Pick Up Sticks

Pick-up sticks is a wonderful game that is also sometimes called Spillikins, Jerk-Straw or Mikado. Whatever you want to call it, this is a game which has been loved by children all over the world for centuries. The Victorians loved pickup sticks and played it in their parlors with beautiful sets made of ivory or bone. House of Marbles' set is wooden with approximately 31 sticks in each pack. Sticks measure around 18 cm long each.