Pickleball is the rare game where a first timer and a regular can rally together, and this is the whole thing in one box: two poplar wood paddles, two perforated balls and a mesh drawstring bag to carry them in.

It is a singles set, played indoors or outdoors on a badminton sized court with a slightly modified tennis net, and it borrows from ping pong, badminton and tennis all at once. That is why it travels so well between generations at a family barbecue. Kikkerland gives the paddles bold concentric target faces, wrapped grips and wrist cords, so they look like something you leave out on the porch rather than something you hide in the garage. Marked on the box for ages 14 and up.