Capture the flag

Capture the Flag

An indoor game of capture the flag at the Bellaire Recreation Center's All Sports Camp in Bellaire, Texas in August 2014
Players	Large group, more than six players in a team
Playing time	10–30 minutes
Skills	endurance observation strategy speed stealth
Synonyms	CTF

Capture the Flag (CTF) is a traditional outdoor sport where two or more teams each have a flag (or other markers) and the objective is to capture the other team's flag, located at the team's "base" (or hidden or even buried somewhere in the territory), and bring it safely back to their own base. Enemy players can be "tagged" by players when out of their home territory and, depending on the rules, they may be out of the game, become members of the opposite team, be sent back to their own territory, be frozen in place, or be sent to "jail" until freed by a member of their own team.