Can't take credit for the word, I suppose, but the game of fuck is good wholesome fun for two or more players. Best played in a classroom, but it works in the playground too, as long as a teacher is nearby. The first player says 'fuck' very quietly, just so you can hear it. The next player has to say it a little louder, and so on around the players. The loser is the first person to say 'fuck' more quietly than the previous person, to bottle out completely, or to be heard by the teacher.

Apparently, there's a variant of this game, in which you have to say "anal fist fuck". A few people have emailed to tell me this. The stakes are substantially higher on this one, and I'm curious to know if there are any even more extreme versions.

Allow me. For the advanced fucker, there was this incredibly more dangerous version, very rarely played. You hold your hand in the air, middle finger extended, and say loudly 'one motherfucker'. The next person says 'one, two motherfucker' and so on. I never knew it get higher than five motherfucker, and we eventually had a year assembly warning us that if it happened again, expulsion would follow. Finally , here is the most dangerous game of fuck that can be played, as it relies of the rest of the class not reacting in any way. While speaking to a teacher, you simply drop the word 'fuck' into the sentence. When the teacher expresses surprise, repeat the sentence with 'fuck' removed. As in: Ben: And you can tell the church was built at the same time, cos it's got all them fuckin' crenellations along the top'. Mrs Whittaker: What did you say? Ben: I said, it's got all those crenellatons along the top. Y'know, like on the castle.

For us, Fuck evolved to a fantastically risky advanced level, in which each player had use a different - and filthier - swear each time. This lent the game a delicious creative edge, and led to furious debate on one occasion as to whether 'tuna taco' was a worthy follow up to 'minge'.