Handy-dandy \Hand"y-dan`dy\ (h[a^]nd"[y^]*d[a^]n`d[y^]), n.
A child's play, one child guessing in which closed hand the
other holds some small object, winning the object if right
and forfeiting an equivalent if wrong; hence, forfeit.
--Piers Plowman.
[1913 Webster]