It is claimed that it is this story, and not "The Most Dangerous Game," that was the original inspiration for the live-action game Assassin that was popular on university campuses in the 1980s. According to the first coordinator at the University of Michigan, Lenny Pitt had played it at Roeper School and introduced it to the university in 1978. A biography supplied by his publishers says that The Tenth Victim, which was based on the story, "may" have been the basis of the game "Assassin".
