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Sholio ([personal profile] sholio) wrote2020-07-25 01:37 am

Crowdsourcing a question

You know those kids' folded paper puzzles that display different pictures or words depending on how you refold them, like the one on the Community opening credits?

1 - What do you call those?

2 - If you don't mind answering, what country/approximate region of that country do you live in? (You can be as specific or vague as you like - I just think this is probably one of those things that's called different things in various places, and the character I'm writing grew up somewhere specific, so I'm curious what word she might use for it in her internal narration.)
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[personal profile] naye 2020-07-25 09:45 am (UTC)(link)
In Stockholm, Sweden they're known as a loppa which means "flea". No idea what the etymology is, or if there's regional differences in the vocabulary.
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[personal profile] sevenall 2020-07-26 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, "loppa" or "pappersloppa" in Stockholm or Dalsland (southwest) or Småland (southeast) in Sweden.
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[personal profile] schneefink 2020-07-25 09:56 am (UTC)(link)
I know it as "Himmel und Hölle", i.e. "Heaven and Hell," which is both the name of the game and what you call the thing itself.
It's called that in Austria, and from a quick glance at Wikipedia probably in most regions of Germany too.
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[personal profile] trobadora 2020-07-25 11:27 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I grew up in Southern Germany, and that was what we called it too.

Wikipedia tells me it's also sometimes called "Himmel oder Hölle" (heaven or hell) or "Pfeffer und Salz" (pepper and salt) or "Schnipp-schnapp" (snip-snap), and I've heard "Schnipp-schnapp" before but not the other versions.

(Schnipp-schnapp is supposed to be a Swiss version, but I must have heard it in either Germany or Austria as a kid.)

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[personal profile] rionaleonhart 2020-07-25 09:59 am (UTC)(link)
Huh, interesting question! I don't have a concrete term for it; I'd probably say 'one of those origami fortune teller things'. (London, UK; I forgot to mention!)
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[personal profile] rose_griffes 2020-07-25 02:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Fortune-teller is the only term I could think of as well. (Born and raised in the US.)

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[personal profile] frith_in_thorns 2020-07-25 10:18 am (UTC)(link)
Fortune teller (UK)
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[personal profile] lilly_the_kid 2020-07-25 10:18 am (UTC)(link)
In Germany it's also Himmel und Hölle (heaven and hell), at least where I'm from which is pretty much in the middle :)
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[personal profile] violsva 2020-07-25 10:23 am (UTC)(link)
Cootie catchers or fortune tellers, Toronto, Canada.
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[personal profile] loligo 2020-07-25 03:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Same two names, in Michigan.

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[personal profile] lilacsigil 2020-07-25 10:32 am (UTC)(link)
Fortune teller! (rural Victoria, Australia) Though I have also heard them called a MASH because in one version the first set of options was Mansion, Apartment, Shack, House.
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[personal profile] pauraque 2020-07-25 01:28 pm (UTC)(link)
In the US we played the MASH game but we didn't use origami, we just wrote the options on a piece of paper, and... well, it gets complicated, but Wikipedia explains it.

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[personal profile] thedivinegoat 2020-07-25 11:31 am (UTC)(link)
30 years ago in Bristol, UK we called them fortune tellers.
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[personal profile] goss 2020-07-25 11:36 am (UTC)(link)
Fortune teller (Caribbean)
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[personal profile] epeeblade 2020-07-25 12:23 pm (UTC)(link)
1. Fortune Teller
2. US - New Jersey
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[personal profile] edenfalling 2020-07-25 01:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Fortune-teller! I grew up in northern New Jersey, in the greater NYC metropolitan area.
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[personal profile] pauraque 2020-07-25 01:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Fortune teller (grew up in San Francisco, USA)
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[personal profile] ambyr 2020-07-25 01:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Fortune catcher, US South.
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[personal profile] applenym 2020-07-25 01:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Fortune teller - I grew up in a suburb of Chicago, Illinois.
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[personal profile] brightknightie 2020-07-25 01:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I cannot remember what we called them in Anchorage at my all-military-families elementary school, but it wasn't "fortune teller" or "cootie catcher." It was something else, something I never understood... one of the other replies mentions "the MASH game" -- it might have been something like that...

If you remember what you called it in Fairbanks, let me know? :-)

[personal profile] rissabby 2020-07-25 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)

Fortune Teller. Portland, Oregon, US
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[personal profile] sheron 2020-07-25 02:46 pm (UTC)(link)
As a data point, I have seen these but never played with them so didn't know what they were called.
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[personal profile] radiantfracture 2020-07-25 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Fortune teller, western Canada.
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[personal profile] magistrate 2020-07-25 03:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Fortune teller, midwestern USA.
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[personal profile] sartorias 2020-07-25 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Fortune-teller, both in the fifties when I was a kid, and in the 21st century when I was a teacher, and the kids made them, , SoCal for both instances.
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[personal profile] kore 2020-07-25 04:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Fortune Teller -- I grew up in SoCal too.
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[personal profile] saiditallbefore 2020-07-25 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Cootie catcher, from the Pacific Northwest
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[personal profile] lunabee34 2020-07-25 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Cootie catchers, American South.

[personal profile] indywind 2020-07-27 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Adding a data point for "cootie catcher" in the SE US.
Also "fortune teller" and 3 or 4 other things I can't really remember that were basically nonsense repetitive onomatopoeia on the open-close-open motion of playing with the widget.
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[personal profile] sovay 2020-07-25 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
1 - What do you call those?

Fortune teller. I grew up in the Boston area.
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[personal profile] nocowardsoul 2020-07-25 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Cootie catchers, US west coast.

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