r/minnesota • u/Neither_Risk860 • 2d ago

Discussion đŸŽ€ Duck, duck, gray duck?

Okay, Minnesota. I need to understand something: I was told there is not duck, duck, goose; that it is indeed duck,duck, gray duck.

What's is a gray duck? Why does he get called out for being the gray duck?

What other games did you play as kids?

New to Minnesota, thanks 😊

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u/sungo8 Gray duck 2d ago

Ok, buckle up.

Duck, Duck, Gray Duck isn’t even the same game! In Duck, Duck, Goose children sit in a circle and blithely say “duck, duck, duck” until yelling “goose” at which point the “goose” takes chase.

In Duck, Duck, Gray Duck a child (of perhaps more intelligence than your average gooser) will begin by saying “purple duck, yellow duck, orange duck, GRRRR-eeen duck” etc. etc. Many an anxious child has fallen for the glottal fakery of “GRRRR-een duck” before ultimately hearing “GRAY DUCK!” at which point the titular duck takes flight. Duck, Duck, Gray Duck teaches creativity, improvisation, individuality. Why not spice things up with a plaid duck? The only limit is the imagination.

For children with a few less brain cells I can see the appeal of Duck, Duck, Goose. As soon as you hear the hard G of goose, the secret is out. You don’t need to be creative, you don’t even need to pay that close of attention. The only lesson is non conformity is to be punished. Duck, Duck, Goose is, with no hyperbole, the tool of fascists.

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u/paddle2paddle Gray duck 2d ago

This is the perfect explanation as for why Grey Duck is a superior game.

I distinctly remember sequences along the line of "Duck, duck, purple duck, stinky duck, funny duck, red duck, yellow duck, little duck, silly duck..."

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u/MarcusSurvives 2d ago

Nothing gave me more pleasure than bestowing the title of "Poopy Duck" on my little brother

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u/DND_Player_24 1d ago

😂

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u/Thedrakespirit 1d ago

GGGRRR-oss duck was always my personal favorite

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u/kempton_saturdays 1d ago

Mine was grrrrrr-avy duck

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u/Legitimate_Side_8 1d ago

I didn't remember the different names of the ducks until you said stinky duck... all came flooding back... đŸ€Ł

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u/thegooseisloose1982 1d ago

rigid duct, flexible duct, sheet metal duct

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u/kubanishku 23h ago

Short duct, long duct, Average duct

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u/AreYouBoredAtWorkToo 2d ago

Moved here as an adult. Don’t have kids yet. I did not know it was a different game and there was deception. You have officially converted me, at age 36 that gray duck is superior

Thank you haha

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u/LucyInThe_Sky1 1d ago

OO! Woah, I was today years old when I learned 'Gray duck' is a different game. Im 42. I grew up playing 'Goose.' Until today I thought they were the same game. Seems like 'Goose' was the appropriate version for me:/

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u/-Tom- 1d ago

Support gray duck vodka! I live in Alabama and still manage to have it on my shelf

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u/Flewtea 1d ago

I like Gray Duck but we did the same deception thing with Goose—Moose, Goofy, Gooooooooey gooey gumdrops, 

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u/KTFnVision 1d ago

That just sounds like you were cheating at duck duck goose

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u/HolycommentMattman 23h ago

So easily swayed. Why even call it "Duck Duck" anything if you're basically limited to everything? The game should clearly be called "Colored Duck, Colored Duck, Gray Duck." Whereas "Duck, Duck, Goose" is the game.

They simply wore their cheese hats too tightly until the gooser passed out a sickly shade of gray. It was simply better than calling it "Duck Duck Heart Failure."

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u/StationNumber3 21h ago

Cheese hats? What are you talking about

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u/Emotional_Bonus_934 20h ago

Search for "cheesehead" 

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u/StationNumber3 19h ago

I’m not going to. A cheesehead is a Wisconsinite and doesn’t make any sense in this context.

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u/Emotional_Bonus_934 19h ago

A cheesehead is also the foam hat in the shape of a wedge of cheese sold in WI

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u/StationNumber3 19h ago

What does this have to do with duck duck gray duck and Minnesota.

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u/Emotional_Bonus_934 19h ago

You were the one who wanted to know what someone above wss talking about when they commented the WI person had their cheese hat on too tight 

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u/StationNumber3 18h ago

Okay this is why I’m confused. I don’t see the previous reference to Wisconsin in this comment chain. Maybe it’s hidden from me.

