# Higgeldy Piggeldy Game **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [November 26, 2020, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/higgeldy-piggeldy-game/926516 "2020-11-26T18:04:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2020, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/higgeldy-piggeldy-game/926516/21 "2020-11-28T03:11:44Z")
Higgledy Piggledy, Eleanor Roosevelt How did you manage to Do FDR? Sexual Intercourse Wasn’t his frailty He did my clerk in the Back of his car! ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2020, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/higgeldy-piggeldy-game/926516/22 "2020-11-28T03:18:32Z")
Higgledy Piggledy AlexandriOC [Playing _Among Us_ with](https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/27/21722576/aoc-among-us-twitch-jagmeet-singh) leftists on Twitch Chats about politics Hypermillennially Media Mastery Tweaks Moscow Mitch ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2020, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/higgeldy-piggeldy-game/926516/23 "2020-11-28T14:30:21Z")
Higgamus Hoggamus, Dusseldorf Germany, What kind of hops do you Use in Altbier? High Alpha bittering, Tettnang or Hallertau, Using top fermenting, Makes it top tier! ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2020, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/higgeldy-piggeldy-game/926516/24 "2020-11-28T18:39:39Z")
Haggledum Paggledum Antonin Scalia What do you think of the Cases you judge? Legal opinions can’t Change with the seasons - the Framers were psychic - and So I can’t budge. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2020, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/higgeldy-piggeldy-game/926516/25 "2020-11-28T21:34:33Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > This interpretation here is looser, but that doesn’t mean it was well described in the OP. The GAMES contest was perhaps in 1985(?) after the invention of the form in 1966, according to the above link. The one-word line was one of the rules from a contest in the _Mensa Bulletin_ back in '80 or '81. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2020, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/higgeldy-piggeldy-game/926516/26 "2020-11-29T04:41:50Z")
It’s a good rule, but it won’t be enforced in this particular game. Maybe if I did it again. ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2020, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/higgeldy-piggeldy-game/926516/27 "2020-11-29T06:12:03Z")
I’d just like to link to [a previous thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-dactyls-the-higgledy-piggledy-poetry-thread/189418/12)on this topic, featuring (as you may see) the daughter of one of the co-inventors of the form. Funnily (to me, that is. I laughed inwardly to myself), I have just now returned home from the Bronx Zoo; my first visit since 1995, which was meant simply to salvage something from a trip to the Fordham branch of the New York Public Library, reported to possess the only copy of “Jiggery Pokery” in the NYPL system (I didn’t find it and made use of a book searching service, managing to procure a copy for a bit less than $50. This remains to date my only use ever of any such service). Anyway, before too much time passes, though I can’t make rules for this thread in this forum on this website, I’d like to remind everyone that in a proper double-dactyl either the fifth, sixth, or seventh line must be a single word. I’ll try to contribute something new to this thread in the next day or two or three, ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2020, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/higgeldy-piggeldy-game/926516/28 "2020-11-29T07:52:34Z")
Higgeldy Piggeldy, Alice in Wonderland, Fell down a rabbit-hole, With a queen sparred, Who issued sentences Decapitational. “Hah!” said the gutsy girl, “You’re such a card.” ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2020, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/higgeldy-piggeldy-game/926516/29 "2020-11-29T10:49:48Z")
Higgeldy Piggeldy, Sergei Rachmaninoff Wrote a concerto which Made people snore. With hypnotherapy He struggled on and off, Had some great triumphs and Settled the score. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2020, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/higgeldy-piggeldy-game/926516/30 "2020-11-29T19:11:29Z")
^^ Wonderful pun! ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2020, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/higgeldy-piggeldy-game/926516/31 "2020-11-29T19:12:21Z")
Higgledy piggledy Candidate Hillary Got left behind on the Lock-Her-Up Trail, Exoneratedly, No longer pilloried, She’ll be the one watching Trump trudge to jail. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2020, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/higgeldy-piggeldy-game/926516/32 "2020-11-29T21:23:53Z")
Higgeldy Piggeldy Jennifer Aniston Struggled in Cali ‘til Scoring with “Friends”. Famed for her haircut and Saccharine movies she Broke up with Brad Pitt and Soothed her split ends. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2020, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/higgeldy-piggeldy-game/926516/33 "2020-11-29T22:28:24Z")
Thanks for the link to the 2003 thread. Some of those are great. Anything that uses the word “uncallipygian” gets my vote. Even in the old thread, sensible rules were often ignored. They will be in this thread, but I agree using more longer words is better form. Look forward to more efforts. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/higgeldy-piggeldy-game/926516/34 "2020-11-30T03:34:03Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > ^^ Wonderful pun! And I rhymed lines 2 and 6. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/higgeldy-piggeldy-game/926516/35 "2020-11-30T03:50:24Z")
Yes, it was cleverly constructed. I did the same in mine (almost) ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/higgeldy-piggeldy-game/926516/36 "2020-11-30T04:27:51Z")
Higglety Pigglety, Cameron Mackintosh, How’d you produce shows like _Les Miserables_? Claude-Michel Schönberg and Good Alain Boublil were Certainly helpful to Me for that job! ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/higgeldy-piggeldy-game/926516/37 "2020-11-30T11:35:37Z")
Higgeldy Piggeldy, Ludwig von Beethoven, Wrote on the treble and Also bass clef. Sestercentennial December sixteenth, We’d sing _Happy Birthday,_ Except Ludwig’s deaf. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/higgeldy-piggeldy-game/926516/38 "2020-11-30T15:35:02Z")
Heated Repeatedly Young Jonathan Lennon, Refused to eat dinner, or Soften this stance. Don’t eat the carrots, said Pa, diplomatically. All I am saying is Give peas a chance. (Dedicated to Jonathan Chance) ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/higgeldy-piggeldy-game/926516/39 "2020-11-30T15:41:56Z")
Higgledom Piggledom Forty-fifth President Pardoned himself for the Twenty-third time I am Abraxas, so Don’t pay my taxes, it’s My parapraxis, and That’s not a crime. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/higgeldy-piggeldy-game/926516/40 "2020-11-30T17:59:06Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > All I am saying is > Give peas a chance. groooooaaaannnnn [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/higgeldy-piggeldy-game/926516.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/higgeldy-piggeldy-game/926516.md?page=3)