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How commonplace is cat's cradle?

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Published in Daily Trivia

Cat's cradle is one of the most universal games in the world. Played in almost every culture, what is a puzzle to ethnologists is that widely scattered peoples -- Maoris of New Zealand, North American Indians, Arctic Eskimos, and Africans, for instance -- make figures of string between their hands that are exactly the same.

 


 

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