Talk:Ticktack

German influence on the name?
Ticktack, dickedacken, and similar forms without R appear in 16th century German next to forms with R, cf. www.woerterbuchnetz.de/DWB/tricktrack - It is at least conceivable that the English name was influenced by these German variants. There's no research of this question that I'm aware of (but I'm not that well-read in this area), still it seems worth mentioning here anyway. --Jonas kork (talk) 12:23, 6 June 2023 (UTC)


 * You may well be right. The history of tables games is not well researched although Fiske, Murray, Bell and Parlett have all made valuable contributions over the last century or so. I can't find anything concrete about the German use of the word, although I'm sure they had similar games. Bermicourt (talk) 13:03, 6 June 2023 (UTC)