Seven minutes in heaven
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| Seven minutes in heaven | |
|---|---|
| Players | 2, sometimes more |
| Age range | Teenage |
| Setup time | Negligible |
| Playing time | Highly variable1 |
| Random chance | High |
| Skills required | None |
| 1 Play time depends on the number of players, their willingness to kiss other participants, and the time between couples going into the closet. | |
Seven minutes in heaven is a basic kissing game wherein two, usually randomly selected, participants are left alone in a closet or similarly dark area for a specified period of time, canonically seven minutes.
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[edit] Overview
The game can be played by two or more participants who are forced to be alone for a specified time interval, canonically seven minutes. Participants can be of any gender. During each cycle of play, two participants are selected randomly. It is often implied that these participants may engage in kissing, hugging. Participants in this game are usually teenagers.
[edit] Variations
Many variations on the game exist. Most often the subject of these variations include the duration, method of random selection, the degree to which a selection method is actually random, and the existence of external objectives.
[edit] Variation in selection
Random selection is often achieved by such means as spinning a bottle, rolling dice, flipping coins or some other selection scheme. Additionally, selection methods need not be strictly random and may depend on skill as in "sixty seconds in heaven" described below.
[edit] Sixty seconds in heaven
The "sixty seconds in heaven" variant is a semi-random, skill-based selection variant played with lipstick. Each participant in randomly selected pairs puts on lipstick and tries to kiss the other as many times as possible in one minute. The couple emerging with the most lipstick on their faces at the end are declared the winners. In some cases this couple then enters the darkened space and kisses rapidly as in the cutie game.
[edit] Variation in duration
Although the game is canonically played with the selected coupled sealed away for seven minutes, this need not always be the case. This time period is often shortened, often to a single minute, or, more rarely, lengthened beyond seven minutes. This can be done to modify the pace of the game to a rate deemed appropriate by participants.
[edit] External objectives
The extent to which seven minutes in heaven is a game is unclear. Because it usually lacks any sort of formal objective other than to achieve or encourage physical intimacy, it may be more appropriately classified as an activity. However, external objectives may also exist. In one variant, for example, participants kiss for a specified time interval within a round-robin tournament format and secretly (or, sometimes, publicly) assign a rating to their partner. These ratings can then be processed to declare a winner who would be the subjective "best kisser" of the group.