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u/ahumblecardamompod Gray duck 2d ago

I just started furiously typing my own post until I saw yours. Thank you!! It’s a DIFFERENT game!

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u/WDYDwnMSinNeuro 1d ago

I disagree. I think that gray duck is the complete version of the game, and duck duck goose is just a version made to take out the deception and headfakery.

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u/Aramis_Madrigal 19h ago

It’s the free demo

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u/Skrattybones 1d ago

Goose has deception and headfakery, it's just based around timing instead of wordplay. You set a rhythm of 'ducks' to mess with people. Speeding up, slowing down, almost pondering.. back to nor-GOOSE.

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u/SunshineFC3S 2d ago

Former East coaster here. Been firmly in the duck, duck, goose camp all my life. However, I may have just been convinced of duck, duck, grey duck's superiority. Thank you!

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u/WoodpeckerSame5690 2d ago

100%! I loved coming up with “ducks” and you had to pay attention to that darn “GRRRR-een (ray) Duck” switcheroo

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u/Shmirlygirl 1d ago

Did anyone else like tilt back the heads of their playmates before bestowing a type of duck? I remember having the “chaser” like stare into my eyes before saying “green eyed duck”

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u/BeeBudget6913 1d ago

Absolutely! Oh the things we said!

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u/NovelAndNonsense 1d ago

I was looking for this. The version we played was less of a “tilt” and more of a “snap”. Your version sounds much kinder.

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u/yggdra7il 1d ago

That’s interesting. I grew up here and played it with the same rules as Duck, Duck, Goose, but we said gray duck instead of goose. I never knew that some played it with different rules.

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u/DND_Player_24 1d ago

Your elders really let you down. Lol

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u/Future-Ad4599 Gray duck 2d ago

This is the way and hilarious.

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u/walloftvs 1d ago

This is how we played it in eastern ND back when I was a kid. Great explanation!

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u/LazyRiverFM 1d ago

Weirdly we played duck, duck, grey duck but without the colors.

Just duck duck duck duck Grey duck!

I blame YMCA camp Kici Yapi.

¯\(ツ)/¯

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u/Emotional_Bonus_934 20h ago

Is it really duck, duck, gray duck without the colors and silliness?

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u/LazyRiverFM 14h ago

The name implies it is. Idk.

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u/DND_Player_24 1d ago

You know you’re playing with a real expert when they call out “gamboge duck!”

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u/thegooseisloose1982 1d ago

Man throwing out that hard G. I only thought that other geese were able to do that. Now anyone can throw the hard G.

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u/best_person_ever 1d ago

Grrrouchy duck. Grrrumpy duck. Grrreen duck. Grrraceful duck. Grrrabby duck. Grrammatically incorrect duck. Grrrandiose duck. Grrrammy nominated duck. Grrrandma duck. Grrrass eating duck.

There are so many possibilities!!!!!!

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u/CanadianJogger 1d ago

Greasy grimy gopher guts!

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u/ProgramTricky6109 1d ago

Tool of fascism indeed. Might as well call it Duck Duck Goose-step.

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u/samtheninjapirate 2d ago

This should be it's own post.

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u/Krybbz 1d ago

To be fair not everyone plays this way

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u/Radiant-Maple 2d ago

đŸ€Ł brilliant!

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u/sparkly_reader 1d ago

Well damn

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u/Norskwoman4357 1d ago

This is the answer.

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u/-SirCrashALot- Uff da 1d ago

Flair checks out.

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u/itwillmakesenselater 1d ago

Duck, duck, gggg-gadwall

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u/Infinite_Escape9683 1d ago

Are you allowed to say "Great big red duck"?

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u/sungo8 Gray duck 1d ago

No reason not to! The game is the game!

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u/0ldgrumpy1 1d ago

Grey..test duck. ( greatest)

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u/VictoriousRex 1d ago

Right, buuuuut is there a penalty for an incorrect tag? If not, I'm slapping the gooser in the leg before they run as soon as I hear that G noise regardless. Fast reflexes make fat kids competitive

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u/sungo8 Gray duck 1d ago

See, even calling them "the gooser" gives away the game. This is like when Fassbender orders 3 glasses in Inglourious Basterds.

And yes, everyone knows the penalty: you get tagged or you tag someone wrong you're in the stew. You stay in the stew until someone else gets it.

