FLAMES (game)

FLAMES or FLAME is a paper-and-pencil game popular among school-aged children, which is theoretically related to the Josephus problem and other counting-out games. FLAMES or FLAME is an acronym for the possible outcomes of the game. In order, they are:

  • F: friends (or friendship)
  • L: lovers (or love)
  • A: affectionate (or affection)
  • M: marriage
  • E: enemies
  • S: siblings (or sister): it may be omitted in some variations

This game is played to predict the future relationship between a person and their crush (or celebrity crush). If a player does not achieve the desired outcome, they may retry with different variations of their names to influence the outcome. The reactions to the game's outcome may reveal a player's true feelings toward the person they are paired with. The game, however, does not accurately predict the true relationship between any two persons.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.