Usually means: Game of picking up sticks.
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  7. jackstraws: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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▸ noun:  a game in which players try to pick each jackstraw (or spillikin) off of a pile without moving any of the others


Opposite:
pick-up sticks, spillikins, mikado

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pick-up sticks, spillikins, mikado




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