OUR LOVE OF GAMES is born at an early age. From the time we start fitting brightly colored cubes and stars into the corresponding holes of our Playskool shape sorter, it’s instilled in us that puzzle-solving—coupled with the thrill of victory—is a gratifying pursuit. Our competitive sensibilities are forged when we play rock-paper-scissors with our sibling to see who will have to clear the table, or when we dive for that last chair the second the music stops. “Children” and “games” go hand-inhand, but many of us (fortunately) never grow out of it.
For this issue, I decided to interview a handful of diminutive humans (all children of my friends, aside from Oliver, whom I must claim as my own) about the games they personally cherish, all of which have withstood the test of time. Some things I learned in the process are that kids: a) like to start almost every sentence with the word “so”; b) enjoy the sound of their own voices; c) all seem
