Yeah it’s true. The game originated in Sweden, and we have a lot of Swedish immigrants in Minnesota. It was originally called anka anka gråttanka, which translates to duck duck grey duck. Or that’s the story we tell here at least.
I grew up in southern Minnesota and played Duck Duck Grey Duck as a kid. The first time I heard of Duck Duck Goose was when I moved away for college. When I first heard someone say Duck Duck Goose, I thought they were just making up a weird verse in the game.
We always played where each person tapped gets a different “Duck” so, “blue duck, orange duck, wet duck, baby duck, and so on” and then when the caller says “Grey Duck” then the chase is on. So in that version “goose” could just be one of the ducks called, so that’s what I thought they were doing. It was much later that I learned that other folks didn’t have any variation to the calls other than “goose” and “duck”.
That’s really neat. Were you also aware of “duck duck goose” growing up, or was it weird hearing it another way the first time?
I heard both growing up. To me they were just synonyms for the same game. Well, almost the same. Duck Duck Gray Duck is a little more fun because you assign colors to all of the ducks, so you have to pay a little more attention. But when not actually playing the game, the two versions live in the same pigeon hole within my brain.
I had not heard of duck duck goose until I was like 15 and my mind was blown.
I’m not telling you
They know the horror of Canadian geese first hand. No way in hell will you get them to willingly partake in a ritual that has even the slightest chance of summoning one.
Something something marinate!
No, I hunted one of those motherfuckers one time, you can marinate that motherfucker all you want and it’s still not gonna be edible.
Like $100 in special permits and special ammo and it wasn’t worth a damn.
I see why Christmas goose fell out of favor.
See, at the end of a Christmas Carol, Scrooge never actually was rehabilitated.
He went and bought the biggest one of those nasty ass birds he could find to stick on those poor people’s table.
duck duck grey duck is the correct version of the game
duck. duck. duck. duck. duck. goose.
vs
blue duck. purple duck. yellow duck. grrrrrrrrrrreen duck. black duck. grey duck.
Weird, I remember when I was in elementary school in MN they used ‘duck duck goose’, this is the first i’ve heard of the other variation.
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