Newspapers and Newsletters Other than School Publications

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Australia
(Western Australian newspaper) (newspaper)
location · 
Australia
tw-pub-ID · 
759

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for (Western Australian newspaper).
published in · 
(Western Australian newspaper)
date · 
soon after 29 March 1959
summary

Coverage of the Empress match Club match with Cambridge University

content

Tiddlywinks is the most upper-class of games in England. Its patron is the Duke of Edinburgh, and its players include the intellectual cream of the universities, titled young men, and the Goons.

notes · 
Cited in Winking World 4, page 7.
notability rating · 
potentially interesting
tw-ref-ID · 
2792
Victoria • (state)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
The Age (newspaper)
location · 
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
tw-pub-ID · 
758

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for The Age.
published in · 
The Age
date · 
14 June 1958
title · 
Tiddly Winks Gets Stablised
citation · 
page 4 • column 8
content

The first Tiddly Winks Congress ended yesterday at Cambridge University. Delegates from the major universities agreed on a set of rules for all future tournaments. The first English tiddly winks association was also set up.

collection · 
digitized image copy (NATwA)
notability rating · 
important
tw-ref-ID · 
2791
Bahrain
Gulf Daily News (newspaper)
location · 
Bahrain
tw-pub-ID · 
760

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for Gulf Daily News.
published in · 
Gulf Daily News
date · 
15 December 1984
column title · 
Sport
title · 
A year of change
citation · 
page 82
notes · 
"Tribute to Bahrain 1984"
collection · 
photocopy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
2793
Canada
Evening Standard (newspaper)
location · 
Canada
tw-pub-ID · 
773

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for Evening Standard.
published in · 
Evening Standard
date · 
29 May 1971
tw-ref-ID · 
2807
Ontario • (province)
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Ottawa Citizen (newspaper)
location · 
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
tw-pub-ID · 
775

Toggle showing 3 tiddlywinks references for Ottawa Citizen.
published in · 
Ottawa Citizen
date · 
22 January 1971
title · 
Squidging… …squopping
subtitle · 
That strategic, gripping and growing sport—tiddlywinks
citation · 
page 24
summary

Photograph.

collection · 
original (NATwA/Drix)
notability rating · 
important
tw-ref-ID · 
2809
published in · 
Ottawa Citizen
date · 
29 April 1971
citation · 
page 3
tw-ref-ID · 
2810
published in · 
Ottawa Citizen
date · 
3 May 1971
title · 
Mr. Tiddle and General Wink
citation · 
page 10
summary

Photograph.

collection · 
original (NATwA/Drix)
notability rating · 
important
tw-ref-ID · 
2811
The Ottawa Journal (newspaper)
location · 
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
tw-pub-ID · 
161

Toggle showing 4 tiddlywinks references for The Ottawa Journal.
published in · 
The Ottawa Journal
date · 
17 September 1955
title · 
Mickey Finn
by · 
Lank Leonard
citation · 
section Weekend Comic Section
content

Phil certainly thinks that Mr. Mooney should go after the $100,000 question tonight, doesn‘t he, Mrs. Finn?

Yes! But I hope Philip keeps out of it Flossie! It's something that Mr. Mooney should decide for himself!

Don't listen to Clancy, Mooney! Take my advice and shoot the works!

But Phil, if I'm not able to answer it, I'll lose the $75,000 I've already won!

I'll read the question once again, Mr. Mooney! "Name the man who invented the game of tiddlywinks and state where the first game was played!"

?

collection · 
digitized image copy (NATwA)
links · 
Ottawa Journal (tw-ref-link-id 1863)
notability rating · 
interesting
type · 
comic
tw-ref-ID · 
2818
published in · 
The Ottawa Journal
date · 
12 December 1970
title · 
'Squidgeoff' With Ottawa's Tiddlywinks Team
by · 
Margot Andresen
citation · 
page 4 • column 1
content
Black and white photograph of Rosie Wain and Andy Tomaszewski, holding a copy of Newswink 3, with headline: WAND DRAFTED.

Rosemary Wain and Andy Tomaszewski, editors of the tiddlywinks players' news sheet Newswink, proudly look over their publication. It's the official publication of the North American Tiddlywinks Association, with 20 clubs and more than 200 members. The Ottawa players are tops in Canada in tiddlywinks and second in North America.

(Journal Photo by Dominion Wide)

collection · 
original (NATwA); original (Drix/NATwA); digital copy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
510
published in · 
The Ottawa Journal
date · 
29 April 1971
title · 
Preparing for Tiddlywink Championships
by · 
CP-Journal Wirephoto
citation · 
page 3 • column 1
content
Black and white photograph of Rosie Wain (left) holding a squidger as a wink heads to the pot in the foreground. Andy Tomaszewski (right) is looking on. Both have their heads just above the mat on the table.

PREPARING FOR TIDDLYWINK CHAMPIONSHIPS

Carleton University students Rosemary Wain and Andy Tomaszewski have their eyes on the cup during a practice session Wednesday as they prepare for the North Americn tiddlywink championships, to be held at Carleton this weekend. Tiddlywink experts who have traveled 8,000 miles for tiddlywink competitions, will face 12 other two-man teams in vyring for the coveted annual prize.

(CP-Journal Wirephoto)

collection · 
digital image copy (NATwA)
links · 
Ottawa Journal (tw-ref-link-id 1861)
notability rating · 
important
tw-ref-ID · 
2815
published in · 
The Ottawa Journal
date · 
3 May 1971
title · 
MR. TIDDLE AND GENERAL WINK
by · 
Dominion Wide (photographer)
citation · 
page 10
content

Black and white photograph of Severin Drix and Bob Henninge (wearing police-style hat with star on it), holding squidgers on a tiddlywinks mat with winks and pot.

Two of North America's top tiddlywinkers concentrate on a shot in the final match of the continental pairs championship Sunday at Carleton University. Bob Henninge (hat and star) and Ferd Bull (not shown) of New York City, won the tournament with 62 points. Severin Drix (left) and Phil Villar of Boston came second with 50. And solidly in third with 47 points—and still top Canadian pairs—were Ottawa's own Rosie Wain and Andy Tomaszewski. Eleven teams competed in the two-day event.

collection · 
photocopy (Drix/NATwA); digital of photocopy copy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
540
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Toronto Daily Star (newspaper)
location · 
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
tw-pub-ID · 
776

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for Toronto Daily Star.
published in · 
Toronto Daily Star
date · 
22 February 1969
title · 
This team pots out, squidges and squops
citation · 
page 7
summary

Photograph.

tw-ref-ID · 
2812
Toronto Telegram (newspaper)
location · 
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
tw-pub-ID · 
777

Toggle showing 2 tiddlywinks references for Toronto Telegram.
published in · 
Toronto Telegram
date · 
11 February 1971
citation · 
page 61
tw-ref-ID · 
2813
published in · 
Toronto Telegram
date · 
15 February 1971
citation · 
page 4
tw-ref-ID · 
2814
The Toronto World (newspaper)
location · 
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
tw-pub-ID · 
778

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for The Toronto World.
published in · 
The Toronto World
date · 
17 August 1920
citation · 
page 7 • column 7
content

STAR THEATRE

THIS WEEK—MATINEE DAILY.

I. H. HERK'S BIG SUCCESS

TIDDLEDY WINKS

A BURLESQUE FABLE with HARRY S. LEVAN AND 20 CLASSY WINKERS.

notability rating · 
not tiddlywinks game
tw-ref-ID · 
2816
Québec • (province)
Buckingham, Québec, Canada
The Buckingham Post (newspaper)
location · 
Buckingham, Québec, Canada
tw-pub-ID · 
533

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for The Buckingham Post.
published in · 
The Buckingham Post
date · 
15 May 1959
title · 
Tiddlywinks No Game for Sissies
citation · 
page 4 • column 3
content

"Tiddlywinks is a game for four players, those who play opposite each other being partners. The aim of the game is to flick the winks into the pot"

In the quick wake of the sceduling of the tiddlywink match between the undisputed champion of the British Isles, Cambridge University, and the University of Chicago, a number of significant reactions have been recorded in the Windy City.

For one, the university's student paper has devoted a half page of its paper to printing the international rules of tiddlywinks—from which the aforementioned definitoin of the game is taken.

At the same time, Rochelle Dubnow, editor of the paper—The Maroon—hinted at the type of unexpected opposition the Cambridge aggregation may have to face here next September.

"We find nothing in the rules that prohibits young women from taking part, Miss Dubnow said.

"Although sporting codes are customarily thrown to the winds in tiddlywinks competition," she said, "we suspect the long tradition of British gallantry toward women may prove too much for even these battle hardened veterans.

"And one show of gallantry may cost them the match."

At the same time the university's director of athletics, Walter L. Hass, scoffed at the idea that tiddlywinks is a "sissy's sport." He grimly pointed out that there were "split thumbnails, flying winks which threaten players and spectators alike." He said that "thse are the considerable hazards of the game."

collection · 
digital image (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
2286
Montréal, Québec, Canada
Montréal Star (newspaper)
location · 
Montréal, Québec, Canada
tw-pub-ID · 
774

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for Montréal Star.
published in · 
Montréal Star
date · 
2 October 1971
tw-ref-ID · 
2808
Ireland
Irish Independent (newspaper)
location · 
Ireland
archive website · 
tw-pub-ID · 
802

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for Irish Independent.
published in · 
Irish Independent
date · 
28 February 1966
title · 
All Eyes on Tiddlywinks
title language · 
English
citation · 
volume 75 • issue 50 • page 3 • column 1
content

AND what was so interest? … a ding dong tiddlywinks competition at Trinity College, Dublin, yesterday. And battling grimity for the honours were students from Trinity and Queen's University, Belfast. First champions—Queen's, by 72 pts. to 40.

tw-ref-ID · 
3782
Cork, Ireland
The Cork Examiner (newspaper)
location · 
Cork, Ireland
archive website · 
tw-pub-ID · 
803

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for The Cork Examiner.
published in · 
The Cork Examiner
date · 
5 January 1970
title · 
Tiddlywink schoolboys totter to new record
title language · 
English
citation · 
whole 47229 • page 1 • column 3
content

EIGHT physically and mentally weary schoolboys watched a tiddlywink flip at 9.30 last night and dazedly claimed a new world record.

The boys—at the Quintin Kynaston School, Marylebone, London—had been ‘potting winks’ since New Year's Day.

As minute hands on watches passed the 9.30 p.m. mark it signified that the two teams, each made up of four boys, had broken the previous 84-hour record.

But they kept going for another hour and set the record at 85 hours.

About £199 us expected to be raised for Oxfam.

Each boy was sponsored along the same lines as charity walkers.

The boys have been kept going by crisps, sandwiches, peanuts, pies—and two giant tins of coffee donated by Oxfam.

Sanity was preserved by continual pop music and chats with a supervising master and a scorekeeper.

The players tried to get home for one decent meal a day and took turns to rest on camp beds at the school.

keywords

marathon

tw-ref-ID · 
3783
Evening Echo (newspaper)
location · 
Cork, Ireland
archive website · 
tw-pub-ID · 
804

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published in · 
Evening Echo
date · 
5 March 1958
title · 
U.S. Tiddlywink Challenge
title language · 
English
citation · 
whole 19551 • page 8 • column 5
content

An American Tiddlywinks team announced in New York last night that it had begun training for a possible match with the Duke of Edinburgh's team. The Goons.

The U.S. team, made up of members of the cast in an Ibsen play “Enemy of the People” at a Greenwich village district theatre, lamented the fact that Tiddlywinks is a vanishing art in America.

Mr. Arthur Reel, director of the play, said a notice had been sent to the Duke challenging The Goons.

keywords

Goons

challenge

tw-ref-ID · 
3784
New Zealand
Canterbury • (region)
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
The Star (newspaper)
location · 
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
tw-pub-ID · 
767

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for The Star.
published in · 
The Star
date · 
25 July 1893
citation · 
page 4
content

Miscellaneous

ANNUAL Sale.—Flipperty Flop, new popular game, same as Tiddledywinks; Six-Handed Game for 1s, at Oakey's Variety Bazaar.

notability rating · 
minor but interesting
tw-ref-ID · 
2801
Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand
Timaru Herald (newspaper)
location · 
Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand
tw-pub-ID · 
768

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published in · 
Timaru Herald
date · 
12 May 1894
citation · 
volume 57 • whole 5693 • page 1 • column 8
content

WINTER GAMES.

[...] Tiddledy Winks. ... ... 1s

[...]

T. WAGSTAFF, BOOKSELLER & STATIONER, TIMARU

notability rating · 
very minor
tw-ref-ID · 
2802
Manawatu-Wanganui • (region)
Feilding, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand
Feilding Star (newspaper)
location · 
Feilding, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand
tw-pub-ID · 
762

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for Feilding Star.
published in · 
Feilding Star
date · 
29 October 1892
column title · 
Local and General News
citation · 
volume 14 • issue 56 • page 2
content

Mr. Waugh is making a nice display of new novels, children's birthday and presentation books, parlour games, tiddledy winks, albums, birthday cards, toys etc, and invited a visit of inspection.

notability rating · 
very minor
tw-ref-ID · 
2794
Wanganui, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand
Wanganui Herald (newspaper)
location · 
Wanganui, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand
tw-pub-ID · 
769

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for Wanganui Herald.
published in · 
Wanganui Herald
date · 
2 November 1894
citation · 
page 4
content

GAMES. GAMES. GAMES.

Tiddledywinks, Halma, Flirting Cricket, Flirting Football, Stanley's March, Reversi, Pagodah [,] Endless Chain Puzzle, etc.

H. I. JONES AND SON, BOOKSELLERS AND STATIONERS, PRINTERS & BOOKBINDERS, WANGANUI

notability rating · 
minor but interesting
tw-ref-ID · 
2803
Marlborough • (region)
Blenheim, Marlborough, New Zealand
Marlborough Express (newspaper)
location · 
Blenheim, Marlborough, New Zealand
tw-pub-ID · 
763

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published in · 
Marlborough Express
date · 
17 June 1892
citation · 
volume 28 • issue 142 • page 2
content

MISS CARD

HAS received a New Supply of Fancy Goods and Toys, new Games, including Renersi [sic; correct= Reversi], Naval Manœvres, TIddledy-Winks, &c. [...]

MARKET STREET, NORTH

notability rating · 
very minor
tw-ref-ID · 
2796
Nelson • (region)
Nelson, Nelson, New Zealand
Nelson Evening Mail (newspaper)
location · 
Nelson, Nelson, New Zealand
tw-pub-ID · 
764

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for Nelson Evening Mail.
published in · 
Nelson Evening Mail
date · 
5 July 1894
citation · 
volume 28 • issue 155 • page 3
content

GAMES.—Immense variety, including Palmistry, Fortune Telling, Flirting, Tennis, Cricket, Football, Bogie Man, Chess, Halma, and Tiddledy Winks.

OAKEY'S BAZAAR.

notability rating · 
very minor
tw-ref-ID · 
2797
Oceania • (region)
Auckland, Oceania, New Zealand
New Zealand Observer and Free Lance (newspaper)
location · 
Auckland, Oceania, New Zealand
tw-pub-ID · 
765

Toggle showing 4 tiddlywinks references for New Zealand Observer and Free Lance.
published in · 
New Zealand Observer and Free Lance
date · 
23 March 1895
title · 
Wanted Known
by · 
Goodson's London Arcades, Queen St. and Karangahape Road
citation · 
volume 15 • whole 847 • page 2 • column 1
content

Flitterkins, [...] Jumpkins, Tiddley Winks

collection · 
digitized image (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
2069
published in · 
New Zealand Observer and Free Lance
date · 
30 March 1895
title · 
Wanted Known
by · 
Goodson's London Arcades, Queen St. and Karangahape Road
citation · 
volume 15 • whole 848 • page 2 • column 1
content

Flitterkins, [...] Jumpkins, Tiddley Winks

collection · 
digitized image (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
2070
published in · 
New Zealand Observer and Free Lance
date · 
Paengawhāwhā 20 April 1895
title · 
Wanted Known
by · 
Goodson's London Arcades, Queen St. and Karangahape Road
citation · 
page 4 • column 1
content

Flitterkins, [...] Jumpkins, Tiddley Winks

collection · 
digitized image (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
3764
published in · 
New Zealand Observer and Free Lance
date · 
13 July 1907
citation · 
volume 27 • issue 43 • page 14
content

WINTER FIRESIDE GAMES

All at 1/6, and played with a board.

Snakes and Ladders, Steeplechase, Hare and Tortoise, Hunt Cup, Lotto and Bowlette (Table Bowls).

VARIOUS GAMES.

Tiddledy Winks, 1/6; Word Making, 1/–; [...]

WILDMAN AND AREY, BOOKSELLERS, STATIONERS, AND PROPRIETORS AUCKLAND PICTURE POST CARD SHOP, VICTORIA ARCADE, SHORTLAND ST., AUCKLAND.

notes · 
The same advertisement appears on 20 July 1907 (page 14), 27 July 1907 (page 14), and 3 August 1907 (page 14).
links · 
Observer (tw-ref-link-id 1860)
notability rating · 
very minor
tw-ref-ID · 
2798
Otago • (region)
Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
Otago Witness (newspaper)
location · 
Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
tw-pub-ID · 
766

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published in · 
Otago Witness
date · 
13 July 1893
citation · 
page 3 • column 1
content

JAQUES' GAMES.

FOR WINTER EVENINGS

AN Immense Variety—Halma, Snap, Tiddledywinks, Reversi, Kono, Pirouette. Of all the Leading Fancy Dealers Throughout the Colonies.

Published by JAQUES and SON, LONDON.

See that Goods Bear the Name or they are not Genuine.

notability rating · 
minor but interesting
tw-ref-ID · 
2799
published in · 
Otago Witness
date · 
7 May 1903
title · 
A Year in the Orange Free State Before the War
citation · 
whole 2512 • page 50
content

To pass long evenings we used to play tiddlywinks together

notability rating · 
very minor
tw-ref-ID · 
2800
Wellington • (region)
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Evening Post (newspaper)
location · 
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
tw-pub-ID · 
770

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for Evening Post.
published in · 
Evening Post
date · 
3 October 1891
title · 
Wit and Humor
citation · 
section Supplement • page 2 • column 2
content

"Bertie," said the Queen to the Prince, "you do gamble. I have proof. Here, sir, is a poker chip I found in your pocket." "Nonsense, ma," said the Prince. "I've been playing tiddledywinks with Battenberg's babies."

notability rating · 
minor but interesting
tw-ref-ID · 
2804
West Coast • (region)
Greymouth, West Coast, New Zealand
Grey River Argus (newspaper)
location · 
Greymouth, West Coast, New Zealand
tw-pub-ID · 
761

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for Grey River Argus.
published in · 
Grey River Argus
date · 
12 June 1902
title · 
Just Landed
citation · 
volume 57 • whole 10520 • page 4
content

Ladies Bicycle fitted with the patent emergency tube, which is admitted as the greatest and most userful invention ever introduced in connection with the Bicycles; also the popular indoor games—Ping Pong, Ludo, Tiddledy Winks, Dargai, Klondike; also agent for F. Howell and Co's celebrated English pianos. Terms easy. Inspection invited. G. INGALL, Red House—ADVT.

collection · 
digitized image copy (NATwA)
notability rating · 
very minor
tw-ref-ID · 
2795
Rhodesia
Salisbury, Rhodesia
Salisbury Sunday Mail (newspaper)
location · 
Salisbury, Rhodesia
tw-pub-ID · 
771

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for Salisbury Sunday Mail.
published in · 
Salisbury Sunday Mail
date · 
9 November 1960
summary

Article about the game, kusiko. The article appears in a women's column.

tw-ref-ID · 
2805
United Kingdom
(unknown British newspaper) (newspaper)
location · 
UK
tw-pub-ID · 
532

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published in · 
(unknown British newspaper)
date · 
(unknown date)
title · 
Replay! The Squider [sic] Flicker's Knickers Were Showing
summary

Coverage of the Northern Junior Tiddlywinks Championships

notes · 
Mentioned in the Milwaukee Journal, 25 May 1975.
tw-ref-ID · 
2825
published in · 
(unknown British newspaper)
date · 
(unknown date)
summary

Coverage of the 1st World Singles match.

tw-ref-ID · 
2830
published in · 
(unknown British newspaper)
date · 
November 1831
summary

Refers to Kidley Wink (see Notes & Queries 4th S. x 5)

tw-ref-ID · 
2280
published in · 
(unknown British newspaper)
date · 
1920 s
summary

Description of undergraduates advocating more relaxed lifestyle by playing tiddlywinks (see Guy Consterdine's On the Mat)

tw-ref-ID · 
2281
published in · 
(unknown British newspaper)
date · 
Summer 1958
summary

John Evans of Wales sending Prince (Charles) of Wales a box of winks.

notes · 
Note: appeared in several newspapers
tw-ref-ID · 
2283
published in · 
(unknown British newspaper)
date · 
March 1958
summary

Photograph of the Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club vs. Goons match held on 1 March 1958.

content

Brian Tyler, of Christ's College, Cambridge, who attended Wellingborough Grammar School, appeals to umpire Chris Brasher as Spike Milligan is about to infringe a rule in the tiddlywinks match between Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club and the Goons, who were appointed by the Duke of Edinburgh to represent him. In spite of the Duke's instructions to "fiddle the game", the Goons lost the match. Proceeds were for the National Playing Fields Association.

links · 
Memories of Wellingborough Grammar School – digitized image (free) (tw-ref-link-id 1530)
type · 
photograph
tw-ref-ID · 
2282
published in · 
(unknown British newspaper)
date · 
February 1959
summary

Potting speed record mentioned.

notes · 
Cited in Winking World 4, page 4.
tw-ref-ID · 
2284
published in · 
(unknown British newspaper)
date · 
1964
summary

Reports on Harry Secombe (one of the Goons) being Honorary President of ETwA

tw-ref-ID · 
2820
published in · 
(unknown British newspaper)
date · 
around 2 January 1964 to 3 January 1964
summary

6th Northern Junior Tiddlywinks Championship.

notes · 
Cited in Winking World, 5 page 1.
tw-ref-ID · 
2285
published in · 
(unknown British newspaper)
date · 
around 29 February 1964
title · 
London Men Triumph
summary

Coverage of the Bombay Bowl match.

collection · 
photocopy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
2819
published in · 
(unknown British newspaper)
date · 
around 4 April 1965
summary

Coverage of the Third World Tiddlywinks Congress

notes · 
Mentioned in Winking World and ETwA's E3 publication.
tw-ref-ID · 
2821
published in · 
(unknown British newspaper)
date · 
around 21 April 1965
summary

Coverage of the England vs. Wales match.

tw-ref-ID · 
2822
published in · 
(unknown British newspaper)
date · 
around 5 January 1966
summary

Coverage of the Northern Junior Tiddlywinks Championships

notes · 
Cited in Winking World 9, page 3.
tw-ref-ID · 
2823
published in · 
(unknown British newspaper)
date · 
around 8 January 1967
summary

Coverage of the First Irish Tiddlywinks Convention

notes · 
CIted in Winking World 9, page 3.
tw-ref-ID · 
2824
published in · 
(unknown British newspaper)
date · 
around 30 December 1969 to 2 January 1970
summary

Coverage of the Northern Junior Tiddlywinks Championships at Manchester

notes · 
Cited in Winking World 16, page 7.
tw-ref-ID · 
2826
published in · 
(unknown British newspaper)
date · 
around 4 April 1971
summary

Coverage of ETwA's 1971 Tiddlywinks Congress

tw-ref-ID · 
2827
published in · 
(unknown British newspaper)
date · 
January 1972
summary

Coverage of the Northern Junior Tiddlywinks Championships

notes · 
Cited in Winking World 20, page 2.
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published in · 
(unknown British newspaper)
date · 
1978
summary

Coverage of the 1978 American tour of England (?)

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2829
published in · 
(unknown British newspaper)
date · 
around 2 February 1980
summary

Coverage of the World Singles match, Jon Mapley vs. Dave Lockwood, held in Cambridge, England.

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Reynold's News (newspaper)
location · 
UK
Notes

Sunday newspaper

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Reynold's News
date · 
2 March 1958
content
Afterwards Spike Milligan for the Goons protested that the umpire Chris Brasher had ignored a royal command to twist the game in their favour.
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England
Express (newspaper)
alternate name · 
Daily Express; Sunday Express
location · 
England, UK
Notes

Sent CUTwC money in January 1955.

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486

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published in · 
Express
date · 
16 November 1957
title · 
Chelsea follows the Portman girl to Paris
subtitle · 
Tiddly Challenge
by · 
William Hickey
citation · 
page 3 • column 3
content

PRINCE PHILIP has taken up arms over a criticism by Cambridge students that he ''sometimes cheats at tiddlywinks."

He is challenging the university to a "fight to the last tiddly," I learned last night.

The Prince will not take part himself in the contest, which will be held shortly at Cambridge. Instead, he has appointed the Goons to represent him—with Spike Milligan as skipper.

Confident

Milligan told me: "We shall certainly take the pants off the Light Blues. Prince Philip is expected to be there to sit in the jousting-box.

I have thrown down the gauntlet in no uncertain fashion. I bought a 17s. 9d. leather glove, real hide. It has gone by registered post to the captain of the Cambridge team." I am told Cambridge take their tiddly-winks seriously. But we shall win—with ease."

The tournament will raise money for the Prince's favourite charity, the National Playing Fields Association.

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1974
published in · 
Express
date · 
21 November 1957
title · 
Jack Buchanan's money: I shall be surprised if there's very much left
subtitle · 
Up Tiddles and At 'Em
by · 
William Hickey
citation · 
page 3 • column 4
content

SO—Cambridge University tiddly-winks te am have taken up the gauntlet thrown down by Spike Milligan to a right to the last tiddly.

The match, for the National Playing Fields Association, comes in response to a conversation between Prince Philip and Milligan.

Milligan will captain the Goons—chosen as his champions by Prince Philip.

Yesterday Cambridge replied to Milligan:—

"Hear Ye. Spike Milligan. Be it known, mate, that ye Cambridge University tiddly-winks team taketh up ye gauntlet and will join battle with ye Royal Champion Goons early in the New Year."

The acceptance was signed "Earl Anundale," and the registered letter received by Milligan was tied with light blue ribbon and sealed with a light blue tiddly-wink.

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1975
published in · 
Express
date · 
22 November 1957
title · 
The rich romantic life of Somerset de Chair
subtitle · 
Into Training
by · 
William Hickey
citation · 
page 3 • column 4
content

A GUARDSMAN carried a heavy case into a West End office yesterday.

Black and white illustration of a man laying on the floor and shooting a wink at a bottle of Guinness beer.

It contained two dozen bottles of Guinness and a message from Prince Philip. This read: "This should help your training diet for the contest Goons versus Cambridge University at tiddly-winks."

The recipient was Spike Milligan, who will skipper the Goons team of eight, nominated by the Prince as his champions, for the contest which will take place at Cambridge.

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1976
published in · 
Express
date · 
27 February 1958
column title · 
Life in the Mirror
title · 
Dollar Debs Will Curtsy in Paris
subtitle · 
Bright Boys
by · 
John Rolls
citation · 
page 2 • column 4
content

THE Yanks at Cambridge are taking over control of "Varsity," the university's weekly newspaper. on Saturday.

JONATHAN SPENCE, the present editor, explained yesterday: "It's only for a week—we wanted an educational supplement from the American angle, so fifteen American undergraduates will take over."

They are the most intelligent and vocal people in the university."

Educational supplement? The Yanks' first assignment…. a tiddly-winks match on Saturday between a university team and the B.B.C. Goons.

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1977
published in · 
Express
date · 
10 May 1958
title · 
Prince Philip gets the Order of the Boot
subtitle · 
Tiddleywinks
by · 
William Hickey
citation · 
page 3 • column 6
content

THERE'S trouble, I hear, between the men of Oxford and Cambridge all over who holds the world's tiddleywinks championship. Cambridge claimed the title after, beating the Goons, but lost a contest with Oxford yesterday.

So Oxford team captain Elliott Langford announced: "We are definitely claiming the title from Cambridge. We beat them 89 points to 87, playing to their rules during the first part of the contest, and drew 24 games each playing to our rules."

Indignant Cambridge secretary Peter Downes told me: "Oxford are beine small-minded about this. It was only an experimental game and we did not have out our strongest team."

Before the squabble the referee had said: "Tiddleywinks is extremely conducive to friendliness and develops rsportsmanship."

Apparently the teams didn't hear him.

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1979
published in · 
Express
date · 
5 February 1959
title · 
Danny referees tiddly-winks
citation · 
page 4 • column 5
content

Danny Blanchflower, Tottenham Hotspur's transfer-seeking footballer, is to be, one of umpires at the first official Oxford-Cambridge tiddly-winks match at Cambridge on February 26. The match is in aid of the National Playing Fields Association.

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1980
published in · 
Express
date · 
26 February 1959
title · 
Inriguing talent now being patronised by Princess Margaret
by · 
William Hickey
citation · 
page 3 • column 8
content

Cambridge University tiddlywinks team, which meets Oxford today in the first official match between the two universities, has been insured at Lloyd's. The policy: £250 a thumb.

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1982
published in · 
Express
date · 
7 April 1961
column title · 
The William Hickey Page
title · 
The Duchess of Kent—and the moment when she is still Princess Marina
by · 
William Hickey
citation · 
page 3 • column 5
content

Britain's tiddly winks players now have their own anthem I learned at last night's inter-university finals between Oxford and Edinburgh In Chelsea.

It has a strongly patriotic flavour, and is sung to the tune of "Men of Harlech." Sample verse:—

  • Through this game of skill and power.
  • Britain knows her finest hour.
  • And her stronghold, shield and tower must be tiddly winks.

The composer is the former secretary-general of the Tiddly Winks Association, the Rev. E. A. Willis.

"The anthem is not all," said Undergraduate, Peter Freeman who captained the winning Oxford team." We have just applied to the blues committee at Oxford for authority to award a quarter-blue for all those who play for the university."

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1984
published in · 
Express
date · 
23 January 1962
title · 
Mystique
by · 
William Hickey
citation · 
page 3 • column 5
content

ONCE more they are squidging and squopping at Cambridge. And that means the tiddly-wink team is practising for its fourth annual match with Oxford. An extraordinary mystique seems to surround this event. Roger Hand, 22-year-old engineering student who captains this year's team, says: "We are training on carrots as an aid to eyesight and foolproof flipping." After that, who can laugh at Oxford's torpedo-boat attempt on the Boat-race?

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1985
published in · 
Express
date · 
18 February 1963
title · 
Tiddlywink flight
citation · 
page 7 • column 8
content

Eight students from University College. London, flew off yesterday to compete against an Edinburgh University team—at tiddlywinks.

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1986
published in · 
Express
date · 
around 22 March 1964
summary

Reporing on the Silver Wink finals at Manchester (Winking World 6, page 1).

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2038
published in · 
Express
date · 
2 March 1968
summary

Reporting on the CUTwC-Goons match.

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2037
published in · 
Express
date · 
13 March 1969
column title · 
Books
title · 
Under fire: the gods of public schools
by · 
Peter Grosvenor
citation · 
page 15 • column 1
content

THE student protest movement, it seems, is now beginning to invade those bastions of conformity, the public schools.

The mode of protest is polite, but none the less positive. Pupils at a large public school in the Midlands rebelled against the "games cult" by holding a meeting identical to that used to confer sports colours—but the colours they awarded were for tiddleywinks.

Black and white illustration of a man with a plaid jacket sitting on the floor, holding a sign "Down with Sport", and shooting a wink into a pot.
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1997
published in · 
Express
date · 
1978
summary

Photograph of Jon Mapley (Winking World 32, page 6).

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2039
published in · 
Express
date · 
3 December 1980
title · 
How to tiddle, when to wink
subtitle · 
The indoor games champion who has a weird language all of his own
by · 
Douglas Orgill
citation · 
page 9 • column 1
content

JONATHAN MAPLEY is the kind of man who's quite capable of nurdling you, boondocking your wink right off the mat, and then following up with [sic original="Carnouski" correct="Carnovsky"].

He's the British national tiddlywink champion, and—like the other devotees of this impressive game—he talks a language all his own.

"A [sic original="Carnouski" correct="Carnovsky"]?" he said when I talke to him during practice. "Well, [sic original="Carnouski" correct="Carnovsky"]is a bit of a legend among winkers. He was an American winker who put four out of six winks into the pot on his very first attempt. Never played again… said it was too easy."

Mapley—a 33-year-old chartered accountant from Withan, Essex—showed me his set of squidgers. "A squidger is the disc—plastic, bakelite, ivory—which a player uses to fire his circular winks. It's pressed down on the edge of the wink, to sent it various distances at varioius angles.

Simple

"Most winkers make their own squidgers," he said. "They're like a set of golf clubs—you like to have one for every possible shot. Each squidger must be between one and two inches in diameter."

One of the seven squidgers with which he recently won the British championship—at Southampton University was once a gaming chip. Another was an adapted button, and another a filed-down top from a drinks canister.

The remaing itddlywinks equipment is simple. There's a white felt mat, six feet by three, with a small pot in the centre. And there are four sets of six disc-like-winks, each set coloured green, yellow, red and blue.

You can win in two ways—with a series of successful squidge-offs in which you squidge all of your winks into the pot before your opponent does, or by playing your winks into a controlling position on top of your opponents winks so that he's paralysed.

This manoeuvre, a sort of winker-snooker, is called a squop.

"Each game has an umpire," said Mapley, "and no there's no winker Nastase. Mind you, one or two players are noted for hot temper.

"It can get tense if somebody gets boondocked—that's when you're squidged right off the mat. Or nurdled—that's when you're too close to the pot to do anything with your wink."

Mapley reckons there are about 500 really serious players in Britain—about 50 of them women.

They tend to belong to the brainy professions—chartered accountants, mathematicians, computer programmers. The runner-up in Mapley's championship was a lecturer in German.

Mapley himself has been playing for 19 years.

Scientific

"Of course it's more scientific now, at this level," he said. "There are shots played today that weren't dreamed of then."

Is there money in tiddlywinks?

"All, you win is a silver cup," said Mapley. "I think there's a bit of betting but it's strictly unofficial.

"Only in Britain and the United States play top tiddlywinks at the moment, but we'd welcome players from other countries.

Wait till the Chinese come with their exquisite d[...] jade squidgers and winks.

Its going to be a whole [new] squidge-off.