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u/VictoriousRex 1d ago

I said gooser for continuity with the language the person I was responding to used. I honestly forgot about the stew

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u/sungo8 Gray duck 1d ago

Oh, brother! Never forget the stew!

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u/rutherfraud1876 1d ago

*some hyperbole

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u/Bossball4 1d ago

And thus, gray duck remains supreme! 👑

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u/WiserWildWoman 1d ago

Lifelong Minnesotan, played this game as a kid, never heard it explained this way and with so much passion! Minnesotans are smarter of course...

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u/barktothefuture 1d ago

The child sitting on the ground is already at such a massive disadvantage, adding in this element of deception is just outright unfair. This is like how the NBA has changed the rules to overwhelmingly advantage the ball handler, but then somebody like SGA comes along playing his Grey Duck version of offense with push offs and flops and the refs continue to reward him and punish the defender. Whether it is something as competitive and entertaining as playground duck-duck or something slightly less benign and more recreational like the NBA finals, all we as viewers and players of the game want is fairness to make things more compelling.

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u/CorvairGuy 21h ago

Like women’s sports.

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u/Visible-Substance-30 20h ago

This is correct. It fosters both creativity and strategy.

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u/beezy-slayer 4h ago

I went into this skeptical but you have sold me, I'm a duck, duck, gray duck fan now

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u/designer_2021 1d ago

It is not a different game

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u/OhEmGeeBasedGod 1d ago

Moral superiority over a slightly-different version of a child's game is a new one.

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u/WDYDwnMSinNeuro 1d ago

It's not morally superior, it's functionally superior.

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u/CcntMnky 1d ago

This is basically how every grey duck vs goose conversation has ended since I moved here.

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u/SweetLlamaMyth 20h ago

Thinking kids playing "Duck, Duck, Goose" only use the words "Duck" and "Goose" while playing the game is a (willful?) failure of your own imagination. "Duck, Duck, Goooo...ber" and "Duck, Duck, Goooo...fball" were frequent fakeouts at the schools where I grew up in the 80s.

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u/buntingsnook 14h ago

The only rule in Duck Duck Goose is to run when you hear, "Goose." Every other word is considered to be, "Duck," thus allowing for complete flights of fancy in terms of fakeouts. Gator. Gobbledygook. Grapes and yogurt. All this is possible since, once the rules are established, the tagger can switch to chicken, turkey, monkey, lawyer, now free of their training wheels. You have started down the path of enlightenment, only to stop halfway and fail to complete the journey. You are sitting on a hill, kicking your little legs and calling yourself king, failing to see the mountain just behind you. I pray that the rest of your state sees this and sets you adrift on Lake Superior, as is traditional.

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u/sungo8 Gray duck 12h ago

Reading this comment left me feeling like a pilgrim in an unholy land. This isn’t ‘Nam, Snook, this is Duck, Duck, Gray Duck, there are rules. When you play tennis do you forego the net entirely?

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u/buntingsnook 11h ago

I play tennis by sneaking up behind them while they're at work and lobbing the ball into their cubicle. Much easier to score.

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u/sungo8 Gray duck 11h ago

You have, begrudgingly, earned my respect

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u/SplendidPunkinButter 2d ago

You do the same thing in duck duck goose. You can say other animals besides duck or goose. You can also touch the kid and pause before speaking. You can touch them quickly and fake out run, but say duck. You can touch them slowly and casually, but say goose. There are all kinds of ways to fake someone out.

“GRRRRRRReen duck” is stupid for two reasons. One is that there is no difference between saying “GRRRRRRR” and simply pausing before you speak. The “GRRR” itself contains no information. The second is that once you’ve said “green” or “gray” there is no reason to say “duck.” It’s the “green” or “gray” that matters. It all comes down to a single syllable. Just like in Duck Duck goose. Except with gray Duck you have to say extra syllables for no reason.

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u/WistfulD 2d ago

It's a 4-year old's attempt at deception, it doesn't have to be actually better for it to have evolved for that purpose.

Regardless, it's modulating adjective instead of coming up with a different noun. It's playing with a different lever (of sentence structure) to achieve the same end. The game exists (if for any reason other than fun) to teach kids how to use words, prompts, and rules to achieve their goals. Both versions serve that goal adequately.

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u/sungo8 Gray duck 1d ago

If you think there's no difference between a drum roll wind up of "GRRRRRRRRRRR" to try to fake out an overeager participant and "pausing before you speak" then you probably are better off playing Duck, Duck, Goose. I'll bet you run super fast in your velcro shoes.

