![]() ![]() A single strand of hair from your own head.A dark, quiet room where you are unlikely to be disturbed.No matter how safe this ritual may seem, you are still opening up your doors and inviting in something that… may not belong there.Īs always, play at your own risk. You can perform it easily at home, without any specialized equipment and, generally, with relatively minimal danger.īut, as I’m usually wont to say when that’s the case, “minimal” danger doesn’t mean no danger. That’s interesting to me it indicates that the ritual doesn’t really seem to have evolved much. For one thing, its format bears a lot of similarities to other Japanese paranormal games that first popped up online there and for another, the first English language version of it that appeared on the internet came from Saya Yomino of Saya In Underworld - and Yomino generally translates existing pieces of text, rather than adapting them into something else.įollowing the publication of Yomino’s translation in early 2013, One Person Chit-Chat began appearing periodically in English elsewhere on the internet, typically in more or less the same form. In any event, though, I am reasonably sure that it originated on 2ch/5ch, probably sometime around 2010 (give or take a few years). ![]() The lack of unambiguous, concrete, yet still unique search terms made looking further into this one… difficult. Nearly everything I pulled up that had “チットチャット” as part of the search criteria had something to do with either a sports school in Osaka or a café in Hawaii - and even when I excluded “sports” and “Hawaii” from the search, I still ended up with a huge array of unrelated results. There are more colloquialisms involved in both the title of the game and the rules to play than there are in, say, something like the Elevator Game for instance, although there is a direct equivalent of “chit-chat” in Japanese - “チットチャット,” a loanword that’s literally pronounced “chittochatto” - I’m unsure about whether that’s the term actually used in Japanese language versions of this game. Think of it like having a conversation with a ghost.Īlthough this game almost certainly is Japanese in origin, I haven’t been able to track down a Japanese source for it yet - but that’s pretty much entirely due to the fact that I can’t quite figure out what the appropriate search terms would be to locate one. They might not be visible to the human eye - but they’re there. If all goes as it’s meant to, then you’ll end up with a… correspondent of sorts in the other chair. There isn’t much to the Japanese ritual game usually called One Man Chit-Chat (or One Person Chit-Chat, if you prefer - I certainly do) all you really need to do is set up two chairs in a dark room, sit down in one of them, and start talking. Note: Please don’t copy/paste or republish the text of this post on other websites without permission. Previously: The Elevator Game, Revisited.
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