Candles game

Recently, I read about another ritual on the r/nosleep website and it sounded interesting to me.. The name of the ritual is called The Candles game. As with every other "game" that is posted on this lovely blog of mine, please DO NOT ATTEMPT or screw around with things that you don't understand, capiche? Okay.
         From what I understand, the Candles game is a lot more complicated and more detailed than the Three kings ritual or the Midnight game. It has a lot more rules that are a lot more complicated.

Supplies needed:

• Lighter/match
• Candles

Preparations:

• Have a friend or family hide an unlit candle on the floor of every room of your house without them telling you where the candle is. You're not allowed to ask where it is.
• Place an unlit candle at the end of each hallway in your house. You don't need to have a family member to hide these candles.
• Place one  unlit candle in front of your bedroom door. Make sure the candle is inside your room. You must do this yourself. The game will not work otherwise.
• Close all blinds, windows and be sure to turn off all electrical devices that may cause light. Same with portable devices. Put them in a box, put this box in a cabinet and shut the door.
• The only portable device you may have is a small wrist watch. You will use this to set an alarm for exactly 11:10 pm. This is when you're supposed to wake up.
• Close the doors to all of the rooms in your house.
• Go into your room, at sunset, and go to sleep.

How to play the game:

• Your alarm should go off at exactly 11:10 (turn off the alarm when you wake up). If you're alarm did not go off right at 11:10 and it is still dark outside, remain in your bed, making sure to face the ceiling. DO NOT look around your room or under your bed and DON'T fall asleep.
• Once your alarm has gone off, at correct time, you have one minute to light the candle in your room.
• DO NOT look around your room once the candle is lit.
• At 11:11, knock on your bedroom door three times with a three second interval in  between each knock. If you don't hear any noises after you knock, you are ready to proceed.
• Say the phrase: "I am ready to play".
• Open your bedroom door and place the candle you lit outside the door. This is so they will know not to enter this room.
• Walk around the house with the lighter or matches. Light each candle in the hallway as you get to them.
• Knock on the door to each room the same as you did with your own bedroom door. After knocking, open the door and find and light the hidden candle. You have 3 minutes to do so.

Here's where it gets a little complicated.

• If you find any of the doors that you closed earlier on open or if there is a light shining from beneath the door, leave the house immediately, it is no longer safe.
• If you do not successfully find and light the hidden candle within the room within 3 minutes, you must close and lock the door to the room and lye down, facing the ceiling until 6:00 am. As said before, once you are laying down, DON'T look around the room or fall asleep.
• After you leave each room, after finding and lighting the candle, close the door behind you. DO NOT open these doors again!

There was only one last step.

• After you have been through each of the rooms, return to your bedroom, knock three times, the same as you did at the beginning of the game, close the door behind you and lay back down in your bed, facing the ceiling as before, taking care not to look under your bed, around the room, and most importantly, please DO NOT fall asleep.

At 6:00 am the game is over and your home should be safe. Yes, SHOULD be. The game varies between players, so please don't take my word on it that your house will be safe afterwards if you decided to play anyways, despite my warning. This is a dangerous game and also a good way to burn your house down. This game just goes to show that it would be a bad idea to play with ghost or fire and an exceptionally bad idea to play with both simultaneously.

Ways to lose the game/rules:

• Disobey any of the rules.
• Do anything other than what is required for the playing the game such as: using the restroom, eating, and definitely sleeping.
• DON'T start running! it may make it easier for "them to find you"
• When walking about your house DO NOT look anywhere but in front of you. If you notice movement out of the corner of your eye, do not turn your head and look.
• DON'T engage in conversation with any voices you may hear during game play.
• If you hear noises from behind a closed door to any of the rooms with an unlit candle, skip and move on, DON'T FORGET ABOUT IT THOUGH.
• Don't look into any mirrors as this may increase your chance of seeing "them". As said before you are only to look ahead of you.
• You have to be the only person in the house. Even pets like cats or dogs around, they could cause trouble, such as the potential of knocking over a lit candle, and disrupt the game. Pets that won't make any noise or bother you are fine though (something like a goldfish for example).

There's not really a known consequence or outcome if you lose the game. The only guess is that "they" find you if you mess up.

It's never really certain whether these games are a hoax.. or if they're real.
It's better to just let it be and let the story suffice to scare us.

Doesn't matter whether you're a skeptic or a believer, it could be fake or you never know it could be something very real and you just got yourself into a whole lot of trouble.