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> > They first try playing a game involving sticking 
>  > little knives into a barrel with the stickee who kills the guy in the 
>  > barrell losing.  
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> That is a quite popular game.  A pirate on the barrel was tucked 
> with many swords.  A participant pull one sword out.  The other 
> take turns to pull one out.  Only one of the sword is the "key"
> which will trigger the bomb.  The unlucky person pull out the 
> "key" to the bomb lose the game.

No, it goes the other way.  The player takes turns to stick "swords"
into the barrel until one of them hit the pirate, making him jump out.

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