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5 min readIn 2010, a post appeared on a popular horror forum detailing the rules to a game. It was deleted within a single day, and the account that posted it became completely unreachable. A few people who had saved copies of the post later played the game themselves. Some did not make it back. One survivor eventually reposted the rules on a dark web forum before deleting his account and disappearing. The game is called the Subway Game, and the chances of failure are exponentially higher than the chances of success. Winning grants the player one wish. Failing means a painful death, followed by the soul being tortured in the same location for eternity.
The person who wrote the post had been diagnosed with lung cancer and given six months to live. Desperate, he found the instructions while searching for unorthodox cancer cures on the dark web. Despite his skepticism, he decided to go through with the ritual. The game requires the player to write their wish on a piece of paper and bring it, along with a silver wristwatch, to a remote subway station between one and two in the morning, with no one else around. He located an out-of-service station scheduled to close soon and drove there in the dead of night.
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- 1 (02:31) **The Subway Game: A Dangerous Ritual** - The episode introduces a horror game that was briefly posted on a forum in 2010 and later deleted; the narrator, a man with six months to live due to lung cancer, decides to play it.
- 2 (10:05) **The Game Begins: The Security Guard Appears** - The lights flicker, and the narrator sees a security guard with his back turned, signaling the start of the game; he must now hide from the guard until sunrise.
- 3 (12:03) **First Task: Boarding the Train** - A train arrives within 15 minutes, and the narrator must board it, avoiding all interaction with passengers; failure to board means instant loss.
- 4 (15:37) **Escaping the Train and Losing the Watch** - The narrator throws his silver watch as a distraction, allowing him to run through the carriages, but he loses the watch, making the game much harder; the train returns to the same station.
- 5 (16:48) **Second Task: Finding the Door** - The narrator must find a hidden door in the station that leads to stairs and the final task area, all while avoiding the guard and other entities.
- 6 (19:24) **The Guard Attacks** - The narrator loses track of the guard and feels a cold grip on his ankle; the guard grabs him with an impossibly bent arm, and the narrator screams and kicks free.
- 7 (21:50) **Finding the Trap Door and the Final Task** - As the guard and tendril close in, the narrator discovers a metal trap door hidden beneath rocks on the tracks and falls through it into a lit room with a small table.
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Show Notes
Have you ever played the subway game? DONT DO IT
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