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Fun indoor games based on hit television shows are few and far between—Blind Man’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer was never going to be a big hit at children’s parties. But Grasshopper, a game based around one crucial scene in the hit 70s show Kung Fu, is the TV-to-indoor-game conversion that really works.

Simply get a long roll of bubble wrap and lay a path out on top of a solid floor. Players now take it in turns to walk barefooted along the length of bubblewrap—just like Kwai Chang Caine (Grasshopper) did on rice paper in Kung Fu. In the series, under the direction of his mentor Master Po, he would try almost painfully hard to walk delicately down the paper only to get to the end, turn around, and see rips galore. He only achieved a perfect walk once he had reached true lightness of spirit through his Kung Fu training.

So any player who is heard to pop a bubble is out until it’s his turn again—or you can simply count the pops each player makes and add a time penalty for each one. Players must aim to walk along the bubble path as stylishly as possible with as much Zen poise and balance as Kwai Chang himself.

To add to the game, place a candle at the end of the path for the Kung Fu master to place his hand in the flame and yet feel no pain.

Atmosphere is added if a non-player can commentate on proceedings using the wise words of Master Po: ‘ It is only through a lightness of mind and spirit, Grasshopper, that your feet will leave no mark.’