Do Ouija boards actually work?

Question

I have heard many stories and I tried a crappy homemade one a little while back and it failed...miserably. I'm interested in doing a proper one but they seem so expensive online. Has anybody tried one before and if you have what happened?

Also I want my tarot cards read, if anyone has had them read what was that like and roughly how much was it?

Thanks

Answer 1

Yeh, but a real one will probably suck your soul out in the process

Answer 2

Not at all.

Answer 3

They only 'work' if you believe they do.  Most of us believe they are a hoax, but a few people swear by them.

Answer 4

probably but im so ******* afraid of using one!

Answer 5

Nope.

Answer 6

i have one and it has never EVER worked! they are just fake fake fake and dont believe what anyone tells you they dont work!  

Answer 7

I am not going to answer your question entirely.  But I will give you this advice, please do not play with these.  I highly recommend not venturing your curiosity in these false predictions or answers.  You're only going to open up doors you wished you haven't.

Yes, unfortunately I have tried one before and things got creepy.  Friends have ran into bad incidences as well.  Luckily I believe I have shaken off the negative aspects that I have encountered after playing this board.  If you are Christian/Catholic, look to God for answers and not these things that you have questioned about.

I hope you take my advice and forget about playing this.  Please trust me.  It is not a game.  If you do play it, you may be putting yourself at high risk.  If you're lucky, nothing could happen.

Answer 8

Ouija boards actually do work. And a home made board is the way to go, try using a poster board from the dollar store or something. One thing though, is you have to be very serious, and very careful. Try reading up some more on line, make sure you get down everything like the virgin white candle, and blessing the board. If you have any friends who have done a successful board as well, invite them. Because some people are stronger, and the spirit can move easier when there is more power.

Answer 9

I supposed you'll never know till you try it, But i wouldn't risk it, My life and of those around me are much more important then my own curiosity

Answer 10

Two words: Ideomotor effect.

Answer 11

Well I can answer the Tarot card one. A Girl in Highschool in my year was really into these things and had a translator book an all. She would sell reading for 25$, the only thing I remember was her selling method. She got a name for being impossible to persuade to read the cards. People would follow her all over begging for one. She would sell based on how desperate. It was great.  

Answer 12

don't play with fire. demons and spirits are real.  and yes i have heard of bad experiences. my cousin had a very bad one and then those spirits stay with you tormenting you day and night. it took her year for her to go back to herself.  stay away.  

Answer 13

As you'd expect, it's all just a scam. Ouija boards, psychics, tarot cards, horoscopes, people who claim to "speak to the dead" - they're all the same, and it's all just to try to trick gullible people into getting money for a useless product.

The fact of the matter is, when someone is dead, they're dead. No long distance phonecalls from a non-existent afterlife. You die, your brain stops sending little signals, you don't exist any more; therefore you cannot communicate with the living - you don't exist.

The way all of these things is tricking people - cleverly worded phrasing, vagueness, and distracting your critical and logical thought so they can sneak in bogus explanations for logical occurrences.

What I'd recommend is saving your money and spending it on products made by people who aren't trying to exploit you, lie to you, and generally try to make a fool of you.

Answer 14

They say the answers a buried in your sub-conscience and that's how you make the thingy move.

Answer 15

No they do not. As there is nothing for them too work. As for Tarot cards; ask yourself this: Can an inert piece of cardboard with a pretty picture on it foretell my future? Well, if you wish to put your future into such gibberish be my guest.

Answer 16

i dont actually think it works..

some people have like ap icture of what they want to/ or think is going to happen in the back of their head.. so when there actually experimenting with the ouija board the picture in the back of their head jumps out creating illusions

Answer 17

Yes i've tried a ouija bored. twice now actually. the first time we had results but my friedn admitted to faking it and moving the piece to the letters herself. the second time we met a ghost named juanita... so i dont think that one was real either. esp. since the house we did it in had no previous owners and one of my friends looked he was going to explode with laughter and my boyfriend looked like he new why our friend was laughing.....*sigh* i dont plan on playing ouija again any time soon....

