This game was named by my friend's six year old nephew: Harrison. I got the idea from watching the guys on the show "Big Bang Theory" play a lazer grid mission impossible game. Obviously, I do not have access to lazers...but I do have access to string.
I decided it would be fun to tape lengths of string across the narrow hall of our apartment to make a simulated lazer grid obstacle course. Using different heights, lengths and angles could increase the difficulty of the lazer security grid.
Each child (in our case, the one child and 2 clumsy but childish adults) goes through the "security grid" without knocking over any strings. Knocking a string off the wall meant you had been found out and thus, caught red handed!
It was a lot of fun. Harrison went through twice and was only detected by one lazer. Alan and I both completely demolished a string each, but we still made it through relatively unscathed. Then we let a 2 year old try it. He had some great technique, systematically ripping every string off the wall and just walking straight though the hall way...well played...and poor Harrison still wanted to play and spent some time playing "Imaginary Pretend Special Agent Lazer Grid" which is really just acrobatics in a hallway.
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