Miniature golfing, like reading Don Quixote, promotes enjoyment, provides a challenge, and fosters resentment toward windmills. Putt past obnoxious obstacles with today's Groupon: for $12, you get four games of mini golf (up to a $20 value) and four soft drinks (a $6 value) at Play Faire Park (up to a $26 total value). Children ages 5 and under are always admitted for free at Play Faire Park.

Play Faire Park, which was established in 1947 and reigns as one of Texas's oldest mini-golf meccas, challenges putters with two colorful, castle-themed 18-hole courses. Golfers follow the green fairways through strung colored bulbs and festive flags, competing against the gravity-defying flipping of the loop-de-loop, the revolving menace of the stop wheel, and the distracting tap dance of competitive uncles. Strategizing swingers tap toward yellow-fenced bridges above deep-tunneled chasms, while geometric go-getters measure bounce tactics off of wooden walls and around ball-borrowing water traps. Thickets of lush trees and brush complement the illuminated medieval stone castles rising from the course, where ramps elevate wayward strokes through wooden barns.

This vintage, colorful family park also hosts live music festivals, tournaments, and parties, making it the perfect place to celebrate a birthday, graduation, or promotion from envelope-stuffer to origami master.