Jackstraws

Definition: Jackstraws

1. A game in which players try to pick each jackstraw (or spillikin) off of a pile without moving any of the others.

Specialty Definition: Jackstraws

Domain	Definition
Sports & Leisure	Game played with a heap of slips or small rods, the objet being to pull off each by means of a neck without disturbing the rest. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Jackstraws

Modern Translation: Jackstraws

Language		Translations for "jackstraws"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		skrabnaese (spillikins), mikado (spillikins). (various references)

Dutch		knibbelspel (spillikins). (various references)

French		jeu de jonchets. (various references)

German		Mikadospiel (spillikins). (various references)

Greek		κοκαλάκια (spillikins), ξυλάκια (spillikins). (various references)

Italian		giuoco dello sciangai (spillikins), giuoco dei jonchets (spillikins), bastoncini (chopsticks). (various references)

Pig Latin		ackstrawsjay

Portuguese		jogo de "jonchet", micado (mikado). (various references)

Russian		бирюльки. (various references)

Turkish		mikado oyunu (jackstraw, spillikin), mikado çöpleri (spillikins). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Jackstraws

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-j-k-r-s-s-t-w"
	-1 letter: jackstraw.
	-3 letters: jackass.
	-4 letters: carats, karats, karsts, scarts, stacks, straws, swaraj, tracks, wracks.
	-5 letters: araks, carat, carks, carts, casas, casks, casts, crass, craws, jacks, karat, karst, karts, katas, racks, rajas, sacks, sacra, sarks, scars, scart, scats, skats, stack, stark, stars, straw, swart, swats, tacks, takas, tasks, track, trass, tsars, wacks, warks, warts, wasts, wrack.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.