Photograph of Jonathan Mapley's head down close to the mat, looking up at a wink heading toward the camera, with his eyes open wide and his mouth open.
One for the pot… tiddlywinks marksman Jonathan Mapley shows his winning style.
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1993
published in · 
Express
date · 
20 November 1984
title · 
Finger-flicking good… champs who squidge and squop!
subtitle · 
Britain loses at tiddlywinks
by · 
Colin Bell
citation · 
page 3 • column 1
content

BRITAIN was flicked out of the world tlddlywinks" championshlps with a resounding squop yesterday.

The man who did the damage was America's Larry Kahn, who used his squldger to such great eflect that he retained hls title.

Countertng Larry's challenge, was Britain's [sic original="John" correct="Jon"] Mapley, a 37-year-oId chartered accountant from Witham, Essex.

And the two of them proved, if nothing else, that the game is Britain's worst spectator sport.

The total gate tor the event was eight. And most of them were public relatlons executives, who looked as If they would have preferred 40 winks.

But the lack of a good crowd did not deter [sic original="John" correct="Jon"] and Larry, a 31-year-old oceanographlst.

It was, after all, the 1984 Helneken World Tiddlywlnks championship and they were anxious to show what their right arms were really for.

Despite the brewer's backing, the emphasis was on the wink rather than the tiddly.

Using their squidgers with deft flicks of their supple wrists the two winkers attempted to "squop" each other's winks—to cover them with their own counter, preventing their opponent from having a clear shot at the "pot."

Then they would attempt a "desquop"—a shot which released one or more winks which had been previously squopped.

The turning point came In the third and fourth of the seven games when Larry built up a commandihg lead. The championship was 'hit, for nod and a wink.

But then the referee's stopwatch knocked over the pot, and the winks, In the sixth.

"What next?" exclaimed an exasperated and obviously put-out [sic original="John" correct="Jon"] Mapley.

The answer, with a neat plastic "schllp", was another of Larry's winks in the pot, and the beginning of the end for [sic original="John" correct="Jon"].

"I'm, not bitter about it really," he said afterwards.

The Americans have always been better winkers. They've held the title now for the past 11 years.

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1996
published in · 
Express
date · 
12 February 2000
citation · 
section Saturday puzzle supplement
summary

Coverage of Christine Barrie.

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2040
published in · 
Express
date · 
30 September 2010
title · 
Prince: Why madcap Goons beat today’s smutty comics
by · 
Elisa Roche
citation · 
page 19 • column 2
content

Charles is not the only Royal fan of The Goons. Back in 1958, students at the University of Cambridge challenged Prince Philip to a tiddlywinks match.

The Duke of Edinburgh appointed The Goons as his royal champions and they played the game on his behalf.

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1990
Royal Cornwall Gazette (newspaper)
location · 
England, UK
tw-pub-ID · 
489

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published in · 
Royal Cornwall Gazette
date · 
25 December 1830
summary

Refers to Kidley Wink.

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1991
Western Daily Press (newspaper)
location · 
England, UK
tw-pub-ID · 
528

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published in · 
Western Daily Press
date · 
29 December 1987
title · 
Tiddly taunt by top team
media type · 
photograph
media description

Photograph of Stew Sage

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original (CUTwC)
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2263
Westminster Gazette (newspaper)
location · 
England, UK
tw-pub-ID · 
529

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published in · 
Westminster Gazette
date · 
4 January 1898
citation · 
page 2
content
Cards, tiddley-winks, and ludo are played. [...]
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2264
Avon • (county)
Bristol, Avon, England, United Kingdom
Bristol Mercury and Daily Post (newspaper)
location · 
Bristol, Avon, England, UK
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478

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published in · 
Bristol Mercury and Daily Post
date · 
20 December 1890
column title · 
Our Ladies' Column
citation · 
whole 13294 • page 6 • column 2
content

Then I see that boxes are sold containing all the necessary materials for a game of "Tiddledy Winks," which is amusing enough, and consists, as most of us know, of a little round basin or cup, a number of counters, and two or four large round discs or counters, called "fliippers," for with these the little counteres are to be flipped into the basin, and those who flip in the most get the game. Just now we are all charmed with an enlarged and improved "Tiddledy Winks," introduced to us from Oxford by a certain "don," who says grave and reverend seigneurs delight in thus excercising their skill when unobserved by undergrads or scouts.

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1941
published in · 
Bristol Mercury and Daily Post
date · 
4 April 1965
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1942
Cambridgeshire • (county)
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Cambrian Courier (newspaper)
location · 
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
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481

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published in · 
Cambrian Courier
date · 
11 May 1965
citation · 
page 7
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1945
Cambrian News (newspaper)
location · 
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
tw-pub-ID · 
482

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published in · 
Cambrian News
date · 
30 April 1965
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1946
Cambridge Chronicle (newspaper)
alternate name · 
Evening Chronicle
location · 
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
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485

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published in · 
Cambridge Chronicle
date · 
1 January 1959
title · 
The Goon game comes north
citation · 
page 10
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1967
published in · 
Cambridge Chronicle
date · 
2 January 1959
title · 
A squop's as good as a [sic original="squinge" correct="squidge"] to Harry
citation · 
page 15
content
Black and white photograph of Peter Downes (CUTwC) and Harry Secombe (Goons).
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1968
published in · 
Cambridge Chronicle
date · 
5 January 1959
title · 
Oh, well squopped, champs!
citation · 
page 7
content
Black and white photograph of Neil Sutherland, Andrew Smith, Mr. W. Dale, Nigel Shepherd, Oliver Ludlow, and Peter Downes
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1969
Cambridge News (newspaper)
alternate name · 
Cambridge Daily News; Cambridge Evening News
location · 
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
tw-pub-ID · 
483

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published in · 
Cambridge News
date · 
4 April 1946
title · 
Sports Gossip
subtitle · 
Was It a Hoax?
citation · 
page back page
notes · 
Cited in Winking World 47, page 27, and Newswink 21, page 9.
collection · 
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1947
published in · 
Cambridge News
date · 
6 April 1946
title · 
Sports Gossip
subtitle · 
Varsity's Oldest Game
citation · 
page back page
notes · 
Cited in Winking World 47, page 28, and Newswink 21, page 9.
collection · 
transcript (NATwA)
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1948
published in · 
Cambridge News
date · 
9 April 1946
title · 
Sports Gossip
subtitle · 
Tiddley-Winks Tailpiece
citation · 
page back page
collection · 
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1949
published in · 
Cambridge News
date · 
March 1955
by · 
Nuala Stanley
summary

About CUTwC sherry party.

content

This Club aims at creating history for this much-neglected yet skilful game, a game which requires self-control, dexterity, and a keen sense of direction. It is a new venture and it will be difficult to find opponents

notes · 
Cited in Winking World 7, page 6, and in Guy Consterdine's On the Mat.
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1950
published in · 
Cambridge News
date · 
3 October 1972
citation · 
section Freshman Supplement • page v
content
Photograph.
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1951
published in · 
Cambridge News
date · 
26 November 1985
title · 
Brit outwinks Yank to become best on planet
citation · 
page 18-19
collection · 
original (NATwA)
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1952
published in · 
Cambridge News
date · 
30 October 1987
title · 
They're tiddly champs
citation · 
section Night Final
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original (CUTwC)
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1953
published in · 
Cambridge News
date · 
18 February 1988
title · 
Counter attack thrashes Oxford
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original (CUTwC)
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1954
published in · 
Cambridge News
date · 
26 October 1999
summary

About World Single 51.

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1955
published in · 
Cambridge News
date · 
6 March 2002
title · 
Tiddlywink showdown
summary

After the death of Spike Milligan

content

Local historian Mike Petty takes a look at a celebrated day of reckoning in Cambridge with protagonists fuelled by Babycham and Guiness University 'winkers' in action THE headlines last week were dominated by the news of the death of Spike Milligan, the last of the Goons, and the tribute paid to him by one of his greatest fans, Prince Charles. Then came the furore caused by a flippant remark in Australia about Aborigines by Prince Philip, who is among other things Chancellor of Cambridge University. But there is a connection between the university, the Prince and the Goons that seems so far to have gone unrecorded and it concerns the ancient sport of tiddlywinks The pastime was first patented in London in 1888. It essentially consists of teams competing to squidge winks into a pot, players take turns and the first one to get them all in wins. Not much to it, you might think. But then in 1955 great academic brains did begin to think about the technicalities and at Cambridge University a group of undergraduates got together to form a club for the sole purpose of playing tiddlywinks. It was the first in history but being the first they had great difficulty in finding other groups to play against.

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1956
published in · 
Cambridge News
date · 
25 October 2002
title · 
The tiddly champs
citation · 
page 1
summary

Report that Patrick Barrie and Ed Wynn are the tiddly wink world pairs winners.

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1957
published in · 
Cambridge News
date · 
21 October 2004
title · 
World-class winkers to 'squidge-off' in title fight
citation · 
edition online
content

TIDDLYWINKS champions will squidge off in an attempt to score the most tiddlies in Cambridge this weekend.

The city responsible for bringing the game out of the nursery and turning it into a "serious" sport will host the tiddlywinks national singles championship on Saturday and Sunday.

American Larry Kahn will be defending his world title in face of fierce opposition from Britain's Andy Purvis in the world singles match tomorrow, before the country's best players battle it out over the following two days.

January is the 50th anniversary of modern tiddlywinks. Although the first patent for the game was taken out in [sic original="1879" correct="1888"], today's version was invented by Cambridge University students Bill Steen and Rick Martin in January 1955.

The students wanted to play a game at which they could represent the university in a Varsity Match against Oxford, explained Charles Relle, from the English Tiddlywinks Association.

"In those days people thought that you had to have a degree and a Cambridge Blue at some sport and Bill Steen thought he was hopeless at all games so he thought he'd invent one of his own," he said.

The Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club was formed and took off—at its peak it had more than 200 paid-up members.

"Many take it up as a joke and find they like the company and that it's a worthwhile game," said Mr Relle, who started playing when he was a student at Trinity.

"A lot of us play bridge or chess or Go and we just find tiddlywinks rather more relaxing! It is meant to be sociable and it is meant to be fun."

He said players were mostly university teachers, students, computer professionals, accountants, and people with a maths or science background.

Sadly the numbers belonging to the Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club have dwindled to about 25 today.

"It was most popular during the 60s, less so now, I think, because it is students who tend to get into it and they are all burdened with debt and can't travel for matches," said Mr Relle.

* Anyone wishing to watch the championships can do so at the Bowett Room, Queens' College, Cambridge, on Saturday from 10.15am-6pm and Sunday from 12.15-6pm.

Color photograph of Larry Kahn pointing to a pile with his little finger.
Game on: World champ Larry Kahn
collection · 
digital web page (NATwA)
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1958
published in · 
Cambridge News
date · 
23 October 2004
title · 
Andy crowned world tiddlywink champ
citation · 
edition online
content

BRITAIN has taken the world title in singles tiddlywinks.

Brit Andy Purvis went head to head against American Larry [sic original="Khan" correct="Kahn"] who was defending his world title. Andy won by 30 and a third to 11 and two thirds.

Yesterday's big match, staged at Queens' College, Cambridge, was played before the country's best players battle it out in the national singles championships this weekend.

Andy, a lecturer at Imperial College London, became hooked on the game almost 20 years ago as a student at Cambridge University, where today's version was invented.

"It's a brilliant game which deserves to be taken seriously. It is complex and quite creative. There is a lot of strategy but it is not frustrating like chess because you can recover from mistakes, or like professional snooker which is impossible for a mortal to play," said a triumphant Andy.

Larry [sic original="Khan" correct="Kahn"] has also been playing for 20 years but unlike his British opponent, spends at least an hour a day practising in the run up to a big game.

"If I don't practise there's no point in me playing," said Larry. "I want to show up and play well but I always really enjoy it." Many serious players, like Larry, have their own squidgers, which vary for different shots. Larry makes his own. "It is a bit like golf, you have different clubs for different shots," he said.

* January is the 50th anniversary of modern tiddlywinks, invented by Cambridge University students Bill Steen and Rick Martin.

collection · 
digital web page (NATwA)
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1959
published in · 
Cambridge News
date · 
15 January 2005
title · 
Game on for world match
citation · 
edition online
content

TWO teams battled it out in Cambridge to celebrate the 50th anniversary of tiddlywinks.

England took on the United States at Queens' College, Cambridge, yesterday in a match involving some of the world's top players.

And the home team emerged as the clear winners by a resounding margin of 149 2/3 to 74 1/3.

Patrick Barrie, England team captain, said: "It is a tremendous performance for the England team to win by such a margin."

The match, held in the Bowett Room of the college, was part of a week-long series of matches organised to mark the anniversary of a sport invented in Cambridge.

Two former Queens' College students, Bill Steen and Rick Martin, invented the modern game in 1955 when they decided they needed a game they could beat Oxford University at.

Stewart Sage, senior treasurer of Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club, said: "The international matches are like the Ryder Cup in golf.

"They are a mixture of singles and pairs and they are quite rare because they are between teams of eight.

"The public often don't understand it, which is a problem because they mostly associate it with the children's game. They don't appreciate that it is a very complex game.

"It is a tactical and strategic game as well as a game of skill. The children's game is simply about putting the wink into the pot whereas the adult game is much more serious than that."

The international match is the first since 1985 and although American winkers are regularly in Britain to play in tournaments, a team game is very rare.

The National Pairs Championship and World Masters were decided earlier this week and today the Cambridge Open Tournament was being held at Fitzpatrick Hall, Queens' College.

The light-hearted tournament is open to everyone, with partners and opponents drawn at random.

collection · 
digital web page (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
1960
published in · 
Cambridge News
date · 
3 March 2008
title · 
Savages are tamed in Goons match rerun
by · 
Aaron Castell
citation · 
edition online
content

ROYAL champions clashed winks with students once again in honour of when the Goons took on Cambridge University 50 years ago.

Back in 1958, the fledgling Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club challenged the Duke of Edinburgh to scotch rumours he cheated at tiddlywinks and invited him to nominate champions in his stead if he was unwilling to play.

Those champions were the Goons - Spike Milligan, Peter Sellars [sic correct=Sellers] and Harry Secombe.

Bill Steen, Lawford Howells, Graham Ridge, David Moreton and Peter Downes. They lost but the match inspired an episode of the Goon Show in which Ned Seagoon challenges the tiddlywinks club to a leaping contest in revenge for their defeat.

Bill Steen and Lawford Howells, founder members of the club, were at Emmanuel College for the anniversary match along with Graham Ridge, David Moreton and Peter Downes from the original 1958 team.

Bill said: "There have been a lot of surprises in my life and one is to come back to Cambridge after 40 years and find there is still a club here and it is still thriving."

He described the match against the Goons as "one of the most extraordinary events in my life".

The club challenged Prince Philip after spotting an article in The Spectator entitled Does Prince Philip cheat at tiddlywinks?

Recalling how the original match in the Guildhall came about, Lawford said: "We wrote a letter to the Duke that night.

"We regretted there was some doubt as to his integrity in playing the noble sport of tiddlywinks and we offered the services of our club to help him scotch the rumour once and for all by playing a match with us.

"We also said royalty in the past used to appoint champions to represent them if they didn't want to do whatever it was themselves, and if he wished to appoint champions, we would be happy to play them."

They knew the challenge had been accepted when they received a left- handed leather gauntlet through the post with a letter from Spike Milligan.

As the Goons have since met their demise, new champions had to be appointed for Saturday's match.

This time, Prince Philip sent ambassadors in the form of four members of London's Savage Club, of which he is a member - the gentlemen's club was founded in 1857 "in the pursuit of happiness".

The Cambridge team came out the happiest, winning the match 24-18.

Sarah Knight, captain and ex-president of the club, said: "It's really exciting to be able to recreate such an historic event."

Craig Barrett, captaining the Savage Club team, said: "We don't have a lot to live up to, after the Goons also lost pretty badly."

Color photograph of five early Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club winkers.
collection · 
digital web page (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
1961
County Durham • (county)
Darlington, County Durham, England, United Kingdom
Northern Echo (newspaper)
location · 
Darlington, County Durham, England, UK
tw-pub-ID · 
490

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published in · 
Northern Echo
date · 
28 December 1891
by · 
North of England School Furnishing Company, Limited
citation · 
whole 6812 • page 1 • column 3
summary

Flitterkins listed in advertisement.

content

CHRISTMAS GAMES.—Tiddlediwinks, Ludo, Jack o' Rinks, Chop Sticks, Halma, Flitterkins, Pliffkins, Bumblepuppy, Skipit, Ducdame, Solitaire, Patches, Dominoes, Draughts, and others—all 1s each.

collection · 
digitial image (NATwA)
links · 
British Newspaper Archive – digitized image PDF (subscription) (tw-ref-link-id 1412)
tw-ref-ID · 
1992
published in · 
Northern Echo
date · 
30 December 1891
citation · 
whole 6814
summary

Flitterkins listed in advertisement.

content

CHRISTMAS GAMES.—Tiddlediwinks, Ludo, Jack o' Rinks, Chop Sticks, Halma, Flitterkins, Pliffkins, Bumblepuppy, Skipit, Ducdame, Solitaire, Patches, Dominoes, Draughts, and others—all 1s each.

links · 
British Newspaper Archive – digitized image PDF (subscription) (tw-ref-link-id 1413)
tw-ref-ID · 
1998
published in · 
Northern Echo
date · 
31 December 1891
citation · 
whole 6815
summary

Flitterkins listed in advertisement.

content

CHRISTMAS GAMES.—Tiddlediwinks, Ludo, Jack o' Rinks, Chop Sticks, Halma, Flitterkins, Pliffkins, Bumblepuppy, Skipit, Ducdame, Solitaire, Patches, Dominoes, Draughts, and others—all 1s each.

links · 
British Newspaper Archive – digitized image PDF (subscription) (tw-ref-link-id 1414)
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1999
Greater Manchester • (county)
Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom
The Guardian (newspaper)
alternate name · 
The Manchester Guardian
location · 
Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK
tw-pub-ID · 
513

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published in · 
The Guardian
date · 
21 December 1929
title · 
Table Games
citation · 
page 8
content
It must be many years since somebody conceived the idea of amusing people by inducing them to flick a small counter into a little jar with the edge of a bigger one. This game, called "tiddledy-winks," proved very popular, and every year since it was first introduced, has reappeared in another form. This season "tiddledywinks" is played on a board marked like a tennis court. [...]
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digital copy (NATwA)
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2217
published in · 
The Guardian
date · 
8 May 1933
title · 
A Game of Tiddly-winks
citation · 
page 18
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2218
published in · 
The Guardian
date · 
14 February 1956
by · 
David Low
content
Low returns from the jungle. [Ostrich carrying tiddlywinks set and sign on back] Jubilee Tiddlywinks Tournament
type · 
comic
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2219
published in · 
The Guardian
date · 
3 March 1958
title · 
Duke Pulls Muscle in Winking Finger
subtitle · 
His team is tiddlied
citation · 
page 4
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2220
published in · 
The Guardian
date · 
10 March 1958
title · 
Oxford Claims Championship
subtitle · 
Or was it a friendly game?
citation · 
page 1
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2221
published in · 
The Guardian
date · 
14 May 1958
column title · 
Miscellany
title · 
Tiddlywinks
citation · 
page 4
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2222
published in · 
The Guardian
date · 
13 June 1958
title · 
Tiddly Winkers in Congress
subtitle · 
Successful Outcome
citation · 
page 5
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2223
published in · 
The Guardian
date · 
5 January 1961
title · 
Tiddlywinks Tycoon
citation · 
page 17
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2224
published in · 
The Guardian
date · 
24 January 1964
title · 
Just 'winks' now
citation · 
page 4
collection · 
digital copy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
2225
published in · 
The Guardian
date · 
24 November 1980
title · 
Double Triumph for the Witham Winker
citation · 
page 1
summary

About Jon Mapley in the English National Singles.

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2226
published in · 
The Guardian
date · 
31 December 1987
title · 
New pub hosts new contest
citation · 
edition Somerset & Avon
collection · 
original (CUTwC)
tw-ref-ID · 
2227
published in · 
The Guardian
date · 
17 February 1988
title · 
How Robin Hood won a college place
collection · 
original (CUTwC)
tw-ref-ID · 
2228
published in · 
The Guardian
date · 
after 17 February 1988
summary

Letter in reply to 17 February 1988 article.

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2229
published in · 
The Guardian
date · 
7 January 1997
citation · 
section 2
summary

Regarding Christine Barrie as the first female ETwA Chairman.

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2230
published in · 
The Guardian
date · 
19 February 2003
title · 
The world wakes up to Tiddleywink
by · 
John Exard
citation · 
edition web
summary

About the hamlet in Wiltshire called Tiddleywink.

content
The name's origin goes back to the use of the word for the children's game, nowadays spelt tiddlywinks, as rhyming slang for "drinks". The word evolved into slang for a small beershop, according to the Oxford English Dictionary.
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digital copy (NATwA)
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2231
published in · 
The Guardian
date · 
25 October 2004
column title · 
Pass Notes No. 2,529
title · 
Tiddlywinks
citation · 
edition web
content
I was referring to the really interesting clash last week, when our very own Andy "Mad Dog" Purvis beat legendary American Larry Kahn to win the world tiddlywinks championships.
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digital copy (NATwA)
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2232
published in · 
The Guardian
date · 
28 October 2004
column title · 
Letters
by · 
David Turner
citation · 
edition web
content

Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club may have been founded in 1954, but King's College played Newnham 10 years earlier (Pass Notes, G2, October 26). King's lost. I know, because I had to engrave the King's College crest on the commemorative wink they were presented with.

David Turner

Derby

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digital copy (NATwA)
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2233
published in · 
The Guardian
date · 
30 April 2005
title · 
We love each other
subtitle · 
Patrick & Christine Barrie
by · 
Craig Taylor
citation · 
edition web
content

Patrick We met at a tiddlywinks tournament. It's very strategic, tactical, not just flicking plastic discs around. It's tense—some matches depend on the very last shot. Now we have a two-year-old son, there might some day be another tiddlywinks player in the family. We'll get him started on easier games like bridge and chess.

Christine He is a great partner to play with. I was a good potter, which means I was good at getting the winks in the pot. But he's good at everything—squops, potting, strategy, boondocking—and he has such concentration. He knows exactly which move to play, and he practises after dinner. We won the National US Pairs in 1998. We make a good team.

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digital copy (NATwA)
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2234
published in · 
The Guardian
date · 
16 November 2006
column title · 
Diary
by · 
Jon Henley
citation · 
edition web
content
let us applaud the very real initiative of Scottish Water, which according to the Scotsman has urged all 6,000 of its employees to mark World Toilet Day on November 19 by playing amusing new versions of those popular traditional games tiddlywinks and hoopla, renamed (we promise) turdlywinks and poopla for the occasion
collection · 
digital copy (NATwA)
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2235
published in · 
The Guardian
date · 
28 April 2007
title · 
If I had the time ...
subtitle · 
Things to do with your family this week
by · 
Juliet Rix
citation · 
edition web
content

Squop, scrunge and wink

Juliet Rix

My family has just rediscovered tiddlywinks. I'm not sure why sending little coloured discs of plastic plinking into a pot - or not as the case may often be - is quite so amusing, but it is.

Tiddlywinks goes back to Victorian times (patented as Tiddledy Winks in 1888) but the modern game began with some unathletic 1950s Cambridge undergraduates in search of a sport at which they could represent the university. The official game (yes, there are national and international tournaments!) is played on a felt mat 1.8m by 0.9m with a pot in the middle and base lines at each corner. There are four colours (blue, green, red and yellow) and you can play in pairs or singles. The idea is to use a squidger (large plastic disc) to flick winks (small plastic discs) into the pot, or to squop - ie wreck your opponents chances by landing your wink on top of his.

We play obstacle tiddlywinks, where glasses, books, mobile phones or whatever else happens to be on the kitchen table stays put and we have to flick our winks over or round them. We are very good at the scrunge (where the wink bounces out of the pot) but haven't quite worked out the boondock!

The national tiddlywinks pairs championship is on April 28-29 at Selwyn College, Cambridge. The English Tiddlywinks Association: etwa.org

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digital copy (NATwA)
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2236
published in · 
The Guardian
date · 
29 October 2007
title · 
Stephen Bicknell
subtitle · 
Author of a history of English organs who also designed, built and restored them
citation · 
edition web
content
At Durham his eccentricity was expressed in his organisation of tiddlywinks competitions across the city's bridges.
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2237
published in · 
The Guardian
date · 
23 July 2009
title · 
Stella McCartney resurrects Bambi
by · 
Rachel Holmes
citation · 
edition web
content
The Lady Luck Rules Ok girls will be there, and have designed a giant game of tiddlywinks for everyone to play. It combines kittens and rock'n'roll, but we don't want to give away any more ...
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2238
Manchester Evening News (newspaper)
location · 
Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK
tw-pub-ID · 
512

Toggle showing 2 tiddlywinks references for Manchester Evening News.
published in · 
Manchester Evening News
date · 
31 May 1980
title · 
Tiddlywinks ace Pam scoops title
notes · 
A photocopy appears in Winking World 36, page 1.
collection · 
photocopy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
2215
published in · 
Manchester Evening News
date · 
~ 4 July 1981
summary

Coverage of the Manchester Open tournament.

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2216
Manchester Guardian Weekly (newspaper)
location · 
Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK
tw-pub-ID · 
514

Toggle showing 2 tiddlywinks references for Manchester Guardian Weekly.
published in · 
Manchester Guardian Weekly
date · 
19 May 1958
title · 
Tiddlywinks
summary

Reprint of the article that appeard in the Manchester Guardian, 14 May 1958.

collection · 
transcript (NATwA)
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2239
published in · 
Manchester Guardian Weekly
date · 
5 April 1981
title · 
A savoury dose of utopiate
subtitle · 
CITIES OF THE RED NIGHT, by William S. Burroughs
citation · 
page 21
collection · 
excerpt (NATwA)
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2241
Manchester Times (newspaper)
location · 
Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK
tw-pub-ID · 
515

Toggle showing 3 tiddlywinks references for Manchester Times.
published in · 
Manchester Times
date · 
14 December 1889
citation · 
issue 1690 • page 1
summary

Spoof, Tiddledy Winks, Flitterkins, etc. in an advertisement

collection · 
digitized image (NATwA)
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2240
published in · 
Manchester Times
date · 
21 December 1889
citation · 
issue 1691
summary

Tiddledy Winks, Flitterkins, etc. in an advertisement.

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2242
published in · 
Manchester Times
date · 
19 December 1890
citation · 
issue 1742 • page 1 • column 6
content
GAMES - KENDAL, MILNE, & CO. are now Showing NEW GAMES from all the leading Makers. All Shilling Games, including Spoof, Golf, Croquet, Cup Spoof, Ring Spoof, Tiddledy Winks, &c. &c. at 9 1/2d.
collection · 
digitized image (NATwA)
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2243
Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom
(some Stockport newspaper) (newspaper)
location · 
Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, UK
tw-pub-ID · 
523

Toggle showing 2 tiddlywinks references for (some Stockport newspaper).
published in · 
(some Stockport newspaper)
date · 
late 1959
notes · 
Article mentioned in Winking World 4, page 7.
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2255
published in · 
(some Stockport newspaper)
date · 
late 1963 January 1964
notes · 
Article mentioned in Winking World 5, page 8.
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2256
Hampshire • (county)
Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle etc.  (newspaper)
location · 
Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK
tw-pub-ID · 
493

Toggle showing 3 tiddlywinks references for Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle etc. .
published in · 
Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle etc.
date · 
24 October 1891
citation · 
whole 5746 • column 3
content

T. E. BOX & CO., COMMERCIAL AND FANCY STATIONERS, PRINTERS, BOOKBINDERS, &c.

PLAYING CARDS FROM 8d. PER PACK. BEZIQUE, CHESS, DOMINOES, DRAUGHTS, HALMA, TIDDLEY-WINKS, REVERSI, KHAN-LOO, And all the Newest Games for Indoor Amusement.

collection · 
digitized image (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
2002
published in · 
Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle etc.
date · 
14 November 1891
citation · 
whole 5749
content

T. E. BOX & CO., COMMERCIAL AND FANCY STATIONERS, PRINTERS, BOOKBINDERS, &c.

PLAYING CARDS FROM 8d. PER PACK. BEZIQUE, CHESS, DOMINOES, DRAUGHTS, HALMA, TIDDLEY-WINKS, REVERSI, KHAN-LOO, And all the Newest Games for Indoor Amusement.

tw-ref-ID · 
2004
published in · 
Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle etc.
date · 
21 November 1891
citation · 
whole 5750
content

T. E. BOX & CO., COMMERCIAL AND FANCY STATIONERS, PRINTERS, BOOKBINDERS, &c.

PLAYING CARDS FROM 8d. PER PACK. BEZIQUE, CHESS, DOMINOES, DRAUGHTS, HALMA, TIDDLEY-WINKS, REVERSI, KHAN-LOO, And all the Newest Games for Indoor Amusement.

tw-ref-ID · 
2003
Southampton, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Southern Echo (newspaper)
alternate name · 
Southern Evening Echo
location · 
Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK
tw-pub-ID · 
175

Toggle showing 3 tiddlywinks references for Southern Echo.
published in · 
Southern Echo
date · 
29 March 1972
title · 
British `tiddling' could sink America
citation · 
page 15
tw-ref-ID · 
2248
published in · 
Southern Echo
date · 
25 June 1973
citation · 
page 3
tw-ref-ID · 
2249
published in · 
Southern Echo
date · 
18 July 1978
title · 
`Winking' Title Goes West
citation · 
page 11
media type · 
photograph
collection · 
photocopy (NATwA)
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2250
Isle of Wight • (county)
Ventnor, Isle of Wight, England, United Kingdom
VentnorBlog - Isle of Wight News (newspaper)
location · 
Ventnor, Isle of Wight, England, UK
tw-pub-ID · 
496

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for VentnorBlog - Isle of Wight News.
published in · 
VentnorBlog - Isle of Wight News
date · 
31 August 2010
title · 
RAPANUI SPONSORS UK TIDDLYWINKS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP TEA
citation · 
edition online
content

USA 2010 World Championship bid made possible for England team by an Isle of Wight business.

Isle of Wight Eco-clothing company, Rapanui, have sponsored the England team heading to the World Tiddlywinks championship.

Rapanui Sponsors UK Tiddlywinks World Championsip Team

Rather than sponsoring the over-glossy world of some sports, the boys behind Rapanui, Rob and Martin Drake-Knight, decided to get more real about it.

Color photograph of Patrick Barrie (blue shirt made by Rapanui, along with the logo of a stylized liion pushing a pot over (both in blue) with a red cross on a wink heading into the pot, with "ENGLAND" (white on a blue rectangle).

They say they wanted to, “find honest, real people who are passionate about their sport in a way that reflects an honest approach business, the environment and life.”

Boffins galore

The brothers found Dr Patrick Barrie, a Chemical Engineer from Cambridge University and multiple Tiddlywinks world champion, then recruited the rest of the English Tiddlywinks national squad, who happen to be some of our country’s brightest scientific minds.

Along with Dr Stew Sage, Patrick worked with Rapanui to develop some cutting-edge performance eco-wear for the tournament, design a new logo and tactical formation.

The England team flew out to America for the world championships in the USA this week.

Last match a “comfortable win”

The last tournament, in 2005, ended with a comfortable win over the Americans by the England team, and it’s likely that the World-tiddly-trophy will be returning to England in the hands of some eco-textiles wearing Englishmen soon.

Rob Drake-Knight said, “They’ve won more times than they’ve lost – this makes them the most successful England team in all international sport.”

US vs UK – “Classic grudge match”

Multiple world champion and Rapanui ambassador, Dr Patrick Barrie, explains the feeling in the English camp, “England vs US is a classic grudge match. It’s the oldest rivalry in tiddlywinks history and we’re all excited to fly the flag for England – I would cross my fingers but we can’t risk an injury.”

Illustration charting out the members of the England Tiddlywinks Team and their specialties.
links · 
Archive.org - VentnorBlog – web page (free) (tw-ref-link-id 1427)
tw-ref-ID · 
2017
Lancashire • (county)
Preston, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
The Preston Chronicle and Lancashire Advertiser (newspaper)
location · 
Preston, Lancashire, England, UK
tw-pub-ID · 
517

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for The Preston Chronicle and Lancashire Advertiser.
published in · 
The Preston Chronicle and Lancashire Advertiser
date · 
20 December 1890
column title · 
OUR LADIES' COLUMN.
title · 
AMUSING GAMES. - A GAME FROM OXFORD. - TIDDLEDY WINKS.
by · 
ONE OF THEMSELVES
citation · 
issue 4052 • page 7 • column 4
content
Then I see that boxes are sold containing all the necessary materials for a game of "Tiddledy Winks," which is amusing enough, and consists, as most of us know, of a little round basin or cup, a number of counters, and two or four large round discs or counters, called "fliippers," for with these the little counters are to be flipped into the basin, and those who flip in the most get the game. Just now we are all charmed with an enlarged and improved "Tiddledy Winks," introduced to us from Oxford by a certain "don," who says grave and reverend seigneurs delight in thus excercising their skill when unobserved by undergrads or scouts.
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Digitized image (NATwA)
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2246
London • (county)
London, London, England, United Kingdom
The Church Times (newspaper)
location · 
London, London, England, UK
tw-pub-ID · 
487

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published in · 
The Church Times
date · 
2 December 1898
title · 
Dean's Plays
by · 
Dean and Son, Limited
citation · 
page 662 • column 3
content

PARLOUR GAMES. By F. G. Green.

An entirely new book for Winter evenings, The Games dealt with include Halma, Chivalry, Race Games, Campaigning, Ludo, Checkmate, Tiddledy-Winks, Colorito, Reversi, Go-Bang, Khanhoo, Penchant, etc., etc.

London: DEAN and SON, Limited, 160a, Fleet-street, E.C.

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1971
published in · 
The Church Times
date · 
16 December 1898
title · 
Dean's Plays
by · 
Dean and Son, Limited
citation · 
page 735 • column 2
content

PARLOUR GAMES. By F. G. Green.

An entirely new book for Winter evenings, The Games dealt with include Halma, Chivalry, Race Games, Campaigning, Ludo, Checkmate, Tiddledy-Winks, Colorito, Reversi, Go-Bang, Khanhoo, Penchant, etc., etc.

London: DEAN and SON, Limited, 160a, Fleet-street, E.C.

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1972
Daily Mail (newspaper)
location · 
London, London, England, UK
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501

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published in · 
Daily Mail
date · 
5 March 1958
title · 
More Goonery?
by · 
Paul Tanfield
citation · 
whole 19244 • page 16 • column 2
content

Despite their defeat at Cambridge last week, I hear that the Goons, official tiddlywinks champions of Prince Phillip, may have another match on their hands… with an American team

Members of a New York stage play, lamenting the fact that tiddlywinks is a vanishing art in America, have begun training, and a challenge has been sent to the Prince and the Goons.

