Pick-up-sticks game Crossword Clue
3 letters · New York Times · Friday, December 13, 2002 · 63-Down
Appeared in 2 New York Times Crosswords between March 1994 and December 2002.
Exact puzzle match · New York Times · December 13, 2002 · 63-Down · 3 letters
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game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them; in some versions the object is to take the last remaining matchstick on the table and in other versions the object is to avoid taking the last remaining matchstick on the table
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