‘Five Nights at Epstein’s’ Game Goes Viral at US School Campuses

Merve Lapus’s 13-year-old daughter told her dad she was horrified: This month, whenever her teacher stepped out of the room, kids in the class used their devices to play a new online game called Five Nights at Epstein’s.

In the game, available via a web browser, players pretend to be sexual assault victims trapped on the late financier Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious island. Characters have to maneuver past security cameras and palm trees, navigate dimly lit rooms and ultimately avoid surprise attacks from the convicted sex offender. To win, they must survive five nights on the island without letting ...