Thin Ice
It's a very funny joke. You open the box containing the Thin  Ice game--with its frosty blue coloring and pictures of top-hatted  penguins--and one of the first things you see is a pocket pack of  facial tissues. Well, the folks at Pressman don't guarantee you'll come  down with the sniffles when you play Thin Ice, but a case of the  giggles is assured. The tissues--or to be precise, one ply of the  tissues--form the drum-like surface on which a series of damp marbles  are placed, one by one. Players use the tongs to fish a marble out of  the water trough and place it on the thin paper before passing the  tongs to the next player as quickly as possible. But possession is  nine-tenths of the thaw; if you're holding the tongs when the weakened  paper rips, you're assigned the letterI. Spell "ice" and you're  out. One package of Marcal tissues is included, though any facial  tissue will work. (Don't play with any cheater who insists on using  Bounty paper towels!) For silly, soppy, super-absorbing fun, the Thin  Ice game raises play to new Gesund-heights.--Tony Mason