Answer 18

I have one of those Parker Brothers Ouija boards.. It was fun when I was a little kid, because my friends would move the thing and make it look like it was real. But I tried it by myself one day recently and I got nothin..

As for Tarot cards, people tend to mistake them for fortune tellers. They do not foretell the future by any means. The purpose of the Tarot is to be perceived by the person in however way it fits with their situation. You take the advice and associate it with your own life.. It's more of a guidance for life in general. It's not magical or anything.

Answer 19

I don't believe in anything unless is scientifically proven to be honest.

I tried several seances and ouija boards when I was younger and...nothing.

Derren Brown actually done a really interesting programme on channel 4 about it....and basically proved that everything that you thought was going on was a fake it was really good, just tried to find it for you on youtube there but couldn't find it.

I wouldn't waste my money if I was you though. Bit of a marketing scam.

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Answer 20

Yea they can work. Thing is though with a group of people one could be subconciously pushing it.

Be careful though, the mear fact your using a ouji board shows that you have no experence with such things, there's better ways to do it than a ouji board really.

"The fact of the matter is, when someone is dead, they're dead. No long distance phonecalls from a non-existent afterlife. You die, your brain stops sending little signals, you don't exist any more; therefore you cannot communicate with the living - you don't exist."

You must be real clever to know all these things.

You can never know that something doesn't exsist, (except nothing but thats not something anyway).

Answer 21

It depends if you have a haunted house LOL!

tarot cards are so much fun whether they are true or not! me and my brothers laughed so hard at the results!

Answer 22

I dont think they really work.

I remember going to my friends(ex) house and we used the ouija bought at stores, and we had the candles and everything. I truly think that someone was pushing the little thingy.

Tarot cards.. well when I was around 5 my brother read tarot cards to me, i think he was trying to freak me out but i really dont know.

he forced me to give him 10 dollars or he's cut all my bratz dolls hair off -.-

Answer 23

A group of friends and I tried it on a full moon, in a cemetery and nothing happened.  I personally believe that they are foolish and weak board game.  

Tarot cards:  the eye of the future... not really.  They are just pictures that if the person understands the card enough, can read you like a book.  Everybody has up, downs, and the death of something.  

These are just toys that people make Boku bucks off of shmoe's to believe that they really work.  

Answer 24

Ouija Boards are very dangerous and I won't come near one even if someone with a lot of experience and knowledge is using it.

Expierince please don't ever use one do yourself a favor

Answer 25

They work at frightening people and parting them with their money, but apart from that, no.

Answer 26

Yes and no at the same time.

If you consider that "self-suggestion" may lead to answers that make sense, then yes, it works (because the "game" actually allows you to retrieve answers from it).

Now, if you consider that "self-suggestion" doesn't count, since the purpose of the game is having something paranormal give you the answers, then NO, it doesn't work.

Either way, you can't skip the fact that the mechanism is self-suggestion :)

Answer 27

I have used one with a few of my friends and they do work! None of us knew how to use one, we were 11,10, 9 and another 9 year old girls, who had never used one before and it worked! We also made a homemade one, and the spirit said stuff we couldn't make up, like he was an evil knight, who was in h**l because he killed someone, and said my friend was in danger of being ugly!

I think they really do work :)

Answer 28

Gullibility, poor knowledge of how things actually are, and the idiomotor effect are sufficient to explain everything!

Answer 29

I don't know, but I'm a little skeptical. I was over my friends house a month ago and we made a big homemade one. She's a real jokester and admitted to faking to see a ghost (it went on for about a week, she kept saying she saw "Harrold" around, Harrold was the kid we talked to on the board) Anyway, everyone crowded over and we got white candles, made a salt circle and stuff. The first one we made, her sister peed on it. LOL. The second, my friend dropped candle wax on it and we got all scared. x]

Answer 30

There's Target and Toys R Us that I know of. They sell them with the other boards games.

A cousin of mine had and a very bad experience it was. If you really are planning on doing this then make sure you are well protected because you never know what will come thru Good or Bad. Take Care.

Answer 31

A group of people want the answer to be something so it is that answer.  So if your in a dark room and ask "Are there any souls here" the game would be over if you say NO!