These are giant versions of the classic Pick Up Sticks that you probably played as a kid. Party Sticks were created by a lumberjack from the state of Washington in 1997 while trying to play with Pick Up Sticks with is daughter. Because he had difficulty seeing and picking up the sticks, he enlarged them (22" and 34" sticks) and color coded them in primary colors, adding a wooden die and a black stick with a higher point value.