How to Guess What Your Presents Are (Kids)

If you asked for a video game, each box is different., Look for strange protrusions, holes, or squishy pieces., Look at the box shape., Feel it and compare the protrusions to something you wanted.

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Step-by-Step Guide

  1. Step 1: If you asked for a video game

    Xbox boxes are tall with two sharp corners and two rounded ones.

    Feel the corners.

    PS3 titles have four rounded corners and a long divet.

    It is a few centimetres shorter than the Wii/U case but much taller than the 3/DS.

    Wii/U cases are taller than PS3 and 3/DS.

    Its corners are all sharp, with a long divet.

    Feel the rim. 3/DS games come in a box shorter than PS3 and Wii/U.

    Its corners are all sharp, with a short divot.

    Feel the rim.
  2. Step 2: each box is different.

    Squishy pieces indicate stuffed toys.

    Strange protrusions mean a doll, a kit or even a large food item! Holes may be "try me" holes. , Oddly shaped long quadrilaterals may be chocolate.

    A flat box with no wrapping is a clothes box, guaranteed.

    If a divot runs along three sides it's a book. , If there are multiple matches (such as finding a 3DS game and wanting Tomodachi Life) you may have gotten what you wanted!
  3. Step 3: Look for strange protrusions

  4. Step 4: or squishy pieces.

  5. Step 5: Look at the box shape.

  6. Step 6: Feel it and compare the protrusions to something you wanted.

Detailed Guide

Xbox boxes are tall with two sharp corners and two rounded ones.

Feel the corners.

PS3 titles have four rounded corners and a long divet.

It is a few centimetres shorter than the Wii/U case but much taller than the 3/DS.

Wii/U cases are taller than PS3 and 3/DS.

Its corners are all sharp, with a long divet.

Feel the rim. 3/DS games come in a box shorter than PS3 and Wii/U.

Its corners are all sharp, with a short divot.

Feel the rim.

Squishy pieces indicate stuffed toys.

Strange protrusions mean a doll, a kit or even a large food item! Holes may be "try me" holes. , Oddly shaped long quadrilaterals may be chocolate.

A flat box with no wrapping is a clothes box, guaranteed.

If a divot runs along three sides it's a book. , If there are multiple matches (such as finding a 3DS game and wanting Tomodachi Life) you may have gotten what you wanted!

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