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Over at About.com Carrie Grosvenor suggested various Minute To Win It games for Halloween, in case of inclement weather. The holiday has come and gone, of course, and the weather in my home Dallas-Fort Worth area was just fine. I handed out plenty of candy to trick-or-treating kids and didn't have to worry about 60-second games.

But Carrie's idea isn't bad for any kids party. She recommended "Johnny Applestack" as one of the games for the pre-pubescent set. So I rustled up a picture of a post-pubescent contestant trying the stunt on the actual show. He won, and the kids could also have fun stacking the fruit. Carrie ran through plenty of other suggested games in her blog post.

This reminds me of how much I'm enjoying the Minute reruns on GSN lately. As I wrote a while back, the stunts are silly but entertaining. And kids would probably like them even more than cynical old farts like me.