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Muscles posted...

It's made by a board game company, what else would you call it?

A trick. Maybe a toy (which Hasbro is also known for making). I get why it's marketed as a game, because marketing it as a toy or a trick takes away some of the mystique, but to me games need to have an outcome or a goal to feasibly achieve. The "goal" of talking to a ghost through a ouija board is not actually possible and most the enjoyment of this product tends to come from one user tricking the others. You could definitely make the case for it being a game in the sense that it's the goal of one person to get the others to believe in ghosts and whatnot, but then it's really just a game one person knows about while the rest are being duped. The semantics of whether it's a game, a trick, or a toy are not all that important to me though. If someone wants to call it a game I'm not going to stop them.