Cat’s Cradle

I used to play this excessively as a kid. Apparently it’s called Cat’s Cradle in English. (I can’t remember what we used to call it in Swiss-German.) My favorite part of the game always the passing it on to a friend, while continuing to play. Thanks for the flash-back, Mrs. Easton.

16 Comments leave a comment below

  1. bei uns im norden sagt man glaube ich hexenspiel. ich hab’s noch nie jemanden alleine spielen sehen!

    jan
    Apr 29th, 2011 / 10:00 am

  2. Didn’t we call it “Chatzeleiterli”?

    Andreas
    Apr 29th, 2011 / 10:17 am

  4. Chatzeliterli – würi au säge.

    Manuela
    Apr 29th, 2011 / 11:56 am

  5. I almost totally forgot about the two-person version. Time to break out the string!

    Mrs. Easton
    Apr 29th, 2011 / 12:59 pm

  6. WOW!
    A truly international game (and that meant a lot, before internet). I used to play this with my grandmother, over 30 years ago, in Naples (Italy).

    Marco
    Apr 29th, 2011 / 1:49 pm

  7. Wow! It’s truly an international game. I learnt the game when I was in Hong Kong as a little boy. Now I taught my kids to play, n they like the game too.

    Michael
    Apr 29th, 2011 / 3:05 pm

  8. Ich kenne es als “abnäh”… :)

    Silvia
    Apr 29th, 2011 / 7:34 pm

  9. Love this!
    I’ll have to teach my little sister to play. We would always do it as a two player game, and to get to the next step you would pass it off. This seems so much harder!

    Casey Haughland
    Apr 29th, 2011 / 10:22 pm

  10. Wait, you can do this by yourself?!? I *only* knew the two-person version. I’ve been missing out on Cat’s Cradle solo enjoyment!

    gretchen
    Apr 29th, 2011 / 10:26 pm

  11. Love it! Used to play for hours when I was a child in Switzerland (like u).

    Gada
    Apr 30th, 2011 / 1:30 am

  12. I used to play it to with my grandmother in Elsass! What a good souvenir to kick off the weekend.

    iiome
    Apr 30th, 2011 / 3:42 am

  13. Hey Swiss Miss,
    Great video! What do you think of FCUK’s attempt??

    Rich

    Richard Cole
    Apr 30th, 2011 / 7:17 am

  14. Habe auch stundenlang chatzegleiterlet als Kind.

    ChliiTierChnübler
    Apr 30th, 2011 / 10:19 am

  15. I used to play it as a kid here in mexico :)

    Nixté
    May 2nd, 2011 / 12:10 pm

  16. The handing-it-over-to-the-next-person was my favourite bit, too. But how did we know how to DO all of that?!!

    Frau Dietz
    May 17th, 2011 / 11:06 am