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In July of 2018, Saya Yomino of the website Saya In Underworld made a surprise reappearance: After more than three years of inactivity, she began posting to her blog again. In October — on Halloween, no less — she brought us yet another game in the “how to go to a different world” vein: The Fed Up Game.
Like many of Yomino’s posts, the Fed Up Game is an English translation of a Japanese thread found elsewhere on the internet. Do you speak or read fluent Japanese? If so, the original Japanese version of the Fed Up game can be found at Dread.jp, which functions as an archive of ritual games originally posted to 2ch.
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Like most online message board communities, 2ch, which allows its users to post anonymously, covers just about every topic under the sun — but, perhaps unsurprisingly, my personal favorite posts are the ghost stories and other strange tales that have emerged from it over the years: Hachishakusama (Eight Feet Tall), Kisaragi Station, and “I Proposed To My Girlfriend, But She’s Been Replaced” all originated at 2ch.
If you’re already familiar with games like the Elevator Game, Closet To Another World, and Mirror To Another World and have been looking for something similar, the Fed Up Game might fit the bill. Interestingly, though, this new game bears one detail in common with another ritual that’s otherwise quite different: The Nesting Doll Game. Both involve leaving something under your pillow while you sleep — in the case of the Nesting Doll Game, the smallest doll in your matryoshka set, and in the Fed Up Game, a small piece of paper — and looking to see if it’s still there in the morning. What the disappearing object means, though, is… not the same from game to game.
Also, a warning: As is the case with Closet to Another World, it’s not recommended that you attempt this ritual unless you have absolutely no intention of remaining in your original world.
As always, play at your own risk.
Players:
- One principal.
Requirements:
- A square piece of paper measuring exactly 5 cm by 5 cm.
- A writing implement. A pen with red ink is strongly recommended.
- A bow compass. Optional, but recommended.
- A ruler. Optional, but recommended.
- A safe place to sleep.
- A deep, unshakeable sense of discontent with your world.
- The strongest possible desire to leave your world.
- A fervent wish to find another world.
Instructions:
Wishing:
- Begin at any time.
- Using the writing implement, draw a large hexagram on the piece of paper. Make it as big as possible; fill the page with it.
- NOTE: You may draw the hexagram freehand; to make a simple hexagram, draw two equilateral triangles placed directly on top of each other, one with the point facing up and one with the point facing down. Your finished drawing should resemble a six-pointed star. However, for best results, use a bow compass and ruler. See: Concerning The Hexagram.
- With the piece of paper in front of you and the writing implement in your hand, think about your discontentment with your world. Think about everything about it that disappoints you. Everything about it you find wanting. Everything you wish were different. Focus this discontentment and channel it into your desire to leave your world, and your wish to find another world to go to.
- Hold these three thoughts — your discontentment, your desire to leave, your wish to find something else — in your mind. Give them all equal weight; do not drop or lose any of them.
- Focus.
- Now: Inside the hexagram, write two little words. Just two. Write: “FED UP.”
Sleeping:
- Before you go to bed that night, place the piece of paper under your pillow. If you have no pillow, fold it into your own hand — but hold onto it tightly. You wouldn’t want to lose it — or for anyone else to find it.
- Lay down. Close your eyes. Sleep.
Waking:
- When you wake in the morning, check beneath your pillow or open up your hand.
- If the paper is still there: The ritual has not succeeded. Your discontentment, your desire to leave, and/or your wish to find somewhere else is not strong enough. Heed the message: It is not time for you to go. Burn the paper and dispose of the ashes. You may try again another time… if you are certain the time is right.
- If the paper is missing: Look around. Listen to your intuition. Is something… different? Do your surroundings look different? Are there any details — any at all — that don’t appear the way they once did? Do you simply feel different — or feel a difference? Congratulations; the ritual has succeeded.
- You may explore your new world now.
- I hope it is everything you wished for.
- For once you have made the journey to reach it…
- …There is no way to journey back.
Additional Notes:
Do NOT enlist the help of any partners or allow any bystanders to be present while playing this game. You must play it alone. You may ONLY play it alone.
Should you find the paper gone, note that it is NOT because it has vanished. Rather, it is because you are no longer in the world in which the paper exists.
Concerning The Hexagram:
To draw a hexagram using a bow compass and ruler, first fix the writing implement to the compass and use it to inscribe as large a circle as possible on your piece of paper.
Then, without changing the compass’ radius, place the point of the compass on the edge of the circle. Position the other leg of the compass so that the writing implement intersects with the circle’s edge. Lightly mark the edge where the writing implement meets it.
Now place the point of the compass on the mark you just made. Again, position the other leg of the compass so that the writing implement intersects at a new point with the circle’s edge. Make another mark at this point.
