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reaperducer on Jan 11, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Michigan DOT Snowplow Names

For those of you not from Minnesota, "Duck Duck Gray Duck" is their version of "Duck Duck Goose."

(I'm not sure if it's just a Minnesota thing, but I never heard it in any of the other upper midwest states in which I lived.)

pigbearpig on Jan 11, 2022 | [–]

I believe this is the authoritative reference on the subject

https://www.christopherpollard.com/2013/02/22/in-minnesota-i...

icambron on Jan 11, 2022 | [–]

Do they...not have geese there?

(I'm Ohioan, and can confirm never having heard of this... questionable variant)

Minor49er on Jan 11, 2022 | [–]

We definitely have geese. But to us, the game has always been called Duck Duck Gray Duck

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