The Joys of Hexaflexagons!

[Raithe]

And it is the Month of the Hexaflexagon!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIVIegSt81k&feature=youtu.be

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paQ10POrZh8&feature=youtu.be

[LadyCrimson]

So is that what you call those things .... I remember when I was little, some kids would be clustered around each other while one showed off with one....as well as other "things you can do with paper" items.

[AGX-17]

Isn't that the future-prediction device from South Park?

[Tigranes]

Very similar to a decades-old Korean children's game, East/West/South/North:

 

 

 

You can flex/fold it in various directions, obviously. Generally you write down a mix of rewards and punishments on the insides, the player calls out a set of directions (3 North, 1 East), you flex thus, and then the player does whatever the resulting panel demands.

 

I remember it was mostly things like get hit in the forehead, or smell somebody's sock. Children's imagination, my arse.

[LadyCrimson]

Oh yes. I've seen that one a lot too. It's the one I was thinking of when I said "things you can do with paper," in fact. Just couldn't think of how to describe it.