Not for kids only

Now that it is clearly summer, the need for increasing our repertoire of fun things to do is evermore apparent.

This is Lee Rush's photo of a game called "Knots." It was one of the most often-played games in the New Games repertoire. It's the game where everyone stands in a circle, then holds hands with people across the circle so that each hand is holding someone else's hand. This makes a knot. The next step is to, without letting go, see if it's possible to unknot. It is great and often profound fun as players try to help each other figure out where to cross over and which way to twist and whether the goal of ultimate untanglement is actually achievable.

Oddliy enough, it's among the 250 so-called "Kids Games" in this rather delicious collection of agelessly silly things to do. Similar in spirit to my at least half-vast collection of what I have come to call "Pointless" games, it becomes an even more valued resource when we discover it's not just for kids.