noun
- a game played with a bundle of thin wooden or plastic sticks that are dropped in a pile and then picked up one at a time without disturbing the others
Usage: British; also called pick-up sticks
Examples
- The children spent the afternoon playing spillikins on the living room floor.
- She carefully extracted one spillikin from the tangled pile without moving any others.
- The spillikins set came with fifty colorful wooden sticks.
- Playing spillikins requires steady hands and patience.
- We found an old box of spillikins in the attic.
- The spillikins scattered across the table when the pile collapsed.