Sticks and Stones

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Sticks and Stones is a Wager game mode in Call of Duty: Black Ops and a Party game mode in Call of Duty: Black Ops II. It was featured as a limited time mode in Call of Duty: Black Ops III and Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. Sticks and Stones consists of six players competing in a Free-For-All style game. Everyone's loadout consists of a Crossbow, Ballistic knife, and a Tomahawk/Combat Axe. The crossbow has an explosive tip, and is able to cause multi-kills. Like a Free-For-All game, points are earned from kills, and the match ends when the time runs out. However, if a player manages to kill another with a Tomahawk/Combat Axe, they will "bankrupt" the target. Also, if a player commits suicide with Crossbow, they humiliate themselves and get "bankrupted". If a player is "bankrupted", they lose all points earned so far in the match; they will have to start over from zero points. To win, a player must reach one of the three highest scores once the time limit is reached.

Call of Duty: Black Ops III

The BO3 version used the NX Shadowclaw instead of the Explosive Tip Crossbow, providing a slightly different experience than previous versions. The Shadowclaw is not explosive and can fire arrows in rapid succession, unlike the previous crossbows which need to load a new arrow after each shot.  

Call of Duty: Mobile

The Stick and Stones mode is a limited theme game mode in every season, but instead has a Combat Knife and Combat Axe, different to its Black Ops games counterparts.

Points

• Crossbow w/ Explosive Tip: 100/10 points
• Ballistic Knife shot: 100/10 points
• Knife/Ballistic Knife melee: 25/5 points
• Tomahawk/Combat Axe: 10/5 points (and bankrupts player killed with)
• Car Explosion: 100/10 points
• Direct impact: 100/10 points

Gallery

Sticks and Stones in the Wager Match menu.

Humiliating and bankrupting an enemy in Sticks and Stones.

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Videos

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Sticks and Stones being played in Call of Duty: Black Ops,

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Gameplay in Call of Duty: Black Ops II.

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Trivia

• In Call of Duty: Black Ops the radar shows the person coming in first place as a gold dot.
• Any form of suicide, such as falling from the map, results in humiliation. This includes death by the player's own crossbow.
  • On the Wii version of this game, players do not bankrupt themselves if they are within the blast radius of a crossbow bolt fired from their own crossbow.