram page (created by Darren Wong ‘26). Her favorite part of running Spoons was being in the know of who had to get who out, and coming up with conditions, even though the organization process took a lot longer than expected. Zhang was shocked that people figured out the password from the Google Form, the password was SPOONS2026 converted into a number, Skyla Perez ‘26 guessed it, granting herself immunity and the ability to get anyone out. Zhang says that because of this, 18 people got out during the “have your spoon on your nose and one hand on the wall” day. Zhang says, “I loved coming up with challenges, and an extra shoutout to Mr. Heintz and Ms. Rincone for giving me ideas for challenges”. 

Bodenstein, the champion of Senior Spoons, enjoyed the spontaneity and intensity of the competition. He won after balancing an impressive 23 spoons on his body at the class meeting, while the seniors were chanting his name. His favorite part about senior spoons was sneaking around and plotting with his friends, trying to get other people out. This year’s Senior Spoons was especially interesting for him because people created spreadsheets of senior’s cars, license plates, and every AP exam they were taking.

Although he only got one person out the entire game, he was insanely committed to staying in. He brought his spoon everywhere he went, and got Mei Macintyre ‘26 out in the library. The hardest challenge for him was convincing the underclassmen to link arms for a day. Getting this to work was a difficult process, as seniors had to coordinate with and rely on others. A group chat with underclassmen was created to help with coordinating the challenge. His advice for future seniors playing spoons is, “You gotta stay locked in. It’s not important to get people out, just focus on staying in the game to win”. So next year, keep an eye out for seniors balancing eggs on spoons or walking backwards as they take part in the fun and excitement of Senior Spoons!