Timeline for When did “Duck, Duck, Goose“ migrate from Sweden to America?
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| Jul 27, 2020 at 13:58 | history | edited | Ludi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Made the title readable
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| Jul 27, 2020 at 12:45 | comment | added | MCW♦ | The answer posted in reference to User121863's reference probably answers the question. In any case, I doubt we will surpass that answer. | |
| Jul 26, 2020 at 16:12 | history | edited | MCW♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
edited tags; edited title
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| Jul 26, 2020 at 15:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackHistory/status/1287402332590936067 | ||
| Jul 26, 2020 at 13:01 | comment | added | Pieter Geerkens | @user121863: "Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds." | |
| Jul 26, 2020 at 12:59 | comment | added | Pieter Geerkens | I remember playing this game in Southern Ontario in the early 1960's. | |
| Jul 26, 2020 at 12:57 | history | migrated | from english.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Jul 25, 2020 at 18:49 | comment | added | Phil Sweet | In Minnesota and the Dakotas, prior to about 1950, there wouldn't ever have been enough people to play it all gathered in one place. Scandanavian immigration into the area was largely driven by a familiar climate and promotions by the Great Northern RR "Fred J. Adams used promotional incentives such as feed and seed donations to farmers getting started along the line." | |
| Jul 25, 2020 at 18:47 | comment | added | user121863 | Related: Where did “duck, duck, gray duck” come from? english.stackexchange.com/questions/133010/… | |
| Jul 25, 2020 at 14:36 | comment | added | HoneyBadger | Some relevant information specific to Minnesota here | |
| Jul 25, 2020 at 13:46 | comment | added | Dave Sherohman | @aschepler - As a Minnesota native now living in Sweden, I don't actually know the names used in Scandinavian nations, so I did a little searching and, although I still don't really know the answer to that question, I found this article which mentions The Ugly Duckling as a possible origin for the "Gray Duck" variant: kindadifferent.net/wp/index.php/2017/12/24/duck-duck-which | |
| Jul 25, 2020 at 13:36 | comment | added | aschepler | @DaveSherohman Interesting. If "gray duck" is an alternate term for the "goose", and if it has also been popular in Scandinavia for a long time, the idea may have been related to Hans Christian Anderson's story "The Ugly Duckling". Just conjecture. | |
| Jul 25, 2020 at 13:02 | comment | added | Dave Sherohman | Note that "Duck, Duck, Goose" is not played in Minnesota. In Minnesota, everyone I know grew up playing "Duck, Duck, Gray Duck". (I only bring this up because the question seems to assume that "Duck, Duck, Goose" took root in Minnesota, then spread from there to the rest of the US, but, if that were the case, it would have been the "Gray Duck" variant which spread from Minnesota, not the "Goose" variant.) | |
| Jul 25, 2020 at 5:43 | answer | added | Sven Yargs | timeline score: 13 | |
| Jul 25, 2020 at 4:04 | comment | added | nnnnnn | Is there evidence that this game originated in Sweden? You seem to state it as fact, but similar games with different names have been played in other countries for a long time, definitely before the period you're talking about. | |
| Jul 25, 2020 at 2:30 | history | asked | Jessie Simms | CC BY-SA 4.0 |