Pick-up sticks

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 of sticks, between 8 and 20 centimeters long, is dropped as a loose bunch onto a table top into a random pile.

[1] The origin of the game of pick-up sticks is disputed,[2] but it is believed to have developed from the yarrow stalks used for divination with the Chinese I Ching.

In more complex games, different-colored sticks are worth different numbers of points, and the winner is the person with the highest score.

Mikado is a pick-up-sticks game originating in Europe, played with a set of longer sticks which can measure between 17 and 20 centimetres (6.7 and 7.9 in), all having the same length.

The game is named for the highest-scoring (blue) stick, the "Mikado" (Emperor of Japan).