The U.S. coach, Arthur Reel, said one of his team has developed a grid-table which makes it possible to measure where a wink falls.

This information can be transmitted accurately by telephone or cable.

"It's as easy as reading a map," he said.

The way I imagine the Goons would read a map, Mr. Reel, doesn't make it quite so simple.

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Daily Mail
date · 
23 March 1959
title · 
Bobo Finds the General a First-Class Winker
citation · 
page 14 • column 5
content
Black and white photograph.
General Sir Hugh Stockwell pots his wink watched by Bobo Sigrist and Lord Valentine Thynne

Pale and nervous by the decision she must face, Bobo Sigrist sought my advice: "Should I squop with my squidger?"

"I should pot if I were you," I said. "The general is too good at winking."

It was all very serious—this practice session for the world tiddlywinks championship.

Prince Phillip's team were in training for tomorrow's game against Cambridge University, who, need I say, are already champions of the universe.

General Sir Hugh Stockwell, captain of the Prince's team, marshalled his men in the Empress Club yesterday for a final practice.

"I brought my own winks," he said. "They're loaded."

Lord Strathcarron was there. So was 21-year old Lord Valentine Thynne, who said: "The last time I played was with my nursemaid. I think I won."

Terry-Thomas, very properly, was serious about the whole business, and film producer Kevin McClory arrived. with Bobo Sigrist.

This was an event not strictly on the schedule because tiddlywinks, as played under international rules tomorrow, will be a strictly stag affair.

Bobo and I were roped in because three of the eight-man team could not make it.

* To squop—to cover up an opponent's wink. Squidging—the action of firing the wink towards the pot.

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Daily Mail
date · 
3 March 1960
column title · 
Far and Near
title · 
The girl who 'winks' best
citation · 
page 9 • column 8
content

Twenty-year-old Mary Otto, of St. Hilda's College, is the only woman in the undefeated Oxford University tiddlywink first team which meets Cambridge University in the all-England championship at Oxford today.

Captain of the winks Rodney Sutton, of Hertford College, said: "We have strict equality of the sexes in tiddlywinks. Mary has won her place on merit. She is a very sensitive winker.

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Daily Mail
date · 
2 June 1980
summary

Quote from Pam Knowles (cited in Winking World 36, page 1)

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2027
published in · 
Daily Mail
date · 
6 January 1997
citation · 
page 24
summary

About Christine Barrie being the first female ETwA Chairman

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2028
The Daily News (newspaper)
location · 
London, London, England, UK
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502

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published in · 
The Daily News
date · 
13 October 1890
by · 
J. Jaques and Son
citation · 
whole 13891 • page 4 • column 2
content

NOW READY, NEW EDITION.

AQUES and SON'S LIST of NEW GAMES.

JUST PUBLISHED.

Ducdamé, Corkitts, Halma, Pliffkins, Bumble Puppy, Flitter- kins, Reversi. Patchesi, and Tiddledy Winks, 1s., 2s. 6d., 5s., and up. Chopsticks, 3s. 6d., 5s.; and many others. May be seen at all Fancy Dealers'.

London: Jaques and Son, 102, Hatton-garden.

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The Daily News
date · 
24 October 1890
by · 
J. Jaques and Son
citation · 
page 4 • column 1
content

NOW READY, NEW EDITION.

AQUES and SON'S LIST of NEW GAMES.

JUST PUBLISHED.

Ducdamé, Corkitts, Halma, Pliffkins, Bumble Puppy, Flitter- kins, Reversi. Patchesi, and Tiddledy Winks, 1s., 2s. 6d., 5s., and up. Chopsticks, 3s. 6d., 5s.; and many others. May be seen at all Fancy Dealers'.

London: Jaques and Son, 102, Hatton-garden.

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The Daily News
date · 
28 October 1891
title · 
New Games
by · 
J. Jaques and Son
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content

NEW GAMES. JAQUES and SON'S CATALOGUE post free. Ducdamé, Corkitta, Bumble Puppy, Pliffkins, Halma, Tiddledy Winks, Flitterkins, Reversi, Patchesi, &c. From 1s. upwards. Of all dealers.-JAQUES and SON, Hatton-garden,

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The Daily News
date · 
31 October 1891
title · 
New Games
by · 
J. Jaques and Son
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whole 14220 • page 7
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NEW GAMES. JAQUES and SON'S CATALOGUE post free. Ducdamé, Corkitta, Bumble Puppy, Pliffkins, Halma, Tiddledy Winks, Flitterkins, Reversi, Patchesi, &c. From 1s. upwards. Of all dealers.-JAQUES and SON, Hatton-garden,

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2032
published in · 
The Daily News
date · 
11 November 1891
title · 
New Games
by · 
J. Jaques and Son
citation · 
whole 14429 • page 1
content

NEW GAMES. JAQUES and SON'S CATALOGUE post free. Ducdamé, Corkitta, Bumble Puppy, Pliffkins, Halma, Tiddledy Winks, Flitterkins, Reversi, Patchesi, &c. From 1s. upwards. Of all dealers.-JAQUES and SON, Hatton-garden,

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2033
published in · 
The Daily News
date · 
21 December 1891
title · 
Christmas Presents
title language · 
English
subtitle · 
A Walk Around the Shops
citation · 
whole 14263 • page 4 • column 2
content

—Somewhat further East, in Hatton-garden, Messrs. Jaques show all that is new for indoor games. There are no shop-windows to indicate to the passer-by the stores of ingenious inventions by which a long evening may be whiled away in the dining or drawing room. We have now not only parlour billiards and lawn bowls, but a parlour curling pond which permits the game of curling in drawing rooms or corridors on prepared cloth over which the stones slide. The "Moorish Fort" is a new round game, played on an ordinary table, the players aiming their balls with a small rest to the centre of the citadel. Some of the old- fashioned games are in as much demand as ever. Bumble Puppy, Tiddledy Winks, and Parlor Tema losing none of their popularity. Halma also holds its own side by with Fletterkins [sic correct=Flitterkins] and the Butterfly Hunt. The latter is a comparatively new game, and it requires a good deal of skill to net five butterflies out of six.

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Daily Sketch (newspaper)
location · 
London, London, England, UK
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508

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published in · 
Daily Sketch
date · 
21 February 1936
title · 
Boys Demonstrate Game
summary

About the Duke of Kent interest in tiddlywinks

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2074
published in · 
Daily Sketch
date · 
17 April 1946
column title · 
Motley Notes
title · 
The Wet Bobs
by · 
Alan Kemp
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page 199 • column 1
content

[page=198 column=3]No, that is not my sort of quiet, healthful Saturday afternoon. I prefer to [page=199 column=2] stick to tiddlywinks, which I see has been brought into prominence as an athletic sport by Oxford and Cambridge. It is not, however, the only manly sport in which they engage. They are a little more strenuous on the Thames, and the whole of London (entertainment tax or no entertainment tax) turns out to see how strenuous they are.

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published in · 
Daily Sketch
date · 
January 1964
summary

About the debate on changing of game's name

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Cited in Winking World 5, page 8.
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2075
Daily Star (newspaper)
location · 
London, London, England, UK
Notes

Daily Star started publication in 1978.

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526

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published in · 
Daily Star
date · 
26 September 1979
title · 
"Is it a double or single defector?"
by · 
Bill Caldwell
summary

Depicts various teams in the lobby of the Hotel Continental Geneva, Switzerland.

content

HOTEL CONTINENTAL GENEVA

Rooms

SOVIET QUOITS TREAM

RUSSIAN TIDDLYWINKS SQUAD

VOLGA DARTS LEAGUE

THE WEST

CCCP CRIBBAGE GRAND MASTER

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The Dispatch (newspaper)
location · 
London, London, England, UK
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503

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published in · 
The Dispatch
date · 
late November 1957
summary

About CUTwC's challenge to play the Goons.

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2035
published in · 
The Dispatch
date · 
2 March 1958
summary

Frivolous account of the CUTwC-Goons match.

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The Independent (newspaper)
location · 
London, London, England, UK
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494

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The Independent
date · 
11 July 1992
title · 
Q & A: Points about the javelin… and Agassi the batsman
citation · 
edition online
content

What is the origin of the tiddlywinks term 'nurdled'?

The word 'nurdled' has a mixed pedigree. The Longman Register of New Words records its usage in cricket as meaning 'to score runs with small pushes and deflections', usually implying a rather boring accumulation of runs, generally used in alliterative tandem with words like 'nick' and 'nudge'. I have also seen it used in snooker reports, especially in relation to Steve Davis and the meticulous percentage game in which he still excels, and in rugby union, when a team plays a very tight game in order to capitalise on opponents' errors. - Harry Smyth, Newcastle upon Tyne.

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2009
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The Independent
date · 
7 October 2004
title · 
Max Geldray
subtitle · 
Oldest member of the Goons
citation · 
edition online
content

The Goons were loyal to Geldray and, in 1958, when the BBC proposed to drop him from the next series, Sellers said he would not participate if they did. He won the day. Although Geldray was given the occasional line, he was no actor. He did represent the Goons' team at a tiddlywinks championship in Cambridge in 1959.

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The Independent
date · 
11 March 2005
title · 
Can tiddlywinks be saved?
citation · 
edition online
content

Next Wednesday could have been a significant date in the history of this country. And we are not talking about the Budget. March 16 was scheduled to be the final meeting of the Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club.

Next Wednesday could have been a significant date in the history of this country. And we are not talking about the Budget. March 16 was scheduled to be the final meeting of the Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club.

This venerable institution has fallen on hard times. Membership has collapsed and apathy reigns among those "winkers" who remain. The inter-college championship has not been contested since 1998. Many say that the natural next step is to disband the club. Such a drastic move has - thankfully - been declared unconstitutional, but the threat that Cambridge winking may soon die out remains.

Cambridge has been the spiritual home of tiddlywinks since it was invented in its modern form half a century ago. If the Cambridge Club falls into desuetude, the whole fragile edifice could come crashing down.

This cannot be allowed to happen. Someone of stature must step in to save this noble sport. What better way for the Chancellor to open his Budget speech next week than to announce a tax break for British tiddlywinks?

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The Independent
date · 
12 March 2005
title · 
Tiddlywinks goes to pot as students shun game
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2006
published in · 
The Independent
date · 
14 March 2005
title · 
Tiddlywinks goes to pot as students shun game
citation · 
page 16, 36
content

Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club, founded in 1955, is facing closure due to apathy.

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2008
Mirror (newspaper)
alternate name · 
Daily Mirror; Sunday Mirror
location · 
London, London, England, UK
Notes

Fielded a team at the first modern match, against CUTwC.

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Mirror
date · 
10 March 1905
column title · 
To-day's Programmes
title · 
Cheltenham
subtitle · 
3.30—Open Hunt Steeplechase of 50 sov. Two miles and a half
citation · 
page 14 • column 3 (3/4 down from top)
summary

The name of a horse.

content

Name of horse - age - st[one] - lb

Tiddledy Winks.. a 11 0

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3772
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Mirror
date · 
5 July 1907
title · 
The Passing of John Bull
title language · 
English
by · 
W. K. Haselden
content

Some Cup Holders 1917

British Ping-Pong Champion

British Puff Billiards Champion

British Tiddley Winks Champion

British Golf Croquet Champion

British Table Polo Champion

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2041
published in · 
Mirror
date · 
2 October 1908
title · 
The Dangers of Sport
by · 
M. W.
citation · 
page 7 • column 1 (3 paragraphs from bottom of page)
content

The moral of all this is that we must either make up our minds to take our lives in our hands when we indulge in sport, or we must devote ourselves to its sedentary forms. It is evidently in games where you move about that the danger comes in, but we do not remember to have heard of anyone receiving injuries of, a fatal or even a serious nature while playing draughts, tiddledywinks, or beggar-my-neighbour. Stilt there is always an opponent’s temper to be reckoned with, and, perhaps, bearing this in mind, games for one are. the safest.

Patience, which has many attractive forms, and solitaire may be recommended as amusements to those who wish to avoid the element of danger in sport, but we doubt whether they will make any serious inroads on other recognised forms of recreation. Perhaps after all It is as well that the nation should retain in its character something of the dare-devil strain.

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3773
published in · 
Mirror
date · 
15 December 1908
title · 
The Season of Christmas Parties
subtitle · 
A Conversatino with Some Hints as to How They May Be Managed
citation · 
page 10 • column 3 (1/4 down from top)
content

PROGRESSIVE GAMES.

“How do you eat it—with cream and a spoon?” asked the boy.

“Dick !” said his aunt reproachfully.

“Well, there, are a lot of game arranged at different tables,” she explained. “Fish-ponds at one, the race game at another, spellicans at a third, tiddley winks at a fourth, puff-and-dart at a fifth, wall quoits , at a sixth and so on, and you each have a programme given you for your score.

“The score?”

“Yes, you get marks at each table proportionate to the amount of success you attain at each game, and the prize-winners are those girls and boys who receive the greatest number of marks for the whole series.”

But do we all start at the same table ?”

“No, you enter in pairs and draw lots for the table you start at. Suppose you two started at the fox and geese table (No. 8), you would, of course, go on to table nine, which might be bagatelle, and so on, working round until you got back to where you started. By having just twice as many guests as there are games there is no waiting, and plenty of opportunity of suiting all tastes.

”Margie, get out the speilicans ! I must get some practice with the niblick.”

”And so must I, Dick.”

We leave the children happy in the thought of this progressive game party, a successful blend of many toys.

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Mirror
date · 
5 May 1955
title · 
I've got a date with a dustbin!
by · 
Noel Whitcomb
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page 2 • column 3
content

I 'd just finished sorting out this rubbish business when Liz came in with a letter: "Looks like another invitation," she said. "Open It,"" says I. "It may be about one of these big sporting junkets taking place next week."

"Liz read it ,and a slow smile curled itself round her [sic pan]; "Yes—, it's a sporting invitatlon," she said. ""Just your line of country, too."

"I reached for it, suspiciously."

"It was from the Cambridge Unjversity Tiddleywinks Club, ask­ing me if I could knock up a team to play them."

"PerIshing Impertinence!" I roared. What makees them think I am the chap to get in touch with on the matter of tiddleywlnks?What Is thls—a conpiracy?"

"Take it easy," grinned Liz.. "They p r o b a b l y play it the strenuous way."

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Mirror
date · 
18 June 1955
column title · 
Noel Whitcomb's Saturday Page
title · 
What a tiddly game of winks!
subtitle · 
… the Night My Glamour Girls Played the Champs
by · 
Noel Whitcomb
citation · 
page 9 • column 1
summary

Account of CUTwC's first tiddlywinks match, against the Daily Mirror's Whitcomb's Winkers.

content

WHAT with all the fuss about Gordon Pirie beating the Hungarian runners Royal Ascot being postponed a notable sporting event this week has so far gone unnoticed.

I refer to the terrific tiddlywinks match—a thrilling struggle—between the World Champions, Cambridge University Tlddlywinks Club, and Whltcomb's Winkers—an up and coming team In the tiddly world.

The match was fixed when science-student Bill Steen, President of Cambridge University Tlddlywlnks Club, rang me early in the week.

OLD CLUB TIE

" We're an official club," said Bill. " In fact, we're applying to the University authorities for a quarter-blue, and we have club writing-paper and a specially designed club tie—a gold ' C.U.Tw.C' on a blue background.

"We're world champs at the moment because we can't find any challengers," said Bill. " Not even the Americans will play us. And Oxford simply can't knock up a team."

"I'll fix that." says I. "How about bringing the team to London for a World Championship match against my own tlddlywink experts, the Whitcomb Winkers?"

So we arranged it. With Machiavellian cunning I fixed the day after the end-of-term ball at Cambridge, when I figured the lads would be pretty tired.

I then cast around for some other ploy of gamesmanship to ensure victory for our side. At last I hit upon it, " I'll have eight smashing girls in my team," I said to myself. "So that when they get down on the floor to play, the Cambridge lads will be so put off their tiddles hey won't get a wink in edgeways.

" At the same time I will organise a cocktail party for the lads—before and during tihe match—which should take care of the World Championship for Whitcomb…"

ALAS! Even the best laid sporting strategies can go awry. We lost— but what a battle. (And what a helluva good party, too !)

I rang up all! the girls I could think of who looked as though they'd be good at such indoor sports as tiddly-winks, and gathered a team that the Folies-Bergere would have been proud of.

'The title hoiders nearly lost

There was Margot Holden, from the Windmill ("We, Never Clothed") Theatre;

Jackie Collins and Christina Lubicz, a couple of Bill Watts's most promising young starlets;

Film star Pat Dainton and cabaret star Yana, from the Pigalle, and two "daughters of Eve"—Pat Gibson and Jay Hart, from the Eve Ciub—who usually appear clad in bright smiles.

Also Colleen Pexter, just over from South Africa, after winning the Hibiscus beauty competition, as a prize for which she is staying at the Savoy for a month while she works as a model for Norman Hartnell…

IN HOT PURSUIT

And last—but by no perishing means least—Teri Harrison, a honey-brunette from British Guiana, who is over here studying acting and dancing.

As the sun set on a perfect June evening. Whitcomb's Winkers—looking smashing in model gowns—arrived at Ye Olde Cock Tavern in the heart of London's newspaperland, and repaired to the tiddlywinks room.

They were hotly followed (and I'm not kidding) by the eight young champions from Cajnbridge—wearing their elegant blue and gold " C.U.Tw.C." ties—who were already beginning to lose interest in tiddlywinks.

"Do all your team know how to play " I was asked. suspiciously, by Rikki Martin, Cambridge club secretary.

"They're all tiddly experts," I nodded, bringing over Teri Harrison. "You can play tiddlywinks, can't you, Teri ? I asked.

"If you can, I can," grinned Teri. "What is it?"

To avoid any further awkward questions I declared the bar open, and the visiting team laid down their four championship mats—very smart Cambridge-blue jobs, specially designed for tiddlywinks. "We split up Into four pairs, now," beamed a young undergraduate called John Rilett, collecting pint with one hand and Margot Hoiden with the other. "Then we all get down on the floor and lay out our winks!"

Teri Harrison looked at me doubtfully.

"Not to worry." says I, "The winks are the little round counters, and the big round ones are called squidgers.

FLICK 'EM!

"You flick the little 'uns with the big 'uns, and try to get them into the cup in the centre of the mat."

"Half a moment," cut in David Arundale, from Cambridge. "You've got ten on your side. The proper team is eight."

"Two reserves," I explained, "in case some of us find it too exhausting."

Margot Hoiden whispered in my ear: "Ever since I played in cabaret at Cambridge University I've rooted for Oxford in the boat race. I hope the tiddlywinks team aren't so rough as the other lot."

They weren't, by golly! In fact. they were such perfect young gentlemen that Whitcomb's cunning strategy nearly came off— they helped the girls to get their winks in first.

Only just in time—as I sent the waiter round again—did they discover that some of the girls were secret tiddlywinkers and that the champions were in danger of losing.

After Margot Holden won two games straight off—she has a fine eye for a wink—and Pat Dainton showed a clean pair of heels to Roger Parker and Brian Tyler, they rallied just ih time.

And by the time the Marquis of Milford Haven wandered in with painter Vasco Lazzolo, Whitcomb's Winkers were vanquished —nine games to three.

THE MASCOT

But—as the waiter went round again, and the visiting team chaired Teii Harrison as their future mascot—everyone agreed that (even though skipper Whitcomb himself is no smart flicker), it was the tiddliest game of winks that the world champs had ever played.

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published in · 
Mirror
date · 
14 April 1958
column title · 
Live Letters
title · 
Long life to teacher
subtitle · 
Tiddlywinks
citation · 
page 18 • column 3
content

L. M. HOWELLS, Cambridge University Tiddly winks Club. Christ's College. C a m b r i d g e, writes:

We appreciated that mention of tiddlywinks In your column recently.

We started our club three years ago and carried out research into such factors as the flight, spin and roll of a tiddlywink.

We have a set of rules. but these differ from those used by Oxford University and some boys' clubs in the Bristol area.

It is to correct this state of affairs which threatens the progress of this noble—nay, royal!—sport that we are holding the First World Tiddlywink Congress in Cambridge in June.

Happy, winking to all delegates sir!

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Report on CUTwC to challenge the Goons.

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Life in the Mirror
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Dis guy's no dook!
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New Champs
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John Rolls
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I HEAR that the GOONS have been dropped as the DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S tiddleywink champions.

The reason: Their crushing defeat last year by the Cambridge University Tiddleywinks Club by sixteen games to two.

The Duke's new champions, who will meet Cambridge in a charity contest in aid of the National Playing Fields Association, come from a Berkeley-street luncheon and dining club. They are training—on champagne.

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Mirror
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25 March 1959
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Life in the Mirror
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Winking Night
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John Rolls
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RESPLENDENT in Royal Marines dress uniform and White pith helmet, Lance-Corporal GORDON CARTER bugled the "alert" to a titled dinner-jacketed audience at London's Empress Club last nlght.

It was the start of the World Championship Tiddleywinks Match between the holders, Cambridge University, and the Empress Club, challengers.

Said Carter: "I feel a proper 'nana&hellips; I thought tiddleywinks was a children's game."

He mopped his brow, took off his helmet, swallowed a double shot of rum, and added: "To think that my General, SIR HUGH STOCKWELL… I served at Suez under him… should be playing tiddleywinks."

Tactics

THE corporal, on a special assignment from Eastleigh Barracks, near Portsmouth, glanced at the shirtsleeved general sporting crimson braces, crouching over the tiddleywinks table, and said:

"Well, I'll get a night's leave out of it at home in Welwyn Garden City."

Sir Hugh Stockwell, G.O.C. Ground Forces in the Suez operation three years ago, who captained the Club team, fingered a green tiddleywink and told me:

"You have to use tactics in this game, my boy. I practised here very seriously on Sunday.

"I'm rather good at squopping:—it means landing your wink on top of your opponent's…"

Philip's Cable

WHILE the general's team including LORD STRATH-CARRON, LORD VALENTINE THYNNE, DENIS COMPTON, the EARL OF KIMBERLEY, and TERRY-THOMAS battled against a determined Cambridge, a cable arrived from the Royal yacht Brittania.

It was from PRINCE PHILIP—whose pet charity the Playing Fields Association got last night's proceeds.

It said: I expect this contest to be played in the usual thoroughly unsportsmanlike, manner of all great tiddieywink matches.

"I chose the Empress Club as my champions because they are capable of an even dirtier game than the Goons.

"They had better win or I shall withdraw their winking licence."

Cambridge winked home easily. Over to you, sir!

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26 August 1960
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Life in the Mirror
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The Long Wink
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They're 'squopping' round the world
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Black and white photograph of three young women.
Three of the round-the-world winkers, pictured outside their Fulham headquarters yesterday. They are (left to right) Debbie Coutts, 24, and twenty-one-year-old twins Jill and Jacq Goodrick.

WELL, squop me! If this isn't the craziest idea in international relations yet…

Squopping, of course, is a tiddlywinks expression for [sic original="stymying" correct="stymying"] your opponent by covering his wink with your wink. And here is a new idea—which might be called "Togetherness with Tiddlywinks"—by eight British youngsters who set off next month on a world trip.

Their idea Is to unite people everywhere in common understanding through the simple sociable game of tiddlywinks.

Best Way

THE group's leader, tall, ex-Army officer GERRY HUGHES, Master of Arts, Oxford, who has no particular job at the moment; told me:

"This is the best way for making contact with people, from ambassadors to Aborigines.

From remote jungle villages to cities, we will make friendly contact by playing tiddlywinks.

Even if we can't speak their language."

Girls

THE group consists of three girls in their twenties, and five young men, who foregather in London's Fulham.

They have already raised £2,700 for the trip, and they have converted two Land Rovers into travelling homes.

"The Twinkers," as they call themselves, have all given up their jobs for adventure.

They include secretaries, surveyors, a travel agent, a farmer and a schoolteacher

Practising

Two of the team are getting married tomorrow before they leave. They are pretty blue-eyed teacher DEBBIE COUTTS, who Is twenty-four. and Worcestershire round farmer TONY CARR, who Is twenty-five.

Debbie told me yesterday: "We have been practising hard at tiddlywinks.

"I'm sure we'll help world understanding."

Well, the way things are the world, Ike and Mr. K. perhaps could do worse than play tiddlywinks.

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17 March 1961
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Life in the Mirror
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North Stars
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Rex North
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JOE LOSS and orchestra have been busy squidging and squopping between dance sessions. Translation: Playing tiddlywinks. "We play Cambridge University on Saturday," Joe told me.

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24 January 1964
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PETER DOWNES, chairman of the English Tiddleywinks Association, plans a major reform in the game. He feels the word "tiddley" puts people off. So his association Is asking all players to call the game "Winks."

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31 December 1965
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The Squoppers Put Tiddlywinks in Peril
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THE squidgers and squoppers were worried. All the bite had gone out of their game.

As an exciting spectacle the pastime of tiddly winks was dying…

Time after time games ended without a wink in the pot. And the squoppers were the flrst lo admit—it was their fault, they were too good.

For the squoppers' job is tn stop their opponents from aiming for the pot by covering their winks as the little counters are called.

When a wink is covered by an opponent's wink, it is impossible to squidge—that is, to shoot— for the pot.

So a world congress was called. The aim was brighter tiddlywinks. It was essential that there should be more shots at the pots.

The experts decided that the only way was to give a points incentive to players who got all their winks in the pot within twenly minutes.

"It was rather like a blanket defence in football," explained Mr. Peter Downes, Manchester schoolmaster and vice-president of the English Tiddlywinks Association, last night.

"Defensive play was threalening to spoil the game as a spectacle.

"Matches ended without a wink in the pot because players covered their opponents' winks and prevented them making; shots.''

Next week, the first championship under the new rules will be held in Manchester.

Eighty competitors from schools and youth clubs will fight for the Northern Tiddlywink Crown.

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6 March 1967
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Students tops at tiddlywinks
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CAMBRlDGE University defeated Iheir archrivals, Oxford, at the week-end in a three-hour tiddlywinks battle.

It was the first win In three years for Cambridge In their annual tiddlvwinks contest—and the biggest victory by any team in six years.

Cambridge followed up their success yesterdav bv beating Sussex in the Prince Philip Silver Wink competition between thirty of Britain's universities.

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The Observer
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21 December 1862
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Christmas Amusements
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ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN.—The pantomine here is by Mr. Henry J. Byron, and is entitled, ”Harlequin Beauty and the Beast; or The Gnome Queen and the Good Fairy”—a subject well known to the juvenile world. [...] Square Tiddlywinks and his manservant, Muddlehead, are returning home in the family gig, when a high wind drives them into an enchanted wood [...]

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28 December 1862
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Christmas at the Theatres
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ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA.—“Harlequin Beauty and the Beast; or, the Gnome Queen and the Good Fairy” comes from the inventive brain of Mr. H. J. Byron. [...] In the introductory passages of the pantomime Mr. W. H. Payne greatly distinguishes himself by his grotesque impersonation of a certain Squire Tiddlywinks, than which nothing more extravagantly odd has of late been seen upon the stage.

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The Observer
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27 February 1927
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New Novels
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Mr. Maxwell and Others
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Gerald Gould
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And very nice too, if it weren't for the way in which Mr. Keable does it. He intimidates one with intimacies. He is jauntily at his ease with the most sacred emotions. He puts one in mind of the inkly-winkly tiddlywinks.

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The Observer
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28 July 1935
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The Films
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The Film of the B.B.C.
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A Story Without an End
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C. A. LeJeune
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The only just reason I can see for this film's existence is the excellent acting of Charles Boyer as the Eurasian hero, and Loretta Young's cool voice and persistently decorative appearance as the society bud. The scenes between them are physically so good to look at and listen to that they give a far greater authority to the picture than the subiect warrants. M. Boyer and Miss Young might be talking gibberish and playing tiddlywinks with the passions, and we should still take pleasure In their encounters. Which is possibly just as well, for much of the time they are.

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6 December 1936
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Cricket
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Next Season's Fixtures
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page 38 • column 5 (last paragraph)
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PLAYERS WITH A THIRST.

There is also the evil connected with refreshments brought onto the field between the ordinary intervals. Occasionally, perhaps, the entrance of the man with the tray and glasses Is justified—on an afternoon of abnormal heat, for example. But it has recently beeome the practice on some grounds for drinks to be brought out even on a mild morning at the end of every hour. Ot course, everybody realises that cricket is a very thirsty and tiring business, but endurance should be one of its tests. It is not a parlour game. Cross-country running is a thirsty and tiring business, but we should not think much f the competitors if they made a gentlemen's agreement to stop for a drink and a short rest at the end of every two miles. A cricketer who cannot stand up from half-past eleven to half-past two without liquid refreshment should turn to a gentler game. There is always tiddlywinks. "WATCHMAN.''

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22 March 1959
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Sayings of the Week
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The world is now looking to tiddlywinks in its need to get back to the primeval simplicity of life.—Rev. E. A. Willis, General Secretary, English Tiddlywinks Association.

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20 December 1959
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The Observer's Sayings of the Year
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The world is now looking to tiddlywinks in its need to get back to the primeval simplicity of life. Rev. E. A. Willis, General Secretary, English Tiddlywinks Association.

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3 January 1960
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Letters to the Editor
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The Rev. E. A. Willis, whom we quoted in our Sayings of the Year (December 20). describing him as "General Secretary, English Tiddlywinks Association," asks us to say that he has never held this office, and that to the best of his knowledge no such Association exists. He regards the whole thing, including the statements attributed to him, as "a harmless student prank."

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This letter was submitted by another person named Willis. See The Observer (London), letter to the editor by E. A. Willis on 10 January 1960.
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The Observer
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10 January 1960
column title · 
Letters to the Editor
title · 
Tiddlywinks
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E. A. Willis
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page 30 • column 5 (halfway down)
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Sir,—

The statement with regard to the English Tiddlywinks Association which you published last Sunday has caused astonishment to many people. The Association is existing and very active. Only last week it held its Northern Junior Championship, with over 100 entries, in aid of the National Playing Fields Association, on whose behalf it has raised funds since its inception.

The remark of mine which you included in your "Sayings of the Year" was quite authentic.

My term of office as secretary has now expired and the present secretary is Mr. W. M. Steen, B.A., of Windyridge, Crawley, Sussex—a former member of the Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club, and a member of the English International team. The English Tiddlywinks Association has affiliated clubs in many Universities and schools.

Possibly there is another gentleman, less knowledgeable than he ought to be about this noble sport, with the same name as myself.

Richmond, Surrey, E. A. Willis

The disclaimer we published was from Mr. A. E. Willis, of London, S.W.1. He had evidently suffered annoyance from being confused with Mr. E. A. Willis, of whose existence and office he was not aware.

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The Observer
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19 February 1961
column title · 
Sport in Brief
title · 
Brumel leads by two inches
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Tiddlywinks
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Stephen Clemens, compiler
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THE Cambridge Masonic Hall was the scene of an important occasion in the history of tiddlywinks yesterday, There Oxford won the third annual inter-Varsity match by 59½ points to 52½.

It was the first time that Cambridge, unofficia!ly recognised as the world champion squidgers, have lost a match since the club was founded in 1954.

Experts inform me that Oxford are now hot favourites for the Duke of Edinburgh's trophy, a silver wink presented annually to the winners of the all-England inter-university competition (proceeds to the [acronym short="N.P.F.A." long="National Playing Fields Association"], of course.)

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4 June 1961
column title · 
Brain-Twister—31
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Tiddlywinks
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D. St. P. Barnard
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THE chairman of the London University Union Tiddlywinks Club tells me that this problem actually arose when, not so long ago, two English universities challenged each other to a tiddlywinks match. According to the rules for such matches each team is made up of four pairs. (We shall call the four pairs representing the Home Team A, B, C, D, and the four pairs representing the Visiting Team a, b, c, d.) During the match each pair on one team plays every pair on the opposing team. The match itself is divided into four rounds with four games played simultaneously in each round.

Now the Home Team possessed four mats, the surfaces of which varied quite considerably and, as Tiddlywink enthusiasts will be well aware the surface of the mat considerably affects one's playing ability. In order to be absolutely fair, it was therefore decided that each pair should play one of its games on each mat. A chart was drawn up and this is how the captains started allocating the teams:—

                Mat 1  Mat 2  Mat 3  Mat 4
Round 1   Aa        Bb       Cc
Round 2   Bc
Round 3   C
Round 4

How should the remainder of the chart be completed? There is only one possible solution./p>

Solutions on postcards, to arrive not later than first post Thursday and marked "COMP" in the bottom right-hand corner, to Brain-Twister 31, The Observer 22, Tudor Street E.C.4.

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15 April 1962
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Do you have 24 qualified* friends
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TWA
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Go as a group to America. Save up to £66.10 each!

[...]

*Qualified members of civic, religious, business or social club, clan, tiddlywinks and marbles society, or whatever the name of your organization.

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22 December 1963
title · 
The squidging hots up
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page 11
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Black and white illustration of a stylized human pressing a wink with a finger, and its trajectory toward a pot.
Haro

WHILE IN NO WAY claiming to have narrowed Britain's trade gap, writes Ben Wright, tiddly winks players in the Manchester area point out with some pride that more than 45O tiddly wink's sets have been exported to America since Oxford University's recent tour of that country.

Despite all efforts to discredit it—and the natural reaction to the man who claims prowess at this sport ia a hearty belly laugh—tiddly winks is catching on in a big way.

One young man who was described in the official organ of the game as the "W. G. Grace of tiddly winks," recently emigrated to India, where. as sccretary of the newly founded Indian Tiddly Winks Association, he reported that the finger joints of the people there made them particularly suited to the game.

Our own northern junior tiddly winks championship, to be ,staged in the Lesser Debating Hall of Manchester University's union on January 2 and 3, 1964, has attracted a record ect:ry of 70 pairs.

These are the schoolboys from whose ranks the future aces of the game will come. Twenty couples from Manchester Grammar School are competing and two boys will be travellimg from Heanor, in Derbyshire, to play in this event. Proceeds will go, as usual, to the National Playing Fields Association which has already received over £1,700 from the game's authorities.

Tiddly winks is played on pile-free felt, measuring six feet by three feet. The object of each match is for each side to flick six winks, or small plastic counters, into a cup one and a half inches high and one and seven eighth inches across its top. The first player to do so with his six winks gains four points, the second two points, the third one point.

