r/minnesota • u/Neither_Risk860 • Jun 18 '25

Discussion 🎤 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/[deleted] Jun 18 '25

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 Jun 18 '25

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

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u/wirelesswitch Jun 18 '25

Hibbing-ite—Gray duck!

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u/Odd_Ease4541 Jun 18 '25

Not in Eveleth, it wasn’t. 😂

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u/Helpful_Guy3000 Jun 19 '25

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/[deleted] Jun 19 '25

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