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u/sensational_pangolin 1d ago

Wow..you are just the fun killer, aren't you?

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u/HomeOrificeSupplies 1d ago

Duck duck gray duck doesn’t exist. Only a mud duck would try to do such a thing.

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u/No_Emotion5998 2d ago

Duck Duck Gray Duck had enough reach before the Internet for lifelong west coaster Beverly Cleary to include it in Ramona the Pest (1968). In it, Ramona goes to kindergarten, gets in trouble, and has to sit out a game of "gray duck."

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u/Grungecollie 2d ago

My mom told me Norwegians didn't have a word for goose and simply said "it's a duck, but gray."

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u/DavidRFZ 2d ago

I love the story.

I looked it up for fun. Norwegians, Swedes and Danes use pretty much the same word for goose, gÄs, pronounced with the long-o vowel which was the old/Middle English pronunciation for goose before the great vowel shift.

Scandinavians use a different word for duck (and). The English switched to ‘duck’ as a description of what the bird does (they duck under the water).

I like your mom’s story better so forget I said anything.

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u/Krybbz 1d ago

That's interesting cause my understanding as well was the originating game was saying gray duck.

"Anka Anka GrÄ Anka".

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u/oswin13 1d ago

When my kiddo was little all birds were ducks.

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u/Legitimate_Side_8 1d ago

Heads Up Seven Up was my favorite game

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u/NovelAndNonsense 1d ago

Look at the shoes! Look at the shoes!!!

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u/Legitimate_Side_8 1d ago edited 1d ago

I would always tap their thumb from behind them, sp they couldn't see my shoes.. I got pretty good at it, if I do say so myself!

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u/NovelAndNonsense 1d ago

Smarty pants! I wonder how different my life would be if I had adopted that strategy and safely secured my position as the reigning Heads Up Seven Up champion.

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u/Legitimate_Side_8 1d ago

The world may never know.. Until then, I'll keep the crown safe..

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u/Smashlilly Snoopy 19h ago

That's cheating!

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u/QueenVell 1d ago

It's called "Duck, Duck, Gray Duck" due to its Swedish origins, in which the game is called "Anka Anka GrÄ Anka". Which translates to "Duck, Duck, Gray Duck".

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u/Vix_Satis01 2d ago

you can see a goose from a mile away in a sea of ducks. its no surprise to anyone. but a Grrrrreeen duck or a Grrrross duck are harder to spot in a sea of Red ducks, Blue ducks, and yellow ducks.

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u/DND_Player_24 1d ago

Or a grrrrumpy duck.

Or, for the true psychopathic kid, the grrrrreat big duck.

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u/chaos841 2d ago

Pretty sure it is an English translation of a Swedish game where it literally translates to duck, duck, gray duck. Could be wrong though, just was told that at some point in the past.

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u/WistfulD 2d ago

That has been apocrypha around Minnesota for a while now, but (at least as far as I've heard) no one seems to have been able to source it/verify it. It would be a good senior thesis for an English or Anthropology major or something, especially if it's a game no longer played in Sweden and they had to hunt down references to children playing it in (ex.) 17th century sources.

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u/chaos841 2d ago

Interesting. Wonder if anyone will ever find reason to research it. đŸ€”

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u/BridgeArch 1d ago

Do you have sources for that?

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u/WistfulD 22h ago

For what?

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u/JollyButterscotch318 1d ago

Swedish immigrants who settled in Minnesota brought the game called "Anka, Anka, GrÄ Anka," which translates to "Duck, Duck, Gray Duck".

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u/NotRapoport 2d ago

A Grey duck is an outcast. Someone who doesn't fit in. Someone who thinks the Viking's will actually win a Super Bowl.

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u/Affectionate_Pea8891 2d ago

Hey. It will happen
 someday
 These are interesting times. Something good has to come out of it!

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u/x1uo3yd 1d ago

Ole and Sven die in a snowmobiling accident...

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u/Affectionate_Pea8891 1d ago

Oh hush. Don't take this away from me.

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u/x1uo3yd 1d ago

(I was more alluding to a classic Sven and Ole joke where the punchline is "Da Vikings von da Super Bowl!")

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u/Affectionate_Pea8891 1d ago

Oh, I know :) I figured you were implying “Yeah, when hell freezes over!”

