You will find you have returned to the “real world” and your wish will be granted. You’re allowed to let go of your friend’s thumb to grab it.Īnd now that you’ve got the poor woman’s (eww) severed thumb, hold it tightly, then blow out the candle and make a wish. If you do find the severed thumb, don’t worry. Here are some more Scary Games to Play Winning the Game make you vulnerable somehow? I don’t know. Because the spirit of the murderer is likely still at the villa, waiting for the next victim, and looking behind you will. If you do, that person will lose their left thumb, just like the woman who was murdered!
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Now that you know how to play the game, here are some rules to keep you safe.
You have until the candle burns out so get crackin’, because if you don’t find the thumb in time, you are stuck here forever! *Spooky Noises* Rules of the Game Step 6: You should find yourself in the villa (ha, okay, sure) and should start looking for the thumb immediately. You don’t have to do the creepy chant at all. Step 5: Now everyone must chant the following twice:Īlternatively, instead of chanting you can just visualize the villa (yes, yes, I mean the cottage) where the woman was murdered. Step 4: Everyone should close their eyes and imagine they are in the villa where the woman was murdered. Step 3: Now everyone should grab the left thumb of the person on their right. Step 2: Place a candle in the center of the circle and light it. This means you need at least four three people to play the game. So drag at least two other people down with you! The more people looking for the thumb, the better chance you have of finding it, right? Ideally, you would need a group of people for this, not just one or two. Now, why in the world would you want to go looking for a dead lady’s thumb?īecause anyone who finds the thumb is granted a wish!Īpparently, being horribly murdered and chopped into sushi grants dead people magic powers or something. If you screw up the ritual in any way, then you become trapped in the location of the murder.
The object of the game is to find the dead woman’s thumb! (Even though it’s been, like, decades since she was murdered, and the thumb is probably now a white bone you could easily mistake for a rock.)īut to find the thumb, you need to invoke some kind of ritual that takes you to the place where she was murdered. The more you know, huh? You might also like the Cat Scratch Game How to Play Originally, the location of the murder was referred to as a “cottage,” which in Japanese would imply a holiday home or secondary residence.
I mean, I could just use the Find and Replace function, but it’s funnier if I don’t. The reference to the murder location as a “villa” is actually a common mistranslation.īut because I didn’t realize that until after I wrote this entire article, I’m going to keep calling it a villa. Kind of how The Craft made Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board such a sleepover fav back in the 90’s. I’m not sure the novel has been translated, but the film would at least have translated close captions.Īs you might have guessed, the Thumb Game owes its recent popularity to the book and subsequent novel that featured it. I’m half-inclined to see the film, at least.
In 2006, the novel was adapted into a film with the same title ( Vanished) and has never had a U.S. The novel, titled Vanished, was written by Yusuke Yamada and was the story of a group of young children who played the Thumb Game only to have their friend, Yumi, completely disappear! What most people don’t realize is that the Thumb Game is not only based on a Japanese urban legend but also a novel and a book adaptation. The police found all the pieces of the woman’s body except for her left thumb.Ĭan you see where this is going? The Thumb Game Origins Her body parts were then spread around the villa for. Like a lot of weird sleepover games, the Thumb Game is a “Cursed Game” based on a Japanese urban legend, this one about a woman who was allegedly murdered in a villa and chopped into little pieces.
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