Klecksography

[3] Justinus Kerner invented this technique when he started accidentally dropping blots of ink onto paper due to failing eyesight.

In 1896, a similar game was described in the United States by Ruth McEnery Stuart and Albert Bigelow Paine in a book titled Gobolinks, or Shadow-Pictures for Young and Old.

[2] As a child in Switzerland, Hermann Rorschach enjoyed klecksography so much that his friends nicknamed him "Klecks", meaning "inkblot".

In studying Freud's work on dream symbolism, Rorschach was reminded of his youthful inkblot hobby.

He then created his Rorschach test to see if people's reactions to inkblots could be used as a tool to uncover unconscious desires.