This is an encore episode of Ask Me Another.

From NPR and WNYC coming to you from beautiful Brooklyn, New York, it's NPR's hour of puzzles,

word games, and trivia, Ask Me Another. I'm Jonathan Colton. Now here's your host,

Ophira Eisenberg.

Thanks Jonathan, so I've got a story for you today.

All right.

It's a real hit in my house with the five year old boy demographic.

Okay, good. Good. My favorite kind of story.

So my son is always asking for me to tell him a silly story from my childhood.

So I told him one about a month ago, and now I'm in a loop.

He wants to hear this story every day.

I can't remember where we were, maybe like a Chuck E. Cheese at a birthday or something like that,

where they had Wackemoll. You played Wackemoll.

You know, it's literally a machine where the little painted moles are coming out of the holes.

And then you're whacking it with this mallet.

So he remembered that game, and he was like, oh, I want to go play Wackemoll.

And so I remembered the story that when I was like a teenager, we would go to the Calgary Stampede,

which had all those games, the carnival games through the ring on the bottle and the ball and the water pistols.

And there was Wackemoll.

And I was with my friends.

And I think maybe the first time without our parents at this event.

And we were playing Wackemoll.

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