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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]
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.
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.
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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 ...