Jack'straws, a game played with many little sticks of wood, from four to six inches long and of generally uniform size, carved in the shape of implements and tools. The sticks are thrown together in a heap, and each player, in turn, extracts with a tiny hook as many of the straws as possible (one at a time), without causing any others to move. The player having the greatest number of straws when all have been removed from the table is declared the winner.