If you manage, add the stick to your stock.
If however another stick moves, you can’t take it and have to
give up and leave the stick where it is.
Then it's the next player’s turn.
End of the game:
The game ends as soon as a player has picked the last stick,
or the sticks cross each other in such a complicated way that
nobody can pick up any more sticks.
The player with most sticks wins the game.
Preparation:
A player takes all the sticks into one hand and lets them
drop. Now the sticks lie this way and that on top of each
other.
If there are too many sticks not touching each other the
sticks should be dropped again.
Hint: It is best to play the game on a tablecloth or carpet.
How to play:
Play in a clockwise direction.
Whoever has eaten with sticks most recently, may start.
Try to pick up any of the sticks without any of the others
moving.
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