Continue working your way around the circle’s circumference until you have come back to the point at which you started. Your circle should now have six marks equally spaced around its circumference. Remove the writing implement from the compass and set the compass aside.
Use the ruler to draw three lines through the circle. Each line should connect each mark on the circle’s edge with the mark directly opposite it on the other side of the circle. The lines should each split the circle in half, and all of them should meet at the circle’s center. These lines are the diameter lines.
Now use the ruler to draw three more lines. These lines should connect every other mark, forming an equilateral triangle with the point at the top of the circle.
Use the ruler to draw another three lines, again connecting every other mark for the marks not used to create the previous triangle. These lines should create a second equilateral triangle with the point at the bottom of the circle.
Find the points where the sides of the two equilateral triangles intersect the three diameter lines. Using the ruler and the previously described method, create two more, smaller, equilateral triangles, one with the point facing up and one with the point facing down.
You may further darken and define the lines forming the hexagram if you wish; however, this step is optional.
Your hexagram is now complete.
More information and step-by-step diagrams may be found here.
Concerning Your Dreams:
Beware them.
Some players who have failed to complete the ritual have reported experiencing troubling dreams while sleeping with the piece of paper in their hands or under their pillows. Of particular concern are figures or characters who, within the dreams, have attempted to wrest the paper away from the players. Upon waking, players who have had these dreams have found their papers crumpled or damaged.
It is therefore recommended that players acquire proficiency in lucid dreaming before attempting this game.
Should any figures or characters attempt to steal your paper in your dreams — or should anything else occur giving you cause for concern in your dreams — use any and all lucid dreaming techniques you have at your disposal to wake yourself up as soon as possible.
Do NOT allow your paper to be stolen away by anyone — or anything — else. To do so would be disastrous.
A Final Warning:
As previously noted, there is NO WAY TO RETURN to your original world once you have left it using this ritual. Do NOT attempt it unless you are positive — POSITIVE — you do not wish to return.
Remember: You may not have much — if any — control over the world you travel to.
It may be a different world to the one you just left… but it won’t necessarily be a better one.
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Lyssy says
is there other games where you could go to any world you want but could RETURN
Comment: i want to go to unicorn land
Arizona says
Question: so if you were to perform this ritual, what would happen to you in the world you left? like would you have never existed, or would you be considered dead?
Alice M. says
I suppose you just disappear and no one can ever find you. You will be considered legally dead after a number of years.
thatonetransfurry says
i have a concern. if your going to do this can you make changes to yourself, and also what if you die in your new world?
Mr Bloods says
What if we did this ritual in a past life and came here! That would be interesting.
Lu says
I don’t really get the ritual. Why are you supposed to not let go of the paper if the shadow is the conductor to the other world?? Could someone explain it to me, please?
Neex says
I got some theories(?)
1. Well, this game is about multiverse, maybe you change place with your counterpart?
2. The person who’s trying to take the paper from you might be your unconscious self. Maybe you don’t really wanna go, so that’s why your “other side” tries to snatch that ticket of yours
KwAvErLii says
I REALLY wanna play. REALLY. but does anybody feel, like, somethings watching as they draw it? I keep getting that and idk what it is, Can anybody explain????
Hermionee says
I guess that just means you don’t understand how much pain one person can go through, or goes through.
Lilac Garcia_gamer says
What will happen to the original world? will the family realize you’re gone or will they just act like you never existed before?
Andrés Utz says
Hi!
I’ve been trying to do that ritual (the Fed Up ritual) since 2017 … but I’ve always failed. The only thing I use was a squared notebook (5cm x 5cm, which also according to my squared notebook is 10 squares x 10 squares), scissors, ruler, and a black and red pen. And sometimes I don’t know how I can work. And before going to sleep, I made a little leaf about the characteristics of the universe that I am going to go. Because, try under the bed, but it doesn’t work, also try by hand, but it doesn’t work either. At what time (obviously, at night) is the use recommended for this ritual? And where is it most recommended for this to be done?
Koda says
If you already have the paper done but last minute you decide you don’t wanna go – what do you do? Do you burn the paper and discard the ashes or do you just throw it away cause you haven’t done anything with it yet? Like the pentagram is already drawn and the words are on it what do you do?
Lilac Garcia_gamer says
Maybe its better to do that
tocixx says
is there any specific reason the paper has to be 5 by 5 cm?
Pot Of Soup says
It’s probably so it will fit in your hand/pillow. Otherwise, I’m not really sure
Cs13 says
I was thinking about what happens to your body once you go to the other dimension? Will it disappear? Or, in a coma?
Ayesha says
So I tried the game. Nothing happened. No weird dreams, no crumpled up paper, no difference. I might try it a few more times and it’s possible I did something wrong.
