One writer compares the structure to a bundle of spillikins.
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Playing spillikins is a suitable occupation for the very young, indoors.
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One evening, Belinda was playing with little Charles Percival at spillikins.
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The play is a spillikins of sentences: jibes and jokes elegantly recur.
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Leap frog is not too heavy for me and spillikins not too light.
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Clearing the objects from the Antechamber was like playing a gigantic game of spillikins.
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Weymouth, a hundred and eighty years ago, was about as symmetrical as a game of spillikins in confusion.
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We sailed east on a floating palace that offered myriad activities, such as mumblety-peg, spillikins and ring-a-levio.
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So there was the situation till the war of Ninety-three came along to jumble us all up and knock everything to spillikins.
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And on the floor nearby is a heap of maulsticks arranged like spillikins, or pick-up sticks – remove one and the whole circle would be disturbed.
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Pick-up-sticks, also called jackstraws, or spillikins, game of skill, played by both children and adults, with thin wooden sticks or with straws or matches.
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And anon, when his victim had steeled himself against this method, he could extract another five-pound note from his little hoard with the delicacy of one playing spillikins.
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However, when the bundle of long bones was introduced, it may have simply fallen fan-wise, as at the beginning of a game of pick-up-sticks or spillikins.
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A type of quarter that gives free rein to the organized chaos of one-way streets and offers pedestrians a maze of tiny alleys thrown down like a game of spillikins.
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Logan enters and announces it's time for Twiggy and her to play a game: the Spillikins of Doom. They all enter the attic where Twiggy and Logan prepare to play the game. Esme has a tantrum and begins to wail. When Logan threatens to attack her, Dunkel bites her hand.
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Somerset Maugham saw in Ned Beaumont "a curious, intriguing character whom any novelist would have been proud to conceive" And Raymond Chandler found "an effect of movement, intrigue, cross-purposes, and the gradual elucidation of character, which is all the detective story has any right to be about anyway. All the rest is spillikins in the parlor".
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Apparently, her cat Squib was transformed into something, and has yet to resurface. Patsy transforms the tricycle back onto her broomstick. In Patsy's incantation, Patsy references objects called the Spillikins of Doom, which is a foreign name to Twiggy. When Twiggy questions Patsy about what they are, Patsy explains that she doesn't know what they are, but they are referenced in the most popular magical book, called Mabel's Book.
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After giving the cat to Twiggy, they realise she is not really an Amber-eyed Silver-tip, and had powder on her ears and tails to appear so. Twiggy declares that she doesn't care that they have been tricked because she loves the cat anyway. The trio arrive back at the Coven where they each eat a bit of the liquorice and begin to question Squib. Squib tells them that the woman who broke in was not a witch, and was searching for the Spillikins of Doom, and stole the graphology book from Julius' chest.
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Mikado pick-up sticks Pick-up sticks or pick-a-stick is a game of physical and mental skill in which a bundle of "sticks", between 8 and 20 centimeters long, are dropped as a loose bunch onto a table top, jumbling into a random pile. Each player in turn tries to remove a stick from the pile without disturbing any of the others. The game is known by several names including jackstraws (or jack straws), spellicans, and spillikins. The sticks may be made of almost any material, such as ivory, bone, wood, bamboo, straw, reed, rush, yarrow, or plastics.
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The group escapes from the attic and find Lydia in her study trying to force a strange liquid, the Flabbergast Potion which renders the drinker mute, into the throats of the windsprites. It turns out, that windsprites are the creatures that give witches their tremendous power by whispering a secret word into the ears of babies. By feeding the windsprites a potion that will mute them, they will no longer be able to pass along the word that turns mortal babies into witches. Ironically, while most witches sought after the secrets behind the Spillikins of Doom on page 513, they were overlooking the recipe for the dangerous Flabbergast potion on page 514.
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