MASH (game)
Encyclopedia
MASH is a game
, commonly played by young children, intended to predict one's future
. M.A.S.H. stands for mansion
, apartment
, shack
(variations include street
, shed
, sewers
, and shelter
), or house
. The game revolves around four categories: the car, the kind of house, the partner, and the number of kids. The way the game is played is with one person drawing several ticks inside of a box. When the person says "Stop" the person will then count the number of ticks drawn, and this will be the amount of rotations used per round. Once you are done each rotation, you cross off the word that you land on. By the end of the game, you will have 4 words left, each from a different category. This is considered the player's future. Many of the objects in each category may be negative (e.g. someone the person does not like as a partner, something like a shopping cart
or an egg carton
as a car) however some may be positive (e.g. someone the person does like as a partner, something like a ferrari
as a car).
Game
A game is structured playing, usually undertaken for enjoyment and sometimes used as an educational tool. Games are distinct from work, which is usually carried out for remuneration, and from art, which is more often an expression of aesthetic or ideological elements...
, commonly played by young children, intended to predict one's future
Fortune-telling
Fortune-telling is the practice of predicting information about a person's life. The scope of fortune-telling is in principle identical with the practice of divination...
. M.A.S.H. stands for mansion
Mansion
A mansion is a very large dwelling house. U.S. real estate brokers define a mansion as a dwelling of over . A traditional European mansion was defined as a house which contained a ballroom and tens of bedrooms...
, apartment
Apartment
An apartment or flat is a self-contained housing unit that occupies only part of a building...
, shack
Shack
A shack is a type of small house, usually in a state of disrepair. The word may derive from the Nahuatl word xacalli or "adobe house" by way of Mexican Spanish xacal/jacal, which has the same meaning as "shack". It was a common usage among people of Mexican ancestry throughout the U.S...
(variations include street
Homelessness
Homelessness describes the condition of people without a regular dwelling. People who are homeless are unable or unwilling to acquire and maintain regular, safe, and adequate housing, or lack "fixed, regular, and adequate night-time residence." The legal definition of "homeless" varies from country...
, shed
Shed
A shed is typically a simple, single-storey structure in a back garden or on an allotment that is used for storage, hobbies, or as a workshop....
, sewers
Sewerage
Sewerage refers to the infrastructure that conveys sewage. It encompasses receiving drains, manholes, pumping stations, storm overflows, screening chambers, etc. of the sanitary sewer...
, and shelter
Homeless shelter
Homeless shelters are temporary residences for homeless people which seek to protect vulnerable populations from the often devastating effects of homelessness while simultaneously reducing the environmental impact on the community...
), or house
House
A house is a building or structure that has the ability to be occupied for dwelling by human beings or other creatures. The term house includes many kinds of different dwellings ranging from rudimentary huts of nomadic tribes to free standing individual structures...
. The game revolves around four categories: the car, the kind of house, the partner, and the number of kids. The way the game is played is with one person drawing several ticks inside of a box. When the person says "Stop" the person will then count the number of ticks drawn, and this will be the amount of rotations used per round. Once you are done each rotation, you cross off the word that you land on. By the end of the game, you will have 4 words left, each from a different category. This is considered the player's future. Many of the objects in each category may be negative (e.g. someone the person does not like as a partner, something like a shopping cart
Shopping cart
A shopping cart is a cart supplied by a shop, especially supermarkets, for use by customers inside the shop for transport of merchandise to the check-out counter during shopping...
or an egg carton
Egg carton
An egg carton is a carton designed for carrying and transporting whole eggs. These cartons have a dimpled form in which each dimple accommodates an individual egg and isolates that egg from eggs in adjacent dimples...
as a car) however some may be positive (e.g. someone the person does like as a partner, something like a ferrari
Ferrari
Ferrari S.p.A. is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1929, as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles as Ferrari S.p.A. in 1947...
as a car).