Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a game in which players try to pick each jackstraw (or spillikin) off of a pile without moving any of the others;
[syn: jackstraws, spillikins]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
jackstraws \jack"straws`\, n.
The game played with jackstraws[2], which resembles
pick-up-sticks.
[PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
jackstraws
n 1: a game in which players try to pick each jackstraw (or
spillikin) off of a pile without moving any of the others
[syn: jackstraws, spillikins]