DTo music in the cinema, to travel, between rebus, cruciverba, questions. The themes range but the trend is one: they depopulate i Holiday homes for adults, or games-games Designed and written to stimulate and entertain those who have left the real holiday homework for a while. These are well -kept and pop enigmistic booklets. After the first, sold in Italy in 2020, which explicitly alluded to the tasks of elementary school (the Notebook of adult holidays, Blackie Edizioni), the publishing houses churn out dozens every summer.
Holiday homes for adults: where they come from and why in summer we like them so much
It is found, between Enigmistic magazines and Southku collections, published by Newton Compton (Intelligent games, quizzes and riddles to train your mind on vacation), Demetra (Holiday homes for the great ones), Gribaudo (Games for adults), Rizzoli (Freely. New notebook of games and pastimes for adults), Cairo (Holiday homes for adults).
But also Giraldi, Book Sun Loversby Isa Grassano. Lonely Planet, The travel quiz book. And of course the Notebook of Holidays for adults of Blackie, volume 6 (worn out).
Since books with games and similar titles, Blackie – which continues to propose them – The wording “the original” added to the covers of its notebook. Just as the enigmistic week does that in each specific cover of boasting “countless imitation attempts”.
Enigmistic and nostalgia for the school (at the time of social networks)
The games are focused on themes such as cinema, TV series and music, but also travels, thrillers, police. The proposed games are tendentially simpler than those found on the enigmistic week: therefore Also suitable for less experienced and passionate. What likes is the style, also ideal for being a source of group entertainment.
Curated, captivating, colorful, promise mental well -being under the umbrella: In short, intelligent entertainment Old Style, between coloring pages, cards to be completed and questions to answer, but – clear – without the anxiety of having to show them to the teacher.
On the one hand, it is yet another revival of the past, the old style that returns And it recalls us at slower and simple times. On the other, it is yet another declination of the detox imperative. Exercises “to detoxify the mind and reforest the brain”, The fourth cover of the Blackie notebooks recites.
But then there is the strange one nostalgia for the age of the school: what as children we perceived like the sum summer effort, today a pastime appears to us, useful for abandoning smartphones for a few … now. Let’s do half an hour, huh?