But there is more to it than that. One member of each team attacks the cup—his team mate's duty being to stop a member of the opposition from doing that very same thing. This he does by covering his opponent's wink with his own, thus putting It out of action until freed by another wink&mdash:from his own side—landing on top of the heap.

Ken Vietch, a student ol history at Manchester University, who promotea the northern championship, told me : "There are some extraordinary pile-ups. l iike to compare the game with chess in the intricacy of its strategies.".

Tiddly winks has small vocabulary—just two words of its own—squidging and squopping. To squidge is to play a shot. To squop is to cover an opponent's wink.

David Miller and Cristopher Hull, 17-year-old pupils ot Altrincham Grammar School and holders of the northern junior trophy, are favorites to win again but dislike being so highly fancied. Win or lose, they are certain to spread further the appeal of this charming and pleasant game which began humbly in its present form at Cambridge University in 1955 and has a firm fan in the Duke of Edinburgh.

Veitch, who play for eight-times unbeaten England against Wales at Bristol on March 7, told me: "l hate the gimmicks and gamesmanship that are creeping into the sport, however."

It seems that not even the most apparently innocent sport can escape corruption for long in this era of tougher·than-ever international competition.

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See Newswink of April 1971, page 6.
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20 June 1965
column title · 
Katharine Whitehorn's Column
title · 
Such grinning honour
by · 
Katharine Whitehorn
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If you meet a Sir Petcairn Terrier you can't guess whether his ancestor slipped a bit to James II or his father to Lloyd George; whether his great-grandfather quelled natives for Queen Victoria or whether he himself won an Olympic medal for tiddlywinks or ran his post office with unblinking devotion for 67 years.

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28 November 1965
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Sound
title · 
For a Laugh
by · 
Paul Ferris
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page 25 • column 6 (second paragraph)
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No doubt it's the oldest truism in the business, but you can't help marvelling at the hypocrisy of the outcry over a **** on television when comedy show (at least in radio) are loaded with clumsy sexual innuendos that go as near as they dare and make the audiences whoop with delight.

For instance, Larger than Life (Light), in a sketch about sex education, had the line: "When a boy meets a girl, the first thing he feels is, ah… a feeling of embarrassment." Gales of laughter. Now for Nixon (Light), built around David Nixon, squeezed the last sad drop out of a joke about a tiddlywinks tournament, and he had the audience in hysterics with lines like "take your tiddly in your hand." Presumably no one will go running to the Director-General.

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20 April 1969
title · 
Charlie's university
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page 40 • column 4 (second paragraph)
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NOTES on University College, Aberystwyth, where Prince Charles begins his one-term course in Welsh language, history and culture tomorrow.

Described to us as a 'chip university based on a pub culture.' Drink, sport and religion are the most popular pastimes. The tiddlywinks team is one of the most formidable in the British Isles.

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8 November 1970
column title · 
World of Sport
title · 
And never the twain…
subtitle · 
Tiddlywinks
by · 
David Hunn
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page 22 • column 5
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It's a dastardly blow for tiddlywinks that British justice should have decided neither to nod nor wink at tiddling in a pub for personal gain. 'It falls within the Betting and Gaming Act,' said York police, po-faced. The sporting landlord who had offered a crate of beer for the best player in the house has had to replace the contest with one for puffing at peas through a straw. There's logic for you: not allowed to tiddle, but peas are quite in order.

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7 September 1975
title · 
The eaglets dare again
subtitle · 
Manchester United 3, Tottenham Hotspur 2
by · 
Leslie Duxbury
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Column 2McNab was Column 3 the next to display his precocity with a pass inside to Duncan, which he appeared to flip as if the ball were a tiddlywink.

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23 November 1975
title · 
Play power
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page 27 • column 9
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Column 8The games are: [....] Column 9 a set of tiddlywinks [...]

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8 February 1976
title · 
Continental missiles
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page 20 • column 9
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What next? Inter-galactic tiddlywinks?

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14 November 1976
title · 
Hot recipe for carp
by · 
Ian Bain
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page 20 • column 9 (near bottom)
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The fish ran for the cover of the lilies, but the Expert didn't earn his nickname playing tiddlywinks and he turned in from the refuge with the apparent case of an acrobat.

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24 July 1977
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Dissidents in the madhouse
by · 
John Ziman
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There is always the argument that a learned society such as the World Psychiatric Association should not mix in 'politics'—as if the psychiatrist were as distant from social life as a tree surgeon, and as little involved in political and ethical issues as a tiddlywinks champion.

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26 February 1978
title · 
The screen on the green
by · 
Peter Dobereiner
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Their opponents are both household names from sport: Crusher Jones, veteran central defender for Watford Reservers and Fred Smith, who recently retired undefeated after holding the southern area tiddlywinks title for 20 years, no less.

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10 December 1978
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Books
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Rocks to rugby—read all about it
by · 
Julie Welch
citation · 
page 30 • column 5 to 6 (at bottom)
content

Winning Snooker with Eddie Charlton (Pan, £2.50). One of Pan's very good Sports/Pastimes instructional paperbacks which cover virtually everything from Intermediate Tiddlywinks to Underwater Macramé.

collection · 
digitized image PDF (NATwA)
notability rating · 
very minor
tw-ref-ID · 
2062
published in · 
The Observer
date · 
1 December 1985
column title · 
Sport At Large
title · 
Who wins at Winks
by · 
David Hunn
citation · 
page 41 • column 1 (below center)
content

TIDDLYWINKS: When to tiddle and what to wink is as far as most of us go, but to some this is a serious business. Yesterday England faced the United States across a pot at Wadham College, Oxford; last Sunday an American, Larry [sic original="Khan" correct="Kahn"], had the effrontery to take the English national title; and tomorrow he and Nottingham teacher Alan Dean battle for the world crown.

Black and white cartoon illustration of a person shooting a wink in to clouds over a pot, with another person at right wearing a pointy hat.
collection · 
original (NATwA); digitized image PDF (NATwA)
notability rating · 
interesting
tw-ref-ID · 
2063
published in · 
The Observer
date · 
23 February 1986
column title · 
Sport At Large
by · 
David Hunn
citation · 
page 49 • column 1 (at bottom)
content

TIDDLYWINKS: Cambridge pair Barrie and Budd's cup overflowed yesterday. They scored a perfect 21-0 win as their team retained the Varsity trophy, beating Oxford 73-11.

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interesting
tw-ref-ID · 
2064
published in · 
The Observer
date · 
19 October 1986
column title · 
Sport At Large
by · 
Alan Hubbard
citation · 
page 49 • column 1 (halfway down)
content

TIDDLYWINKS: Never mind the Today League. The real stuff starts next weekend at Lincoln College, Oxford, when the new tiddlywinks season 'squidges' off. According to the English Tiddlywinks Association, the activity is enjoying something of a revival, with capacity crowds no doubt swelled by more refugees from Saturday soccer hooliganism. A nod's as good as a wink.

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2065
published in · 
The Observer
date · 
2 June 2002
title · 
The Browser
citation · 
edition online
content

More fun is to be had from a consideration of the life of the late Baron Wodehouse, whose sad death was reported last week. The 4th Earl of Kimberley had six wives, played championship tiddlywinks, bred prize pigs and was sacked from the Liberal benches in the Lords for urging people to vote Tory. He knew his first marriage was a mistake but couldn't stop it because, he said: 'The King and Queen were there - and I was in my best uniform.'

collection · 
digital webpage (NATwA)
notability rating · 
somewhat interesting
tw-ref-ID · 
2066
The Pall Mall Gazette (newspaper)
location · 
London, London, England, UK
tw-pub-ID · 
505

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for The Pall Mall Gazette.
published in · 
The Pall Mall Gazette
date · 
6 January 1891
title · 
Skating as a Science
citation · 
whole 8360 • page 3 • column 2
content

But in England, whatever the sport, there will always be some who take it seriously. For all we know, there may be persons who scorn delights and live laborious days in reducing the parlour game of "Tiddlywink" to its ultimate possibilities.

collection · 
digitized image PDF (NATwA)
links · 
British Newspaper Archive – digitized image PDF (subscription) (tw-ref-link-id 1468)
tw-ref-ID · 
2071
The Penny Illustrated Paper (newspaper)
location · 
London, London, England, UK
tw-pub-ID · 
506

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for The Penny Illustrated Paper.
published in · 
The Penny Illustrated Paper
date · 
30 November 1895
title · 
The World of Women
citation · 
whole 1801 • page 356 • column 4
content

Messrs. C. W. Faulkner & Co., Jewin Street, please the youngsters who rejoice in table games with some fresh inventions for their amusement in the shape of the indoor quoiting pastime dubbed "Tiddley Winks"' likewise "Skitto," also an up-to-date variation of chess, called "'House of Commons," with Ministers and Leaders of Opposition to play at cross-purposes precisely as they do in the real Parliament.

collection · 
digitized image PDF (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
2072
The People (newspaper)
location · 
London, London, England, UK
tw-pub-ID · 
519

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for The People.
published in · 
The People
date · 
2 March 1958
citation · 
page 11
summary

About the Goons-Cambridge match on 1 March 1958.

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2251
The Standard (newspaper)
alternate name · 
Evening Standard
location · 
London, London, England, UK
tw-pub-ID · 
509

Toggle showing 22 tiddlywinks references for The Standard.
published in · 
The Standard
date · 
12 November 1888
by · 
F. H. Ayres
citation · 
whole 20075 • page 6
content

ORIGINAL GAMES.

  • "REVERSI." By J. W. Mollett, B.A.
  • "INVASION." By Lieut. Chamberlain, R.N.
  • "NAVAL BLOCKADE." By Ditto]
  • "DAAMA;" or Turkish Draughts.
  • "SPOOF."

Manufactured by F. H. AYRES 111. Aldersgate-street, London. To be had from all Stationers, Fancy Goods Dealers, &c.

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tw-ref-ID · 
2095
published in · 
The Standard
date · 
13 November 1888
by · 
F. H. Ayres
citation · 
whole 20076 • page 7 • column 4 (3/4 down)
content

ORIGINAL GAMES.

  • "REVERSI." By J. W. Mollett, B.A.
  • "INVASION." By Lieut. Chamberlain, R.N.
  • "NAVAL BLOCKADE." By Ditto]
  • "DAAMA;" or Turkish Draughts.
  • "SPOOF."

Manufactured by F. H. AYRES 111. Aldersgate-street, London. To be had from all Stationers, Fancy Goods Dealers, &c.

collection · 
digitized image PDF (NATwA)
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tw-ref-ID · 
2096
published in · 
The Standard
date · 
10 December 1888
by · 
F. H. Ayres
citation · 
whole 20099 • page 7 • column 4 (middle)
content

NEW GAMES

Manufactured by F. H. AYRES.

  • INVASION SPOOF
  • REVERSI DAAMA
  • HALMA ASSEGAL
  • NAVAL BLOCKADE.
  • STAUNTON CHESSMEN.
  • (Club Pattern.)
  • FOLDING BAGATELLE BOARDS.
  • MINIATURE BILLIARD TABLES.
  • DRAUGHT BOARDS AND MEN.
  • ROCKING AND HOBBY HORSES.
  • &c., &c.

From all dealers, or No. 111 Aldersgate-street, E.C.

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tw-ref-ID · 
2077
published in · 
The Standard
date · 
4 March 1889
by · 
Jaques & Son
citation · 
whole 20171 • page 7 • column 4 (4th entry from bottom)
content

TIDDLEDY WINKS.—Just Out, a splendid NEW GAME, price 1s. Watermans Reversi, and Patchesi, the most popular Games of the day, 1s., 2s. 6d., and 5s. each, of all dealers—JAQUES and SON, Hatton-garden, E.C.

collection · 
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links · 
British Newspaper Archive (subscription) (tw-ref-link-id 1472)
tw-ref-ID · 
2078
published in · 
The Standard
date · 
8 March 1889
by · 
Jaques & Son
citation · 
whole 20175 • page 1 • column 8 (2nd entry from bottom)
content

TIDDLEDY WINKS.—Just Out, a splendid NEW GAME, price 1s. Watermans Reversi, and Patchesi, the most popular Games of the day, 1s., 2s. 6d., and 5s. each, of all dealers—JAQUES and SON, Hatton-garden, E.C.

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digitized image PDF (NATwA)
links · 
British Newspaper Archive (subscription) (tw-ref-link-id 1473)
tw-ref-ID · 
2079
published in · 
The Standard
date · 
15 March 1889
by · 
Jaques & Son
citation · 
whole 20181 • page 7 • column 2 (middle)
content

TIDDLEDY WINKS.—Just Out, a splendid NEW GAME, price 1s. Watermans Reversi, and Patchesi, the most popular Games of the day, 1s., 2s. 6d., and 5s. each, of all dealers—JAQUES and SON, Hatton-garden, E.C.

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tw-ref-ID · 
2080
published in · 
The Standard
date · 
22 March 1889
by · 
Jaques & Son
citation · 
whole 20187 • page 1
content

TIDDLEDY WINKS.—Just Out, a splendid NEW GAME, price 1s. Watermans Reversi, and Patchesi, the most popular Games of the day, 1s., 2s. 6d., and 5s. each, of all dealers—JAQUES and SON, Hatton-garden, E.C.

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tw-ref-ID · 
2081
published in · 
The Standard
date · 
25 March 1889
by · 
Jaques & Son
citation · 
whole 20189 • page 7
content

TIDDLEDY WINKS.—Just Out, a splendid NEW GAME, price 1s. Watermans Reversi, and Patchesi, the most popular Games of the day, 1s., 2s. 6d., and 5s. each, of all dealers—JAQUES and SON, Hatton-garden, E.C.

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tw-ref-ID · 
2082
published in · 
The Standard
date · 
29 March 1889
by · 
Jaques & Son
citation · 
whole 20193 • page 4
content

TIDDLEDY WINKS.—Just Out, a splendid NEW GAME, price 1s. Watermans Reversi, and Patchesi, the most popular Games of the day, 1s., 2s. 6d., and 5s. each, of all dealers—JAQUES and SON, Hatton-garden, E.C.

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tw-ref-ID · 
2083
published in · 
The Standard
date · 
1 April 1889
by · 
Jaques & Son
citation · 
whole 20195 • page 1
content

TIDDLEDY WINKS.—Just Out, a splendid NEW GAME, price 1s. Watermans Reversi, and Patchesi, the most popular Games of the day, 1s., 2s. 6d., and 5s. each, of all dealers—JAQUES and SON, Hatton-garden, E.C.

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tw-ref-ID · 
2084
published in · 
The Standard
date · 
15 April 1889
by · 
Jaques & Son
citation · 
whole 20207 • page 4
content

TIDDLEDY WINKS.—Just Out, a splendid NEW GAME, price 1s. Watermans Reversi, and Patchesi, the most popular Games of the day, 1s., 2s. 6d., and 5s. each, of all dealers—JAQUES and SON, Hatton-garden, E.C.

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tw-ref-ID · 
2085
published in · 
The Standard
date · 
19 April 1889
by · 
Jaques & Son
citation · 
whole 20211 • page 1
content

TIDDLEDY WINKS.—Just Out, a splendid NEW GAME, price 1s. Watermans Reversi, and Patchesi, the most popular Games of the day, 1s., 2s. 6d., and 5s. each, of all dealers—JAQUES and SON, Hatton-garden, E.C.

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tw-ref-ID · 
2086
published in · 
The Standard
date · 
22 April 1889
by · 
Jaques & Son
citation · 
whole 20212 • page 1
content

TIDDLEDY WINKS.—Just Out, a splendid NEW GAME, price 1s. Watermans Reversi, and Patchesi, the most popular Games of the day, 1s., 2s. 6d., and 5s. each, of all dealers—JAQUES and SON, Hatton-garden, E.C.

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tw-ref-ID · 
2087
published in · 
The Standard
date · 
26 April 1889
by · 
Jaques & Son
citation · 
whole 20217 • page 4 • column 4 (8th entry from bottom)
content

TIDDLEDY WINKS.—Just Out, a splendid NEW GAME, price 1s. Watermans Reversi, and Patchesi, the most popular Games of the day, 1s., 2s. 6d., and 5s. each, of all dealers—JAQUES and SON, Hatton-garden, E.C.

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tw-ref-ID · 
2088
published in · 
The Standard
date · 
2 October 1890
by · 
Jaques & Son
citation · 
page 7 • column 4 (near bottom)
content

NEW GAMES.

JAQUES and SON'S CATALOGUE post free.

Ducdam C[ ]rkitt[ ], Bumble Puppy, Pliffkins. Halma, Tiddledy Winks, Flitterkins, Reversi, Patchesi, &c. From 1s. upwards. Of all dealers.—Jaques and Son, Hatton-garden, London.

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tw-ref-ID · 
2093
published in · 
The Standard
date · 
14 October 1890
by · 
Jaques & Son
citation · 
page 8 • column 4 (2/3 down)
content

NEW GAMES.

JAQUES and SON'S CATALOGUE post free.

Ducdam C[ ]rkitt[ ], Bumble Puppy, Pliffkins. Halma, Tiddledy Winks, Flitterkins, Reversi, Patchesi, &c. From 1s. upwards. Of all dealers.—Jaques and Son, Hatton-garden, London.

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tw-ref-ID · 
2094
published in · 
The Standard
date · 
13 November 1890
by · 
Jaques & Son
citation · 
page 4 • column 4 (bottom)
content

NEW GAMES.

JAQUES and SON'S CATALOGUE post free. Ducdamé, Corkitta, Bumble Puppy, Pliffkins, Halma, Tiddledy Winks, Flitterkins, Reversi, Patchesi, &c. From 1s. upwards. Of all dealers.—Jaques and Son, Hatton-garden, London.

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3765
published in · 
The Standard
date · 
27 November 1890
by · 
Jaques & Son
citation · 
whole 20714 • page 6 • column 5 (5th ad from bottom)
content

JAQUES AND SON'S CATALOGUE post free. Ducdamé, Corkitts, Bumble Puppy, Pliffkins, Halma, Tiddledy Winks, Flitterkins, Reversi, Patchesi, &c. From 1s. upwards. Of all dealers—JAQUES and SON, Hatton-garden, E.C.

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tw-ref-ID · 
2089
published in · 
The Standard
date · 
28 November 1927
by · 
David Low
content
Black and white cartoon illustration including a man crouching on the floor, playing tiddlywinks.

Scene in Parliament. Grave Disorder

In one corner of the smoking-room one may see George Lansbury and Sir Alf Mond playing tiddlywinks.

Low howls down another theatrical production.

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type · 
comic
tw-ref-ID · 
2090
published in · 
The Standard
date · 
2 September 1930
by · 
David Low
content
Black and white political cartoon of three holes of miniature golf, with a male player and his caddle hitting a ball with a golf club at the tee of one hole. At rear and right are onlookers.

Political Midget Golf Demonstration

Speaking as one who has just returned after many years, I say that what this country needs is a vigorous policy of tiddlywinks.

Naw! Ping pong

Amazing sporting development during Low's absence.

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type · 
comic
tw-ref-ID · 
2091
published in · 
The Standard
date · 
3 April 1935
by · 
David Low
content
Black and white political cartoon pf a man (wearing dark coat and top hat) holding a box in the air, labeled both "BUDGET SURPLUS" and "FINANCIAL TIDDLYWINKS". To his left is a man (bald with long mustache) holding his hands up in the air and wearing a loose cloth around his waist. At right is an endless array of men with caps, with "SURPLUS OF WASTING MANHOOD" below. Two short human-like figures appear at lower center, the left one with "ONANDNANDNAN" on the lower fringe of its coat, and the right one with "UPANUPANUP" on the lower fringe of its coat. The cartoonist's mark, "LOW", appears in the lower left.

SUCH PROSPERITY! TWO SURPLUSES!!

collection · 
digitized image (NATwA); digital webpage (NATwA)
notability rating · 
minor but interesting
type · 
comic
tw-ref-ID · 
2092
published in · 
The Standard
date · 
13 December 2001
title · 
Tiddlywinks is a Christmas cracker
by · 
Ross Davies
citation · 
edition online
content

THE shops may be full of Harry Potter merchandise ranging from small figurines to hitech—and high-cost—computer games, but the humble game of tiddlywinks is staging a comeback this Christmas.

Department stores group John Lewis said tiddlywinks sales are up 18% this year as the market struggles to find its champion seller this festive season.

'There is no toy of choice this Christmas,' said Vanessa Lodge, assistant toy buyer for the John Lewis Partnership.

While Harry Potter games have been in short supply, last year's favourites - scooters and anything to do with the Pokemon characters - are in decline and falling in price. It may not necessarily be that parents are turning to tiddlywinks as stocking-fillers because they are cheaper than other games. John Lewis's own-brand Mischief tiddlywinks, for example, retail at £5.25.

'Snakes & ladders, draughts and chess are doing well, too,' Lodge said. 'You could say traditional games are coming back this year. After all, they are harder to break and they are less noisy.'

Trying to flip counters into a receptacle by pressing them with another counter became popular in late Victorian times. As a commercially available game, it was patented by its British inventor, publisher Joseph Fincher of London, in 1889 as Tiddledy Winks.

collection · 
digital webpage (NATwA)
notability rating · 
minor
tw-ref-ID · 
3769
The Star (newspaper)
location · 
London, London, England, UK
Notes

The Star was an evening newspaper in London from 1788 to 1960. It is unrelated to the later Daily Star newspaper.

tw-pub-ID · 
524

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for The Star.
published in · 
The Star
date · 
20 May 1921
title · 
About Australian Cricket
by · 
David Low
citation · 
page 3
content

If we are to have interesting cricket this season, it will be necessary to put some sort of handicap on these Australians.

Supposing we make them play with ping-pong bats -

Or permit the opposition bowlers to use a push-ball

Should they have the bad manners to continue their disgraceful conduct there would seem to be nothing for it but to challenge them to a crochet competition or a tiddlywinks tournament and equalise matters that way.

London seems different these days

type · 
comic
tw-ref-ID · 
2257
The Sun (newspaper)
location · 
London, London, England, UK
tw-pub-ID · 
527

Toggle showing 4 tiddlywinks references for The Sun.
published in · 
The Sun
date · 
31 May 1980
title · 
Men fall to Pam's winks
notes · 
A photocopy appears in Winking World 36, page 1.
collection · 
photocopy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
2259
published in · 
The Sun
date · 
21 January 1983
title · 
Tiddlywink king goes potty over flipping record
citation · 
page 11
collection · 
original (CUTwC)
tw-ref-ID · 
2260
published in · 
The Sun
date · 
6 January 1997
column title · 
SunSpot
title · 
10 things we can actually beat the Aussies at
citation · 
page 11
summary

About Christine Barrie serving as the first female ETwA Chairman.

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2261
published in · 
The Sun
date · 
14 February 2003
citation · 
page 6
summary

Feature mentioning that the current world champion at tiddlywinks is Cambridge lecturer, Patrick Barrie.

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2262
The Telegraph (newspaper)
alternate name · 
Daily Telegraph
location · 
London, London, England, UK
tw-pub-ID · 
510

Toggle showing 16 tiddlywinks references for The Telegraph.
published in · 
The Telegraph
date · 
21 February 1936
title · 
The Duke of Kent Praises B.I.F. Exhibits
summary

About the Duke of Kent's interest in tiddlywinks as displayed and sold at the British
Industries Fair, on 20 February 1936.

collection · 
photocopy (NATwA); original (Chuck Hoey, in Ernest Sewell's Tiddlytennis game)
tw-ref-ID · 
2097
published in · 
The Telegraph
date · 
February 1958
summary

Probably an article about preparations for the CUTwC-Goons match.

tw-ref-ID · 
2098
published in · 
The Telegraph
date · 
around February 1981
summary

Report on tiddlywink up nose

content source · 
Fresno Bee
tw-ref-ID · 
2099
published in · 
The Telegraph
date · 
10 May 1997
tw-ref-ID · 
2100
published in · 
The Telegraph
date · 
17 May 1997
tw-ref-ID · 
2101
published in · 
The Telegraph
date · 
9 August 2003
title · 
Squidgers and winks
by · 
Matt Mayers
citation · 
edition online
content

Sir - Boris Johnson claims (Opinion, Aug 7) that "there is only one sport at which England currently has world supremacy, and that is rugby union".

Actually, four of the world's five highest-rated tiddlywinks players are English. The modern game was developed at Cambridge University in the 1950s, and English players continue to lead the world.

So, if you really want your children to be world champions, give them a sick note to get off rugby, buy them a squidger and some winks and tell them to get potting.

collection · 
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tw-ref-ID · 
2102
published in · 
The Telegraph
date · 
6 February 2007
title · 
The night science came to the party
by · 
Nic Fleming
citation · 
edition online
content

Earlier that evening, the distinguished palaeontologist Prof Richard Fortey, President of the Geological Society, gave the 2007 Michael Faraday Prize Lecture in which he focused on the threat to biodiversity from global warming and the need for more taxonomists.

One topic he did not address was his equally serious concern about the direction of modern tiddlywinks. He confessed as much when The Daily Telegraph confronted him with evidence from an unnamed source that he had been a member of the 1967 Cambridge University tiddlywinks team.

He complained: "The modern game seems to have promulgated the defensive tactic of [sic original="squoping" correct="squopping"] (landing one's wink on top of an opponent's to immobilise it) at the expense of getting the wink into the pot. In my day it was about getting the wink in the pot."

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digital webpage (NATwA)
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2112
published in · 
The Telegraph
date · 
30 March 2008
title · 
Tim Berners-Lee: a very British boffin
by · 
Nigel Farndale
citation · 
edition online
content

I ask what things people get wrong about him. He nods earnestly. 'I only played tiddlywinks as a student to get a ride to Cambridge one day. I wasn't a champion or anything. Things can get out of proportion.'

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tw-ref-ID · 
2103
published in · 
The Telegraph
date · 
15 November 2009
column title · 
Books
title · 
Why Enid Blyton's greatest creation was herself
by · 
Garry Jenkins
citation · 
edition online
content

The drama recreates a moment during this period that sums up Blyton's cynical and manipulative methods. "There's an interesting piece of newsreel in which the family is playing tiddlywinks, and Kenneth is just referred to as 'father'. This is all part of her reinvention. She was aware of the importance of maintaining brand integrity," says Hawes.

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2105
published in · 
The Telegraph
date · 
8 July 2010
column title · 
Book Review
title · 
Peter Pan's First XI: the extraordinary story of JM Barrie's cricket team by Kevin Telfer: review
by · 
Tony Lichtig
citation · 
edition online
content

PG Wodehouse was a useful batsman; Jerome K Jerome was rather better at idling; AA Milne liked to watch it even more than to play it; and Arthur Conan Doyle was prodigious: a superb all-rounder who played 10 games at first-class level for the MCC and was delighted to bowl out an ageing WG Grace: "Once in my heyday of cricket, / One day I shall ever recall! / I captured the glorious wicket, / The greatest, the grandest of all." Barrie himself was an unlikely captain: "a weedy fellow a little over five feet tall" and "not a man's man". But he was a boy's boy and "bowled an insidious left-hand". He was also a whizz at tiddlywinks, shuffleboard and throwing cards into a hat.

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tw-ref-ID · 
2106
published in · 
The Telegraph
date · 
2 August 2010
title · 
London 2012: Cadbury under fire for tiddly wink legacy
by · 
Harry Wallop
citation · 
edition online
content
Color photograph of Cadbury dairy milk bars.
Cadbury hopes games of tiddly winks and thumb wrestling in the run up to London 2012 will help "help build stronger communities" Photo: Reuters

Cadbury, the "Official Treat Provider to London 2012", has come under fire for its programme to get the nation playing tiddly winks, thumb wrestling, crazy golf and paper aeroplane racing.

It announced that it is starting "an ambitious programme to get millions of people across the UK and Ireland playing games by 2012 – leaving a lasting legacy of community spirit in the UK and Ireland".

It hopes that millions of people will split into either the spot team or the stripe team, play games such as thumb wrestling and throwing screwed up paper into a waste paper basket. They then need to register on a website whether they won their game or not. They can also join a Facebook group on the internet to find out where their local tiddlywinks or chair hoopla competition is being held.

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date · 
9 August 2010
title · 
Children think hopscotch is a drink
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edition online
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Half have never heard of Tiddlywinks or Leap Frog and only a third of today's youngsters know what Cats' Cradle is.

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date · 
14 October 2010
title · 
Jim White: rise of poor Pohnpei is one in the eye for world rankings
by · 
Jim White
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It was not to do with the format: in truth the crowds would have been huge had Sachin Tendulkar's lads been triumphant in tiddlywinks.

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date · 
27 October 2010
title · 
Paul Dixon calls for owners to 'exert maximum harm' on bookmakers by striking
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Marcus Armytrage
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A future that should be all about 'getting real'. They're killing income, not creating it, and remain the only sport in Britain outside of tiddlywinks, that hasn't advanced in recent years.

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date · 
22 December 2010
title · 
Sports Quiz 2010
by · 
Jonahan Liew
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TWEET THEIR WORDS

32 "So gutted for Poulter!! What a crap rule! Poults may not have won the Dubai world championship, but he could be in with a shout for tiddlywinks world championship!"

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The Telegraph
date · 
3 July 2014
title · 
Britain can still be sporting champions… in tiddlywinks
subtitle · 
Don’t worry about the World Cup and Wimbledon – here are the sports where Britain still reigns supreme
by · 
Olivia Goldhill
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Color photograph of a brown Chad Valley Games Bakelite Tidleywinks container, winks, and cup.
We may be out of the World Cup and Wimbledon, but Britain could still win at Tiddlywinks Photo: ALAMY

Tiddlywinks

It takes real dexterity to become the champion of tiddlywinks: the game where you flick small disks into a central hole. There may be a North American Tiddlywinks Association but, as a traditional parlour game from Victorian England, the yanks are unlikely to win. Last year, Patrick Barrie won the Wimbledon of Tiddlywinks when he won the UK Tiddlywinks Singles Championship and beat his American nemesis, Larry Kahn, in a World Singles match. Barrie and Kahn have been in tense competition for the past 16 years but, until the next UK-US tiddlywink battle, Barrie holds the of tiddlywinks grandmaster.

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Think, Educate, Share (TES) (newspaper)
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London, London, England, UK
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125

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for Think, Educate, Share (TES).
published in · 
Think, Educate, Share (TES)
date · 
19 May 1995
title · 
Diary
by · 
Carborundum
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About Peter Downes.

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Dark secrets are emerging about the past of Peter Downes, president of the Secondary Heads Association and a man who hitherto has appeared to lead an entirely blameless life. His vice? Using his squidger to viciously squop his opponents.

Perhaps we should explain. It has come to light that, while a student at Cambridge back in the 1950s, Mr Downes was a leading light in the university's victorious Tiddlywinks team. Did we say victorious? So accurate was this lot's squopping that they awarded themselves quarter-Blues on the strength of their performance.

In the innocent world of the 1950s, these champions were accorded some status and publicity - although it is not recorded whether John Major followed the team's progress with any great interest from his Brixton hideaway. And thus it came to pass that the undergraduate upstarts challenged Prince Philip to a match after he made some rude remarks about this new sporting craze. He declined, but put forward The Goons in his place for a match in aid of his favourite charity - ironically, enough the National Playing-Fields Association. And so it came to pass that in 1958 Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe, Michael Bentine and Peter Sellers were smuggled past the crowds and through a secret passage into the Cambridge Guildhall for the match of the decade.

"It was widely covered on television and radio, with live commentary from Brian Johnston. And we were on Sportsnight," recalls Mr Downes cheerfully.

"The Goons played in nighties over their clothes, and they kept doing the voices like Bluebottle. Harry Secombe sang an anthem specially written for the occasion. The tickets were sold out weeks in advance and forgeries were in circulation. The media interest was astonishing." Such was the nature of stardom in those days, however, that the comedians' method of transport (they had busy lives) was a Fisons' Pest Control helicopter. Mr Downes took retirement at the ancient age of 23, but still takes a keen interest in the game, which he describes as "very complicated". Which may explain his interest in the arcane world of local authority and school finance.

"It's not just a question of getting the wink in the cup with your squidger, you also have squopping [putting an opponent's wink out of action]. You need the dexterity of a snooker player, and the brain of a chess player, which makes it a good all-round game in which strategy is very important," he explains.

So exactly what is a player called? Mr Downes adds, hurriedly: "We say tiddlywinker rather than winker. It's less open to misunderstanding."

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published in · 
The Times
date · 
23 December 1862
title · 
Royal English Opera, Covent Garden
citation · 
page 6
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Squire Tiddlywinks (a perfect father and a modeI famer victim to a naughty cultural propensity, who discovers to his cost that there Is no rose without its attendant thorn),

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The Times
date · 
5 March 1889
by · 
Jaques & Son
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whole 32638 • page 2 • column 5 (2nd from bottom)
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TIDDLEDY-WINKS.—Just out, a splendid NEW GAME, price 1s. Watermans Reversi, and Patchesi, the moat popuilar games of the day, 1s., 2s. 6d., and 5s. each. At all dealers—JAQUES and SON, Hatton-garden, E.C.

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The Times
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31 January 1890
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The Times
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3 November 1891
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The Times
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13 November 1891
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The Times
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14 November 1891
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The Times
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21 November 1891
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1 December 1891
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The Times
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4 December 1891
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Jaques & Son
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TIDDLEDY-WINKS. A GAME for all; also Halma, Patchesi, Rengar, Ducdamé, the most popular games of the day, 1s., 2s. 6d., and 5s. each. Lists post post free. At all dealers.—JAQUES and SON, Hatton-garden, E.C.

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15 December 1891
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Jaques & Son
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TIDDLEDY-WINKS. A GAME for all; also Halma, Patchesi, Rengar, Ducdamé, the most popular games of the day, 1s., 2s. 6d., and 5s. each. Lists post post free. At all dealers.—JAQUES and SON, Hatton-garden, E.C.

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The Times
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2 November 1892
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Parkins and Grotto
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DULL EVENINGS MADE CHEERFUL.—BAGATELLE BOARDS 30s., 50s., 78s. 6d.(specially recommended), £4 18s. 6d., and £5 15s.; balls, cues, bridge, and rules. Chess 8s. 6d.; draughts, 3s.; backgammon, 7s. 6d.; dominoes; Ducdame, 10d.; tiddledy-winks, 10d.; Halma, 3s. 9d. All the above of excellent quality. Reversi and all other indoor games. Catalogue post free—PARKINS and GROTTO, Game Department, Oxford-street, London.

