You don't have to plug your gadget into the world wide web. And we have only tried a few of the games so far. Everyone joined in and everyone loved it. Oh how we laughed when we played the counting game.

It was like watching a chick learning to fly and realising that they could do it themselves. I whipped it out over Christmas with a family group including several 20somethings and they did, at first, seem perplexed by the concept of deriving entertainment from a simple book with no internet connectivity but when they got the hang of it they loved it. This may well seem inconceivable to anyone under the age of 30 but it is a fact. It contains 100 games that can be played with no electronic devices whatsoever. A similar, equally sad story for charades. People ever use smart phones to play 'who am I', instead of a simple post it note on their forehead, they now have to download an 'app' and put their phones on their heads. Just over 30 years later, it would seem that most people consider that the only form of collective family entertainment involves going on line and interacting with either a phone, a tablet or some other gadget. In 1986 Jermaine Stewart famously sang 'You Don't Have to Take Your Clothes off to Have a Good Time'. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice.

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The Floor Is Lava by Ivan Brett