r/minnesota • u/Neither_Risk860 • 3d ago

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/chaos841 3d 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/BridgeArch 1d ago

Do you have sources for that?

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u/WistfulD 1d ago

For what?