I recall using the board when I was 12 to 14 with my parents, relatives, etc. It was bizarre how it could answer questions and how you could never pin down how it was moving on the board and anwering questions with complicated answers.
When you tried to trip it up, I remember the scroller would just start doing circles faster and faster until it literally moved off the board.
Weird.
OM gosh, I used it at the same ages - 6th, 7th & 8th grade. We always asked it, “Who will ______ marry?” “Does ______ like _______?” Freaked us out, but none of us as far as I know, ever became devil worshippers, mediums, witches, etc. We were all classmates at a Catholic school in NJ, and this was around 1979-81-ish.
We had no clue how it worked - but we had fun with it and it entertained us for those jr. high years.
Someone was pushing it. Gee, hard to figure out.