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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]
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 ...
Schaper sold 5,000 Cootie games by 1950, and over 1.2 million games by 1952. [3] [6] In 2003 'Cootie' was named one of the top 100 most memorable and creative toys in the last century by the Toy Industry Association. [7] Schaper Toys manufactured a host of other games including the well-known Ants in the Pants and Don't Break the Ice.
Parts of the fortune teller are labelled with colors or numbers that serve as options for a player to choose from, and on the inside are eight flaps, each concealing a message. The person operating the fortune teller manipulates the device based on the choices made by the player, and finally one of the hidden messages is revealed.
Chilton Cengage Archived 2017-12-28 at the Wayback Machine—the website of Chilton Cengage, current publisher of Chilton's automotive manuals. DIY Auto Repair Archived 2013-03-14 at the Wayback Machine by Chilton Online Car Manuals; Chilton Print Manuals (2018 archived link) by Chilton Manuals, part of Haynes North America, Inc.
Perfection is a game originally produced by the Pennsylvania company Reed Toys and then by the Milton Bradley company. The object is to put all the pieces into matching holes on the board (pushed down) before the time limit runs out.
Haynes Owner's Workshop Manuals (commonly known as Haynes Manuals) is a series manuals from the British and American publisher Haynes Group Limited. The series focuses primarily on the maintenance and repair of vehicles. The manuals are aimed at beginner and advanced DIY consumers rather than professional
Cootie, a slang term for head lice infestation Cootie, an alternate name for a sideswiper manual telegraph key Cooter Brown , or Cootie Brown, a name used in metaphors and similes for drunkenness in the Southern United States