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The Times
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5 November 1892
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The Times
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12 December 1892
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Parkins and Grotto
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DULL EVENINGS MADE CHEERFUL.—BAGATELLE BOARDS 30s., 50s., 78s. 6d.(specially recommended), £4 18s. 6d., and £5 15s., complete. Chess, 8s. 6d.; draughts, 3s.; backgammon, 7s. 6d.; dominoes, excelsior, scrimmage, war-game, honey-pots, 10d.; kono, 10d.; pirouette, 10d.; tiddledy-winks, 10d.; halma, 3s. 9d. Reversi and all other in-door games. Catalogue free.—PARKINS and GROTTO, Game Department, Oxford-street, London.

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The Times
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19 December 1892
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Parkins and Grotto
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DULL EVENINGS MADE CHEERFUL.—BAGATELLE BOARDS 30s., 50s., 78s. 6d.(specially recommended), £4 18s. 6d., and £5 15s., complete. Chess, 8s. 6d.; draughts, 3s.; backgammon, 7s. 6d.; dominoes, excelsior, scrimmage, war-game, honey-pots, 10d.; kono, 10d.; pirouette, 10d.; tiddledy-winks, 10d.; halma, 3s. 9d. Reversi and all other in-door games. Catalogue free.—PARKINS and GROTTO, Game Department, Oxford-street, London.

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The Times
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18 November 1893
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27 November 1893
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The Times
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29 November 1893
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The Times
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18 December 1893
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Parkins and Grotto
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DULL EVENINGS MADE CHEERFUL.—BAGATELLE BOARDS, 30s. 50s., 78s. 6d. (specially recommended). £4 18s. 6d. and £5 15s.complete. Chess, 3s. 6d.; draughts, 3s.; backgammon, 7s. 6d.; dominoes. skedaddles, 3s. 6d.; golf course, 2s. 6d.; royal mail, 2s. 3d. ; honey-pots, 10d.; tiddledy-winks, 10d.; halma, 2s. 3d. Reversi and all other in-door games. Catalogues free.—PARKINS and GOTTO, Oxford-street, London.

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19 December 1893
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Parkins and Grotto
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DULL EVENINGS MADE CHEERFUL.—BAGATELLE BOARDS, 30s. 50s., 78s. 6d. (specially recommended). £4 18s. 6d. and £5 15s.complete. Chess, 3s. 6d.; draughts, 3s.; backgammon, 7s. 6d.; dominoes. skedaddles, 3s. 6d.; golf course, 2s. 6d.; royal mail, 2s. 3d. ; honey-pots, 10d.; tiddledy-winks, 10d.; halma, 2s. 3d. Reversi and all other in-door games. Catalogues free.—PARKINS and GOTTO, Oxford-street, London.

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The Times
date · 
11 February 1897
title · 
The Glasgow Art Institute
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A newer painter of the school is Mr. W. S. Shanks, whose picture of two children playing the classical game of "Tiddledy Winks" (407) shows extraordinary cleverness, though of a kind which may easily lead him to play practical jokes upon the public.

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The Times
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14 August 1919
column title · 
Personal
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WOULD like to play Tiddlywinks.—Sweetheart.

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The Times
date · 
24 September 1931
column title · 
Sporting News
title · 
Golf
subtitle · 
The 'News of the World' Tournament
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At the 16th there was an amusing game of tiddley-winks with a double stymie, but it was Cotton who ultimately lofted into the hole and got his half.

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The Times
date · 
14 November 1933
title · 
The Immorality of Ping Pong
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The moralist can at any rate reflect that the progress of invention has circumscribed the power for harm of indoor games, of what used to be called parlour games for the long winter evenings. Those games, led by Ludo, were popular and influential because they could be played round one table, with one lamp in the days of one lamp and readings aloud. They have been crowded out by films and wireless sets and gramophones, and moralists now have a pleasant change, contemplating the particular vices and failings induced by passive pleasures in contrast with the younger, ruder, fiercer days, when behind shuttered windows little dice were thrown, and little counters crept along coloured boards, and halma men skipped crookedly to home and victory, and marbles ambled in and out of wooden cavities, and many a brave tiddley was winked.

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published in · 
The Times
date · 
24 December 1934
title · 
Queen's Theatre
subtitle · 
Inside the Room
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Murder, unaccompanied by intelligence or imagination, is less exciting than tiddley-winks.

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The Times
date · 
27 March 1935
title · 
St. James's Theatre
subtitle · 
'Worse Things Happen at Sea'
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Near the end of this play there is a happy momen—happy not for that reason alone—in which Miss Arnaud and Miss Burrill, who have been quarrelling about a young man, are reconciled in their common discovery that he is unspeakably tedious and sit down to play tiddley-winks.

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The Times
date · 
2 January 1936
title · 
A Nursery Cupboard
subtitle · 
Toys of To-Day and Yesterday
citation · 
whole 47261 • page 13 • column 6 (1st paragraph)
content

After 50 years it is not difficult to recall the look and the smell of the nursery cupboard and to think with some exact-ness of its contents. There were in it bats and balls (for cricket in a small garden), a candle bull's-eye lantern, greatly treasured in the days before electric torches were invented, glass marbles of considerable beauty, a wooden soapbox intended for carpenter's tools but once chosen by the cat as the repository of her kittens, and materials for such table games as ludo and tiddlywinks.

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published in · 
The Times
date · 
7 February 1938
title · 
Northampton Beaten
subtitle · 
Depleted Teams at Twickenham
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The Harlequins beat Northampton at Twickenbam on Saturday by a goal and three tries (14 points) to a goal and a try (8 points). Both teams were sorely depleted by county calls, and with a counter-attraction just round the corner for spectators it was rather like witnessing a game of tiddlywinks in the centre of the Sahara desert.

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The Times
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29 August 1938
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The Times
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31 January 1940
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published in · 
The Times
date · 
23 June 1942
title · 
Mr. Hopkins and a Second Front
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content

Mr. Harry Hopkins, speaking in New York to-night, predicted a mighty United Nations' offe sive against Hitler with "a second, third, and fourth front if necessary." He revealed that the conferences between President Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill were taking place at the White House, in Washington.

In a wide review of the war, Mr. Hopkins said:-

What of our 3,000,000 trained ground troops, with modern mechanized equipment ? I want to assure this audience to-night that General Marshall, the great leader of our Army, is not training these men to play tiddlywinks.

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The Times
date · 
28 January 1943
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published in · 
The Times
date · 
5 October 1949
title · 
Hockey sticks… Helmets… and BEETLE*
by · 
British Industrial Plastics, Ltd. (1 Argyll Street, London, W1)
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whole 51504 • page 3 • column 1 (2nd advertisement)
summary

Advertisement for Beetle Moulding Powders, Adhesives, Industrial Resins

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Chessmen are moulded, fishing rods are laminated with Beetle. Beetle laminates skis and ice-hockey sticks for winter sports; tennis-rackets and sculls for summer. Beetle adds strength. Crash helmets and hunting-caps have bodies of moulded pulp, Beetle bonded. Beetle adds colour to chess and tiddlywinks, draughts and dominoes.

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The Times
date · 
8 November 1949
title · 
Hockey sticks… Helmets… and BEETLE*
by · 
British Industrial Plastics, Ltd. (1 Argyll Street, London, W1)
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whole 51513 • page 3 • column 1 (2nd advertisement)
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Advertisement for Beetle Moulding Powders, Adhesives, Industrial Resins

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Chessmen are moulded, fishing rods are laminated with Beetle. Beetle laminates skis and ice-hockey sticks for winter sports; tennis-rackets and sculls for summer. Beetle adds strength. Crash helmets and hunting-caps have bodies of moulded pulp, Beetle bonded. Beetle adds colour to chess and tiddlywinks, draughts and dominoes.

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published in · 
The Times
date · 
5 December 1955
by · 
Army & Navy Store
citation · 
page 6
content

Everything else from tiddlywinks to tepees

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The Times
date · 
13 February 1956
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published in · 
The Times
date · 
1 August 1956
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published in · 
The Times
date · 
10 December 1956
column title · 
Personal
by · 
J. B. Powell-Jones
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whole 53710 • page 1 • column 2 (3rd ad from top)
content

CHAMPION TIDDLYWINKS player urgently required for remunerative position. Preferably also good golfer but this is not essential. Telephone Gro. 6363 between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. to-day and ask for Flat 55. J. B. Powell-Jones.

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published in · 
The Times
date · 
14 December 1956
title · 
The Game's Afoot
citation · 
whole 53714 • page 11 • column 4 (2nd article)
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In response to advertisement in 10 December 1956 edition of The Times (London)

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Passionate curiosity must have been aroused in many breasts, and sentimental bells set ringing in many memories, by a recent demand in the Personal Column for a champion Tiddlywinks player, who was offered a remunerative position. The mind goes back to the days of Halma and Reversi and the games of long-distant youth. Two perhaps tiresomely pedantic questions sug- gest themselves. First, was not the game spelt "Tiddledywinks"?

Passionate curiosity must have been aroused in many breasts, and sentimental bells set ringing in many memories, by a recent demand in the Personal Column for a champion Tiddly-winks player, who was offered a remunerative position. The mind goes back to the days of Halma and Reversi and the games of long-distant youth. Two perhaps tiresomely pedantic questions suggest themselves. First, was not the game spelt "Tiddledywinks"? It surely was so on the box even as Spillykins figured as " Spellicans." However the dictionary will not take sides and admits either version. Secondly, is there or was there ever a recognized championship of the game whether amateur or professional? It is probably, like the record for the sitting high jump held by one of MR P. G. WODEHOUSE'S young ladies, strictly unofficial. In any case it is cheering to know that the game is still played, for it was great though exacting fun. To have but one counter left to clear the table and that one lying right under the very wall of the little pot, so that it must be made to rise vertically into the air, was a situation to test the coolest nerves. Then remains the most stimulating of questions which may keep the advertiser's telephone ringing for many a long day—namely, "Then what the devil do you want with me, as the man said [sic original="wen"] he see the ghost."

Several possibilities suggest themselves. It would be defamatory even to hint, and we should not think of doing so, that the advertiser is the Honourable Algernon Percy Deuceace, who proposes by the aid of this conspiring champion to rob poor little Thomas Smith Dawkins in an apparently so innocent game. Yet it will obtrude itself and a tiddlywinks sharper could carry his tools of trade about with him so easily. Again, it may be that a drama is to be produced in which the great scene is that of the hero and the villain playing a desperate game of tiddlywinks for the hand of the heroine. That would be splendid theatre, but the greatest player of any game, even a champion, can miss the easiest shot and one slip could ruin the entire scene. A golfing champion having to hole a putt no more than a yard long for the television screen has been observed to delve a little channel in the putting green along which the ball will obediently roll. It might be possible to attach to the counter an invisible thread which should conduct it safely to its goal. Apropos of golf the advertisement says that a good golfer would be preferred for the post though that is not essential. That brings down the whole question to a less exciting plane and the advertiser may merely require a companion with athletic pursuits, golf by day and tiddlywinks after dinner. No one, however, who cultivates the mysterious and the sublime can believe it is as dull as that.

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Keeping Them Occupied
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Indoor tennis is a favorite made-up game of ours. With a length of string mark out a court on the carpet 2 ft. wide and 2½ ft. long. Place a net 3 in. high across the middle (a piece of cardboard doubled over will do). Each player has a large tiddlywinks counter for a bat and a small counter is used as the ball. The server flicks from the base line, and as there are no centre lines the ball is in play so long as it clears the net and lands within the string boundary. Score as in ordinary lawn tennis. When playing doubles partners make alternate strokes as in table tennis.

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21 January 1957
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17 December 1957
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Tiddlywinks
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Early in the New Year a match, in aid of the National Playing Fields Association, will be played between the Goons, who have, with permission, taken the tide of Prince Philip's Royal Tiddlywinks Champions, and the Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club. Tiddlywinks does not yet qualify for a "blue," or even half a one, but it is nice to know that the club has a tie, dark blue with a blue cup and a wink rampant, and that, during the four years of its existence, it has remained unbeaten. The season for such a game as tiddlywinks is now upon us, and the heathen, lesser breeds without the tiddlywink law may make the error of classing it with, for instance, snakes-and-ladders. [...]

Early in the New Year a match, in aid of the National Playing Fields Association, will be played between the Goons, who have, with permission, taken the title of Prince Philip's Royal Tiddlywinks Champions, and the Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club. Tiddlywinks does not yet qualify for a "blue," or even half a one, but it is nice to know that the club has a tie, dark blue with a blue cup and a wink rampant, and that, during the four years of its existence, it has remained unbeaten.

The season for such a game as tiddlywinks is now upon us, and the heathen, lesser breeds without the tiddlywink law may make the error of classing it with, for instance, snakes-and-ladders. No mistake could be more crass and unforgiveable. Unless there is foul play and the innocent-seeming die loaded, it is a pure matter of chance whether the contestant find himself at the foot of an intoxicating ladder which will, on the instant, transport him from the lowliest positions to an exalted place near the top, or treading on a snake which will forthwith cast him down from whatever eminence he may have achieved. How different from the subtle art of tiddlywinks. Here all depends upon the steady hand, the strong nerve, the experienced eye. To press too hard on the wink and too near its centre is to experience the same kind of embarrassment and frustration as does a golfer hacking away at a ball in a bunker without moving it; to flip it carelessly on the extreme edge is to risk sending it sailing over the cup as an overbold approach finishes in the rough on the far side of the green. What is wanted is something approximate to the touch of LINDRUM making a tricky shot on the billiard table.

What fun they are, these indoor games that come into their own as Christmas approaches, although the exact nature of a number of them eludes the memory. The charming little men, like miniature pawns, which do battle in halma are clear enough, but is Reversi the right name for the contest involving counters of vividly contrasting reds and greens and is it "L'Attaque" which goes in for deep strategic planning involving gallantly portrayed military figures mounted on cardboard ? Whatever the niceties of the matter may be, delightful are these games and others of their tribe, calling, as they do, for what GEORGE ROBEY might have termed a modicum of skill without straining the intellect after the manner of chess. Friendly games are they, where tempers are never lost, and prominent among them is tiddlywinks. May the meeting next month between the imposing opponents be an epic one.

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Today's Arrangements
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Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club v. The Goons. Guildhall. Cambridge, 11

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Tiddlywinks Win for Cambridge
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Royal Champions Beaten
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"To scorn tiddlywinks," says the Phoenix Dictionary of Games, "because it is played by children is to refuse milk because it is the food of babies."

This saying has been taken to heart by the Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club. whose 25-page thesis on the science of tiddlywinks it prefaces. Science is a word here not lightly chosen. and has enabled the Cambridge team, styled as world champions, to defeat yesterday the Goons. who enjoy the title of "Royal Champions" conferred on them by the Duke of Edinburgh.

The match, on four separate pitches set up in the Guildhall, was in aid of the National Playing Fields Association, of which the Duke of Edinburgh is president. The Goons turned out in yellow cloaks and orange striped cricket caps, and were issued with red knee-pads. The Cambridge players wore dinner jackets and ties embroidered with a tiddlywink rampant.

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Cambridge Experiment in Student Journalism
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All-American Issue of 'Varsity'
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Copies were on sale over the weekend of what is beiieved to be a unique experiment in undergraduate journalism. Varsity, the Cambridge University newspaper, had invited 18 American students, unassisted by the normal editorial staff. to bring out an American-language edition. The result was a 20-page issue which included racing selections for a local point-to-point and an eight-page educational supplement.

Varsitywas described by its temporary editors as a conservative paper of the tabloid variety, which is sensational by American standards. The format was considerably changed, but regular readers found certain familiar ingredients in a report of last week's tiddlywinks contest, entitled "Goons Gamble Grail at Guildhall Gambol."

Varsity's weekly circulation is normally more than 5,000. but it is expected that 9,000 copies of this special edition will be read not only in the cloistered courts of Caambridge hut also on college campuses in America. "We have tried throughout," the editors of the new venture said, "to give our readcrs, English or American, some idea of the university life led by their transatlantic counterparts." They also claim to have sold the largest amount of advertising space in the history of the paper.

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10 May 1958
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Tiddlywink Title in Dispute
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Oxford Claim After Win Against Cambridge
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Eight members of the Cambridge Tiddlywinks Club came here to-day to play against Oxford. Wearing their club tie—a light blue cup with winks rampant on a dark blue ground—they certainly looked like the self-appointed world tiddlywink champions that they are. But after their exhausting contest of three hours and a quarter with the Oxford University Tiddlywinks Society they were disputing Oxford's claim that the title now belonged to them.

Oxford beat Cambridge by 89 points to 87, playing under Cambridge rules during the first Parts of the contest. The Oxford captain, Mr. Elliott Langford (University College), said after the game: "We are definitely claiming the title from Cambridge."

The indignant Cambridge team secretary, Mr. Peter Downes (Christ's College), retaliated: "Oxford are being small minded about this. It was only an experimental game to-day and we didn't have out our strongest team." Mr. Downes explained that the whole thing could be ironed out at the world tiddlvwink congress in Cambridge next month when a definitive set of rules would be drawn up.

Long before the storm broke the referee, the Rev. E. W. Willis, of Richmond, Surrey, extolled the virtues of the game. Tiddlywinks, he said, taxed every fibre of the brain and every muscle of the body. It developed delicacy of touch, corrected colour blindness, was a soothing influence on the nerves and was conducive to restful sleep. He added that it was extremly conducive to [sic original="frindliness" correct="friendliness"] and developed sportsmanship.

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12 May 1958
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News in Brief
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MPs to Meet Oxford at Tiddlywinks
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Mr. Lawrence Turner, M.P. for Oxford, told members of Oxford University Tiddlewinks Society on Saturday that he would be able to get a parliamentary team to accept a challenge to a tiddlywink contest. After a meeting with Mr. Turner, Mr Tony Cooper (University College), the Master of the Winks, said, "Subject to the consent of the Lord Great Chamberlain the match will be played within the precincts of the House of Commons in the second week of July."

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Regarding U.S. interest in tiddlywinks.

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Tiddlywinks World Rules Drawn Up
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Association Formed
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CAMBRIDGE, June 12.

A meeting which ended amicably at Christ's College, Cambridge. to-day has resulted in establishing an international set of rules for tiddlywinks. Delegates from the major universities spent two days at this first World Tiddlywinks Congress formulating the rules.

The congress, which was sponsored by the Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club, also formed an English Tiddlywinks Association and appointed the Rev. E. A. Willis, a retired Minister, of Richmond, Surrey, who has played tiddlywinks for more than 50 years, as its secretary general.

Since the Cambridge Club played the "Royal Champions," the Goons, on March 1 and raised £225 for the National Playing Fields Association there has been an extraordinary upsurge of enthusiasm for the game. Numerous inquiries have been received from schools and organizations all over the country, and much interest has been roused in the United States.

Mr. Willis, in an opening address to the Congress, said that tiddlywinks had an important part to play in the bealth. family. and political life of a country." The world is now looking to tiddlywinks in its need to get back to the primeval simplicity of lfe," he declared.

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The Times Crossword Puzzle No. 8,860
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15 Loud impudence at tiddledywinks (4).

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Solution of Puzzle No. 8860
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15 FLIP

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1 October 1958
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Golf in a Park on Sunday
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By-Law Challenged
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Mr. James said that the four men were challenging the validity of the by-law and submitted that as private individuals they were entitled to challenge its validity. The by-law was unequal; oppressive, not impartial, and out of date. "Tiddlywinks is a game," he said. "Is that prohibited from being played in the park on a Sunday? If so, this by-law is far too wide in its terms"

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Christmas Comes but Once a Year
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Harrods have one department with a complete range of toys none of which costs more than £1. Elsewhere is an aeroplane with an electronic flash control with torch grip; a new type of train signal (electric) for 10s. 6d.; a wide range of character dolls in traditional dress, soft white seals (washable) with long eyelashes from 39s. 6d., and a new game "Carpet Golf," played with tiddlywinks, for 27s. 6d.

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High Court of Justice
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The only ground, counsel submitted, on which it was suggested that the English courts would recognize an order of the New York State, was that the wife had been resident there for three years. She could not be heard to assent to two contradictory jurisdictions—playing with jurisdictions like tiddlywinks.

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The Times Crossword Puzzle No. 9,121
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5 Drink to give a tiddlywink a lift (4).

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Solution of Puzzle No. 9,121
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5 FLIP

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4 March 1960
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20 February 1961
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5 January 1965
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7 August 1969
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Letters to the Editor
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Years of Grace
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From Mr. I. A. Evans

Sir,—"If spin and speed win Gloucestershire their first championship..." writes your Cricket Correspondent. If no voice is raised from within the county to put him right, then a long-time exile must make himself heard. First championship! How does Mr. Woodcock suppose the Grand Old Man was spending his time in 1876 and 1877? Tiddley-winks?

Yours faithfully

IAN A. EVANS.

44 Addington Road, Sanderstead, Surrey, Aug. 4.

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13 November 1970
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2196
published in · 
The Times
date · 
8 June 1976
citation · 
whole 59724 • page 9 • column 5 (2nd paragraph)
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The Times (London) (tw-ref-link-id 2319)
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2197
published in · 
The Times
date · 
18 June 1977
citation · 
whole 60033 • page 12 • column 1 (1st paragraph)
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The Times (London) (tw-ref-link-id 2320)
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2198
published in · 
The Times
date · 
29 October 1977
citation · 
whole 60147 • page 12 • column 8 (3rd paragraph from bottom)
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The Times (London) (tw-ref-link-id 2336)
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2199
published in · 
The Times
date · 
1 March 1978
citation · 
whole 60245 • page 12 • column 7 (at bottom)
collection · 
digitized image (NATwA)
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The Times (London) (tw-ref-link-id 2322)
tw-ref-ID · 
2200
published in · 
The Times
date · 
14 February 1979
title · 
Scottish sure they will play Bedford
by · 
John Mason
citation · 
page 33 • column 4
content

They, too, are weather-bound. The alternatives are enough to drive amateur officials—and players—to tiddleywinks.

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tw-ref-ID · 
3800
published in · 
The Times
date · 
19 March 1980
citation · 
whole 60579 • page 10 • column 1 (4th paragraph)
collection · 
digitized image (NATwA)
links · 
The Times (London) (tw-ref-link-id 2323)
tw-ref-ID · 
2201
published in · 
The Times
date · 
29 March 1980
citation · 
whole 60588 • page 10 • column 7 (5th paragraph)
collection · 
digitized image (NATwA)
links · 
The Times (London) (tw-ref-link-id 2324)
tw-ref-ID · 
2202
published in · 
The Times
date · 
31 October 1980
citation · 
whole 60764 • page 10 • column 3 (4th paragraph)
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digitized image (NATwA)
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2203
published in · 
The Times
date · 
10 March 1981
citation · 
whole 60872 • page 25 • column 3 (Thames TV 1.30 listing)
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The Times (London) (tw-ref-link-id 2326)
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2204
published in · 
The Times
date · 
4 August 1981
citation · 
whole 60997 • page 2 • column 7 (below center)
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The Times (London) (tw-ref-link-id 2327)
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2205
published in · 
The Times
date · 
29 August 1981
citation · 
whole 61019 • page 24 • column 3 (top)
collection · 
digitized image (NATwA)
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The Times (London) (tw-ref-link-id 2328)
tw-ref-ID · 
2206
published in · 
The Times
date · 
6 November 1982 to 12 November 1982
citation · 
section Saturday • whole 61382 • page 4 • column 6 (3rd paragraph)
collection · 
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The Times (London) (tw-ref-link-id 2329)
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2207
published in · 
The Times
date · 
10 December 1982
citation · 
whole 61411 • page 10 • column 2 (halfway down)
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The Times (London) (tw-ref-link-id 2330)
tw-ref-ID · 
2208
published in · 
The Times
date · 
8 April 1983
citation · 
whole 61501 • page 23 • column 6 (2nd paragraph)
collection · 
digitized image (NATwA)
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The Times (London) (tw-ref-link-id 2331)
tw-ref-ID · 
2209
published in · 
The Times
date · 
23 November 1985
citation · 
whole 62303 • page 8 • column 1 (bottom)
collection · 
digitized image (NATwA)
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The Times (London) (tw-ref-link-id 2332)
tw-ref-ID · 
2210
published in · 
The Times
date · 
1 December 1985
title · 
Tiddlywinks men in a flip
by · 
Veronica Horwell
citation · 
edition Sunday • whole 8417 • page 3 • column 1 (top)
content
Black and white photograph of Nick Inglis leaning down and shooting a wink toward the camera.
Figuring out the perfect flip: mathematician Nick Inglis with his gian squidger—but it's not match for Big Mama

BRITAIN was heavily drubbed at tiddlywinks by the official North American team in the International at Wadham College, Oxford, yesterday. Sadder still, Cambridge University, mother of modern tiddlywinks, lost at home to the American players earlier in the week.

It was the same with cricket: we gave the game to the world and the foreigners return to trounce us. The tiddlywinks pastime, first patented in London in 188, was perfected near the Grants in the Lent term of 1955, when major research produced The Cambridge Thesis—the Science of Tiddlywinks defining the rules and founding the university club. In that primitive era they played knee-padded on the floor, so the important work was qualitative carpet analysis with experments conducted at Eaden Lillie's department store on samples from 5/16 in new pile to 10 in rather worn.

[...]

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881
published in · 
The Times
date · 
21 December 1985
column title · 
Sporting Diary
title · 
To the death...
by · 
Simon Barnes
citation · 
whole 62327 • page 8 • column 1
content

I have received further acid correspondence on the great Tiddlywinks Controversy. All the traditions of rivalry between the sporting men of Oxford and Cambridge are summed up in this deadly serious matter. Cambridge University Toddlywinks [sic correct=Tiddlywinks] Club claims to be the only sporting body never to have been defeated by Oxford. Oxford said: Hang on, we won the inaugural match in 1958. Now a former Cambridge president, Stewart Sage, tells me this did not count because it was an experimental match before final rules had been formulated. Furthermore, he adds that a on-off challenge match was held between the universities in 1946, so it was not even the inaugural fixture. As a further point, Oxford and Cambridge even disagreed about the spelling of the word tiddlywinks – the latter version being Cambridge's and accepted, rather traitoriously, by the Oxford English Dictionary, in preference to the Oxford version which includes an "e". I wait with bated breath for the next instalment of the controversy.

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3799
West London Observer (newspaper)
location · 
London, London, England, UK
tw-pub-ID · 
507

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published in · 
West London Observer
date · 
8 July 1891
title · 
It's a Yankee Doodle!
content
Black and white photograph of Larry Kahn, Paul Ireson, Tony Brennan, and Charles Frankston.
notes · 
Reprinted in Newswink 14, page 1.
collection · 
photocopy (NATwA)
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2073
Merseyside • (county)
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, United Kingdom
Liverpool Daily Post (newspaper)
location · 
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
tw-pub-ID · 
499

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published in · 
Liverpool Daily Post
date · 
23 April 1965
tw-ref-ID · 
2021
published in · 
Liverpool Daily Post
date · 
26 April 1965
tw-ref-ID · 
2022
Liverpool Mercury (newspaper)
location · 
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
tw-pub-ID · 
500

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published in · 
Liverpool Mercury
date · 
16 December 1890
title · 
A New Game
citation · 
whole 13398 • page 6 • column 3
content

We have received from Mr. Charles Birchall, of Castle-street, a new game of the "Tiddledy Winks" order, though more elaborate. It is manufactured by Messrs. McCaw, Stevenson, and Orr, of Belfast, and is called 'King's Quoits'. The game consists of flipping little ivory 'quoits' on to a board covered with small steel stakes, and elaborate rules are given as to how much each stake counts. There are the elements of a good and interesting game in it, and it should become popular during the coming holidays.

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digitized image PDF (NATwA)
links · 
British Newspaper Archive – digitized image PDF (subscription) (tw-ref-link-id 1431)
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2023
Southport, Merseyside, England, United Kingdom
(some Southport newspaper) (newspaper)
location · 
Southport, Merseyside, England, UK
tw-pub-ID · 
522

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published in · 
(some Southport newspaper)
date · 
April 1962
notes · 
Article mentioned in Winking World 4, page 11.
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2254
Oxfordshire • (county)
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Oxford Mail (newspaper)
location · 
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
tw-pub-ID · 
516

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published in · 
Oxford Mail
date · 
16 March 1946
title · 
ANOTHER BLOW FOR OXFORD
subtitle · 
Light Blue Tiddly-Wink Eight's Skill
citation · 
page 3 • column 1
notes · 
Reprinted in Winking World 57, pages 26-27; Newswink 21, page 1.
collection · 
transcript (NATwA)
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2244
published in · 
Oxford Mail
date · 
~ 9 May 1958
summary

The reporter originated the idea of a world tiddlywinks championship. The article is probably about the Oxford-Cambridge match.

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2245
Somerset • (county)
Blagdon, Somerset, England, United Kingdom
The Mendip Times (magazine)
location · 
Blagdon, Somerset, England, UK
tw-pub-ID · 
491

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published in · 
The Mendip Times
date · 
February 2017
title · 
Winks, squidgers and a Bristol
by · 
Mark Adler
citation · 
page 76 • column 1
collection · 
digitized image (NATwA)
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2000
Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England, United Kingdom
Shepton Mallet Journal (newspaper)
location · 
Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England, UK
tw-pub-ID · 
518

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published in · 
Shepton Mallet Journal
date · 
week of 23 June 1958
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2247
Somerset; Avon • (county)
Somerset and Avon Guardian (newspaper)
location · 
Somerset; Avon, England, UK
tw-pub-ID · 
798

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published in · 
Somerset and Avon Guardian
date · 
6 January 1989
title · 
Tiddlywinks, sir, is a serious game
subtitle · 
Forget the nudge, nudge
by · 
Wendy Walker; Kevin Bates
citation · 
page 3; others
summary

Coverage of the Somerset Invitational Tiddlywinks championship held in a Chilcompton pub; includes a photograph of Peter Wright, a photograph of Ed Wynn (incorrectly identified as Wynne), and a photograph of Simon Gandy and Gary Shrimpton.

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photocopy (NATwA); digitized image of photocopy (NATwA)
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2915
Suffolk • (county)
Bury St. Edmond's, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
Bury Free Press (newspaper)
location · 
Bury St. Edmond's, Suffolk, England, UK
tw-pub-ID · 
480

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published in · 
Bury Free Press
date · 
13 November 2012
title · 
Older generation inspired
citation · 
edition online
content
Color photograph of a woman and man playing tiddlywinks with felt mats and a round wooden (PinToy) tiddlywinks target.

A COMMUNITY centre got into the Olympics spirit on Tuesday by hosting a sports day for the over 60s.

The Howard Estate Over 60s club, held its ‘Alternative Summer Games’ at the Newbury Community Centre for its members to enjoy a day of fun sports.

Games included darts and shuffle board in the main hall, and tiddly winks and ‘Don’t ring the bell’ in the smaller hall.

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digital web page (NATwA)
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1944
Ipswich, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
Ipswich Journal (newspaper)
location · 
Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK
tw-pub-ID · 
495

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published in · 
Ipswich Journal
date · 
15 March 1890
column title · 
The Children's Hour
by · 
Maggie Symington
citation · 
whole 9227 • page 6 • column 2
content

Marian Sharples says she has played at the game of "Tiddley-Winks," and it is very nice. Is that the right way of spelling it? I only made a guess at the orthography.

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digitized image (NATwA)
links · 
British Newspaper Archive – digitized image PDF (subscription) (tw-ref-link-id 1421)
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2010
published in · 
Ipswich Journal
date · 
26 April 1890
column title · 
The Children's Hour
by · 
Maggie Symington
citation · 
whole 9233 • page 6 • column 1
content

"We like to play Tiddledy Winks," says Ethel Dent.

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digitized image (NATwA)
links · 
British Newspaper Archive – digitized image PDF (subscription) (tw-ref-link-id 1422)
tw-ref-ID · 
2011
published in · 
Ipswich Journal
date · 
13 September 1890
column title · 
Advertisements and Notices
citation · 
whole 9253
summary

Including Flitterkins and Tiddledy Winks from S. Smith and Smith

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British Newspaper Archive – digitized image PDF (subscription) (tw-ref-link-id 1423)
tw-ref-ID · 
2012
published in · 
Ipswich Journal
date · 
20 September 1890
column title · 
Advertisements and Notices
citation · 
whole 9254
summary

Including Flitterkins and Tiddledy Winks from S. Smith and Smith

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British Newspaper Archive – digitized image PDF (subscription) (tw-ref-link-id 1424)
tw-ref-ID · 
2013
published in · 
Ipswich Journal
date · 
18 October 1890
column title · 
The Children's Hour
by · 
Maggie Symington
citation · 
whole 9258 • page 6 • column 2
content

I was glad the parcel contained our favourite Tiddledy-winks, which some of you already know already. We played it with partners, as suggested by the new copyright directions, and my little friends grew merry and excited. The flying counters and shrieks of laughter testified to their appreciation of this game of games. I should strongly advise old Santa Claus to introduce it this Christmas-time wherever it is not already known. I believe each of these games may be had for a shilling.

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2014
published in · 
Ipswich Journal
date · 
11 July 1891
column title · 
The Children's Hour
by · 
Maggie Symington
citation · 
whole 9296 • page 2 • column 5
content

In reply to numerous little people who have written me about the Tiddledy Winks Pinafore, I cannot supply the conditions of competition, they are given with each pinafore.

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British Newspaper Archive – digitized image PDF (subscription) (tw-ref-link-id 1425)
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2015
published in · 
Ipswich Journal
date · 
17 October 1891
citation · 
whole 9310
content

For Evening Parties, S. Smith and Smith have received the most popular Season's Games, BEZIQUE, HALMA, TIDDLEDY WINKS, REVERSI. And New Games for the Season.

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British Newspaper Archive – digitized image PDF (subscription) (tw-ref-link-id 1426)
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2016
Surrey • (county)
Surrey Mirror & County Post (newspaper)
location · 
Surrey, England, UK
tw-pub-ID · 
801

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published in · 
Surrey Mirror & County Post
date · 
11 November 1904
column title · 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
title language · 
English
by · 
C. V. Diehl
citation · 
page 7 • column 1 (near bottom)
content

I have broken my rule this week and sent several replies by post. My excuse is that they were caases of urgency, and stamped addressed envelopes were enclosed. But it shall not happen again.—G. N. (Liverpool): "Counter Golf" is played in the manner of tiddly-winks.

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interesting
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Warwickshire • (county)
Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom
Leamington Spa Courier (newspaper)
location · 
Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England, UK
tw-pub-ID · 
498

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published in · 
Leamington Spa Courier
date · 
5 October 1889
title · 
Lenton's stationery and fancy stores
citation · 
volume 62 • issue 40 • page 1 • column 1 (3/4 down)
content

All the latest indoor games.

