Spillikins (Noun)
Meaning
A game in which players try to pick each jackstraw (or spillikin) off of a pile without moving any of the others.
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
- The children spent hours playing with the colorful spillikins set their grandmother had given them for their birthday.
- She carefully selected a spillikin from the edge of the pile, hoping not to disturb the others.
- In the game of Jackstraws, the objective is to remove each spillikin without causing any of the others to fall.
- After drawing a stick from the container, each player takes turns trying to pick up a spillikin.
- To win, she needed to successfully remove the last spillikin from the dwindling pile on the table.