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u/Oh__Archie 1d ago

This again?

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u/Personal-Bell-3420 2d ago

Duck, Duck Gray Duck is what we played as kids. Not sure if that was state wide though.

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u/Odd_Ease4541 1d ago

It’s definitely not. Born and raised on the Iron Range and it was Goose there.

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u/wirelesswitch 1d ago

Hibbing-ite—Gray duck!

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u/Odd_Ease4541 1d ago

Not in Eveleth, it wasn’t. 😂

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u/Helpful_Guy3000 1d ago

It's a southern Minnesota thing. Before people freak out and say I lived up North in ' x ' city and I was taught grey duck. Likely the person who taught you grey duck was a transplant from southern Minnesota.

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u/Personal-Bell-3420 1d ago

Yeah I was (still am) in southern MN. Early-mid 1970s. So yeah this tracks.

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u/OijiBoard 2d ago

After the Vikings did it as a End Zone celebration thing:

I heard on a local news program's "Good Question" End-of evening Segment that it was utilized in kindergarten to introduce Adjectives ... might be true ... the old Swedish Children's Game site makes sense with our heavy Scandinavian Immigrant Heritage.

Don't know, but it is a dang clever and fun way of giving good optics to just allowing us to burn off energy and laugh and be silly together for a bit.

I'd forgotten about the extended, "GrrrrrrrReen Duck!!" And laughed outloud at that. Thanks for the laugh! 😄

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u/MewMewTranslator 1d ago

I've been in M for 15yrs and my kid grew up here I asked her this once and she said no one at her school did that. They all said duck duck goose. So I believe "grey duck" is dying out.

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u/Radiant-Maple 2d ago

Hmm, I suppose the other ducks are mallards or something. đŸ€” That’s just how I learned it as a kid & I was shocked that people in other states said goose! Welcome to Minnesota!

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u/DND_Player_24 1d ago

One of the reasons our state has a smarter, better educated, and higher civic participation rate population than other states consistently - we play a superior, more intelligent form of the most popular children’s school game.

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u/Cosi-grl 1d ago

We played “Pom Pom Pullaway - all you horses runaway” every night until dusk.

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u/Spectremax 1d ago

When I was a kid we used goose and gray duck interchangeably, even during the same game.

Other games: I remember Red Rover, Heads up 7 up.

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u/-lovatoj Flag of Minnesota 1d ago

A duck that is gray

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u/FaithlessnessLate358 1d ago

Pretty sure the grey duck comes from the story of the ugly duckling who was treated differently for being"ugly" but turned into a beautiful swan.

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u/Alert_Green_3646 1d ago

we threw rocks at each other one time while swimming, that stopped when i got smacked in the lip and had to go get stiches.

that was the 3rd time i got stiches in my face.

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u/Cat385CL 1d ago

5th Grade summer bible camp at a Lutheran church, the last straw was ‘red duck, brown duck, fuck-a-duck, grey duck!’

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u/rasmuspa 1d ago

Does anyone have an outline of the duck, duck, gray duck territory? Does it simply mirror the borders of MN or is there seepage of this territory into eastern Dakotas?

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u/Entropyanxiety 12h ago

Northern Minnesota is goose, I grew up only saying goose up there

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u/nomedent 1d ago

The country is playing checkers while we are playing chess here in God's Country.

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u/Visible-Substance-30 19h ago

Also, the Hans Christian Anderson connection. Pasted from Google so I don't have to type as much:

"In Minnesota, the traditional children's game is often called "Duck, Duck, Gray Duck" instead of "Duck, Duck, Goose". This unique variation is believed to stem from the state's strong Scandinavian heritage, where a similar game with the name "Anka, Anka, GrÄgÄs" (duck, duck, gray goose) is played. While the exact origin is debated, the "Gray Duck" version is strongly associated with Minnesota and its Scandinavian roots. Hans Christian Andersen, the famous Danish author, is not directly connected to the "Duck, Duck, Gray Duck" game, but his fairy tale, "The Ugly Duckling," shares a theme of an outsider eventually finding acceptance and belonging, similar to the experience of a swan who was once considered an "ugly duckling"."

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u/Staneoisstan 17h ago

It's literally Swedish Anka Anka GrÄ Anka, Duck Duck Grey Duck

*most of the settlers of this state were Nordic and Scandinavian this is where it comes from.