Ayesha says
Can you create or shape your new dimension by thinking about it in the wishes part of the ritual?
Bree says
Hey everyone I’m Bree
I’ve done this ritual and idk how but it succeeded.
I didn’t find my paper under my pillow and I found that my favourite book wasn’t on my table. Everything is the same just… better. I miss my old family but I love my new one too. The year is the same. I even have the same phone/ data. I’m so glad I found this web, I’m happy to answer any questions so ask away. I also wanted a big house so when I woke up in the same room I was sorta disappointed but we were moving that day.
Linden says
That is brilliant. I succeeded too, and I’m texting from my dimension. I hated my family on earth. In my dimension here there are floating chunks of land everywhere and my green eyes turned blue. I wonder if that’s sky dimension? Also the internet here is ten billion times faster then that of earth. My memory improved and so is my ablity to learn new things. Oh, and hope you have fun in your dimension!
Fatima says
Linden, do you have any regrets about leaving our world?? Do you miss anyone? Did you make new friends?
Benny says
What is it like in the new dimension? Does it have the same history as the original earth?
Glenn says
If you’re still responding…
Hi. I guess I have a decent life here on this Earth. I have amazing friends. But I’m just wondering, do the people around you act like you just popped up? Or do they act like they’ve lived with you all your life?
Lilac Garcia_gamer says
Maybe
Fatima says
Bree, are you okay?? I’m so intrigued you’re able to communicate with us.. how do you know for certain you aren’t just in the same world?
Lloyd says
I have a theory on why some characters or figures may attempt to wrest away the paper: perhaps the person who is trying to cross over to their world would wreck havoc upon it, either on purpose or not. Or the other world is uninhabitable for the person, so the characters or figures are simply trying to protect them.
Lilac Garcia_gamer says
Possible but what if they’re the victim of an accident or murder and couldn’t find peace so they wanted to snatch the paper for a new world where they are alive(maybe)
QueenB says
If my cat can’t come with me I’ll just suffer in this world.
Loli_lover says
Should I have to avoid touching the hexagram lines while writing fed up?
Bree says
Yeah definitely because you want everything to be readable.
Kayla says
this seems to be a good game to play if you want out of your life, but if you have it good, don’t risk it. would you remember your past life?
Polaris says
You’ll still remember everything, unless you find some other way to make yourself forget.
nwog etihw a ni lirg says
My question is, can you take another object with you to the other world? If so, what if I took my phone and called one of my friends from the other world? That would sound cool to still be able to contact them threw the other world, also, someone said about forgetting completely about the other world after you do it. So would that be that you will forget everything could you leave yourself a note to remember.
Bree says
I wasn’t able to contact any of my friends. But it’s not like any of them cared
Sarra says
Bree, I hope this world has given you the loving, caring, fun and tight friends you wanted. And hopefully for all the “ew” this world can be, hopefully it’s way way better than the one you came from. 🙂
Strife says
I imagine as long as the object is in your pant’s pockets then you could take some small items with you (like your phone). But since the world probably doesn’t have the advanced technology we have you probably wouldn’t be able to call your friends but there still would be the probability that it could happen though.
Shonak Patel says
It is interesting how some of these rituals do not require us to summon an entity from another reality. Instead, we go to another reality. This makes me wonder, how do the summoning rituals look from the entity’s perspective? Do they have to do their own ritual just to get to our reality?
Conversely, when we want to travel to another reality, does an entity have to help pull us to the other side? For example, in the elevator game, there is a girl who is clearly the one responsible for transporting you to the other world. Does that mean it is a summoning ritual from her point of view, where she has to follow certain steps to summon you?
Spyrothedragon778 says
I agree with nati. I really want to travel to the pokemon world, besides that game I want to do the eye in the giant game.
ShiverStabbed says
how many times can you do this? would it be possible to skip to multiple new worlds?
Creepie says
Okay, let’s say that I did this ritual, it worked and I got into a different world. BUT that world is a terrible place and I want to find a new world. So my question is: If you’ve already done this ritual once, may you do it again?
Thyrza Hummel says
This one is very interesting!
Been reading TGIMM for 2 years now and I thought it’s about time I leave a comment.
Good work <3
Lucia says
Thank you! So glad you’re enjoying the site!
Jet says
Hello Miss Lucia. My name is Jet and I’ve tried this with a desperate emotion to leave earth. But it didn’t work out? How should I have gobe about it? Should I master visualisation or channeling flow of chi?or if they is another way to leave can you tell me. Thank you
Sarra says
Jet.
