Jinx (game)
Jinx is a game, typically a schoolyard or children's game, with varying rules and penalties that occur when two people unintentionally speak the same word or phrase simultaneously.[1][2] It can also be used to refer to the general phenomenon of uttering the same content at the same time.
Rules
A jinx can be initiated when at least two people say any same word or phrase at the same time.[3] Typically, after the coincidental voicing of the same content, the individuals compete to say the word "jinx" before the other, with the slower respondent being the "loser" or "jinxee."
There are different variations on what is required of the jinxee. In one popular version, the winner gets to playfully punch the loser in the arm.[4] In another, the winner will say, "Jinx, buy me a soda" or "buy me a Coke" first and the loser must comply.[5]
See also
References
- ^ Roud, Steve (2010). The Lore of the Playground: One Hundred Years of Children's Games, Rhymes & Traditions. Random House UK. p. 379. ISBN 978-1905211517.
- ^ Oremland, Jerome D. (1973). "The Jinx game: A ritualized expression of separation-individuation". The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. 28: 419–431. doi:10.1080/00797308.1973.11822303.
- ^ Rapoport, Judith (1989). Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Children and Adolescents. Amer Psychiatric Pub Incorporated. p. 292. ISBN 978-0880482820.
- ^ Leonard, Henrietta L.; Goldberger, Erica A.; Rapoport, Judith L.; Cheslow, Deborah L.; Swedo, Susan E. (1990). "Childhood Rituals: Normal Development or Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms?". Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 29 (1): 18. doi:10.1097/00004583-199001000-00004. PMID 2295573.
- ^ "Jinx, You Owe Me a Soda « USC Digital Folklore Archives". folklore.usc.edu. Retrieved 2020-01-04.
External links
- Barrett, Grant (April 16, 2008). "Jinx and padiddle". The Star. Retrieved July 12, 2013.
- McSpaden, Cheri (July 13, 2008). "Even Johnny Depp got jinxed". The Holland Sentinel. Retrieved July 12, 2013.
- December 17, 2006 comic strip from Big Nate in which the characters play a game of Jinx