An 'eggs'cellent hill roll >> 34 adults, one hard-boiled egg each

"Choose a hard-boiled egg, mark it up with a personal design, and see how many rolls it takes you to get it down the hill and into the carton at the bottom. Fewest rolls wins a prize."

Those were the instructions. A fabricated game, costing almost nothing, and an opportunity for fully grown, responsible, serious adults to do something with no consequence and no manufactured outcome.

Two observations.

The children went straight in. The adults arrived with a whiff of scepticism, a beat of hesitation before joining. Where does that hesitation come from, and when did it install itself?

And then it went, fast. Laughing within a minute. Bonding, camaraderie, and a genuinely comic few minutes as the results were read out.

For about ten minutes, a tumbling egg was the only thing that mattered to thirty-four people. I would guess every one of them put down whatever [thoughts] they'd been carrying around before it started.