Upcoming Events

Planning has started for a British tiddlywinks invasion of the US in September 2010. The last invasion was in 1985.

Recent Events

Larry Kahn and Severin Drix won the 2009 NATwA Pairs, which was a straight knockout. Dave Lockwood and Ferd came in second. The Pairs was held on the weekend of 12-13 December 2009 at Ithaca High Schoool in Ithaca NY. In the knockout, 6 of the 17 games played were pot-outs and there was one 3½ tie.

On the same weekend, veterans and a slew of new Ithaca High School winkers played in a "BIT'-style tournament in which partners vary in each game. In one game, Severin played on both sides of the partnership, playing right-handed in one and left-handed in the other. There were no pot-outs in this event!

ratings after Pairs

Larry Kahn took first in the 2009 NATwA Singles with a commanding 71½ points. Dave Lockwood was second with 56 points and Matt Fayers third with 50½. The Singles was held on the weekend of 28-29 August 2009 in Vienna VA.

See Brandon Rahhal's blogs on this event: 18 Sep 2009 · 15 Sep 2009 · 8 Sep 2009.

ratings after Singles

Stroboscopic Winks!

Image of a wink being potted by Yan Wang for MIT class 2.671, Spring 2008 · more

Royal Tiddlywinks Match: the 50th Anniversary!

Prince Philip designated members of the Savage Club as his royal champions to compete against the Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club (CUTwC) on 1 March 2008 to commemorate the 50th anniverary of the first royal match. CUTwC won!

Other nations are before us
With their `Sputniks' and `Explorers',
What can confidence restore us?
NAUGHT BUT TIDDLYWINKS.
more photos

Fifty years ago, on 1 March 1958, Prince Philip selected the famed radio comedy troupe, The Goons, to compete against CUTwC in response to an intriguing report in the influential newspaper, The Spectator, which in a headline posed the question, "Does Prince Philip Cheat at Tiddlywinks?". The rest is history. Read more about the early years of tiddlywinks competitions in On the Mat and Winks Rampant, both by Guy Consterdine of ETwA.

Playing Winks

	Check the FAQ
	Strategy & Tactics including Lockwood's rules of thumb and forefinger

The official rules

Winks perversions from Sunshine ▪ strange and interesting ways to play winks

The lexicon of winks ▪ squopping, boondocking, and other words of winkdom ▪ plus "how you say" tiddlywinks in other languages

Start a new club!

History

The history of winks from  prehistoric times ... to the Victorian era ... to collegiate play

Tucker's Tiddlywinks Museum of antique and modern winks games ... an amazing number ... over 2000 varieties

Tiddlywinks patents (with PDFs of all US patents) and trademarks

Further References

The e-x-h-a-u-s-t-i-v-e bibliography of tiddlywinks articles in newspapers, books, magazines, & even living things

The oft-ridiculed game

Random links

Books by Winkers
(Not about winks!)

	Fred Shapiro's Yale Book of Quotations ▪ Amazon.com (ISBN 0300107986)
	Bob Henninge's Spontaneous Generation ▪ Amazon.com (ISBN 1413487319)

Winks Links

English Tiddlywinks Association (ETwA)
Cambridge Tiddlywinks Club (CUTwC)
Melbourne University Tiddlywinks Society (M.U.T.S.)
Wisconsin Veterans of Foreign Wars [archived]
Scottish Tiddlywinks Association (ScotTwA) [archived]
Oxford University Tiddlywinks Society (OUTS) [archived]

Winkers and their websites