Title: The Jelly Bean Game
General Information about Item:
- Customary Folklore: Game
- Language: English
- Country: United States
Informant Data:
- The informant is a Dartmouth ’21 female. She went on a first-year trip in September 2017; the trip was hiking (level 3).
Contextual Data:
- Social Context
- All the trippees sitting around a circle together while taking a break from physical activities
- Cultural Context
- Provides a way for the trippees to share things about themselves with the group to get to know each other — common to play games to get to know one another in American culture.
Item:
- The Jelly Bean game: each jelly bean color corresponds to a different category of story. Each person then picks a jelly bean and tells a story corresponding to that color of jelly bean.
Transcript of Informant Interview:
“We only played the jelly bean game one time. We sat around at a rest stop and there were six different colors of jelly beans in this gigantic bag and we labeled each color a different category. So purple might have been like a horror story or a scary story and pink might have been like a story from your childhood and red is an embarrassing story. And then person by person, someone reaches in and randomly picks a color of jelly bean out of the bag. So the person would then tell a story based on the color of jelly bean that they picked.”
Informant’s Comments:
- It was a really fun game, and a cool way to learn interesting things about the other people on my trip.
Collector’s Comments:
- Informant was able to give a detailed account of the experience that he had on trips.
Collector’s Name: Madison DeRose
Tags/Keywords:
- Customary Folklore, Game, Jelly Bean, Stories, Bonding