Ready or Knot

 

From Family Fun

 

Sort players into 2 teams.  Each team gets a length of plastic rope:  5 or 6 feet long.  Each player is allowed to tie 1 overhand knot, or, for older kids, each team is allowed a minute or so to tie as many knots as it can.  The teams then trade ropes and the race begins.  Each player unties any one knot, then passes the rope to a teammate.  The first team to untie all its knots wins.