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Jinx (game)

Children's game

Children's 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. 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. 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. A report in 1973 described that the loser should remain silent until they are freed by the winner. In another, the winner will say, "Jinx, buy me a soda" or "pinch poke, you owe me a Coke" first and the loser must comply. There is also a version where the name of the jinxee has to be uttered to "free" the jinxee.

References

References

  1. Roud, Steve. (2010). "The Lore of the Playground: One Hundred Years of Children's Games, Rhymes & Traditions". Random House UK.
  2. Oremland, Jerome D.. (1973). "The Jinx game: A ritualized expression of separation-individuation.". The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child.
  3. Rapoport, Judith. (1989). "Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Children and Adolescents". Amer Psychiatric Pub Incorporated.
  4. (1990). "Childhood Rituals: Normal Development or Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms?". Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.
  5. "Jinx, You Owe Me a Soda « USC Digital Folklore Archives".
  6. (1973). "Tradition and Change in American Playground Language". [[The Journal of American Folklore]].
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