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Martin Gardner included this fold, described as both a bug catcher and fortune-teller, in a column in Hugard's Magic Monthly, titled "Encyclopedia of Impromptu Magic", in the 1950s. [22] Although the phrase "cootie catcher" has been used with other meanings in the U.S. for much longer, [ 23 ] the use of the phrase for paper cootie catchers in ...
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A hand-held game, the Cootie Game, was made by the Irvin-Smith Company of Chicago in 1915; it involved tilting capsules (the cooties) into a trap over a background illustration depicting a battlefield. [6] Other cootie games followed, all involving some form of "bug" or "cootie", [6] until The Game of Cootie was launched in 1948 by Schaper Toys ...
Cooties aren't even heard of in most of the world outside of US television which just adds to the ambiguity of the term cootie catcher. I propose something like fortune teller (origami) or paper fortune teller. An t isora 14:37, 13 November 2007 (UTC) Agreed. I can say it's not a cootie catcher where I grew up in Texas. Hadn't heard the name ...
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The game was invented in 1948 by William H. Schaper, a manufacturer of small commercial popcorn machines in Robbinsdale, Minnesota.It was likely inspired by an earlier pencil-and-paper game where players drew cootie parts according to a dice roll and/or a 1939 game version of that using cardboard parts with a cootie board. [2]