A stick? Really, I clicked on it. It’s just a stick.
What about “log”? You know,
“it rolls down stairs, alone or in pairs, it rolls over the neighbor’s dog...”
I was rather amazed as well. AND, it made it into the HoF before chess...
I certainly played with sticks when I was a kid. I made rafts with them. I floated them down the stream in races. I made dams with them. I made forts with them. I used them as play guns. I played makeshift baseball games while camping, with a pine cone or a pair of rolled-up socks as the ball. I swung them against trees and threw them like javelins. I tried to spear fish with them. I made slingshots with them.
They weren't nearly as much fun as a new, large cardboard box, but a stick was a perfectly useful toy.