What about the children´s toy "jacks"?

Question

Mostly little girls play jacks (though my husband says he was pretty good in his time. =), with a ball and these little 3-d asterisk-looking things on the floor. They play them here in Perú plenty and they call them something like "Yas" but i wanted to get the correct spelling.

Answer 1

Where I grew up we called them "Yaquis".