You were probably drunk at the time and weren’t able to remember the correct version. You Wisconsonites are all the same.
The day after the Millionaire question, two morning
D.J.'s on WABC in NYC called Minnesota and asked
the person to finished the phase “Duck Duck…”.
When she said “Grey Duck” they cracked up laughing.
I grew up in Minnesota playing duck duck grey duck–though generally not with Lutherans. (Of course, Methodists in MN are kind of Lutheran-Methodists anyway, and those in the south are Baptist-Methodists.) In my teens at a Girl Scout Camp counselor training conference I first heard of duck duck goose. I figured it was because people from Wisconsin were weird.(It is reasonable to think that my source was from Wisconsin, a significant part of our council was). It took me until college to realize that actually most people play duck duck goose.
Grey Duck? WTF? Goose rolls off the tounge so much easier, allowing one to run like your ass is on fire WAY earlier into the phrase.
Geez, you Minnesotans, what with your “Yah, fur suuuure,” and such. Crazy bizziness.
Better late than never.
In the Chicago suburbs, 1960’s, it was Duck Duck Goose, and interestingly enough, now that you mention it, it was always in VBS, never in school (but it was generic evangelical VBS, not Lutheran).
However, I have also heard all sorts of variations, like “Mouse Mouse Cat”, etc., so a “Duck Duck Grey Duck” doesn’t surprise me.
It was my favorite game because the race wasn’t necessarily always to the swift, but to the nimble. Even the slow kids had a chance, if the “goose” slipped on the grass and fell down.
I actually started playing it in pre-school school. And althought Lutheran, never played at VBS. I never realized until college that seemingly everyone else in the world played “duck, duck, goose”. I was stunned!
Come to find out, I have a friend form Flordia that grew up playing “duck, duck, seagull!” LOL! And I thought people from Wisconsin were weird!
Thanks to all for the insight into the age old question of duck duck grey duck!
Yes we do. My favorite kind of ice cream is Rocky Road. And we do have mint chocolate chip. With green ice cream. What do you think we are, weird?
Sorry, this is the 1st time I’ve heard of “gray duck.” Frankly, it doesn’t make sense to me. “Duck, duck, goose!” makes some sense to me since you can differentiate b/t the 2. However, “Duck, duck, gray duck!” seems a little weird. Shouldn’t it be “mallard, mallard, gray duck!”
Sorry, SilverFire. But I know there’s one more thing.
C’mon, name all the things that make y’all freaks…
Well, Conner.
This wasn’t directed at me, but one thing that stands out in my mind is our propensity to wait patiently at freeway ramp meters longer than anyone else in the U.S…
Transfering from one freeway to another, it’s not uncommon for us Minnesotans’ to wait more than 25 minutes in line. The light allows one car to enter the freeway, ahhh… maybe once a minute. All the while we longingly look at the cars whizzing by on the open freeway we want to be on.
We spend more of our commute time waiting at ramp meter’s then the actual time spent on the freeway.
In New Jersey and In Colorado all I ever remember hearing is Duck Duck Goose. A 12 gauge and a little bird shot and maybe ChrisPone Kenobe can put the “Phantom Grey Duck Menace” down forever 
Exactly!
It IS `duck duck GOOSE!’ At least the version I always played. I played it a lot as a kid in kindergarten and pre-kindergarten. In fact, i played it a lot in high school too…what else to do during noon hour??
Duck Duck Goose in NY. Never heard of Duck Duck Greyduck. I love playing duck duck goose… played it in the karts once. We strapped bike horns to our roll bars and the person who was “It” would take the high line while everybody else ran low and hugged the apron, then you’d honk your horn at the Goose and that person would swing out of line and race you for 2 laps. Whoever the spotter called as leading at the line after 2 laps was It.
I seem to remember it being either/or where I lived, I remember playing both versions. I grew up in northeast Iowa, 10 miles from the Minnesota border.
The lot of you are freaks! I’ve never heard of “duck duck grey duck” ever! We’ve always played “duck duck goose” I’m from SoCal by the way.
Kitty
You’re joking, right?
I mean, everyone plays “duck duck grey-duck” right?
It never occured to me that non-Minnesotans (poor dears; oh well, I suppose they can’t help it) would distort the game.
Geeze! Ya know, I vas pretty shore nobody vould mess with somethin’ so sacred!
Uffdah.
This is great. I’ll have to teach babyjesus this little game. It’ll rank right up there with him asking me, “What Would Scooby Doo?”
And to answer the OP, we say “Goose” in Arkansas.
Saying “duck…duck…duck”, not the drunk part.