Halma, Spinnaker, Tiddledy Winks, Ludo, Flitterkins, Backgammon, Go Bang, Reversi, Chess, Draughts, &c., &c., &c.

Playing Cards and Card Games in great variety.

The noted Store for all the newest Puzzles.

Agents for Dr. Richter's "Anchor" stone building blocks.

19, Victoria Terrace, Leamington

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2020
published in · 
Leamington Spa Courier
date · 
12 October 1889
title · 
Lenton's stationery and fancy stores
citation · 
page 1 • column 5 (bottom)
content

All the latest indoor games.

Halma, Spinnaker, Tiddledy Winks, Ludo, Flitterkins, Backgammon, Go Bang, Reversi, Chess, Draughts, &c., &c., &c.

Playing Cards and Card Games in great variety.

The noted Store for all the newest Puzzles.

Agents for Dr. Richter's "Anchor" stone building blocks.

19, Victoria Terrace, Leamington

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2019
Rugby, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom
Rugby Advertiser (newspaper)
location · 
Rugby, Warwickshire, England, UK
tw-pub-ID · 
521

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published in · 
Rugby Advertiser
date · 
2 April 1965
citation · 
page 1
tw-ref-ID · 
2253
West Midlands • (county)
Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Birmingham Daily Post (newspaper)
location · 
Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK
tw-pub-ID · 
476

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published in · 
Birmingham Daily Post
date · 
29 December 1890
title · 
Tiddledy Winks
citation · 
whole 10145 • page 2 • column 5
content

"TIDDLEDY WINKS."—I have not seen any very newly-invented gamns for the Christmas holidays, writes a lady, except that called "Halma," which has entirely superseded the once popular "Go Bang." "Halma" consists of four varieties of firmly-standing little "pawns," which have to be moved according to rules in the endeavour to rout any opponent from his quarters, and then to take possession of them. Then I see that boxes are sold containing all the necessary materials for a game of "Tiddledy Winks," which is amusing enough, and consists, as most of us know, of a little round basin or cup, a number of counters, and two or four large round discs, or counters, called "flippers," for with these the little counters are to be flipped into the basin, and those who flip in the most get the game. Just now we are all charmed with an enlarged and improved "Tiddledy Winks," introduced to us frcm Oxford by a certain "don," who says grave and reverend seigniors delight in thus exercising their skill when unobserved by undergrads or scuts, The only materials required are a substantial pack of cards and a hat-an ordinary gentleman's tall silk hat-which must be placed on the floor at a suitable and well-considered distance from a chair, on which each player takes his seat in turn, and tries with all his might to throw as many cards as he can, one by one, into the hat, until he has exhausted the pack. Those who succeed in lodging the most inside the hat win the game; and we sometimes play in groups or sides, carefully counting the contents of the hat after each player's throw is over, and keeping a record of the score. It sounds simple enough as I describe it to throw fifty-two cards into a hat, but it is far from being so. They fly in all directions but the right one, lodging on the rim of the hat, and are often very unmanageable; but, as practice makes perfect, I suspect some of our party have private reheareals in their bedrooms.

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1938
published in · 
Birmingham Daily Post
date · 
10 March 1900
column title · 
Books Received
title · 
Miscellaneous
subtitle · 
(not Fiction, Technical and Scientific, Educational, History and Biography, Travel, Theology and Religion, or Verse)
citation · 
whole 13024 • page 4 • column 8
content

The History of Tiddley Winks and Teky Tuss. (H. J. Drane.)

collection · 
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1939
West Yorkshire • (county)
Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
Bradford Telegraph & Argus (newspaper)
location · 
Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK
tw-pub-ID · 
477

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published in · 
Bradford Telegraph & Argus
date · 
3 June 1980
title · 
Pam, 27, flips her way to the top
summary

About Pam Knowles

notes · 
Cited in Winking World 36, page 1, with a photocopy.
collection · 
photocopy (NATwA)
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1940
Worcestershire • (county)
Kinderminster, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom
Kinderminster Shuttle (newspaper)
location · 
Kinderminster, Worcestershire, England, UK
tw-pub-ID · 
497

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published in · 
Kinderminster Shuttle
date · 
10 August 2012 7:30 am
title · 
Tiddlyolympics gets into the spirit of the Games
citation · 
edition online
content
Color photograph of two young men with straws in their mouths, each blowing a wink through the water in a basin with barriers and goals.
Water winks: Participants competing in the water arena

THE first tiddlywinks Olympics-style games has been held in Kidderminster, with an ex-mayor opening the event.

The Tiddlyolympics, created by regulars at the King and Castle pub in Comberton Hill, featured an opening ceremony and medal presentations.

Events included water winks, a wink sprint and tiddlyhurdles, as well as jumping events long wink and short wink.

Competitor Des Lloyd said: “We just thought it would be good to have a different take on the Olympics It’s a bit quirky and a bit tongue in cheek.”

The Tiddlyolympics took place on ‘Super Saturday’ last weekend, allowing participants to attempt to rival Team GB’s six gold medals.

The Tiddlyolympics began with a rain delay but the weather improved to allow ex-mayor of Kidderminster Mike Smith to light the flame.

Mr Lloyd added: “We lit some candles as we didn’t have a cauldron. It was something we had been talking about it for about a month and a half.

“It was so much effort and would probably have been cheaper to go to London.”

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digital web page (NATwA)
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2018
Scotland
Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom
Aberdeen Weekly Journal (newspaper)
location · 
Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
tw-pub-ID · 
530

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published in · 
Aberdeen Weekly Journal
date · 
30 November 1896
citation · 
whole 13055
content

McMILLAN'S (Successors to John Seivwright) Great Xmas Show, 151 Union Street.

GAMES! GAMES!! GAMES!!!

Halma, Word-making and Word-taking, Ludo, Reversi, Tiddley Winks, Happy Families, The Royal Mail, Spellicans, Snap, Kings and Queens, Dominoes, Draughtsmen, Chess, Solitaire, Lotto, Prisoner's Base, Round the World, Authors, Letters, World's History, English History, Golf, Prisonder of Zenda, and other amusing and educational games, from 6d to 15s.

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2265
published in · 
Aberdeen Weekly Journal
date · 
11 December 1896
citation · 
whole 13065
content

McMILLAN'S (Successors to John Seivwright) Great Xmas Show, 151 Union Street.

GAMES! GAMES!! GAMES!!!

Halma, Word-making and Word-taking, Ludo, Reversi, Tiddley Winks, Happy Families, The Royal Mail, Spellicans, Snap, Kings and Queens, Dominoes, Draughtsmen, Chess, Solitaire, Lotto, Prisoner's Base, Round the World, Authors, Letters, World's History, English History, Golf, Prisonder of Zenda, and other amusing and educational games, from 6d to 15s.

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2266
published in · 
Aberdeen Weekly Journal
date · 
16 December 1896
citation · 
whole 13069
content

McMILLAN'S (Successors to John Seivwright) Great Xmas Show, 151 Union Street.

GAMES! GAMES!! GAMES!!!

Halma, Word-making and Word-taking, Ludo, Reversi, Tiddley Winks, Happy Families, The Royal Mail, Spellicans, Snap, Kings and Queens, Dominoes, Draughtsmen, Chess, Solitaire, Lotto, Prisoner's Base, Round the World, Authors, Letters, World's History, English History, Golf, Prisonder of Zenda, and other amusing and educational games, from 6d to 15s.

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2267
published in · 
Aberdeen Weekly Journal
date · 
18 December 1896
citation · 
whole 13071 • page 8 • column 2
content

McMILLAN'S (Successors to John Seivwright) Great Xmas Show, 151 Union Street.

GAMES! GAMES!! GAMES!!!

Halma, Word-making and Word-taking, Ludo, Reversi, Tiddley Winks, Happy Families, The Royal Mail, Spellicans, Snap, Kings and Queens, Dominoes, Draughtsmen, Chess, Solitaire, Lotto, Prisoner's Base, Round the World, Authors, Letters, World's History, English History, Golf, Prisonder of Zenda, and other amusing and educational games, from 6d to 15s.

collection · 
digital copy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
2268
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Glasgow Herald (newspaper)
location · 
Glasgow, Scotland, UK
tw-pub-ID · 
531

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published in · 
Glasgow Herald
date · 
30 November 1889
citation · 
page 9
tw-ref-ID · 
2269
published in · 
Glasgow Herald
date · 
24 December 1889
citation · 
issue 307
summary

Tiddledy-Winks, Flitterkins, and Spoof listed in advertisement

tw-ref-ID · 
2270
published in · 
Glasgow Herald
date · 
26 December 1889
citation · 
issue 309
summary

Tiddledy-Winks, Flitterkins, and Spoof listed in advertisement

tw-ref-ID · 
2271
published in · 
Glasgow Herald
date · 
30 December 1889
citation · 
issue 312
summary

Tiddledy-Winks and Spoof listed in advertisement

tw-ref-ID · 
2272
published in · 
Glasgow Herald
date · 
26 November 1890
citation · 
issue 283
summary

Flitterkins, Tiddledy Winks, Spoof Croquet, and Spoof Golf listed in advertisement

tw-ref-ID · 
2273
published in · 
Glasgow Herald
date · 
31 December 1890
citation · 
issue 313
summary

Flitterkins, Tiddledy Winks, Spoof Croquet, and Spoof Golf listed in advertisement

tw-ref-ID · 
2274
published in · 
Glasgow Herald
date · 
6 January 1893
citation · 
issue 5
summary

"Little Tiddledy Winks, coloured" in advertisement

tw-ref-ID · 
2275
published in · 
Glasgow Herald
date · 
16 November 1893
title · 
Messrs Copland & Lye's Christmas Show.
citation · 
issue 274 • column 7
content

A very important department, and a very favourite gift, is one or other of the numerous games which are now in the market. They not only appeal to both boys and girls, but are in some cases intellectual, and necessitate the powers of the mind being exercised to play them. 'Jolly Marbles,' a new example of this class, will be found diverting. Marbles, after being tossed about by clowns from hars on their heads, fall into holes, which are numbered. The player who succeeds in gaining the highest number is winner in the game. There is also a variation of the popular game 'Tiddley Winks.' The counter must be thrown into the hat of a clown—of whom thre are half-a-dozen. Our familiar friend 'M'Ginty' is to the fore again, this time with a ladder, on which he performs his antics. The 'Harmless Postol' is still as harmless and as popular as ever.

collection · 
digitized image (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
2276
published in · 
Glasgow Herald
date · 
5 November 1896
title · 
CHRISTMAS CARDS, &c.
citation · 
issue 266 • page 11 • column 4
content

Messrs G. [sic -correct C.] W. Faulkner & Co., 41 Jewin Street, London, have sent their budget of Christmas goods for the season.

The firm have issued a group of new games. 'Fighting for the Standard' combines chance and patriotism; while 'Attracts,' a fishing game, will create interest among young folks regarding the mysteries of the magnet. 'Attack and Defence' is an ingenuous variations [sic -correct ingenious variation] of 'Tiddley Winks,' and 'Nurky Turky' is a kind of combination of croquet and billiards for the table. 'Bluffing' is the title of a card game which will probably become popular. All the apparatus for the various games are well made, and any one of the series is sure to delight those into whose play hours it is introduced.

collection · 
digitized image (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
2277
published in · 
Glasgow Herald
date · 
8 February 1900
column title · 
PUBLISHERS' COLUMN.
title · 
NEW BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
subtitle · 
MISCELLANEOUS
citation · 
issue 34
content
"The True History of Tiddley Winks and Takey Tuss, Two Catties"' Edited by their Fond Mistress, also called "Kitty." (London: Henry J. Drane.)
collection · 
digitized image (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
2278
published in · 
Glasgow Herald
date · 
18 August 1997
by · 
Bill McArthur
content

National LOTTO Academy of Sporting Excellence

Offering Honours Degrees in...

  • Tiddlywinks
  • Ludo
  • Synchronizing drowing
  • Gut barging
  • Shove ha'penny
  • Snakes and ladders
  • Crying in beer
  • Blaming opposition
  • Criticising refs/umpires
Our world renowned footballers, rugby players and cricketers are clearly far too rich and successful to benefit from this scheme and are consequently excluded.

5

type · 
comic
tw-ref-ID · 
2279
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Pravda (newspaper)
location · 
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
tw-pub-ID · 
772

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for Pravda.
published in · 
Pravda
date · 
around 1950
summary

Article referenced by magazine L’Officiel des Jeux et Jouets, 13 Apr 1950, No. 13, page 24.

tw-ref-ID · 
2806
United States
(unknown) (newspaper)
location · 
USA
tw-pub-ID · 
162

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for (unknown).
published in · 
(unknown)
date · 
on or after 28 February 1972
title · 
Tabletop Trauma at Tiddlywinks Tourney
summary

After the 1972 Junior Continentals.

content source · 
Associated Press wirephoto
content
Black and white photograph from first annual Junior Continental Tiddlywinks Championship at Peekskill, New York.

tw-ref-ID · 
1106
Family Weekly (supplement)
location · 
USA
tw-pub-ID · 
13

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for Family Weekly.
published in · 
Family Weekly
date · 
10 January 1982
title · 
WHAT IN THE WORLD
subtitle · 
TIDDLY TALLY
by · 
Eliot Kaplan
citation · 
page 26 • column 2
content source · 
United Press International (photograph only)
media type · 
photograph
media description

B&W photograph of a man shooting a wink in the air with a cup below, from UPI in the1960s.

collection · 
original (Drix/NATwA); digital copy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
519
Journal Newspapers (Montgomery County, Maryland, Fairfax County, Virginia, Arlington County, Virginia) (newspaper)
location · 
USA
tw-pub-ID · 
16

Toggle showing 2 tiddlywinks references for Journal Newspapers (Montgomery County, Maryland, Fairfax County, Virginia, Arlington County, Virginia).
published in · 
Journal Newspapers (Montgomery County, Maryland, Fairfax County, Virginia, Arlington County, Virginia)
date · 
29 June 1984
title · 
Winks
subtitle · 
Winkers 'tiddle-late' in tomorrow's tourney
by · 
Robert Doherty
citation · 
page B1
content source · 
United Press International
media description

Color photograph of Larry Kahn; black-and-white photograph of stroboscopic wink pot by Rick Tucker

keywords

Larry Kahn

collection · 
original (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
60
published in · 
Journal Newspapers (Montgomery County, Maryland, Fairfax County, Virginia, Arlington County, Virginia)
date · 
29 June 1984
title · 
Winkers turn out for Saturday tourney
citation · 
page B2
content source · 
United Press International
media description

Photograph of Larry Kahn

keywords

Larry Kahn

collection · 
original (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
61
Parade (supplement)
location · 
USA
tw-pub-ID · 
14

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published in · 
Parade
date · 
4 January 1959
content

All over the world and on the colonies in outer space, everyone is excited about the most popular event of the year. All human activity stops as people breathlessly await the outcome of the world's championship tiddlywinks contest.

In this world of the future mankind has little else to be excited about. For earth has been transformed into a "paradise" where incredibly clever robots take care of things. They do the farming, the factory work, run the trains, regulate traffic, enforce the law, cook the meals, clean the houses and distribute a vast wealth of goods and services to which every human being is entitled—merely by being alive.

links · 
link (free) (tw-ref-link-id 19)
tw-ref-ID · 
57
published in · 
Parade
date · 
14 April 1996
column title · 
Ask Marilyn
citation · 
page 12
content

G. Vitale, Mobile, Ala.

We plan to hold an elimination tournament with tiddlywinks, two people playing at a time.

collection · 
original (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
58
This Week Magazine (supplement)
location · 
USA
tw-pub-ID · 
15

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for This Week Magazine.
published in · 
This Week Magazine
date · 
4 November 1962
column title · 
Charlie Rice's Punchbowl
title · 
Tiddlywinks across the sea!
by · 
Charlie Rice
citation · 
page 20-21
media description

3 photographs, 1 drawing

keywords

Oxford

OUTS

1962 Oxford Tour

collection · 
transcript (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
59
Gannett newspapers (media company)
location · 
USA
tw-pub-ID · 
222

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for Gannett newspapers.
published in · 
Gannett newspapers
date · 
around 26 December 1980
summary

Gannett newspapers picked up story that appeared in 1980 in the Rockford Register Star

tw-ref-ID · 
801
Alabama • (state)
Anniston, Alabama, United States
Anniston Star (newspaper)
location · 
Anniston, Alabama, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
18

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for Anniston Star.
published in · 
Anniston Star
date · 
11 February 1940
title · 
Company A Of 10th Gets New Day Room
citation · 
page 4
content

The members of Company A, 10th Infrantry, have in the past week been working hard constructing a day room to be used for recreational purpose by members of their company.

Under the supervision of the noncommissioned officers the men built the room by raising a tent and covering the sides with weatherboarding and tar paper, which cost the company very little

The equipment in the room consists of a radio, six card tables, which are used for playing cards, and such games as bingo, tiddledy winks, dominoes and checkers. Other amusements include ping-pong, archery and skeet gun and targets.

tw-ref-ID · 
63
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Birmingham News (newspaper)
location · 
Birmingham, Alabama, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
186

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for Birmingham News.
published in · 
Birmingham News
date · 
26 October 1918
title · 
Indoor Sports For the Interned During the Influenza Epidemic
subtitle · 
No. 11—TIDDLEDY-WINKS.
by · 
Henry C. Vance
citation · 
page 6
content

This world is full of uncertainties, disappointments, mud and fake hair restorers. There are also quite a number of nuts scattered broadcast up and down the universe, but it is doubtful if there are many who still play the good old-fashioned game of Tiddledy-winks.

About the same time that knighthood was in flower, or probably a little later when Lord Cornwalis was in Dutch, Tiddledy-winks was all the rage. Life was one little excitement after another when our forefathers circled around the candle-flames and played Tiddledy-winks with the family until the late hour of 8:30 p.m. They then few prowling red-skins and deer before day-break [sic duplicate] and went out and shot a few prowling red-skins and deer before the clatter of the coffee-mill could be heard in the culinary department of the household.

Gatter Prod'em.

To play Tiddeldy-winks [sic] one must have an outfit especially constructed for said contest. Small round men, a little glass jar for a goal and another "man" as a "prod" make up the outfit. The goal is a certain distance from each contestant and four men are furnished the participants. By pressing with the "prod" on the edge of the men, they are snapped towards to goal. The lucky guy who gets all of his men in the cup with the fewest number of prods naturally wins the game.

In the good old days before the great drouth swept over the country and the major portion of it was declared bone dry, the winner after each contest sipped from a jug of rum. This was his privilege and it helped put interest in the game.

Quite an Art.

Tiddledy-winks never reached such a height in popularity that international contests for the championship of the world were staged, neither was a king ever dethroned on account of tiddledywinks, but it was highly amusing in its period and required a certain skill by the devotees of the art.

It might suffice to help kill time between noow and Monday week, when the theaters will be thrown open once again. Then we can revel in "vodevil" once more. We will then have the chance of seeing screen flickers and marvel at the grace displayed by the Lardly Arbuckle as he trips into view, accompanied by his girlish figure and his invisible waist line.

When the family sits at home
And there ain't a thing to do;
And you're bored from toe to dome,
You can blame it on the "flu."

collection · 
digital copy (NATwA)
links · 
University of Michigan (free) (tw-ref-link-id 213)
tw-ref-ID · 
557
Mobile, Alabama, United States
Mobile Register (newspaper)
location · 
Mobile, Alabama, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
19

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published in · 
Mobile Register
date · 
14 December 1986
title · 
Holiday shoppers boggled by tiddlywinks players
by · 
Joyce A. Venezia
citation · 
page 18
summary

Coverage of Ocean City, New Jersey, tiddlywinks exhibition at a department store. Cites Larry Kahn, Jim Marlin, Rick Tucker.

content

Kahn, 33, of Silver Spring, Md., is the national tiddlywink champion and a former world champion.

collection · 
digital copy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
64
published in · 
Mobile Register
date · 
18 January 1991
title · 
Hard to talk of football while at war
citation · 
page 45
content

At what point does football become tiddlywinks?

Answer: As soon as there's war.

But when it's one's job to write about tiddlywinks, one writes about tiddlywinks, although one may not be entirely comfortable doing it. One tried to make the tiddlywinks sound interesting, while at the same time asking oneself: Who cares about tiddlywinks right now?

collection · 
digital copy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
65
Tuscaloosa-Newport, Alabama, United States
Tuscaloosa (newspaper)
location · 
Tuscaloosa-Newport, Alabama, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
20

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for Tuscaloosa.
published in · 
Tuscaloosa
date · 
19 May 1959
title · 
Tiddlywinks Match Requires Practice
citation · 
page 16 • column 2
content source · 
Associate Press
content

SEATTLE, Wash. (AP) — Nine men and a girl are practicing like mad at the University of Washington these days in preparation for an international tiddlywink match with Cambridge University.

Dave Stern, manager of the Washington team, says the English school accepted the challenge in a letter from Frank G. Kenshaw [sic correct=Kershaw], honorary secretary of the Cambridge Tiddlywink Society. If financial arrangements can be made, Kenshaw said the West Coast contest would follow scheduled matches at Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Chicago and other universities.

Stern's team won its first collegiate match against Seattle University 19-9, and now is considering a challenge it has received from Washington faculty members.

collection · 
digital copy (NATwA)
links · 
Google Books (free) (tw-ref-link-id 20)
tw-ref-ID · 
66
Alaska • (state)
 (newspaper)
location · 
Alaska, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
21

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published in · 
date · 
1972
content source · 
Associated Press
media description

photograph of the 1972 Junior Countinentals

tw-ref-ID · 
67
Arlington Heights • (state)
Illinois, Arlington Heights, United States
Daily Herald (newspaper)
publisher · 
Paddock Publications, Inc.
location · 
Illinois, Arlington Heights, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
294

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published in · 
Daily Herald
date · 
17 June 2002
title · 
Naperville tykes find new fun with old games
subtitle · 
'History Connection' shows what it was like to be a kid in the 1800s
by · 
Beth Sneller
publisher · 
Paddock Publications, Inc.
publisher country · 
USA
publisher location · 
Arlington Heights, Illinois
citation · 
volume 130 • section 1 • issue 246 • page 4 • column 3
content

It's really quite a simple game, tiddlywinks. All you have to do is maneuver one disc to flip another disc onto a little platform, and the closer you get to the center of the platform, the more points you get.

[...]Tiddlywinks is one of the many old games kids can try out at the historic village's new interactive exhibit in its Meeting House.

tw-ref-ID · 
1105
California • (state)
Berkeley, California, United States
Berkeley Gazette (newspaper)
location · 
Berkeley, California, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
22

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for Berkeley Gazette.
published in · 
Berkeley Gazette
date · 
May 1976 ?
notes · 
Excerpt from the California Monthly magazine (University of California, Berkeley), March 1976
tw-ref-ID · 
68
Fresno, California, United States
Fresno Bee (newspaper)
location · 
Fresno, California, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
23

Toggle showing 4 tiddlywinks references for Fresno Bee.
published in · 
Fresno Bee
date · 
1 April 1972
title · 
Great Day! Fresnan Tiddles into History
citation · 
page 1
summary

About Tim Schiller.

keywords

Tim Schiller

tw-ref-ID · 
69
published in · 
Fresno Bee
date · 
February 1981
title · 
Breathing difficulty caused by a tiddlywink up the nose
content source · 
Associated Press
collection · 
photocopy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
70
published in · 
Fresno Bee
date · 
8 February 1981
title · 
Welcome to hard dimes
by · 
Eli Setenich
notes · 
3rd topic in column
collection · 
photocopy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
71
published in · 
Fresno Bee
date · 
1 March 1981
title · 
Bloody good show, men
by · 
Eli Setenich
notes · 
3rd topic in column
collection · 
photocopy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
72
Fresno Guide (newspaper)
location · 
Fresno, California, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
24

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for Fresno Guide.
published in · 
Fresno Guide
date · 
Spring 1972
title · 
Ping pong & Tiddledywinks
by · 
Morrie Ryskind
summary

Editorial on detente alluding to world teams.

tw-ref-ID · 
73
Long Beach, California, United States
Long Beach Press-Telegram (newspaper)
location · 
Long Beach, California, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
25

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for Long Beach Press-Telegram.
published in · 
Long Beach Press-Telegram
date · 
18 May 1959
title · 
It's Your World
citation · 
page A-2 • column 1
content source · 
Associated Press
content

SEATTLE (AP)—Nine men and a girl are practicing like mad at the University of Washington these days in preparation for an international tiddlywinks match with Cambridge University.

Dave Stern, manager of the Washington team, says the English school accepted the challenge in a letter from Frank G. Kenshaw [sic correct=Kershaw], honorary secretary of the Cambridge Tiddlywink Society. If financial arrangements can be made, Kenshaw [sic: should be Kershaw] said the West Coast contest would follow scheduled matches at Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Chicago, and other universities.

"Tiddlywinks is a sport, not a stunt," Kenshaw [sic correct=Kershaw] wrote, "as we hope to be able to prove to you... Gamesmanship is inapplicable."

Stern and his nine-man-one-girl team consider it a sport, too. They are busily trying to become ambidextrous (approved under international rules) and working on thumb development.

As in most sports, tiddlywinks has its own vocabulary. The squop is a tactical move to cover an opponent's tiddly and the pot is something you try to shoot in—not rake in.

Stern's team won its first intercollegiate match against Seattle University 19-9, and now is considering a challenge it has received from Washington faculty members.

collection · 
digital copy (NATwA)
links · 
NewspaperArchive.com (free) (tw-ref-link-id 21)
tw-ref-ID · 
74
Los Angeles, California, United States
Los Angeles Herald (newspaper)
location · 
Los Angeles, California, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
26

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published in · 
Los Angeles Herald
date · 
12 January 1891
title · 
The Latest Popular Game
citation · 
volume 35 • issue 90 • page 5 • column 4
content source · 
Springfield Homestead (Massachusetts)
content

It need not surprise any one to drop into an evening gathering or a quiet home circle and find people who wear spectacles across their noses and carry dignity by the ton trying to snap a row of ivory chips into a little wooden cup. That is the new game, christened tiddledy winks. It requires a small wooden cup called a wink pot and two dozen bone or ivory chips called winks, also four larger ones about the size of an old fashioned pants button, known as tiddledies. There is a cushion to snap the chips upon, or you can spread a small square of Brussels carpeting under the tablecloth, which answers just as well if not better. The trick is to snap the winks into the wink pot by means of the tiddledies held between the thumb and finger, the winks lying flat on the cushion or table. This is the game of the season - the great social snap, so to speak. There are two or three ways of playing and keeping tally of the game. Ever tried it? - Springfield (Mass.) Homestead.

collection · 
digital copy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
75
published in · 
Los Angeles Herald
date · 
18 January 1891
column title · 
PERSONAL
citation · 
volume 35 • issue 96 • page 7 • column 2
content

Miss Eloise Forman and Charles Forman, Jr., gave a "tiddledy winks" party on Saturday evening.

links · 
California DIgital Newspaper Collection (free) (tw-ref-link-id 22)
tw-ref-ID · 
76
published in · 
Los Angeles Herald
date · 
4 April 1892
column title · 
In Society
citation · 
volume 37 • issue 166 • page 3 • column 3
content

A very pleasant party was given by Mrs. A. M. Scott, Friday evening, April 1st, at her home on San Pedro Street, in honor of her niece Miss Pear M. Duke and her neice's [sic] friend Miss Anna Denisen of Erie, Kansas. The hall, parlors and dinning [sic] rooms were beautifully decorated with palms, smilax, lilies and roses. The chief amusements of the evening were music and progressive tiddledy winks, prizes being awarded to Mr. Morgan Galbreth, royal; Miss Nettie Royer, progressive and Miss Pearl Duke, booby. Among the guest noted were Mrs. Morrison and Scott, Misses Alpha McIlmoil, Pearl and Nettie Royer, Minnie and Myra Todd, Delphine and Amelia Santa Cruz, Kathrine Loomis, Anna Denisen and Pearl Duke. [sic] Messrs. F. Winn Sabichi, E. E. Galbreth, J. H. Owens, Morgan Galbreth, W. Humphreys, Colonel Scrieber, W. Clark, Horace Metcalf and Theo. Simpson of Pasadena.

collection · 
digital copy (NATwA)
links · 
California DIgital Newspaper Collection (free) (tw-ref-link-id 23)
tw-ref-ID · 
77
published in · 
Los Angeles Herald
date · 
7 April 1896
column title · 
Brevities
citation · 
volume 25 • issue 179 • page 3 • column 1
content

A progressive tiddledy-winks party was given Saturday evening by Mrs. Elson at her home on Cypress avenue in honor of the 15th birthday of her son Abbott. Easter eggs, prettily painted and decorate with ribbons were presented to the guests as souvenirs of the occasion and prizes were awarded as follows: Miss Josephine Davis secured ladies' first prize and Master Sidney Marx gentleman's first prize. Those carrying off the booby prizes were Miss Beth Sill and Master John Traylor. Hand-painted eggs were the prizes. Refreshments of ice cream and cake were served after the games.

collection · 
digital copy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
78
published in · 
Los Angeles Herald
date · 
7 March 1909
title · 
Spends Pleasant Day
citation · 
edition Junior Section • page 2 • column 3
content

[...] Often I play the games of tiddledy winks, jack straws and pins with my mother, father and sister.

VORIS H. CONNOR.

McKinely avenue school, grade A4, age 9. 947 E. Forty-eighth street.

links · 
Library of Congress (free) (tw-ref-link-id 24)
tw-ref-ID · 
79
Los Angeles Times (newspaper)
location · 
Los Angeles, California, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
27

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published in · 
Los Angeles Times
date · 
7 December 1890
title · 
THE PEOPLE'S STORE.
subtitle · 
Our Place a Veritable Beehive of Industry.
citation · 
page 8 • column 2
content

Mammoth Toy Department

[...]

Our game booth consists of games from 5c upwards. We have the largest assortment of Tiddledy Winks in Southern California.

[...]

A. HAMBURGER & SONS

links · 
Gale Cengage Learning (free) (tw-ref-link-id 25)
tw-ref-ID · 
80
published in · 
Los Angeles Times
date · 
31 March 1972
title · 
TIDDLYWINKS
subtitle · 
U.S. Flips to World Title
citation · 
page 4
notes · 
Reprinted in in September 1972 MIT Observer
collection · 
transcript (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
81
published in · 
Los Angeles Times
date · 
2 April 1972
title · 
A STAR IS BORN
summary

About tiddlywinks as played in Logan, Utah (see Newswink 6).

tw-ref-ID · 
82
published in · 
Los Angeles Times
date · 
10 January 1992
column title · 
Consumer
title · 
Too Many Lists of Unsafe Toys?
by · 
S. J. Diamond
citation · 
edition Home Edition • page D-1
content

Toddlers find play value in everything—Barbies, tiddlywinks, Erector sets, Monopoly pieces, pennies, peanuts and paper clips.

collection · 
digital copy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
83
published in · 
Los Angeles Times
date · 
14 June 1992
column title · 
Movies
title · 
John Doe, Meet Ross Perot; Five decades later, Frank Capra's 'Meet John Doe' eerily resembles today's political scene—although Gary Cooper was taller
by · 
Jack Matthews
citation · 
edition Home Edition • page 5
content

Throughout the movie, John Doe's main theme is that free people can "beat the world at anything, from war to tiddlywinks, if we all pull in the same direction."

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published in · 
Los Angeles Times
date · 
25 July 1992
title · 
Olympic-Caliber Craziness; Volleyball Standout Samuelson Brings the Offbeat to Barcelona
by · 
Michael Grunwald
citation · 
edition Valley Edition • page C-12
content

"We could be playing tiddlywinks, and we'd start whaling on each other," says Rusen, who has broken several knuckles punching walls after losses.

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Los Angeles Times
date · 
6 January 1993
column title · 
Fixations
title · 
Putting All His Cards on the Table
subtitle · 
Edward Labate would love to sell you baseball memorabilia, but he's the first one to tell you to collect for fun, not profit
by · 
Jim Washburn
citation · 
edition Orange County Edition • page E-1
content

That's where his passion lies, but, as he noted, "being a national chess master in the United States is like being a baseball card dealer in the Soviet Union. Who cares? It's like being a tiddlywinks champion. Chess is a game that requires involvement, and the No. 1 problem in this country is you have too many followers, too many viewers, tag-alongers instead of leaders."

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published in · 
Los Angeles Times
date · 
25 January 1993
title · 
The Strange Case of "Knight Moves"
by · 
Michael Wilmington
citation · 
edition Home Edition • page F-7
content

"Knight Moves" (MPAA rated R, for language, sensuality, violence) is a game—but it's closer to three-card monte or tiddlywinks than chess.

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published in · 
Los Angeles Times
date · 
14 May 1993
column title · 
Computer File
title · 
Edited-Just-for-You News Is Now Available in Your Desktop Computer Every Day
by · 
Lawrence J. Majid
citation · 
edition Home Edition • page D-2
content

Your sports page could be limited to baseball or could include football, hockey and tiddlywinks.

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published in · 
Los Angeles Times
date · 
23 July 1993
title · 
It's Not Just a Simple Game for Old Folks
subtitle · 
Lawn bowling: County residents who will play at Pacific championships say the sport is challenging and highly competitive
by · 
Barbie Ludovise
citation · 
edition Orange County Edition • page C-8
content

But lawn bowling? Sounded about as thrilling as a game of tiddlywinks.

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published in · 
Los Angeles Times
date · 
10 November 1993
title · 
Coaches' Tidbits Easier to Swallow at Lunchtime
by · 
Mike Penner
citation · 
edition Orange County Edition • page C-1
content

If you've never been to Titan Gym, we can play everything on that floor, including tiddlywinks, because it's marked for it.

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published in · 
Los Angeles Times
date · 
6 January 1994
column title · 
Fashion
title · 
Attire for Bicyclists Slowly Going From Nerdy to Pleasing; Retailers say better designs are coming out. And teen-agers are adding visors to improve the look of helmets
by · 
Kathleen Williams
citation · 
edition Ventura West Edition • page J-1
content

Do you find the term nerd irresistible? Not that cycling is a wimpy, undeserving pastime, a tiddlywinks kind of sport.

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Los Angeles Times
date · 
27 January 1994
column title · 
inside line
title · 
Brain Teasers
citation · 
edition Orange County Edition • page E-3
content

1. What game involves potting and squopping?

1. Tiddlywinks

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published in · 
Los Angeles Times
date · 
19 July 1994
title · 
Shaken and Stirred; The Quake Jolted Business for Some Shops Near Epicenter, While Giving Others a Boost
by · 
Patrice Apodaca
citation · 
edition Valley Edition • page 12
content

She sells the POGS for 15 cents to $2 apiece—along with thicker discs called "slammers" that are used to play a tiddlywinks-type game with the POGs.

