Paper fortune teller

Heaven and / or Hell (short HoH, regional and pepper and salt called ) is a finger game that is very popular with children. It is folded paper from a square sheet and then blue ( for the sky) and red ( for hell) so painted in the colors that you can, if one opens - what about two axes is possible - either in "heaven " or in "hell " look. HoH games are particularly popular in kindergartens as handicrafts.

This Faltspiel is not to be confused with the hopscotch hopscotch.

Dissemination of heaven or hell game

Other forms of the game are in the Far East (Japan, North and South Korea ) are known.

In the German speaking part of Switzerland, this popular finger play is still known as " snip - snap " and the gameplay is a bit different from the one described here classical heaven or hell variant.

Instructions

The basis is a square piece of paper. Its corners are folded each up to the middle of the sheet toward. Then one turns to the sheet so that the page looks with folded towards the middle to bottom corners. Then repeating the process and folded again (the current ) edges toward the middle. Then, it turns the sheet around and folding it once along the x- axis. Then to fold it back (only the last step ), and the whole, however, folded again, this time about the y- axis. Now have the " finger lining " is formed, which must now only be " baggy ". For this you move the thumb, index, middle and ring fingers each into one of these " finger lining ".

You put together the Heaven or Hell game and turns it on its side on which are the diagonal fold lines. These diagonals divide the heaven or hell game in four isosceles triangles. Now you have each color the triangles equal, the opposite to each other. When colors are used usually blue and red. Finally, you go again with your fingers in the " finger lining " and ready is the sky - or - hell game. The quality depends on the accuracy of wrinkles.

Game idea

If you have a finished heaven or hell game on hand, you still need to play a partner. One of the two game players must now use the new heaven or hell game and it close to the center. Then the finger game must so often be turned until neither player knows where heaven and hell where is. The one without HoH must now guess whether the other to heaven or to hell " comes ". Opens the one with the same HoH either the x axis or the y-axis. If the resulting " Maw " blue, the player gets to heaven, he is still red in hell.

In the described by "diffusion " variant of the German-speaking Switzerland the player is asked to call any number. The extent of the numbers can also be restricted. The snip - snap of that number will be opened according to the change once the x- and the y- axis along once. If the called number is reached, the player is prompted to select one of the previously painted on the inner surface of the visible colored dots. Then this surface is folded and the manufacturer of the snip - snap 's previously been signed behind spell is revealed. This must then endure fateful.