Secret Diary

In our recent post on talking to Australian media about The Daring Book For Girls, we asked folks to send us their best guesses for the answer to the following question:

Jacks, along with marbles, is one of the oldest games in the world. What name does it go by in Australia?

And now we can reveal the answer! In Australia, the game is called Knucklebones — because originally it was played with the knucklebones of a sheep.

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