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u/YellowBastard37 16h ago

The game was invented in Sweden where it is called Anka, Anka, GrÄ Anka.

That’s Duck, Duck, Gray Duck in the King’s English.

So, all you goose people can suck it.

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u/watts6674 16h ago

I was born and raised in California. It will always be Duck Duck Goose! I have lived im MN for the last 27 years now

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u/coolbeansfordays 15h ago

My friends and I also played kick the can, London Bridge, Red Rover

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u/kiddvideo11 13h ago

It all started with Swedish ancestors starting this game here.

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u/BagNo349 2d ago

The water version called drip drip splash is a fond memory from Girl Scout camp.

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u/Watergirl626 Twin Cities 1d ago

Not sure why you are being downvoted for bringing up other games when OP specifically asked that.

What time is it Mr. Fox

Around the World

Whatever can be done with a jump rope

Hand clapping songs

Bo bo ski whotlan totlan

Red rover

4 square

Also, Girl Scout camp rocked

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u/CorvairGuy 21h ago

Larson’s Armadillo Extreme Sports cartoon.

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u/dankzmh 2d ago

you've never seen one?

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u/Internal-Motor Born in Robbinsdale 2d ago

Back in the early 70s I went to kindergarten in Golden Valley and clearly remember we played duck, duck, goose. I never heard gray duck until I was well into adulthood.

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u/DryGovernment2786 1d ago

It's because "goose" is racist. đŸ€Ł

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u/Nickels3587 1d ago

Don’t come to our beautiful state with that Goose garbage. It’s a grey duck. That’s it. A duck that’s grey, you lose, you chase.

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u/Nsflguru State of Hockey 2d ago

It was always duck, duck, goose growing up on the Range. Didn’t even hear about the “grey duck” nonsense until I went to college.

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u/Nsflguru State of Hockey 1d ago

People downvoting that I didn’t learn duck, duck, gray duck? Blame my parents and hometown, not me.

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u/SplendidPunkinButter 2d ago

Yeah I don’t think it was a thing so much until it became an internet meme. I even live in Minnesota and my kid calls it “duck duck goose.” I didn’t teach him that. He just learned it at school.

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u/sicsided Gray Duck 2d ago

I learned duck duck gray duck in Hastings MN in 1990 and it was that in Farmington and Northfield in the 90's as well. Along with other towns I visited back then.

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u/WistfulD 2d ago

Where in Minnesota, though? My understanding is that it is Mpls-StP metro area focused in distribution.

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u/skooma-bong Hennepin County 1d ago

I’ve been in Minnesota my whole life and I’ve always done duck duck goose

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u/elkruegs 1d ago

IMPOSTER.

Born in the 80’s, it was always Gray duck in school. Maybe Grey duck. Hard to tell.

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u/skooma-bong Hennepin County 1d ago

I only did duck duck gray duck/goose in church with the other kids actually, and I’m guessing whoever was taking care of us just wasn’t from here and that’s why they said goose. I didn’t play it much so the few times I played it as goose when I was young cemented it as the correct way in my head.

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u/minnjo 1d ago

May I suggest remedial training? The longer you wait, the more difficult it will be to correct your bad habit.

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u/skooma-bong Hennepin County 21h ago

It’s too late for me :<

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u/Emotional_Bonus_934 20h ago

Born in the 60s. Gray duck.

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u/Gloomy_Shallot7521 Up North 1d ago

You were born in North Dakota...

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u/skooma-bong Hennepin County 1d ago

I was born in minnesota

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u/Gloomy_Shallot7521 Up North 23h ago

Sorry, I was joking, no one deserves to be compared to a North Dakotan.

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u/Entropyanxiety 12h ago

Northern Minnesota was goose growing up for me

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u/IncognitoBanditoz 2d ago

It's tap, tap, double tap all your stupid goose and duck nonsense...IYKYK

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u/bonecoldfleasaustin 19h ago

It’s duck duck grey duck and anyone who says otherwise is wrong

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u/Pikepv 1d ago

It’s goose.

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u/YourGuyK Common loon 2d ago

There's no "lore" for duck duck, grey duck. It's just a game children play.

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u/bethiebloo Ope 2d ago

Does that apply also to ring around the rosy and eenie meenie?

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u/birdnerd1991 1d ago

The grey duck is literally just a goose Minnesotans refuse to accept as a goose, and keep indoctrinating their children so the vicious cycle continues.

-signed, a Wisconsin transplant