4 Brand New Cat's Cradle String Games! The Original.

4 Brand New Cat's Cradle String Games:

Four Orange and Yellow Super String Thing's will be shipped with each order. The Super String Thing is the Original Cat's Cradle Game. Directions are printed on the inside of the cardboard backing.

How to play (Wikipedia) :

The aim of the game is to make the cat's cradle. This is created by two sets of crossed string between both hands. A second player grasps each cross horizontally using the thumb and first fingers, pulls these outwards, down under the line which runs below the crosses from the first players wrists, and back up. The first player lets go of the figure and the second player stretches it open by bringing apart the thumbs and fingers. This figure is the "diamonds". A series of other alterations produce more figures, some of which lead back to the diamonds while some are dead ends and cannot be transformed. (Some say that "diamonds" is the cat's cradle from the game title, while others insist it's only the game title, and not any figures.)

This game is very simple and is always started with the above opening. After that one mostly pinches the x's and wrap them around the outside strings. The others moves tend to need a little more practice.