Il était une fois, dans la lointaine Chine, un canard mandarin qui était très triste. Il ne savait quel cadeau offrir à l’élue de son cœur, et se laissait flotter en sanglotant sur l’étang. Une nuit de pleine lune, les grenouilles le virent passer et s’étonnèrent de sa tristesse “Joli canard mandarin, lui demandèrent-elles, pourquoi pleures-tu?”. “Je suis triste, répondit-il, car je suis amoureux, mais je ne sais quel cadeau offrir à ma belle pour lui avouer mon amour.” “Pourquoi ne pas lui faire un beau bouquet de nénuphars?, proposèrent les grenouilles. Nous allons t’aider.” Et les petites grenouilles passèrent le reste de la nuit à choisir dans l’étang les plus beaux nénuphars, chacune cherchant à confectionner pour l’amie du canard mandarin le plus beau bouquet.

Qu'est-ce que l'on irait pas inventer pour justifier le thème d'un jeu finalement assez abstrait....

Once upon a time, in far-off China, there was a mandarin duck. He wanted to offer his beloved a special gift, to declare his love for her, but he didn't know what to get her. This made him so sad that all he could do was to float, sobbing, in his pond. One night, when the moon was full, the frogs that shared his pond heard his cries of despair. "Oh, beautiful mandarin duck", they asked him, "why are you crying?". "I am sad", he answered, " because I am in love but I don't know what gift to offer my sweetheart in order to properly declare my love to her". "Why don't you make her a beautiful bouquet of lotus flowers?", suggested the frogs. "We will help you". And the little frogs spent the rest of the night in a loony game of leapfrog, hopping from lily pad to lily pad, gathering the most beautiful lotus flowers from the pond, each one trying to outdo the other by creating the most beautiful bouquet of all for the mandarin duck's beloved.

OK, it's a bit of an artificial and pasted on theme....