• The ring game is played from the outer circle of horses: riders get a stick to spear rings as they pass, and an attendant reloads them
• Model sailboats next door at Les Voiliers du Luxembourg, so a ride pairs easily with pushing a boat across the pond
• Garden hours set the limit, since the Jardin du Luxembourg opens and closes with daylight and winter afternoons end early

This wooden-horse carousel on the west side of the Jardin du Luxembourg was designed by Charles Garnier, the architect of the Paris Opera, and opened in 1879.

Kids on the outer circle of horses get a short stick and try to spear metal rings as they ride past, an old French game called jeu de bagues. Rilke wrote his poem "The Carousel" about this one.