Has anybody ever played "Crossed-Uncrossed"?

Back when I was a kid my friends and I would play it in groups of about 10. You need at least one person who knows the rule. Everyone sits in a circle and one person starts with two pens or sticks or whatever. They can do whatever they want with them and then they have to pass it to their left in any configuration and proclaim "crossed" or "uncrossed". The receiver can either agree or disagree, then those who know the rule proclaim which, if either of the pair, is correct. The trick is that the "crossed" and "uncrossed" refers to the passers legs, not the pens. It was one of the most amusing and frustrating games to play with the uninitiated.