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published in · 
Los Angeles Times
date · 
30 July 1994
title · 
O.C. POP MUSIC REVIEW
subtitle · 
A Different Brand of Fabulous
by · 
Jim Washburn
citation · 
edition Orange County Edition • page F-1
content

As throughout most of the evening, he didn't use a pick, instead coaxing meaty tones from his strings with an odd approach to finger-picking, his digits flicking at the strings as if they were tiddlywinks.

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published in · 
Los Angeles Times
date · 
16 September 1994
column title · 
Consumer Affairs
title · 
A Hot Tip for Coffee Lovers: Most Retailers Prefer to Make It Scalding
by · 
Denise Gellene
citation · 
edition Home Edition • page D-3
content

Kids stack POGs and knock them over in a game that is a cross between tiddlywinks and baseball card flipping.

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San Diego, California, United States
San Diego Union-Tribune (newspaper)
location · 
San Diego, California, USA
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28

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San Diego Union-Tribune
date · 
11 August 2012 4 pm
title · 
The need to compete
by · 
John Wilkens
content

Sunday, when the Summer Olympics in London end, you'll have to forgive Abram Burrows for not paying attention. The 11-year-old from Santee is in Hawaii competing for his own world championship.

In Pokémon, the video game. [...]

Eating, napping, crying, texting — they’ve all had their own contests. What next, tiddlywinks?

Too late. There's a world championship for that, too.

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San Francisco, California, United States
Daily Evening Bulletin (newspaper)
location · 
San Francisco, California, USA
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31

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published in · 
Daily Evening Bulletin
date · 
14 February 1891
title · 
To-day's Advertisements
citation · 
issue 110 • page 2 • column 8
content

FRESH ARRIVAL

—OF THE—Popular Parlor Game TIDDLEDY WINKS—AND—Tiddledy Winks Tennis

ALL SIZES, 25c, 50c and $1.

[...]

DAVIS BROTHERS, 718 Market st. and 1234 Market st.

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published in · 
Daily Evening Bulletin
date · 
17 February 1891
title · 
EVENTS IN SOCIETY
citation · 
issue 12 • page 2 • column 2
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published in · 
Daily Evening Bulletin
date · 
21 February 1891
title · 
To-day's Advertisements
citation · 
issue 116 • page 2 • column 6
content

FRESH ARRIVAL

—OF THE—Popular Parlor Game TIDDLEDY WINKS—AND—Tiddledy Winks Tennis

ALL SIZES, 25c, 50c and $1.

[...]

DAVIS BROTHERS, 718 Market st. and 1234 Market st.

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The Morning Call (newspaper)
location · 
San Francisco, California, USA
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29

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published in · 
The Morning Call
date · 
21 December 1890
title · 
TIDDLEDY WINKS.
subtitle · 
The New Game That Is All the Rage in Fashionable Society East.
citation · 
volume 69 • issue 21 • page 7 • column 2
content source · 
Cincinnati Enquirer
content

It is the latest fad in society.

All the ladies are talking about tiddledy winks and learning to play it.

In the East it has become a veritable craze, and all social affairs are considered dull and insipid unless tiddledy winks is introduced.

Already it is the prime subject of gossip among the ladies in this city, and the first question the fair ones ask when they meet is, "How are you getting along with tiddledy winks? Have you learned it yet?" Then they compare experiences as to the best way of playing tiddledy winks. It is a very simple game, easily learned, and yet requires sufficient skill to make it interesting. There are many reasons why it should be the ruling winter game. New features are being added to increase the complications, and consequently the skill required. One of these features is a miniature tennis court, but the original tiddledy winks will be found sufficiently entertaining. The complications can come later.

One, two, three or four persons may play the game. It is all the more pleasing when the players are divided into partners. It is necessary to have a table, covered with cloth. A round table is probably the best, as it enables the players to arrange themselves more comfortably.

The implements are tiddledies, winks, a wink-pot and counters. A tiddledy is a thin disk of bone or ivory and about the size of a twenty-five-cent piece. A wink is a disk of the same material, but small, being about the size of a ten-cent piece.A wink-pot is a little wooden vessel, like a tiny bucket, with an opening the size of a silver dollar, and about an inch deep. There are little pads, somewhat resembling the "cheating rags" urchins use in playing marbles. The idea is to press on the wink with the tiddledy and make it jump into the wink-pot. The tiddledies are of various colors, with winks of corresponding hues. The pads are of colored silk, and as pretty as taste may suggest. The counters are of colored pressed pasteboard. When the players are ready to begin each takes a tiddledy and six winks, and the counters are equally divided among them. Then each contributes an agreed-upon number of counters to a pool, which is placed in charge of one of the players. The wink-pot is placed in the middle of the table. The object is to jump as many winks into the pot as possible. Each plays in turn to the left, the one to lead being decided by lot. The player places his or her pad at any distance from the wink-pot and jumps six winks one after another, paying no attention to those which fail to go into the pot. The winks lie flat on the pad, and the player holding the tiddledy by the thumb and first two fingers presses with its edge upon the wink. As the tiddledy slips it causes the wink th jump. The best result is produced by resting the tiddleddy [sic] on the center of the wink and drawing it back under slight pressure. A little practice will enable a player to jump a wink a distance of several feet and a foot or more in the air.

For each wink landed in the wink-pot the player received one counter from the pool. If he sends four or more winks into the pot in succession he makes a "run" and receives one extra counter from the pool for each wink over three put in on a run. If he jumps six winks into the pot in succession he makes a "sweep" and receives, besides the counters taken from the pool, one from each opponent.

All counteres received, except one for each wink put into the wink-pot, should be kept separately, so as to tally the winks jumped into the pot. If a player fails on six jumps to land a single wink in the pot, he pays two counters to the pool.

After each player has jumped his six winks, then the first player takes any wink lying outside the pot, places it where he pleases and makes it jump. If it goes in, he tries another. As soon as he fails the player next to the left proceeds in the same manner.

So the game goes on until all the winks have been jumped into the pot. The player putting the largest number of winks into the wink-pot in one turn takes one-half the counteres remaining in the pool, the remaining half going to the players having put the greatest number of winks in the pot. A tie is decides by the two contestants jumping six winks each, the one winning that lands the most of them.

The counters may be given any value agreed upon, as in poker, or if the game is purely for fun, the playing having the greatest number of counters when the last wink is landed in the pot of course wins.

The game enables ladies with long, tapering fingers to dislay them to the best advantage.—Cincinnati Enquirer.

media description

illustration of a hand shooting a wink off a cushion toward a cup, with a dotted line showing the path of the wink. Other winks are shown waiting nearby.

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published in · 
The Morning Call
date · 
15 February 1891
title · 
Games for Indoor Amusement
subtitle · 
The Latest Recreations Devised for the Home Circle
citation · 
volume 69 • issue 77 • page 13-16 (one page) • column 6
content

Chasing Indians Out West - Military Maneuvers and Migration on a Painted Board. Games That Require Skill.

The Latest Craze

Tiddledy Winks is one of the most fun-provoking games of a class differing altogether from the board games, all of which, by the way, bear a relationship more or less remote to chess and checkers. It is too well known to need description. A capital improvement, however, is tiddledy winks tennis, in which a felt cloth, accurately marked out as a miniature lawn tennis court is used, and a net in the center takes the place of the original cup. The small counters are "served" over the net by means of the new one, and the method of scoring is that employed in lawn tennis. Beginners usually give their opponents the first few games by a succession of "faults," but practice soon begets skill at this curious pastime.

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San Francisco Chronicle (newspaper)
location · 
San Francisco, California, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
30

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published in · 
San Francisco Chronicle
date · 
10 December 1893
title · 
IDEAS FOR CHRISTMAS.
citation · 
page 4 • column 4
content

New Styles in Dolls—Games of the Season—The Donkey Dodge.

"Over the Garden Wall: is the latest game and is a form of Tiddledy-Winks" played with chips.

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Fold3 (subscription) (tw-ref-link-id 27)
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San Francisco Examiner (newspaper)
location · 
San Francisco, California, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
32

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published in · 
San Francisco Examiner
date · 
May 1976 ?
title · 
Sports for Weekend - Football & Tiddlywinks
summary

About the First Far Eastern Tournament.

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Torrance, California, United States
Daily Breeze (newspaper)
location · 
Torrance, California, USA
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34

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published in · 
Daily Breeze
date · 
16 December 1986
title · 
Serious child's play, Tiddlywinks champions go for the jugular with a passion
subtitle · 
Coverage of the tiddlywinks demonstration event in Ocean City, New Jersey
content

OCEAN CITY, N.J.—Larry Kahn watched his opponent get nurdled almost immediately, so he didn't dare pot his own wink. Instead he shot so he could squop and piddle later. The jargon boggled holiday shoppers passing by the table at a department store where Kahn and two other members of the North American Tiddlywinks Association were exhibiting their skills recently. [...]

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Torrance Herald (newspaper)
location · 
Torrance, California, USA
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Torrance Herald
date · 
19 December 1929
by · 
R. F. Hogue
citation · 
column 1
content

'Twas the Nights after Christmas! [...]

GAMES

  • Modern Authors
  • Rummy
  • Tiddledy Winks
  • Dominoes
  • Blox-O
  • [...]
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Colorado • (state)
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Colorado Springs Sun (newspaper)
location · 
Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
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36

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published in · 
Colorado Springs Sun
date · 
20 February 1981
title · 
Et cetera
subtitle · 
Flicking your wink
content source · 
Philadelphia Bulletin
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Denver, Colorado, United States
Rocky Mountain News (newspaper)
alternate name · 
The Daily News
location · 
Denver, Colorado, USA
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published in · 
Rocky Mountain News
date · 
14 December 1890
title · 
The Fair
subtitle · 
COLOSSAL COMBINATION SALE OF S. PELTON & BROS.'
citation · 
page 17 • column 5 (middle)
content

GAMES, PUZZLES, TOY BLOCKS, ETC.

Games Games Games

[...]

  • Tiddledy Winks
  • The Greatest Game of modern days.

Just received the Newest and Improved Edition FOR Six Players, only 58c

[...]

P. MONASH

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published in · 
Rocky Mountain News
date · 
21 December 1890
title · 
Society
subtitle · 
TIDDLEDY-WINKS TOURNAMENT.
citation · 
page 10 • column 2
content

On Thursday afternoon Miss Eicholtz entertained her friends at the family residence, Champa and Fourteenth streets.

A Tiddledy-Winks tournament was the amusement planned. The players occupied nine tables, and there was great sport.

Miss Coffey and Miss Marion Smith won first prizes—lovely balls of pure white chrysanthemums.

The booby prizes, cups and saucers, fell to Miss Annie Mechlin and Mrs. Howells of Fort Logan.

[...]

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published in · 
Rocky Mountain News
date · 
21 December 1890
title · 
TIDDLEDYWINKS.
subtitle · 
The New Parlor Game, Which Has Become a Craze
citation · 
page 35 • column 4
content

"Progressive euchre has had its day, but it isn't in it any more. In fact, there is no game now but "tiddledywinks," and I'm getting so that I can play that with my eyes shut."

This is the way a young society man of Brooklyn spoke of the new fad, says the New York Journal.

"It's a great game," he said, "and lots of fun. Everybody is playing it and a knowledge of the game is almost as essential as knowing how to dance."

The new game of tiddledywinks is an imported one and in its origin is quite English. The American game has been modified somewhat from its London original and is arranged so that more players can take part.

The name is apparently nonsensical and its origin is only to be explained by deduction. Small ivory chips are jumped by striking them on the edge with a larger chip, and the object of the game is to make them fall into a small "wink" pot in the center of the table.

Every girl winks when her chip jump, so the small chips are called "winks." The

Illustration of a circular table top with a pot at center and 6 winks shooting stations around the periphery. Each shooting station has 6 small winks, a shooting pad, and a squidger on the shooting pad.

How Tiddledywinks Is Played.

large chips are jumpers, and this suggests the baby appellation for an altogether different kind of jumper, and so they are called "tiddledys." At least this is the explanation which a Fifth avenue girl gave her country cousin a few days ago.

The new game is very popular and has become quite a craze.

From two to six persons can play, but the more the better as well as merrier, when arranged as partners.

The wink-pot is placed In the center of the table. It is a small cup, barely two Inches In diameter. If a mat or heavy tablecloth is used the only other "impiements” are the winks, the tiddledys and all number of pasteboard counters. If not, each player is provided with a small pad or mat about three by four inches from which to jump the winks.Each player has six winks. The mats are placed at an equal distance from the wink-pot. A wink is put on the mat, and the player holding one of the tiddledys hits or presses with its edge upon the wink, causing it to jump. The best result is secured by resting the tiddledy on the Wink and drawing it backward. The wink may be make [sic correct=made] to jump several feet in this way. The science comes in so gauging the pressure that the wlnk will fall In the pot. If It goes beyond, the player must jump it back.

One plays until he fails to put a wink in, and then the turn passes. Partners may kelp each other. The object in the English game is to get ail the winks in, and the one who is through first tallies one for every wink left on the table when they are through.

It often happens that a wink falls on that of another player. The under one cannot be touched, and the owner of the upper one may play all the rest in before trying that and setting the under one free.

In the American game each wink jumped in the pot counts one. At the start a pool is formed, each player anteing seven count-

Illustration of a hand holding a squidger on a wink that is on a shooting pad.

Making the Play.

ers. Each plays his own six winks the first round. After that he plays any winks he chooses, and as long as he can put winks in tne pot. If he falls to put a wink in in six trials he forfeits two counters to the pool. If he clears the table he can take out of the pot as many as he can put back.

Four winks in succession form a run, and for every wink in a run over three the player reaeives [sic correct=receives] an extra counter from the pool. When the winks are all in the player who has made the largest run and the one putting in the largest number of winks divide the pool equally.

Both the English and American games are played, so as to give variety, and the game is also made more interesting by varying the distances at which the mats are placed from the wink-ot at the start-out. Sometimes a line ten inches in diameter is drawn around the wink-pot, and winks falling in it have to be left until all others are in. This ring is called the dead line.

The game is quick and lively, requires considerable skill and the score is easily kept. This makes it especially entertaining as a "progressive" game with several tables.

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Rocky Mountain News
date · 
11 January 1891
citation · 
page 10 • column 4
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published in · 
Rocky Mountain News
date · 
14 January 1891
citation · 
page 5 • column 4
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published in · 
Rocky Mountain News
date · 
15 January 1891
citation · 
page 5 • column 1
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Connecticut • (state)
Bristol, Connecticut, United States
Bristol Press (newspaper)
location · 
Bristol, Connecticut, USA
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published in · 
Bristol Press
date · 
early 1977
summary

About the NATwA Continentals tournament.

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Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Hartford Courant (newspaper)
location · 
Hartford, Connecticut, USA
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39

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published in · 
Hartford Courant
date · 
16 December 1978
title · 
MIT Finds Fulfillment in Tiddlywinks
subtitle · 
Then There Was Sunshine, Ferdinand the Bull and Winky
citation · 
page 51, 55
notes · 
Same article as in Newsday on 14 December 1978
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Meridien, Connecticut, United States
Record Journal (newspaper)
location · 
Meridien, Connecticut, USA
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40

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published in · 
Record Journal
date · 
31 July 2008
title · 
Tiddlywinks
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116
Middlefield, Connecticut, United States
Town Times (newspaper)
location · 
Middlefield, Connecticut, USA
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41

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published in · 
Town Times
date · 
18 July 2008
title · 
Tiddlywinks
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117
Southington, Connecticut, United States
The Southington Citizen (newspaper)
location · 
Southington, Connecticut, USA
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42

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published in · 
The Southington Citizen
date · 
18 July 2008
title · 
Tiddlywinks
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District of Columbia • (district)
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Washington Daily News (newspaper)
location · 
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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published in · 
Washington Daily News
date · 
18 March 1959
title · 
Aim at Tiddly-Winks Title
content source · 
United Press International
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Washington Herald (newspaper)
location · 
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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published in · 
Washington Herald
date · 
13 February 1908
title · 
S. KANN SONS & Co. 8th ST. & PA. AVE.
subtitle · 
Have fun at night
citation · 
page 7 • column 5
content

Tiddledy Winks, usual 15c kind, for… 10c

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published in · 
Washington Herald
date · 
8 January 1921
citation · 
page 4 • column 2 (near bottom)
content

The naval balloonists who are returning from Canada will probably be satisfied to stay home and play tiddledy-winks for a while.

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Washington Post (newspaper)
location · 
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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44

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published in · 
Washington Post
date · 
13 December 1890
title · 
A NEW SOCIAL CRAZE
subtitle · 
Tiddle-de Wink Calculated to Produce Brain Softening
citation · 
page 4
content source · 
Reprinted from the Chicago Evening Post
content

Chicago Evening Post: Society is just getting ready to go daft over a new craze that will be known among the elect as a tiddle-de wink social. It is positively idiotic. It will induce softouing of the brain quicker than any social fad in existence. Progressive euchre is a brilliant intellectual achievement beside it. There is no reason why the public should know any of these tiddle-de wink details unless to demonstrate how little a thing can agitate a crowd of intelligent men and women. But so long as society would indorse it and adopt it no act is too frivolous or too absurd to be formally recognized as the proper caper. Society, fashionable society, and its inexplicable notions, are responsible for the dwarfing of many an intellectual growth and the perversion of many a healthy faculty. Men and women need in these practical times more healthful recreation than performances like these.

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Washington Post
date · 
4 January 1891
title · 
DOWN IN THE PARQUET
subtitle · 
A Sample Theater Party and Its Night at the Huguenots
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page 14
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Refers to a "Miss Tiddledywinks".

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DRAMATIS PERSONÆ—Mrs. Chelsea, who sees the opera perhaps once in the season from an orchestra chair, and who during the rest of the year regales her neighbors with detailed facts and incidents about every opera produced; habitually speaks of society as if it were spelled with a capital S.

Mr. Chelsea, her husband, known as “John," who feelsthat grand opera at $3 a seat is a sinful waste of money when there are so many of Hoyt's unique dramas to be seen for half the price.

Their daughter, known as “Missy,” who has appeared for one consecutive night in an amateur societiy play, and who hopes, because of her “willowy beauty,” to marry into the Four Hundred some day. Miss Tiddledywinks, her dear friead, to whom everything in life is either perfectly lovely, or perfectly horrid. >/p>

Before the performance: Mrs. C.–O, dear, John, why did you insist on coming so early? It is not good form to arrive here before the end of the first act.

John—Huh! Seems to me it is good form to come before tike show begins, so as not to incommode other folks.

Mrs. C. (with a kittenish manner, but with a baleful glitter in her eye, which bodes ill for John when he gets home)—O, yon prosaic old monster! As if people in society ever thought of other people’s convenience. (Tapping Miss T. with her fan.) My dear, I hope you do not get tired of the opera, as I confess I do sometimes. But of course one has to go, you know.

Miss T.—O, no. I just adore the opera; it i is so perfectly lovely and grand.

John (aside)—Why don’t she finish by I saying “gloomy and peculiar?”

Missy (patronizing, but kindly)—After all, though, it is not the opera, but society, that we come to see. Let me see (glancing at the programme), “The Huguenots” is a rather light opera, I believe.

John (who has been looking over the libretto)—Yes, it does seem to be rather light; only one person is killed. In a real heavy opera I believe they get away with as many as a dozen.

Mrs. C.—John, how; can you? O! there is dear Herr Seidl. I am so glad he is going to wield the baton to-night. Are you a member of the Seidl Society, Miss Tiddledywinks?

Miss T—No; mamma disapproves of such things; says they are Bohemian; but I know it must be .perfectly lovely.

Mrs. C., (who doesn’t belong to the Seidl Society, either)—O, indeed it is. We have such soulful meetings, and Herr Seidl does throw so much light on the old maestros. I was saying only yesterday to Mrs. Lancaster—she is one of the leaders of the Four Hundred, you know—that (the remark having little intrinsic value need not be repeated). [The rest of this article has not been proofread.] Missy (whispering to her mother)—Be careful not to look to the left. The Van Dormers have just arrived in their box, and I don't want them to see us down here In the orchestra. Mrs. C. (whisperingly)—Certainly not, my dear. John—Hello, there’s old Van Dormer and his women folks up there in a box looking just as solemn as when he passes the plate in onr church. Mrs. C. (peremptorily)—John, please don’t look at people in the boxes; it is bad form. John—Huh! Guess they wouldn't feel very happy if they weren’t looked at. Mrs. C.—John! (Critically examining the people around her through her quizzing glasses.) I suppose all these people come to hear the music. Horrid to be down here, isn’t it, Miss Tiddledywinks? Bat you see we were out of town when the boxes were sold, and so we were not able to get one this year. They say these Germans actually hiss when society people indulge in & little conversation. (Raising her voice for the benefit of two unmistakable German gentlemen in front of her.) I thing they are horrid. I quite expect they will hiss at us before the performance is over. How little some people can appreciate society. John (aside)—Great Scott! what fools women make of themselves about society! (Aloud) Well. I’ll bo blamed if there isn’t Bill Knuckle, our butcher, and his wife over there in one of those boxes on tho ground floor. Tell you there must be heaps of money m the meat business. Mrs. C.—John! You should never point; it is bad form. John—It is, hey? Well, when 1 pointed to a sealskin sacque last week, in Wolf & Miuk’B stores, and said you could have it, you didn’t say anything about its being bad form. Mrs. C. (laughing nervously)—Really, Miss Tiddledywinks, my husband is a dear old bear. But, as Mrs. Lancaster said to me yesterday, business men in this country have so little time to devote to the niceties of society. John (below his breath)—Society be darned. AFTER THE FIRST ACT. Mrs. C. (in the tone of one who knows it all)—What an advance there has been In musical taste! A few years ago in the old Academy we applauded the jingles of the Italian opera, and here to-night we i listen to one of Vogner’s masterpieces Mary (in tv horrified whisper)—For Heaven's sake, mamma, what are you saying? Vogner didn’t write “The Huguenots.” Mrs. C. (conscious that the two ffermau gentlemen in front are softly laughing)— That is, of course, we might listen to one of Vogners masterpieces, and drink in all its siibtle beauty, if it happened tq be given. Miss T. (rapturously)—O, I do think Vogner is just too lovely for anything! Mamma thiDks he is too noisy, and says that as a matter of 'enjoyment she would prefer to hear the college boys yell at a football game, because their yells mean something. But mamma Is horridly old-fashioned, you know; and besides music always gives her a headache. The doctor says her nerve centers are anti-melodic or something. Are you enjoying the opera, Mr. Chelsea? John—To tell you the cold truth. Miss Tiddledy winks, I like the double quartet in the “Old Homestead” much better. Mrs. C—John, I am surprised at you. John (defiantly)—That’s all right, Maria, but you know I never did like this opera business, where they take three hours to tell a story you don’t care a button to hear in a language you don’t understand. Mrs. C—You dear old goose, wo go to the opera because It is a society function. John—Well, if the actors talked United States and the hand played Annie Laurie, couldn’t you have your society functiou just ns well? Missy—O, papa, you are so funny. (Whispering) Don’t make a fool of yourself. Miss T.—Mamma would like Mr. Chelsea ever so much She would call him a typical American. Mrs. C.—O, dear, some horrid men are going to squeeze past us. There ought to be a law against such annoyances. John (seeing his chance to make a point) —Why, Maria, you said a little while ago that in society nobody ever thought of other people’s convenience. Mrs. C. (seeing a chance to make a counter-point)—Of course not, but those men are not in society, and therefore they are bound to think of the convenience of others. Common people should always be polite and deferential to society people. John (under his breath)—O Lord. AFTER THE PERFORMANCE. Mrs. C.—So glad we have had the pleasure of your company to-night, Miss Tiddledywinks. We always try to have friends with us when we go to the opera. (Aside) ; Well, we have paid the Tiddledy winks for Missy’s visit to their country place last summer. I wonder if the giri is as much a fool as she looks. ‘ Mias T. (who is not as much of a fool as she looks)—O dear, Mrs. Chelsea, it was so lovely of you to invite me. I shall never never forget your kinoness. (Aside) * Of* I T)ftWN TM TITR PATJfiTTRT the ridiculous, affected fools I hare v/ x an ±1XXJ AxXlkVaiUJjl ever seen this woman is the worst! Missy—Well, I can't say I think much of the acting to-night; there are amateurs in ‘•our set’rwho could do much better. John—So far as I am concerned I to Ink “The Texas Steer” goes away ahead of this show. Mrs. C.—John, it is not good form to speak of the opera as a “show.” John—Well, mebbe not; the show was in the boxes, and. with all respect to society, I think it was a blamed poor show. Mrs. C.—Miss Tiddledywinks. I hope you don't take Mr. Chelsea seriously. He has really enjoyed himself immensely tonight, bat he will have his joke.. Miss T.—O, I think it is perfectly lovely to listen to Mr. Chelsea. As mamma would say. he has so much horse sense. John—Well, * girls, get your wraps on while I step outside nnd induce some pirate to yell for our carriage.—New York Tribune.

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Washington Post
date · 
15 February 1891
title · 
Tiddledywinks and Dancing
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page 5
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Miss Josie Arnold, of 1312 G street northwest, gave a very delightful Tiddledy-winks party on Friday evening. At the conclusion of the games refreshments were served, and the remainder of the evening was spent in dancing and social enjoyment. Those present were Misses Heath, L. Gowans, Alice Gowans, Brooks, Kane, Masters, McGrath, Florence Arnold, Marshall, Craig, Prince, Cusack and Riddleberg; Messrs. Cralle, Steele, Daly, Behrens, Yelverten, Brennan, Emerson, Davis, Craig, Riddleberger, and Murphy.

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3775
published in · 
Washington Post
date · 
22 November 1896
title · 
A FAD FOR "PILLOW-DEX."
subtitle · 
Bostons New Parlor Game that Rivals "Tiddledy Winkss" [sic]
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page 24
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From the Boston Herald.

When you enter a room and And a party of hilarious and excited people franetically striking a balloon back and forth across a line, do not have suspicions ot their sanity, they are simply playing “Pillow-Dex!”

“Pillow-Dex” is the most crazily delightful of all the games which have become popular fads. Not even “Tlddledy Winks” or the “Pike’s Peak Puzzle” craze, which emanated from the same source, made so rapid a success!

Many a merry “Pillow-Dex” party has taken place In the Back Bay during the last two weeks, and so exciting was the fun that the fad spread with .phenomenal rapidity. It Is safe to say that "Pillow-Dex” is making things lively in thousands of homes around Boston.

The toy shops, news stands, and game counters in the large dry goods stores can hardly supply the demand for the inexpensive little game, which every one Is so anxious to play.

No one can appreciate the excitement and jolly fun of “Pillow Dex” who has not played it. To see a usually demure lady or grave and dignified old man wildly beating the ear, in hopes to strike the “Pillow-Dex” balloon, is calculated to incite glee in the most somber of countenances.

And the balloon—back and forth it sails —struck by the band as lightly and softly as a feather, but with such a rapldly irregular course that no one can tell exactly where it is going! Fun!—well try it and see!

For those who have not already played it, briefly outlined, the idea of the game is this: Any number can play. One of the “Pillow-Dex” balloons Is inflated, and the party is divided Into two teams, or sides, separated by a line placed on the carpet, or down the center of a dining-room table. The “Pillow-Dex” balloon is knocked lightly into the air, and struck back and forth. Don't let It land on your side of the line; if it does, it is a point for your opponents. Strike it back! The side getting ten points first wins the game.

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122
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Washington Post
date · 
12 November 1911
title · 
Thousands of Games
subtitle · 
Conveniently Arranged For Ease in Buying
by · 
S. Kann, Sons & Co.
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section 3 • page 1 • column 4 (near bottom)
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Black and white illustration of the Milton Bradley game, "GAME OF TIDDLEDY WINKS", // EXTRA FINE EDITION "IVORY WINKS" //, (Rick Tucker Tiddlywinks # BRA-15 or BRA-16)

Tiddledy Winks—the great evening game for both young and old; this one with glass cups and bone counters for 25c

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3776
published in · 
Washington Post
date · 
17 December 1911
title · 
Six More Shopping Days
subtitle · 
Thousands of Games to Suit Every Taste
by · 
S. Kann, Sons & Co.
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page 43 (may be continuous from front page) • column 5 (near bottom)
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Games at 5c.

Tiddledy Winks.

Games at 10c.

Tiddledy Winks.

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3777
published in · 
Washington Post
date · 
12 May 1958
title · 
Tiddly-Winks Sweeping Britain; Commons, Oxford Busy Snapping
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page A1
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photocopy (NATwA)
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123
published in · 
Washington Post
date · 
11 October 1959
title · 
Chicago, Cambridge in Tiddlywink Rift
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page A11
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transcript (NATwA)
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124
published in · 
Washington Post
date · 
4 February 1962
title · 
Always Oxford-Cambridge
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page E4
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125
published in · 
Washington Post
date · 
10 July 1966
title · 
Tiddlywinksers to teach Soviets
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page D4
content source · 
United Press International
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Six Cambridge University students left England for Russia today to let the Russians into a very serious secret—tiddlywinks.

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126
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Washington Post
date · 
12 July 1966
title · 
Missionaries off
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page A15
content

Six British students, members of the Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club, left here over the weekend for a 10-week overland trip [...]

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127
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Washington Post
date · 
28 September 1969
title · 
A fun game—for the players
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page Book World 298
content

Although academic literary criticism combines the triviality of tiddlywinks with the brutality of lacrosse, it suffers from one grave disability as a game: it may be fun to play, but it's hell to watch.

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128
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Washington Post
date · 
4 November 1970
title · 
Illegal Tiddlywinks
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page A26
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129
published in · 
Washington Post
date · 
25 March 1976
title · 
Riding High On Unicycles
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page D11
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From the friendly university that brought you a tiddledy winks marathon, an international Frisbee champion, and the world's longest yo-yo comes Boston's only unicycling club.

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130
published in · 
Washington Post
date · 
9 September 1977
title · 
Letter to the Editor
citation · 
page A26
content

A TV news announcer just reported yet another dangerously high pollution reading. He barely managed to hold back a yawn. His reading of the text was delivered with the same expression but less emotion than the reading of a score in the U.S. tiddlywinks opens.

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Washington Post
date · 
11 September 1977
title · 
Tender Is the Token, the Stamp and the Slug
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page F1
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132
published in · 
Washington Post
date · 
15 November 1977
title · 
After a Long Wait on Telephone, "You're Next on Sportscall"
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page D4
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excerpt (NATwA)
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133
published in · 
Washington Post
date · 
18 September 1978
title · 
Michele Pecora's Musical Shrugs
by · 
Alan M. Kriegsman
citation · 
page B7
content

Maybe it all started when Twyla Tharp shrugged her first shrug—this epidemic of offhand whimsy that has overtaken contemporary dance and threatens to reduce the whole art to the level of tiddlywinks.

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134
published in · 
Washington Post
date · 
4 January 1979
title · 
Staubach's Image Only Half Accurate
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page D1
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excerpt (NATwA)
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135
published in · 
Washington Post
date · 
4 February 1979
title · 
Query on Tiddlywinks
by · 
Rick Tucker and Fred Shapiro
citation · 
page Book World E6
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original (NATwA)
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136
published in · 
Washington Post
date · 
11 August 1979
title · 
"Sunburn": Not Too Hot
citation · 
page B4
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excerpt (NATwA)
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137
published in · 
Washington Post
date · 
1980 s?
title · 
Tiddly Tourney
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page C3
media description

photograph of Larry Kahn

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158
published in · 
Washington Post
date · 
9 January 1980
title · 
FINDS
citation · 
page B5
media description

photograph of mushroom winks

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original (NATwA)
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138
published in · 
Washington Post
date · 
27 February 1980
title · 
The TV Column
citation · 
page B8
summary

Description of the Real People television show, with a tiddlywinks segment.

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139
published in · 
Washington Post
date · 
10 March 1980
title · 
Performing Arts
subtitle · 
N.C. Dance Theatre
citation · 
page C12
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excerpt (NATwA)
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140
published in · 
Washington Post
date · 
13 March 1980
title · 
McGovern's Primary Interest
citation · 
page D10
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excerpt (NATwA)
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141
published in · 
Washington Post
date · 
12 December 1980
title · 
"Tiddlywinks," the Game
citation · 
page Weekend 33
summary

Musical album review.

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excerpt (NATwA)
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142
published in · 
Washington Post
date · 
27 March 1981
title · 
Any Day
subtitle · 
The Smitten Scientist and Lucy's Sensational Knee
citation · 
page C3
notes · 
Article starts on page C1
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excerpt (NATwA)
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143
published in · 
Washington Post
date · 
27 August 1981
title · 
PARENT'S ALMANAC: Let Crying Babies Lie
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page B5
summary

Mentions tiddlywinks.

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original (NATwA)
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144
published in · 
Washington Post
date · 
26 October 1981
title · 
Quenching Burnout
citation · 
page B5
summary

Mentions tiddlywinks.

