Pick Up Sticks (1936)

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Publisher	(Public Domain) (Unknown) Adamigo Brio AB Cardinal Cayro Juegos Chateau CHH Games Cordinal industries Creative Crafthouse dan-spil Dilemma Games Ghisò Gibsons Games HABA - Habermaaß GmbH House of Marbles John Adams Toys John Dewar & Sons Ltd Joseph Huber Jumbo Majora Melissa & Doug Milton Bradley Monkey Pod Games Noris Spiele O Schoenhut & Co. Inc. Papita Peter Pan Playthings Piatnik Pin International Plaza Mfg. Co. Pressman Toy Corp. Rozelle Schmidt Spiele Steven Manuf. Co. Tactic Unikatoy Viacom International Whitman Woodstock Spiele Show More »
Year Published	1936
# of Players	2 − 6
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 3 players Recommended with 2, 3 players (12 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	20 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	4 and up
User Suggested Ages	5 and up (6 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence	No necessary in-game text (9 voters) [poll]
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Subdomain	Children's Games (14 voters) [vote]
Category	Action / Dexterity Children's Game
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Family	Spongebob Squarepants Tube Games
Primary Name	Pick Up Sticks
Alternate Names	456 Pick Up Sticks Bierki Destreza Fiddle Sticks The Game of Spellicans Jackstraws Joko Kejsarlek Knibbelspel Let's Play Fiddlestix Magnetic Lift A Stick Marokkó Mikádó Mikado Mikado Shangai Nickelodeon Pick Up Sticks Palos Chinos Påvelek Pega Varetas Pic-Up Stix Pickepinn Pickup Sticks Pik A Styk Pix Pix Pix Pix Pick Up Sticks Pixie Pic Up Stixs Plickeplock Plockepinn Shangai Skrapnos Spillikins Stickspel Stöpstickor Triple Your Score Pick Up Sticks Бирюльки 游戏棒
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Long, thin sticks are scattered on the table in a heap. The black one is used as a tool to pick up the others. The player picks up sticks one at a time, until he causes any other stick to move besides the one he is attempting to pick up. Score points based on the color retrieved.

The game is believed to have developed from the yarrow stalks used for divination with the Chinese I Ching.

Published in Germany about 1850. This concept has been re-published in Germany, 2003, by HABA as Mikado, a game Ages 5 and up

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The game was played in Sweden from the beginning of the 19th century. In Poland it's known as Bierki, and has been and still is one of the most well-known, classic family games (along with Pchełki and Chińczyk), played frequently by children up to end of the 20th century.

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Nickelodeon Pick Up Sticks

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Cardinal Spongebob Edition

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Adamigo edition

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Year: 2004

Size: 7.00 x 1.50 x 0.40 inches

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Year: 1978

Size: 7.09 x 4.72 x 1.57 inches

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Year: 1978

Product Code: 437

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Russian rules	http://www.igroved.ru/games/mikado/rules_mikado.zi...	2011-02-23
Instruction - Alternate (Pressman Toy Corp.)	http://www.pressmantoy.com/instructions/pickupstic...	2011-01-14
User reviews (Dutch) on bordspelmania.eu	http://www.bordspelmania.eu/spellen/detail/mikado_...	2010-12-09
Wikipedia entry	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick-up_sticks	2010-03-17