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How do you play Fortnite? My week of trying to get addicted to the must-play game | Brigid Delaney's diary

Millions of children are hooked on it, so surely it can’t be that difficult to play the latest ubiquitous game
I watch my godchildren play Fortnite and have to remember to breathe. It is stressful and moves quickly. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

For their birthdays, my godchildren ask for V-Bucks – a kind of internet currency used to buy clothes or weapons or a glider for their avatars on a game they are obsessed with called Fortnite.

Their parents have held out. In order to get V-Bucks, you have to give the game your credit card or PayPal details. One parent I know is almost $1,000 in the hole because their child kept purchasing new outfits on the stored card. Easy to do.

But my godchildren are dying for V-Bucks, it’s all they want. Currently their

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