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    Pick-up sticks, pick-a-stick, jackstraws, jack straws, spillikins, spellicans, or fiddlesticks is a game of physical and mental skill in which a bundle...
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  • Picking Up Sticks is an English country dance for three couples in a line, recorded by John Playford in 1651. This is NOT the tune for Picking Up Sticks...
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  • Look up pick-up sticks in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pick-up sticks is a game of physical and mental skill. Pick-up sticks or its variations may...
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  • Haida pick-up sticks exist in two sorts. There were non-decorated thin playing sticks (not collected) and the other decorated, containing three sets of...
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  • "Everybody's Jumpin'" is mainly in a very flexible 6 4, while "Pick Up Sticks" firms that up into a clear and steady 6 4. In an article for The Independent...
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    Mikado is a pick-up sticks game originating in Europe, played with a set of same-length sticks which can measure between 17 and 20 cm (6.7 and 7.9 in)...
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    Pick-Up Sticks is a children's novel by Canadian author Sarah Ellis. The novel received the 1991 Governor General's Award for Children's Literature. The...
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    Jonchets or onchets is a pick-up sticks game from France played with carved sticks. References to the game date back as far as the 17th century, and it...
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    One, two, buckle my shoe; Three, four, knock at the door; Five, six, pick up sticks; Seven, eight, lay them straight; Nine, ten, a big fat hen; Eleven,...
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    fortune telling objects. The practice of using sticks in Chien Tung may be related to the game of pick-up sticks played today. This theory is based on a Japanese...
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