There’s something, some reason, something that’s to happen in this world that pertains to you. You need to experience it before you will be given the chance to attempt the final time. It’s been since 2018 that you asked this question. Let me ask you two:
1. Has something positive happened to you since you asked this question?
2. Do you still wish to go to the other world?
3. OK three questions haha : speaking of today, whenever you see this, what are your feelings about it failing before? Sad it didn’t work or very glad it didn’t work?
JET VIRIVONG says
Hello miss Lucia! Nothing changed in my life ( positive and negative). And I really wish with all my existence to leave this world behind. And as for the last question, I don’t feel anything at all. My mind is so empty after failing.
annonn says
honestly, I love how reading the most dangerous games feels so… ominous.
Kim says
Let’s say someone did this ritual and it worked. What would be left behind in their original world after they’ve gone?
Creepie says
Well, all their belongings, money, eventual family, friends pets etc… and of course all those memories at other people.
What they would have in that other world… I don’t know.
Emily says
So… if I travel to the other world, will my friends and family exist? Will my house still be there? Will all my belongings be where they were?
Creepie says
Depends on in which world you get.
Jessica says
If you have friends and family you want to keep in contact with, this isn’t the game for you.
Cherish those loved ones and let them remind you of why you want to keep them close. Be happy where you are.
Save this game for when there’s no reason to stay in this world.
Brailyn Joseph says
Can you do the ritual in the other world and and will it take you back to the one you started off with?
Polaris says
No. Once you leave, there’s no coming back.
ilovemeatballs56 says
This seems like a great idea if our world is being attacked by zombies. Otherwise, I would not understand why you would want to leave it. There are so many possibilities in this world.
Creepie says
Mhm… I guess you are right, but as I’ve said earlier this game is for people who only can choose between this game and sucide or death. Otherwise your desire to leave this world isn’t strong enough.
Sunset Fountain says
Saya claimed that those ones that performed it dreamt of disturbing stuff, a person about a car accident. When they woke up they were in their room at night but not alone. A shadow was there trying desperately to snatch the paper from their hand. They opposed and the being left. In the morning they woke up in the same world, the paper was crumpled. So I dont think that’s in dream stuff, the paper is like a ticket to the other world and the shadow is the conductor. Whoever reads this and wants to do it, if you get second thoughts or just wanted to meet the entity but not to be transported in the other world just keep tight to the paper. Don’t let it go
Darshana parab says
Awesome… but can we do the same thing to return back to our original world? If we are not happy?
Creepie says
No. You can NOT return back. You can only do the ritual again and hope that u get into a better world that time.
The ghost With No Name says
I would absolutely give my heart and body just to get out of a world with a controlling parent that wants you to think whatever she wants you to think.
Darwin Waterson says
What if someone from this world destroys or takes the paper after you went to the other world?
Creepie says
It doesn’t matter anymore cuz you are already away
Nati says
From all the games I’ve seen here, this is the one I want to try the most.
I’m curious though, will any of the people we know in this world also be in the other world? Or will it be completely different?
Polaris says
I would imagine that it’s random. I highly doubt that whatever force (or entity?) sends you to the new world cares about what you wanted out of your new one, so it puts together a world with varying degrees of similarity to the one you left. It could be identical, or it could be entirely different, but there’s no guarantee that anyone who exists in your world will also exist in the new one.
MistressLangdon says
Might be a stupid question (excuse me if it is), but is it possible to do this ritual again if you wish to travel to yet another world? It says you can’t go back, but it doesn’t say you can’t move forward from there. And if you do want to return to this world, you could try doing this ritual many times. There aren’t a infinite amount of worlds, are there?
Creepie says
Yes. I don’t see why not.
Draco says
It says that you can only do this ritual once. Read the page again
via_the_cat says
If you really want to leave the world and you end up in a different world, does that mean that your family and friends are no longer there with you?? Are you alone in this new world?
Whoever says
You don’t sound like a person who wishes to leave. For someone to wish to leave so strongly that they would resort to rituals such as this one, it is very likely that they do not have family or friends, or good ones at least. For in a sense, this is kind of suicide lite: Leaving this world by means other than dying.
As for whether you are alone, it’s up to whether that world has previous inhabitants. There is nothing in this ritual that suggests others will go with you. Heck, even if a whole group of people do this at the same time, it is not known whether everyone reaches the same world.
Creepie says
I really don’t know, what I wonder is that do you get into a parallel universe or into an entirely different world. (Like a unicorn dimension or something). Anyways if you are lucky you MIGHT have your family in that world too. But it’s not your family so… just don’t play this game, it’s for people with only two choices: sucide or playing this game.
Lilac Garcia_gamer says
You’ll have a new family if you change the personality
(I think)
Vikrant says
Whoa ! That’s a legit way of escaping but this world cant be better than anything else ! Keep writing LUCIA