ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Ring ground

Okay, so imagine you and your friends are playing a game of ring toss, where you try to throw a ring onto a pole. The pole is like the ground in a house, it's what everything kind of goes into and connects to. Now, let's say you're playing on a really bouncy trampoline. Sometimes, when you throw the ring, it might bounce off the pole and land somewhere else on the trampoline.

In a house, sometimes things like electricity or static can bounce around and not go straight into the ground. That's where something called a ring ground comes in. It's like a big rubber band that goes around the whole house and connects to the ground, so if any electricity or static bounces off something, it will eventually hit the ring ground and go straight into the ground like it's supposed to.

Think of it like a safety net that catches anything that goes off track and makes sure everything goes where it's supposed to go.