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All the ones people mentioned, also children have a game called "Chatterbox" where they will make a paper origami...pyramid that flips open as you manipulate it with your hands. The game usually has several steps where the person will ask a secondary question like "What's your favourite number, and then flip the pyramid the number of letters in that word, and then ask the person making the question to lift a flap containing the written answer. Really complex devices can have mechanisms that change the conformation of the chatterbox with each answer given and 2 dozen or more possible answers.
Here is the wiki article describing them.
We called these cootie catchers
Yeah, we had that here a lot as well. I never knew what they were called, so chatterbox is now a word that I know in English but not in my language lol also, oddly enough, this was very much a girl thing. Growing up, I think I must have seen boys doing this just two or three times, and it was always a really shitty version of the elaborate, pretty chatterboxes that girls did.
Nah, growing up in the US, this was also a very "girl" thing
I went to a co ed school, and while the girls did put more effort in the boys were also quite into it. One guy made a combination with a paper airplane and kept throwing it at people.
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We just called them fortune tellers, because my friends were uncreative I guess.