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6-year-old: I want to play that kids game with the people again. Me: ...with people? What were they doing? 6-year-old: You... click the little white people to complete things! Me: ...complete things? That's lots of games... 6-year-old: NO!! THEY JUMP IN HOLES! Me: Ohhhh, you want the game KIDS!

Update: I must report with some degree of [ untranslatable term that combines regret, trepidation, irony and wonder ] that KIDS has now become a schoolyard phenomenon during my local 1st grade dropoff… a socially gravitational vortex of its own, to some parents’ curious consternation.

“It’s an interactive artwork from Switzerland!” I explain with assistive nervousness, as 6-year-olds help digest and expel anonymous crowd figures. 6-year-old #2: How do you knooow they’re kids?!? 6-year-old #1: BECAUSE THE GAME IS CALLED “KIDS” SILLY