A group of us used to play all the time when we were younger.We just wrote the letters on pieces of paper and place them in a circle on a table with yes at the top of the circle and no at the bottom,also we had numbers from 0 to 9 around the circle.Nice and cheap and worked well enough to freak us out.narlacat said:You don't need to buy one, you can just make one.
Summergirl said:When my mother was younger(back in the 60's and 70's) she had a very old board that belonged to her grandmother. Her cousin, My grandma and my mom all played with it one day, and her cousin asked it who she was going to marry. It said two intials, and that ended up being the intials of the man she married, many years after that.
That is why it is very dangerous to call your child stupid. You wouldn't believe how many parents actually do that!BlueCrab said:Summergirl,
Interesting, but I personally don't believe in anything supernatural.
IMO the initials of the man she married was likely the result of a self-fullfilling prophecy. We unconsciously tend to carry out whatever goals, good and bad, that exist deep in our minds. The ouija board functions on the same principle. There's nothing mysterious or supernatural about it. We unconsciously move the pointer of the ouija board to answer whatever questions and reveal whatever goals that are already stored in our deepest memories, and then, without even realizing that we're doing it, for the rest of our lives we may unconsciously try to fullfill those goals -- motivated by self-fullfilling prophecies.
Self-fullfilling prophecies can also be more openly carried out. For instance, if a baseball player goes up to the plate believing he's going to strike out, then he likely will strike out.
BlueCrab
Summergirl said:When my mother was younger(back in the 60's and 70's) she had a very old board that belonged to her grandmother. Her cousin, My grandma and my mom all played with it one day, and her cousin asked it who she was going to marry. It said two intials, and that ended up being the intials of the man she married, many years after that.