Ouija ?1980s John Waddington

	Ouija	?1980s	John Waddington
	First produced	1972	Players	2	Age(s)

Click the picture for more		1 x ouija board made of rigid hardboard 1 x plastic message indicator Sit opposite your partner and rest your fingers lightly on the mysterious message indicator. Now ask your question. Concentrate very hard ... and see the answer revealed in the message window. Will it tell you yes or no? Will it give you a number or spell out a word? Ask any question you want. Ouija will answer. It's only a game, isn't it? The instructions and background information are printed on the box base. "Ouija knows all the answers. It furnishes never failing amusement and recreation for the entire family.

Ouija gives you entertainment you have never experienced. It draws the two people using it into close companionship ... [It is] unquestionably the most fascinating entertainment for modern people and modern life". With these words in 1892, William Fuld, entrepreneur and toy maker invited the public to experience Ouija, the wonderful talking board (a generic name for message boards with numbers, letters and a movable message indicator). The word ‘talking’ was later dropped from the Ouija name. In his patent application William wrote "A question is asked and by the involuntary muscular action of the players, or through some other agency, the frame will commence to move across the table".

Earlier talking boards date from the mid 1800s. Fuld said he took the french ‘oui’ and german ‘ja’ words for yes. He claimed it was the board itself that gave him the name.