Jinx (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.[1][2] It can also be used to refer to the general phenomenon of uttering the same content at the same time.

  1. ^ Roud, Steve (2010). The Lore of the Playground: One Hundred Years of Children's Games, Rhymes & Traditions. Random House UK. p. 379. ISBN 978-1905211517.
  2. ^ Oremland, Jerome D. (1973). "The Jinx game: A ritualized expression of separation-individuation". The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. 28: 419–431. doi:10.1080/00797308.1973.11822303.