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Some of the things that INTJs enjoy playing with are not usually considered toys in the
conventional sense. Microscopes, telescopes, science kits, chemistry sets and insect/tadpole rearing
facilities are much loved by young INTJs. But also, toasters, lamps, fans, and other appliances that
can be disassembled with a screwdriver. The dissection of mechanical objects is a favorite pastime,
though not necessarily the reassembly. Categorizing and arranging everyday objects (like
potholders, crayons, rocks, or books) in various systems can also provide amusement.
INTJs are good at the game where you have a jar of candy and have to guess how many there are.
Rather than making a random guesstimate, they will actually try to calculate the amount using their
fledgling math skills and careful counting.
For an INTJ, designing a play activity is actually more fun than actually playing. INTJs will
typically start off with a few vehicles, animals, or soldiers, then proceed to design an ideal
environment for them. Houses, forts, zoos, parks, monuments and whole cities may be constructed
out of sand, mud, rocks, snow, blocks, couch cushions, sticks, Lincoln Logs, Legos, and whatever
other materials are at hand. INTJ children enjoy explaining all the useful features offered by their
house or town, and showing off how the inhabitants enjoy using said features.
However, once the INTJ is done designing the city or house, they may have little real interest in
making up pretend stories about the inhabitants. The set up, not the play, is what they find
intriguing. At this point they will perhaps introduce a reason to add onto the current construction
(“My horse had babies! Now we need even more pastures, corrals and stables!”) or else find a
reason to renovate, i.e. a natural disaster that strikes the poor town and annihilates one half of the
buildings.
If the INTJ is not designing an environment for their toys, they may instead design an environment
for themselves. The tree house, the couch cushion fort, the box fort, and the snow fort are all INTJ
favorites. Pets too may have environments built for them. An INTJ child may enjoy constructing
pens, building tunnel systems for rodents, and laying out aquariums and terrariums.
The elegance of an INTJ’s constructions may be one of the things that makes them stand out from
their playmates. They are the one with the coolest castle, or the tallest marshmallow-and-toothpick
tower. INTJs enjoy shyly basking in the admiration for their creations.
However, INTJs generally find it annoying when other children try to help them with their
constructions. They know instinctively that this “help” really consists of: a.) throwing on poorly
thought out, ugly additions and spoiling the beauty of the design, b.) not showing sufficient respect
for the physical properties of the building materials and clumsily destroying the delicate structure,
and c.) just plain, pure, gleeful destruction.
I doubt there is an INTJ in the world whose lovingly-designed creation has not been demolished in
the blink of eye by a delighted classmate. I pushed together a huge pile of playground gravel—
gravel!--and a boy running past went out of his way to step on it. Is it any wonder so many INTJs
end up cynical and bitter?
Parents: if your INTJ doesn’t want the other kids to play with them, don’t force the issue. The INTJ
recognizes that other children are worse than arsonists, dynamiters and termites combined when it
comes to building projects. By saying “let other children play too,” you are telling them that they
must let well-meant saboteurs and careless young vandals ruin their beautiful creation. You might
as well be saying, “Please, let other children scribble all over your drawing as much as they want.”
Is such victimization really a good life lesson?
Besides construction, INTJs will also indulge in engineering pastimes, i.e. designing Lego vehicles