Ouija boards don’t work except by the ideomotor effect in which people subconsciously cause the planchette to spell out the “answers” they want to see, or by people who deliberately spell out the words while saying that they’re “not doing” anything.
From Wiki:
“One of the first mentions of the automatic writing method using a “talking” board is found in China around 1100 AD, in historical documents of the Song Dynasty. The method was known as fuji 扶乩 “planchette writing”. The use of planchette writing as a means of ostensibly contacting the dead and the spirit-world continued, and, albeit under special rituals and supervisions, was a central practice of the Quanzhen School, until it was forbidden by the Qing Dynasty. Several entire scriptures of the Daozang are supposedly works of automatic planchette writing. Similar methods of mediumistic spirit writing have been widely practiced in ancient India, Greece, Rome, and medieval Europe.
During the late 19th century, planchettes were widely sold as a novelty item. The businessmen Elijah Bond and Charles Kennard had the idea to patent a planchette sold with a board on which the alphabet was printed. The patentees filed on May 28, 1890 for patent protection and thus had invented the first Ouija board. Issue date on the patent was February 10, 1891. They received U.S. Patent 446,054.
Bond was an attorney and was an inventor of other objects in addition to this device. An employee of Kennard, William Fuld took over the talking board production and in 1901, he started production of his own boards under the name “Ouija”. Kennard claimed he learned the name “Ouija” from using the board and that it was an ancient Egyptian word meaning “good luck.” When Fuld took over production of the boards, he popularized the more widely accepted etymology, that the name came from a combination of the French and German words for “yes”. The Fuld name would become synonymous with the Ouija board, as Fuld reinvented its history, claiming that he himself had invented it.
The strange talk about the boards from Fuld’s competitors flooded the market and all these boards enjoyed a heyday from the 1920s through the 1960s. Fuld sued many companies over the “Ouija” name and concept right up until his death in 1927. In 1966, Fuld’s estate sold the entire business to Parker Brothers, which was sold to Hasbro in 1991, and which continues to hold all trademarks and patents. About ten brands of talking boards are sold today under various names.”
For anyone who thinks “real spirits” can “talk” to you through such a board, think about this. A spirit would have no eyes, therefore it couldn’t physically see the board. Unless the user is claiming to be possessed, then the spirit can’t see through their eyes either. This leaves the idea that the spirit can metaphysically see or sense the letters, numbers, and symbols on the board.
If that is so then the spirit can tell where the letters are no matter where they are.
Try this: Using no less than three people, two using the board and one filming, print your own board using a mixed-up alphabet and numbers with the symbols all in random places, but don’t let the “players” see the new arrangement. Blindfold both “players” and start asking questions. See what “answers” you get.
Unless you’re cheating you’ll get completely random arrangements of characters with absolutely zero word formation or even the answers to yes/no questions.
I guarantee it.