LEBANON – More than 20 years ago, Mike Giles was at home on a rainy day with stir-crazy children when he came up with an idea on the fly. “I took spare materials at the house and created a fun game,” he said. “We started acting out animals and if it landed on the Chika Chaka space, we’d yell out, ‘Chika Chaka Chika Chaka Yo Yo Yo, Chika Chaka Chika Chaka Go, Go, Go.’ We played it all the time. Friends started asking us to bring it to birthday parties and playdates. Everyone from young kids to my 88-year-old dad can play it.” Just over a year ago, Mike and his wife Melissa decided to take the old game that had been set aside for many years to the Chicago Toy Fair and now that homemade game is gaining traction across Indiana and beyond. The soft, colorful dice-like cube has a picture of an animal on each side: kangaroo, monkey, bird and others. Play freestyle or the competitive version and keep score. The first player to act out every animal is the winner. “It doesn’t have ...