What is the name of the game you played as a child where you scatter a handful of small sticks on the ground and then pick them out one by one?

It's the Pick-A-Stick game.

The stick picking game, also called game stick or scattering stick. It is an educational game for young and old alike, suitable for ages eight and up. It can be played by one or more people***. According to the color of the sticks, or how many points.

"Pick the stick" game rules

Pick the stick first by each person out of the sign, can be out of the whole or part of the out, out of the most first to play, and so on. Players holding all the sign, vigorously to the ground a throw, and then pick up another sign, from the ground in a pile of entangled in the sign, pick up a, both to ensure that it is out of the pile of sign, but also can not touch the other sign, which is considered to be a success, until you pick all the finished, or you give up the back don't want to, you picked out of the sign will become your booty.

However, if you even gently touch the other sticks during this period, you will have to return all the sticks you picked out in front of you, and the next player will continue to play until all the sticks in this game have been divided up. And then you start playing again. And so it goes on, one game after another, never ending until mom calls for dinner.

There is another way to play, which involves buying a box of game sticks. Composed of 31 sticks of different styles, with a spiral game stick, 20 points each; the middle of the red and two sides of the blue game stick, 10 points each; three sections of red and two sections of blue game stick, 5 points each; red, yellow and blue game stick, 3 points each; red and blue game stick, 2 points each. Take turns picking sticks until all 31 have been picked. Add up the scores of all the game rods, and the one with the highest score is the winner.