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Mikado (pick up sticks) rules

Mikado (pick up sticks) Rules Classic Mikado consists of 41 sticks, around 15 cm long, coded with different values that have a total of 170 points. Name Traditional wood type Coding Point value Number of sticks Mikado walnut blue 20 pts 1 Mandarin cherry yellow/black, middle wide two narrow stripes on the ends 10 pts 5 Bonzen      (jpbouzu) oak orange, five stripes 5 pts 5 Samurai beech green, three stripes 3 pts 15 Kuli (cn. guli) / Worker ash red, two stripes 2 pts 15   The sticks are bundled and taken in one hand that touches the table or ground. The release creates a circular jumble. Now the players take turns, in which one stick after another should be...