The Cube (game)
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The Cube is a Kokology
game about self knowledge
and is played by asking a person to imagine and describe a set of three to five objects. The game is usually played by two people. One person is designated as the narrator, and the other is the interpreter. Usually these roles are swapped after successful interpretation.
The Cube is a way of judging somebody's personality by the way they narrate the following.
Once the narrator has an understanding of the scene described, he or she may assist the player in interpreting the scene.
Kokology
Kokology is the study of kokoro which in the aforementioned language means "mind" or "spirit". The series of Kokology books were created by Tadahiko Nagao and Isamu Saito, a professor at Rissho and Waseda Universities in Japan and an author of a number of bestselling books regarding psychology and...
game about self knowledge
Self image
A person's self-image is the mental picture, generally of a kind that is quite resistant to change, that depicts not only details that are potentially available to objective investigation by others A person's self-image is the mental picture, generally of a kind that is quite resistant to change,...
and is played by asking a person to imagine and describe a set of three to five objects. The game is usually played by two people. One person is designated as the narrator, and the other is the interpreter. Usually these roles are swapped after successful interpretation.
The Cube is a way of judging somebody's personality by the way they narrate the following.
The narration phase
While there are slight variations of the game from person to person, the game begins by asking another person to imagine a desert scene. The game then follows by asking the person to place and describe a cube in the scene. Once the cube is completely described, the narrator of the game then asks for the player to describe a ladder that is also placed in the scene. This process continues with a horse, a storm, and finally, foliage and/or flowers.Once the narrator has an understanding of the scene described, he or she may assist the player in interpreting the scene.