Many people have been asking me lately why I have a spork in my hair. In case you haven’t heard, it’s the latest trend.

Ok, maybe not. But it has become a great way to win money, not to mention a fun way to interact with your fellow classmates.

In the past few months, sporking has taken over the high school. Started by the USC Swim Team, this game quickly spread to tons of seniors, juniors, and even sophomores. Nate Novak, a senior, is the ringleader for it all. The games started with about 64 students, but many people have been “sporked” since then.

Lots of students are questioning the “point to it all” and how this game works, so here it is:

The Rules:

1. The point of the game is who can have a spork on his or her person the longest.

2. It must be behind the person’s ear or in their hand and visible.

3. Each person is assigned a target and is targeted by someone. If you catch your target sporkless, then you stab them (gently of course) with your spork and say “You’re sporked!” This person is then out of the competition.

4. On assigned weekends, the game becomes a free-for-all. Anyone can spork anyone.

5. Each participant must put a small fee in a pool. Then as people lose, each contestant gains potentially a larger portion of the money. The idea is to be the last person left standing. Then you win all the money.

6. If by the end of the year there are multiple participants left, then the money is divided equally among them.

Although the games have already begun this year, the game will start up again next year (that is, if someone starts it up again)!

A Few Fun Sidenotes:

Once when Mt. Lebanon played this, someone went to New York sporkless, thinking he would never see anyone from school there, but he actually did and someone sporked him in the middle of Times Square. Awkward!

You can decorate your spork however you like, so many people have covered theirs in duct tape or use markers to give their spork some personality.