Ingenuity

Is when a 10 year old comes up with a brain wave. Picking up an old edition of Champak, the children's magazine, she comes across this game where a team must rescue passengers from a ship.

Bad luck! We need a set of dice and we do not have any. There is no way one can play the game without it.

The magazine has listed its own innovative way of using its pages blindly. It asked the reader to close her or his eyes and open a page. The page number would be the dice score!

For me, it was rather cumbersome, though I liked the thought behind it. What my niece, the girl in question did, baffled me though.

She coolly picked up a cuboidal eraser that was easy to throw, wrote down numbers on each of its faces and began the game! At times, children show a far better common sense than we adults with our boxed up thinking.