The Blue Whale game or Blue Whale Challenge is a game in which the participant is given a task on daily basis, which the person is expected to complete within a period of 50 days. A group of administrators ask participants to share photos of the challenges completed by them. The final task generally is committing suicide. Daily tasks include things like listening to certain genres of music, waking up at odd hours, watching a horror movie, among others. Subsequently, nature of tasks start to become bloody and dangerous. The participants are asked to carve out shapes on one's skin, self-mutilation and eventually the extreme step. As per the reports this bloody game originated in Russia. There are other names of the game including - A Silent House, A Sea of Whales, F57 or F-57. The game is mostly played on Instagram and Snapchat.
The first case of death due to 'Blue Whale Dare' in India was reported on August 1, 2017 when a 14-year-old boy from Mumbai jumped off the terrace of his Andheri residence.