New Record As Kids Still Using Afikoman Presents On Day 4 Of Passover

The feat bests the previous record forty-eight hours, set in 2008, by a family in Skokie, Illinois.

Jerusalem, April 4 – Officials from Guinness World Records confirmed a new mark today upon certifying that the children of a local family are still playing with the presents they received four nights ago for finding a hidden piece of unleavened bread.

Guinness judge Hugh Carist told reporters his team can now certify that Ohr, Pazit, and Noam Harari have not grown bored of the Afikoman presents they received Friday night, despite playing with them continually during all the waking hours since then. The feat bests the previous record forty-eight hours, set in 2008, by a family in Skokie, Illinois.

“Congratulations to the Harari girls on their achievement,” he pronounced. “It is rare for Afikoman presents to retain interest with their recipients beyond the first day of Passover, yet these children have continued to find the gifts engaging for almost four times that duration.”

For finding the Afikoman at the Seder, the three girls received a sticker book, a bracelet-making kit, and a comic book. Their one-year-old brother, Eitan, was not eligible for inclusion in the record owing to his inability, in the judges’ assessment, to discern the difference in significance between the toys and their packaging.

“I’m really proud of them,” gushed the girls’ mother, Anat. “As parents we’d like to claim some of the credit for choosing items the girls would want, but that’s never a guarantee. Just this past Hanukkah, we couldn’t get them to keep playing with the watercolor-paints beyond the second day, and they love that stuff.”

Her husband Ron explained that when he was growing up, his parents’ relative inability to spend lavishly on such gifts influenced his own Afikoman-present sensibilities. “We used to get maybe some chocolate,” he recalled. “But now I can actually afford something more than a token present, and it’s gratifying to see my kids appreciate my efforts. The fact that it’s a new record for Afikoman presents, well, that’s the icing on the cake.”

Guinness representatives note that the record applies only to Afikoman presents. In the general gift category, the record remains eight days, achieved in 2001 by a Fresno, California family that managed to continue playing with a table tennis set they received for Christmas through New Year’s Day. The record was challenged in 2015 by a teenager in Toronto who played three straight weeks of X-Box games, but a clarification of the record rules resulted in the disqualification of such activities from consideration, owing to the inability of anyone engaging in video game play to feel the passage of time.

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