Mikado (game)

Mikado is a well-known arcade game from Europe which emerged from the Chien Tung- oracle: Mikado also consists of several colorful wooden chopsticks.

Name

His name has the game of the rod with the highest value: It is blue striped and is called Mikado (title of the Japanese Emperor, also known as Tenno ). The Buddhist divination method Chien Tung, from which the game was developed, also includes a bar called Mikado.

The House of Tsuchimikado took over in the 16th century, some culture, maybe also the Chien- Tung- oracle.

Other names and versions:

  • Spellicans ( United Kingdom )
  • Jonchets (France)
  • Mikado, Emperor game, spring game, shake loose ( Germany )
  • Chien Tung (China)
  • Mikado pick-up sticks, spellicans, jack straws (orig. jerk - straws ) (USA)
  • Spilikins / Spillikins (orig. Spelleken ) (Canada )
  • Selahtikan Straws / Scattering Straws ( Lenni Lenape Indians )

Regulate

Components

The usual Mikado game consists of 41 bars ( Mikado sticks, Mikado rods ) of approximately 18 cm in length and 3 mm in thickness. The ends of the rods are tapered. The rods should be absolutely straight and the same thickness. In general, the Mikado sticks of wood are made.

The bars have colored flags that correspond to different values ​​:

Overall, there is therefore 170 points.

Game

The game is played on a table or on slippery ground.

The first player puts all rods bundled on the table and letting it fall over. There are at least two methods:

In any case, the rods are then chaotic one above the other on the table.

Now a bar after another to be taken away, without moving other rods. Again, there are several techniques: by hand:

  • Simply take ( " lonely " bars )
  • Carefully roll away (several rods side by side)
  • Pull out ( free bar between others )
  • Set up by the pointed end pushes ( rods that touch the ground with only one end)
  • Simultaneously touching both ends and lift ( surface-mounted rod)

Who is already in possession of the Mikado (or even a mandarin with simplified rules ), may also use this as a "helper":

  • Roll away rod with the tip
  • Go under the rod, and then throw up

Moves in trying a second rod (usually annotated with " wobbled " ), will be canceled. The remaining bars are collected, and the next player 's turn.

After a certain number of rounds (usually five) has won the player who has accumulated the most points. Case of a tie between two players wins the one who has the most bars, then again to tie another round is played.

Control variants

  • A " poor " throw may be repeated
  • One must get up, but do not leave one's place
  • The pile is not shuffled but the next player continues
  • Who caused the shaking, loses its points scored. You may cancel and leave but the next player the "impossible" train
  • Who can take Kuli, Samurai, bigwigs and Mandarin, in that order, will receive a bonus (eg double points )

Permitted helpers:

  • Mikado (Traditional)
  • Mikado / Mandarin (simplified)
  • Mikado / Mandarin / bigwigs
  • Mikado only when the player is also a bar in any other form has ( Kuli, Samurai, bigwigs, Mandarin )
  • In each case precisely suitable accessory; the Mikado must therefore be taken up without assistance
  • Who is using the wrong rod as a helper, loses its points this round.

The bar in which " wobbled it ":

  • Still goes to the player
  • Is removed

Saying

" Official - the Mikado " is: ". Whoever moves, has lost " this joke from one of the four largest cabarets of the GDR, which occurred during the "1st National Theatre Festival of the GDR" program, the news magazine Der Spiegel made ​​with an article by February 9, 1987 known in the West. Mikado has since become a metaphor for regulatory and policy inaction.

Shortly before the 2005 federal election in North Rhine -Westphalia, Jürgen Rüttgers said on September 14 in TV N24: " And by a large coalition, I think nothing at all. This will 'ne Mikado coalition. Since there are two opposite. And who moves as a first, loses. " Immediately after the election, which actually led to a coalition government of CDU / CSU and SPD, Jürgen Thumann, president of the Federation of German Industry (BDI) expressed" the view of the industry and economy ... bitterly disappointed " and the rest just like Rüttgers: a large coalition mountains " the risk that there will be a coalition Mikado: the first, the moves, has lost " the Wiener Zeitung headlined on September 20, 2005. economy fears Mikado effect.

In a press release of his ministry on July 7, 2009, Sigmar Gabriel was heard as follows: "The world community must stop playing Mikado. The developments in Germany, but: It's not as if one loses, the first moves. "

At the opening of the " Euro Finance Week " of the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management on 15 November 2010, the President of the German Bundesbank Axel Weber explaining his call for reforms in the German Landesbank sector as: "I believe that, especially in this area, the Mikado strategy that has been applied so far, is not productive. "

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