The South African game of vroteier (“rotten egg”) is similar. In the Indian rumaal chor, for instance, one player, the “thief,” runs around a seated circle of fellow participants, who extend their arms behind them when the thief drops a handkerchief somewhere along the way, whoever grabs it becomes the thief’s pursuer. In departing from duck-duck orthodoxy, the Swedes are hardly alone. But the gray duck’s the one that made it across the ocean.
There is a Swedish variant equivalent to the standard American name, called anka-anka-gås. Irish and Scots brought fiddle music Hungarians brought goulash Swedes brought duck-duck-gray-duck, which endures in the upper Midwest. It’s just one of those immigrant contributions that stick. Well, they and their progeny called the familiar kids' game duck-duck-gray-duck because that's what people called it back in the old country-in Swedish, it's anka-anka-grå-anka. You may have heard it mentioned, by your wife or Garrison Keillor or someone, that a bunch of Scandinavian settlers put down stakes in Minnesota over the years. AS great mysteries go, it's not quite up there with the lost colony of Roanoke.
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