[2] If a player refuses to do the challenge or fails to complete it, they lose and are out of the game.
Yet, according to social worker Jennifer Moore-Mallinos, "very few children will back on the challenge no matter what the potential risks may be.
She adds that "although many of these dares begin with harmless requests, over time [they] have the tendency to develop into more serious demands.
In the movie A Christmas Story (1983), set in 1940 America, a scene portraying escalating dares results in negative outcomes.
[6] The game is portrayed in the English children's novel The Dare Game, the second episode of the first series of the TV adaptation of The Story of Tracy Beaker, and in the French film Love Me If You Dare.