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n. - A game in which players try to pick each jackstraw off of a pile without moving any of the others.

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  • Monique: Glad you mentioned "pick-up sticks" for I had completely forgotten to mention the name of the game aka "spillikins"!
  • Monique: Glad you mentioned "pick-up sticks" for I had completely forgotten to mention the name of the game (aka "spillikins")!
  • I throw in this explanation of "spillikins" to fill up a somewhat long and painful pause during which Cai and 'Bias without speech slowly questioned one another.
  • Josephine was summoned the next moment to play a game of spillikins with Augusta and Henrietta Winthrop.
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