spillikins

I never knew a forest looked so much like a game of spillikins."

She merely suggested there'd be time for a game of spillikins before supper.

All the rest is spillikins in the parlor.

He imagines the poorly built bridge folding and become spillikins.

The game I play is not spillikins.

Tom looked up, smiling, and said: 'Can you play spillikins, sir?

The spillikins look like tiny thin ivory harpoons with numbers written on them in a slanting hand.

There were men with ropes working carefully around this game of spillikins, attempting to guy back the log poised in mid-air.

Pick-up sticks, pick-a-stick, jackstraws, or spillikins is a game of physical and mental skill.

'It's all in spillikins in the back garden.'

Spillikins: Essays (1926)

Well," said the captain, setting the course for Gentian's Star and clicking on the long-range detectors, "we'll play for spillikins.

Loopy Lil hadn't a steady enough hand for spillikins and she couldn't count up to more than three for the dominoes but she seemed happy to watch and smile.

In Terry Pratchett's Unseen Academicals, Mr Nutt asks if football is a game "like spillikins or halma or Thud?"

The front of the slide was just short of the power-house and whole trees were being tossed into the air like spillikins and boulders ground and clashed together with a noise like thunder.

Don't you know that we've got the Ashes and the Golf Championship, and the Wibbley-wob Championship, and the Spiropole, Spillikins, Puff-Feather, and Animal Grab Championships?

She went away then, and when he saw her next it was an hour later, in Tom's room, polishing with a scrap of sandpaper the spillikins Tom was cleverly whittling from some wood begged from Mrs Scaling.

Farther into the house is a small garden vestibule containing a case of first editions, a Georgian rouge pot and a set of delicate ivory spillikins, a sort of pick-up-sticks game, which Jane, who had excellent manual dexterity, was so adept at throwing.

They were infinitely facetious and so boring that-as by some mishap I found myself at dinner sitting in the middle of them-I had to play a little game of spillikins all by myself throughout the meal with a pile of knives and forks and spoons.