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vijayjohn wrote:pick-up sticks, pick-a-stick - basically Jenga, but with sticks instead of blocks.
vijayjohn wrote:pick-up sticks, pick-a-stick - basically Jenga, but with sticks instead of blocks. I think I've actually played this before.
Car wrote:vijayjohn wrote:pick-up sticks, pick-a-stick - basically Jenga, but with sticks instead of blocks. I think I've actually played this before.
That's called Mikado here. We've had ours for as long as I can remember, so it cracked me up as well to see it described as a kind of Jenga.
OldBoring wrote:Pick-up sticks is called sciangai /ʃanˈgai/ in Italy, which is the Italian pronunciation of Shanghai, the Chinese city.
While Mikado is the snack made of chocolate-covered cookie sticks, named Pocky in other countries.
Car wrote:vijayjohn wrote:pick-up sticks, pick-a-stick - basically Jenga, but with sticks instead of blocks. I think I've actually played this before.
That's called Mikado here. We've had ours for as long as I can remember, so it cracked me up as well to see it described as a kind of Jenga.
vijayjohn wrote:gag me with a spoon - (US-specific?) expression of disgust
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