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145
published in · 
Washington Post
date · 
10 February 1982
title · 
Billy Olson; The Perfect Vault? Look Out for a 19 in the Big Apple; Olson Shattered a Wrist, Now Shatters Records
citation · 
page D1
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excerpt (NATwA)
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146
published in · 
Washington Post
date · 
21 February 1982
title · 
Recruiting
subtitle · 
How Colleges Play the Game Determines Whether They Win or Lose
citation · 
page M4
collection · 
excerpt (NATwA)
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147
published in · 
Washington Post
date · 
19 March 1982
title · 
ESPN: The Channel That's Always There
citation · 
page D2
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excerpt (NATwA)
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148
published in · 
Washington Post
date · 
29 May 1982
title · 
Polo! New Grounds for Women; There's No Absence of Mallets Here
citation · 
page C1
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excerpt (NATwA)
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149
published in · 
Washington Post
date · 
24 July 1982
title · 
National Sports Fest Scores Indianapolis More Than a 500
citation · 
page D1
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excerpt (NATwA)
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150
published in · 
Washington Post
date · 
7 March 1983
title · 
Federals Blitzed in Debut, 28-7, as 38,010 Look On
citation · 
page D1
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excerpt (NATwA)
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151
published in · 
Washington Post
date · 
8 May 1983
title · 
From Africa to Disco; Black Dance Evolves and Explodes
citation · 
page H1
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excerpt (NATwA)
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152
published in · 
Washington Post
date · 
7 October 1983
title · 
Special Teams Make a Splash for Redskins
citation · 
page D1
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153
published in · 
Washington Post
date · 
11 October 1983
title · 
Half a Day Nets $1.50 And "Supper"
citation · 
page A1
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excerpt (NATwA)
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154
published in · 
Washington Post
date · 
18 December 1983
title · 
Left's Passion
citation · 
page Magazine 13
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155
published in · 
Washington Post
date · 
28 June 1984
title · 
ANTIQUES
subtitle · 
Interior Decorating With Games and Puzzles
by · 
Marilyn Hoffman
citation · 
page Home 29
content source · 
Christian Science Monitor
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156
published in · 
Washington Post
date · 
2 July 1984
title · 
A Game Not to Be Winked At
subtitle · 
Keeping an Eye on The Tiddlywinks Tourney
by · 
Michael Oricchio
citation · 
page C1
media description

photograph of Larry Kahn and Joe Sachs

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157
published in · 
Washington Post
date · 
16 March 1985
title · 
Wojcik's World of Wonder Leaves LSU Baffled
citation · 
page D1
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excerpt (NATwA)
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159
published in · 
Washington Post
date · 
15 December 1986
title · 
Champs Flip Their Winks for Sport
subtitle · 
Local Players Take In Tiddlywinks Tournament in New Jersey
citation · 
page B5
content source · 
Associated Press
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original (NATwA)
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160
published in · 
Washington Post
date · 
13 March 1989
title · 
Carousel
subtitle · 
LADDIO TIDDLIWINK
citation · 
page Weekend 49
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original (NATwA)
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161
published in · 
Washington Post
date · 
15 May 1989
title · 
North Prosecutor's Secretary Related to Jury Foreman
citation · 
page A5
summary

Mentions "diddleywink".

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original (NATwA)
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162
published in · 
Washington Post
date · 
~ 14 June 1989
summary

Mention of tiddlywinks in Sports section.

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163
published in · 
Washington Post
date · 
4 September 1994
title · 
Winking Isn't Everything
subtitle · 
... It's the Only Thing. A Story About The Incomparable Glory of Sports.
by · 
Ed Schneider
citation · 
section Style • page F1; F4; F5; Fx
summary

Coverage of Larry Kahn and Dave Lockwood.

media description

multiple photographs

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digitized images (NATwA)
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164
published in · 
Washington Post
date · 
11 September 1994
title · 
Think Winks
by · 
Andy Markowitz
citation · 
page Magazine 9
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original (NATwA)
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165
published in · 
Washington Post
date · 
28 March 1997
title · 
Keeper of Heaven's Gate Was an Earthling Named Marshall Applewhite
by · 
Marc Fisher and Laurie Goodstein
citation · 
page A18
content

For more than two decades, they had been known as "The Two." They were soft-spoken and secretive, a nurse and one of her former patients. They called themselves Bo and Peep, or sometimes Tiddly and Wink, or even Winnie and Pooh.

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digital version (NATwA)
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not tiddlywinks
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3778
published in · 
Washington Post
date · 
10 December 2005
content

Ben Lockwood, 10, consults with his teammate Bob Henninge, 58, who has been competing at tiddlywinks since 1966. Henninge drove in from Athens, Ohio, to compete in the tournament. Henninge says that he still loves the game, but now sees his role as one of keeping the game alive while teaching the younger generation how to play. When given a choice of teammates, Ben chose Bob.

Photo by Lois Raimondo/The Washington Post/Getty Images
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photograph of Ben Lockwood and Bob Henninge

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166
published in · 
Washington Post
date · 
21 January 2006
title · 
Family's Game is No Joke; Silver Spring Father and Sons Revel in Competitive Tiddlywinks
by · 
Lori Aratani
citation · 
page B1
media description

photographs

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original (NATwA)
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167
published in · 
Washington Post
date · 
4 July 2010
title · 
The Crossword
subtitle · 
Three-fourths of July
citation · 
page Magazine 38
content

Clue 73 Down: Tiddlywink

Answer: DISC

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Washington Star (newspaper)
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The Evening Star; The Sunday Star
location · 
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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45

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published in · 
Washington Star
date · 
30 September 1890
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to be retrieved (Library of Congress)
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169
published in · 
Washington Star
date · 
1 October 1890
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170
published in · 
Washington Star
date · 
2 October 1890
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27 October 1890
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page 10 • column 5
content

GOOD EVENING!

HAVE YOU PLAYED TIDDLEDY WINKS OR TIDDLEDY WINK TENNIS?

If you have not, I shall be glad to send you one. Tiddledy Winks, at 25c. and 50c.; Tennis, $1.00.

ROBERT F. MILLER, Bookseller and Stationer, 529 15th st., Corcoran building.

s17-ftm

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Washington Star
date · 
22 November 1890
title · 
TIDDLEDY WINKS.
citation · 
page 7 • column 7
content

It is a Craze and Everybody is or Will Be at It.

The celebrated 13-15-14 puzzle that caught everybody by the brain and gave it a vigorous twise a few years ago and the aggravating game of pigs in cover of later date have now a successor and rival for popular favor in the fascinating sport of "tiddledy winks," and four out of every five families are devoting their leisure hours to flipping winks into winkpots with tiddledies. "Tiddledy winks" is a less dangerous game than either of its predecessors, inasmuch as it affords solid amusement without fear of instituting a corner on lunacy. It is an amusement in which the lion of a family can sit down in quiet pleasantry at a table with the little lamb of the household and while away an hour or two without the probability of the lamb getting thrashes for offering untimely suggestions just when the lion is about to get the last pig in the pen or to succeed in getting 14 on the right side of 13.

More Latitude in Tiddledy Winks.

Tiddledywinks has more latitude and opens opportunities for the younger members of the home circle to participate in the mental festivities which should follow a day of business turmoil and cares and prevents the older ones from sneaking off to sequestered spots to tussle with the intricacies of an insignificant problem, where they alone can observe the shortcomings of their smartness.Another advantage in this game is that any number can play with one set and "progressive tiddledy wink parties" may be expected as one of the fashionable crazes of the coming winter.

Indeed, "tiddledy wink tennis" has already been introduced and no one need be surprised to receive cards to a "5 o'clock afternoon tiddledy wink flip" before the season shall end.

What the Game is and How Played.

The game of "tiddledy winks" consists of a small paper box divided into compartment in which can be found a wooden tub or glass jar called a "wink pot," a number of bone or celluloid chips a little larger in circumference than a quarter of a dollar, called "tiddledies," and a larger number of smaller chips about the size of a dime, called "winks." Each "hand," consisting of one tiddledy and six winks, is of a color, and, while there are generally four "hands" in a box, there may be as many as colors can be had. Each of the parties playing at a table, over which there should be a soft cover, takes one tiddledy and six winks, and, placing them ten to twelve inches from the wink pot located in the center, endeavors in turn to flip the winks into the wink pot. The flipping process is accomplished by placing the tiddledy firmly upon the wink and then, by drawing or sliding it off the edge, the wink is flipped and bounces, flea-like, toward the wink pot, if aimed in that direction. The one who flips his six winks into the wink pot first wins the game.

Where the Fun Comes In.

It is great fun to flip the winks with the tiddledies and watch them jump aggravatingly in the wrong way or strike the rim of the wink pot and roll further off than ever. Some very nice points are involved, which experience will teach how to discriminate between. When one person's wink flips on that of another and remains there the lower wink cannot be removed until relieved by the owner of the upper wink, which is an annoying disadvantage to the proprietor of the under wink.

A player can soon become an expert in handling a tiddledy and will get so in a short time that he can pot his winks at short range with but little variance. There is no end to the fun in the game and but little chance for disorderly conduct upon the part of the head of the family unless he hangs on tenaciously to the effects of the old 13 and the recent pigs-in-clover puzzles, in which case he deserves to be snubbed and left out of the sport entirely.

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11 December 1890
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16 December 1890
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24 December 1890
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27 December 1890
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Washington Star
date · 
10 January 1891
title · 
Social Matters
citation · 
page 3 • column 7
content

Miss Marion Ball of Capitol Hill gave a progressive tiddledy winks party last evening in honor of the I. V. Club. Among those present were the Misses Ellis, Springuth, Sterns, Grant, Ward, Noyes, and Kavanaug, Messrs. Grant, Copeland, McKeldon, Royce, Hough, Leitch, McGowan and McKenzie. The first prize was won by Miss Edit Ward, second by Mr. Copeland; the first booby prize by Miss Grant and the second by Mr. Hough.

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9 February 1891
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10 February 1891
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11 February 1891
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published in · 
Washington Star
date · 
14 February 1891
title · 
World of Society
citation · 
page 6 • column 8
content

A tiddledy-wink part was given by Mrs. W. W. Bradley at No. 1605 3d street Thursday evening. J. W. Sisson and Lewis Simons were champions of the game.

A merry party of young folks attended the progressive tiddledy winks party given by Miss Josephine Arnold at 1812 G street northwest last evening. The first prizes were won by Mr. Murphy and Miss Craig and the booby prizes by Mr. Cralle and Miss Kane. Those present were Messrs. Murphy, Daly, Brennan, Stelle, Cralle, Behrens, Davis, Emerson, Craig, Riddleberger, Yelverton and Parker, Misses Heath, L. Gowans, A. Gowans, Riddleberger, Cusack, Prince, Brooks, Craig, Kane, Masters, McGrath, and Marshall.

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Washington Star
date · 
14 February 1891
title · 
World of Society
citation · 
page 3, 6 • column 8
content

There was an enjoyable progressive tiddledy winks party at the residence of Miss Agnes Rover, 9th street northeast, Tuesday. The first prizes were won my Miss Nellie Fitzpatrick and Mr. Harvey Lawrenson and the "booby" prizes by Miss Rosalie Walsh and Mr. Jos. Guista. Among those present were Misses Mary O'Neill, Rosalie Walsh, Mary E. Foley, Mary E. Fitzpatrick, Lizzie Sullivan, Sadie Allen, Hortense McGowan, Mary Jordan, Maggie Riordan, Nellie Corrigan, Mary and Agnes Rover, Mary Becker, Mary McMenamin, Messrs. Frank Moran, Edw. Schwartz, Andrew Schwartz, John Walsh, John Shaw, John Harrington, John McLaughlin, Thomas Kennelly, Jerome McGowan, Harvey Lawrenson, Jos. Giusta, George Kolb, John and B. Rover.

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28 February 1891
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6 March 1891
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25 April 1891
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30 April 1891
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22 July 1891
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15 August 1891
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13 April 1892
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Washington Star
date · 
2 December 1893
title · 
PLAYTHINGS FOR HOLIDAYS
subtitle · 
Ever So Many New Kinds of Toys and Games for Girls and Boys.
citation · 
page 4 • column 7
content

Over the Garden Wall.

It is noticeable that the games are much handsomer than they have been hitherto, thanks to the perfecting of chromo-lithographic processes. One of the prettiest is called Over the Garden Wall. It is a variation of Tiddledy-Winks. A wall of pasteboard bricks is set up around a pasteboard garden, and the winks are shot over into the garden in the familiar manner. A wink that lands upon the flower bed in the middle counts 3 points, on the paths 2 points, on the grass plots 1 point. Several trees grow in the garden, being set up on wooden bases, and if a wink knocks one of them over 2 points are lost.

Another game after the pattern of Tiddledy-Winks is call King's Quoits. The problem is to shoot winks, which are in shape of rings, so that they will fall and encircle numbered pegs.

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published in · 
Washington Star
date · 
2 March 1894
title · 
WOODWARD AND LOTHROP, 10TH, 11TH AND F STREETS N.W.
subtitle · 
Toy Department.
citation · 
page 4 • column 4
content

"Tiddledy-Winks" ... 25c. each.

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published in · 
Washington Star
date · 
17 August 1901
title · 
IN GIDDY GOTHAM
subtitle · 
A TYPICAL GAMBLING RAID
citation · 
page 21 • column 7
content

What They Discovered.

The beautiful place was like some banquet hall deserted. There was nobody around except the old colored man. The eight cops, headed by the right man, explored the whole house, from top to bottom, as the right man stated in his report, and here is what they found and carted to the station:

One checker board, that looked as if it had been rained upon.

One somewhat dog's-eared pinochle deck.

Seven tiddledy-winks chips.

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published in · 
Washington Star
date · 
1 December 1904
title · 
S. KANN SONS & CO. 8th St. & PA. AVE.
subtitle · 
More Than a Thousand Different Games.
citation · 
page 8 • column 6
content

At 10c. Tiddledy Winks

At 25c. Tiddledy WInks

At 49c. Tiddledy Winks

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date · 
6 December 1904
title · 
S. KANN SONS & CO. 8th St. & PA. AVE.
subtitle · 
More Than 1,000 Different Kinds of GAMES
citation · 
page 10 • column 7
content

At 10c. Tiddledy Winks

At 25c. Tiddledy Winks

At 49c. Tiddledy Winks.

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date · 
15 December 1904
title · 
S. KANN SONS & CO. 8th St. & PA. AVE.
subtitle · 
GAMES More than 1,000 kinds
citation · 
page 13 • column 5
content

10c. Tiddledy Winks

25c. Tiddledy Winks

49c. Tiddledy Winks

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published in · 
Washington Star
date · 
16 December 1907
title · 
S. KANN SONS & CO. 8th St. & PA. AVE.
subtitle · 
GAMES
citation · 
page 8 • column 6
content

Games at 10c Tiddledy Winks.

Games at 19c Tiddledy Winks.

Games at 25c Tiddledy Winks.

Games at 49c Hop Scotch Tiddledy Winks.

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18 December 1921
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page 9
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19 December 1921
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Washington Star
date · 
25 March 1959
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Cantab Winkers Again Squidge World Title
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Washington Star
date · 
3 January 1979
title · 
The "voice" of H. L. Mencken
by · 
James J. Kilpatrick
citation · 
page A11
summary

Refers to previous column re "The contributions of Tiddly-Winks to American Speech"

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Washington Star
date · 
27 February 1980
column title · 
TV Column
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page C1
summary

Refers to tiddlywinks appearing on Real People television program.

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Washington Star-News (newspaper)
location · 
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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published in · 
Washington Star-News
date · 
28 January 1975
title · 
A Tiddledywinks Record
citation · 
page A3
summary

Report on tiddlywinks marathon held at MIT by Josef Sachs and Rich Steidle.

content source · 
Associated Press
media description

photograph of Joe Sachs and Rich Steidle

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Washington Times (newspaper)
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Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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published in · 
Washington Times
date · 
19 August 1894
title · 
COLONEL JIM STRUTHERS
subtitle · 
He Makes His Entre Into Washington High Class Society
citation · 
page 6 • column 6
content

REMEMBERED THE COLONEL

"After a meteorological preface, Miss Mamie said: 'I reckon I've seen you before, Col. Struthers. We met that time that Mrs. Senator Byseat gave the progressive tiddledy-winks soiree in honor of Mrs. Justic Fixem, Mrs. Congressman Tawke, and Mrs. Policeman O'Klub. Mrs. President Cleveland and Mrs. Contractor Digup were there. You were carrying on a tete-a-tete flirtation with the Mulligan girl.'

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published in · 
Washington Times
date · 
26 October 1902
title · 
Mr. Tarkington's Stage Fright
citation · 
page 22 • column 1
content

Booth Tarkington's unhappy experience as a victim of stage fright in making his first speech in his campaign for election to the Indiana Legislature should be a warning to him not to attempt a second combination of literature and politics when he shall have come to the end of his present adventure. [...]

It is easy to understand how, as in Disraeli's case, a shrewd and socially well-trained politician would be enabled to write a fairly clevel novel, while Mr. Tarkington rushed from his quiet study into the fierce arena of politics without even so much preparation as he would have devoted to equipping himself for a decently adequate exposition of the science of tiddledy-winks.

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date · 
1 December 1907
title · 
"The Devil on Two Sticks."
citation · 
page 6 • column 2
content

"The Sixteen Puzzle," "Pigs in Clover,", "Tiddledy Winks," "Ping-Pong"—how many more can you think of? Now it is "Diabolo," which way back in 1812 the Parisians called by the poetic name of "The Devil on Two Sticks." Will it go the way of all the rest? When it does, what will we turn to then?

The temptation is to say "Diabolo" is a nine-days' wonder. France has given up life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for it, as a little while back it abandoned business and religious faith for ping-pong. England has taken the thing with the restrained enthusiam and for the scientific investigation of your characteristic Britisher. The United States is just awakening to it. If it goes at it according to Uncle Sam's nature, there will soon be Diabolo cords swung from the Dome of the Capitol to the peak of the Washington Monument. All of which is so true to the course of "Pigs in Clover" and "Tiddledy Winks" that the end seems plain.

But "The Devil on Two Sticks" has been a source of amusement for a century. [...]

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date · 
5 December 1910
title · 
Only seventeen more shopping days S. KANN SONS & CO. 8th St. & PA AVE.
subtitle · 
Games---1,000 different kinds
citation · 
page 16 • column 5
content

At 10c.

Tiddledy Winks

At 15c.

Tiddledy Winks

At 49c.

Tiddledy Winks
Hop Scotch Winks

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published in · 
Washington Times
date · 
24 September 1919
title · 
The Rhyming Optimist
by · 
Aline Michaelis
citation · 
page Magazine page • column 7
content

I've got a game that makes golf tame, takes checkers' charm away and makes me sure there is no lure in tennis or croquet. I must confess I once thought chess a truly regal sport, erstwhile with glee I said: "Tee hee! to see the pawns cavort. But nevermore will I get sore when someone swipes my queen, because I play a game today that occupies my bean. I've no repose for dominoes, no leisure for high five, tiddledy-winks for lazy ginks. I have to look alive. You ask the name of this new game whereof I chirp and bleat, the game I play every day? It's Making Both Ends Meet! I peg away, nor hit the hay till I have scored a point. I will not quit, though I'll admit I ache in every joint. It's strenuous, but I don't fuss, because I like to eat, and I'll not need to swear off feed while Making Both Ends Meet.

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published in · 
Washington Times
date · 
1 November 1985
title · 
Tiddlywinks, you say?
subtitle · 
Silver Spring man is the best in U.S.
citation · 
page 1C
media description

color photograph of Larry Kahn

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Washington Times
date · 
1 November 1985
title · 
KNOTT
citation · 
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Florida • (state)
Miami, Florida, United States
Miami Herald (newspaper)
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Miami, Florida, USA
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Miami Herald
date · 
late 1978
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Miami Herald
date · 
2 March 1978
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Miami Herald
date · 
March 1984 to April 1984
content source · 
United Press International
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Miami News (newspaper)
location · 
Miami, Florida, USA
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published in · 
Miami News
date · 
2 March 1958
title · 
Philip's Royal Club Loses in Tiddlywinks
citation · 
page 9C • column 3
content source · 
United Press International
content

CAMBRIDGE, England, March 1—The Cambridge University tiddlywink team trounced Prince Philip's royal tiddlywink club 16-2 today. The prince claimed he sprained his "winking finger" practicing and could not play.

The match was a tongue-in-cheek contest that drew a sellout crowd of 500 and raised nearly $300 for the National Playing Fields Association, of which Prince Philip is the president.

keywords

Goons

Prince Phillip

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Miami News
date · 
6 July 1958
title · 
Game Suddenly Popular
subtitle · 
Britain's Sportsmen Go for Tiddlywinks
by · 
Alvin Steinkopf
citation · 
page 6C • column 4
content source · 
Associated Press
content

London, July 5—Tiddlywinks used to be for kids.

But in Britain lately the game has caught the interest of muscular athletes, intellectuals, and even the royal family.

At Cambridge University there is talk, admittedly on the sophomoric side, of making tiddlywinks an event in the Olympic Games.

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Naples, Florida, United States
Naples Daily News (newspaper)
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Naples, Florida, USA
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52

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Naples Daily News
date · 
11 May 2004
title · 
Terrible things
content

Tain't tiddlywinks! It is revealed that some of our troops in Iraq have been involved in the gross mistreatment of prisoners in their charge

Did these folks being quoted not understand this is a war we're engaged in; that it's not a tiddlywinks [...]

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Orlando, Florida, United States
Orlando Sentinel (newspaper)
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Orlando, Florida, USA
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53

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Orlando Sentinel
date · 
18 August 1994
title · 
Tasters Choice Commercials Need To Heat Up The Brew
content

Coffee Lady and Coffee Guy are at his place for a cup of Tasters Choice and maybe a game of tiddly-winks.

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Panama City, Florida, United States
Panama City Herald (newspaper)
location · 
Panama City, Florida, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
54

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published in · 
Panama City Herald
date · 
25 February 1937
title · 
Pinney Antes
by · 
Bill Pinney
citation · 
page 8 • column 3
content

So in merrie mood do stroll through theatre section in search for suitable cinema. Search interrupted by friends who lure us to bridge game where we take it on the shins for two hours from irate partner. Decide we like tiddledy winks more better and home for practice game with li'l nephew.

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Georgia • (state)
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Atlanta Constitution (newspaper)
location · 
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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55

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published in · 
Atlanta Constitution
date · 
19 November 1890
citation · 
page 10 • column 2
content

Tiddledy Winks better than Pigs in Clover. Large lot just received by John M. Miller, 31 Marietta street

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Atlanta Constitution
date · 
7 December 1890
title · 
THIS WEEK IN SOCIETY
citation · 
page 23 • column 1
content

Mrs. W. T. Evans will give a tiddledy winks party [on] Wednesday evening, in honor of Miss [... ...] and her guest, Miss Pauline Harris. Mrs. [Evans] is as popular a woman as she is charming and [...]ful as a hostess, and the party will doubtless be most delightful.

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Atlanta Constitution
date · 
7 December 1890
citation · 
page 23 • column 2
content

The New Popular Game of Tiddledy Winks at John M. Miller's at 31 Marietta street

[...]

Tiddledy Winks

At Millers, 31 Marietta street

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published in · 
Atlanta Constitution
date · 
11 December 1890
citation · 
page 9 • column 1
content

A very enjoyable and delightful tiddledywinks [party] was given last evening by Mrs. W. I. Evans, [in her] charming home in Park place, in honor of [Miss] Fedora Raine and her guest, Miss Pauline Harris, of Athens. The home of Mrs. Evans [was] very dainty and pleasant.

The prizes offered were very handsome, and those who won were particularly fortunate. They were as follows: First prize for the ladies, a fairy [cap?] of exquisite design; booby prize, a hand-[paint]ed memorandum. First prize for gentlemen, [a ha]nd-painted calendar; booby prize, a hideous [...]rab of queer device. Delightful refreshments were served, and all present spent a most enjoyable evening.

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published in · 
Atlanta Constitution
date · 
27 December 1890
citation · 
page 6 • column 2
content

The Great Hit of the Season

Tiddley Winks

John M. Miller

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published in · 
Atlanta Constitution
date · 
30 December 1890
citation · 
page 3 • column 1
content

Tiddledy Winks

better than Pigs in Clover

John M. Miller

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published in · 
Atlanta Constitution
date · 
16 January 1891
citation · 
page 3 • column 3
content

Tiddledy Winks

at John M. Miller's book store, 31 Marietta street.

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published in · 
Atlanta Constitution
date · 
4 April 1891
title · 
THE MARRIED PEOPLE GATHERED UNDER THE ROOF OF MRS. E. C. PETERS
subtitle · 
The Novel Amusement of Progressive Tiddledy-Winks--The North Side Club.
citation · 
page 3
content

A very congenial company of married society people gathered in the artistic drawing rooms of Mrs. Edward C. Peters last evening to enjoy the novel amusement of progressive Tiddledy Winks. Mrs. Peters made her exquisite home more charming than ever on this occasion when she adorned every nook, alcove and window with growing tropical palms and dowers from her—

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Augusta, Georgia, United States
Augusta Chronicle (newspaper)
location · 
Augusta, Georgia, USA
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56

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published in · 
Augusta Chronicle
date · 
27 February 1959
title · 
Tiddlywinks recognized as intervarsity sport
citation · 
page A-11
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Associated Press
content

Tiddlywinks Thursday became an official intervarsity sport between Oxford and Cambridge.

Cambridge tiddled the winks more skillfully and defeated Oxford 64-48 to take the first official title.

Now Cambridge has an American challenge to take up—from the University of Pennsylvania. The American students issued their challenge last year. It's still on the table.

keywords

Cambridge, Oxford

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published in · 
Augusta Chronicle
date · 
19 February 1961
title · 
Old Oxford's glory
subtitle · 
New winker winkle surprises Cambridge
citation · 
page C-1
content

Oxford winkers, flouting tradition, slipped three girl winkers into the varsity tiddlywinks team Saturday and toppled flabbergasted Cambridge, 59½-52½.

keywords

Cambridge, Oxford, women

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Danielsville Monitor (newspaper)
location · 
Augusta, Georgia, USA
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57

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published in · 
Danielsville Monitor
date · 
7 February 1895
title · 
Ft. Lamar
subtitle · 
A Column of Interesting News From the Old Fort
content

Tiddledy Winks is a very popular game among the young people of Ft. Lamar at present. Miss Otie Pittman and Mr. John Brown are the champion players.

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Idaho • (state)
Twin Falls, Idaho, United States
Twin Falls Times News (newspaper)
location · 
Twin Falls, Idaho, USA
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58

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published in · 
Twin Falls Times News
date · 
26 March 1959
title · 
Tiddlywinks Crown Kept By Cambridge
citation · 
page 19 • column 5
content

Cambridge [U]niversity's tiddlywinks team—the Cantab Wi[n]kers—retained their world title Tuesday night by outmaneuvering a famed British general.

Gen. Sir Hugh Stockwell, who commanded British land forces in the 1956 Suez campaign, captained the losing team, the London Empress club.

The margin was 15½ points to ½ point.

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Illinois • (state)
Alton, Illinois, United States
Alton Daily Telegraph (newspaper)
location · 
Alton, Illinois, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
59

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published in · 
Alton Daily Telegraph
date · 
29 October 1890
title · 
Tiddledy Winks.
citation · 
page 3 • column 5
content

Is a new game recently originated. Wherever it happens to strike, it is epidemic. It is much worse than "Pigs in Clover" "Pigs in the Pen," "The Fifteen Puzzle," etc. The game is an effort to apply the pressure of a big ivory chip called a "tiddledy" to six small ivory chips called "winks" so as to cause them to hop, skip, jump or fly into a cup, placed at the supposed center of a circle whose circumference would pass through the middle "winks" of each player's group as originally placed. There have been rages before, of one sort or another, but Tiddledy Winks outdoeth them all. It has invaded the family circle, capturing all members from the aged grandmother to the tender toddler; it has usurped conversation; it has driven out cards; it has scattered over the library shelves; its has, almost driven the calamity editor into the background.

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published in · 
Alton Daily Telegraph
date · 
30 October 1890
title · 
Tiddledy Winks.
citation · 
page 5 • column 3
content

Is a new game recently originated. Wherever it happens to strike, it is epidemic. It is much worse than "Pigs in Clover" "Pigs in the Pen," "The Fifteen Puzzle," etc. The game is an effort to apply the pressure of a big ivory chip called a "tiddledy" to six small ivory chips called "winks" so as to cause them to hop, skip, jump or fly into a cup, placed at the supposed center of a circle whose circumference would pass through the middle "winks" of each player's group as originally placed. There have been rages before, of one sort or another, but Tiddledy Winks outdoeth them all. It has invaded the family circle, capturing all members from the aged grandmother to the tender toddler; it has usurped conversation; it has driven out cards; it has scattered over the library shelves; its has, almost driven the calamity editor into the background.

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Antioch, Illinois, United States
Antioch News (newspaper)
location · 
Antioch, Illinois, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
60

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published in · 
Antioch News
date · 
16 July 1975
title · 
Tiddlywink Fever Soars in England
citation · 
volume 90 • issue 3 • page 14
content

LONDON, England—Perhaps it reflects the weakening roar of the British Lion, but the latest sport to acquire the stature of national championships is Tiddlywinks, that childhood game played with large plastic counters called squidgers, the object being to flick a small plastic counter, called a wink, by pressing on its edge with a squidger. [...]

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Chicago, Illinois, United States
Chicago Herald (newspaper)
location · 
Chicago, Illinois, USA
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61

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published in · 
Chicago Herald
date · 
9 August 1890
title · 
What is to "Tiddly-Wink"?
citation · 
page 11
content

We do not know, but whatever it is, at any rate the Supreme Court of Victoria has decided that it is not libelous.

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Chicago Tribune (newspaper)
location · 
Chicago, Illinois, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
65

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published in · 
Chicago Tribune
date · 
8 February 1891
title · 
MANY ENTERTAINMENTS GIVEN DURING THE LAST SIX DAYS.
citation · 
page 6
content

The Henrietta Club of Hyde Park gave its first ... 4807 Madison avenue, gave a "Tiddledy Winks" party to thirty-six Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. A. WN. Patterson, No. ...

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published in · 
Chicago Tribune
date · 
14 May 1978
title · 
A child's game nothing to wink at for champ
by · 
Dave Axelrod
citation · 
page 1:44:1
content source · 
United Press International rewrite?
media description

photograph of Dave Lockwood

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The Sunday (and Daily) Inter-Ocean (newspaper)
location · 
Chicago, Illinois, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
62

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published in · 
The Sunday (and Daily) Inter-Ocean
date · 
9 November 1890
title · 
FROM OUTLYING WARDS
citation · 
issue 229 • page 22 • column 5
content

A progressive tiddledy winks party was given by Miss H. C. Rogers and Miss Mary Kimball, at the residence of Mrs. B. H. Rogers, Friday evening. About twenty-five young people were present. The first prizes were won by Miss Hattie Lloyd annd Mr. Carl Rogers, and the consolation prizes by Mrs. Arthur Bennett and Mr. Brayton Shedd.

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published in · 
The Sunday (and Daily) Inter-Ocean
date · 
9 December 1890
title · 
IN THE SOCIAL WORLD.
subtitle · 
ANOTHER CRAZE THREATENED.
citation · 
issue 259 • page 6 • column 5
content

"Tiddledy-wink."

"A Tiddledy-wink social."

There is no joke about it. It is a serious, soul-absorbing topic, and if ever you run up againsta a lay-out you'll think so.

"Lay-out" sounds queer in connection with a social, but "Tiddledy-wink" socials look, at first sight, very much like a "lay-out." Chips—red, green, blue, and white—are used in this new game with such a queer name. They are not placed as in a "game," but they are all important just the same in "Tiddledy-wink."

A "Tiddledy-wink" social is like this: You invite a crowd to your house, having previously secured a "lay-out." You clear the parlor of chairs, and on the big center-table you place a heavy woolen cover. In the center you place a small glass—one that they use in saloons for whisky-straight is just the thing. Then you deal out the chips. These are twenty four in number, and about the size of a nickel. Four persons play. They get six chips apiece. In the hand of each person is another and larger chip. The six chips are placed in a row in front of each player, and then No. 1 presses down hard on the edge of one of his small chips with the large one and tries to "flip" it into the small whisky glass in the center of the table.

It looks easy.

But it isn't.

Well, you go on pressing down-on these small chips until somebody has all he had in the glass. Then it's his game. Then everyone else laughs, and they all try it over again.

There are several tricks in "Tiddledy-wink." For instance, if you and somebody else are in the game, and you get one of your chips out near the glass and the other fellow gets one on top of your chip, then yours is a prisoner and you can't "flip" it without first moving his, and the only move you can make with another man's chip is to place it in the glass, thereby pushing him ahead one notch. So when you play "Tiddledy-wink"—for you will play it before long—the great idea is to make some other fellows chip prisoner, and then before he can get his own chip in the glass he must gently lift yours in first.

"Tiddledy-wink" is a great game. It is fully as absorbing as "pigs in clover," and it is threatened that the country will have to stand a siege of it.

How on earth the name "Tiddledy-wink" got mixed up with the game is still a mystery, and just about the only mystery in it.

Mrs. E. A. Mills, of No. 3525 Indiana avenue, game a "Tiddledy-wink" social last evening. There was a good crowd and lots of fun.

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published in · 
The Sunday (and Daily) Inter-Ocean
date · 
21 December 1890
title · 
RATHER A GAY WEEK.
subtitle · 
Receptions and DInners Have Been More Plentiful Than Weddings Lately. Society Has Had Its Share of Royal Entertainment in Various Ways.
citation · 
issue 271 • page 18 • column 1
content

Miss Edna Murphy, of Washington boulevard, gave a charming luncheon and tiddledy winks party Friday afternoon. The parlors were decorated with pink and white roses and carnations and the favors were pink roses. Sixteen young ladies were present.

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published in · 
The Sunday (and Daily) Inter-Ocean
date · 
28 December 1890
title · 
TIDDLEDY WINKS.
subtitle · 
The New Game Now the Thing for Amusement.
citation · 
page 24 • column 7
content

Tiddledy Winks is now the great game for social amusement. From two to six persons may make a set in this craze—the more the merrier. The game is English in origin, but the Americans

Black and white illustration of hand holding squidger against wink on pad, with dotted lines heading into a pot.
TABLE SET FOR PLAY.
have made enough changes in it to claim it. The blessed thing about this game is that it isn't "scientific." Any "jay" can play it as well as the most accomplished swell—that is, if he can once get the hang of the thing. Small ivory chips are jumped by striking them on the edge with a larger chip, and the object of the game is to make them fall into a small "wink" pot in the center of the table. Every girl winks when her chip jumps. The small chips are called "winks;" the larger chips are jumpers. The wink pot is placed in the center of the table. It is a small cup, barely two inches in diameter. If a mat or heavy tablecloth is used the only other "implements" are the winks, the tiddledys and a number of
Black and white illustration of an oval table viewed from above with a cup at center and six sets of winks around the periphery, each with a pad, a squidger, and six winks of equal size
pasteboard counters. If not, each player is provided with a small pad or mat about 3x4 inches, from which to jump the winks.

Each player has six winks. The mats are placed at an equal distance from the wink-pot. A wink is put on the mat and the player holding one of the tiddledys hits or presses with its edge upon the wink, causing it to jump. The best result is secured by resting the tiddledy on the wink and drawing it backward. The wink may be made to jump several feet in this way. The skill attainable comes in so gauging the pressure that the wink will fall in the pot. If it goes beyond, the player must jump it back.

One plays until he fails to put a wink in, and then the turn passes. Partners may help each other. The object in the English game is to get all the winks in, and the one who is through first tallies one for every wink left on the table when they are through. It often happens that a wink falls on that of another player. The under one can not be touched, and the owner of the upper one may play all the rest in before trying that and setting the under one free.

In the American game each wink jumped in the pot counts one. At the start a pool is formed, each playing anteing seven counters. Each plays his own six winks the first round. After that he plays any wink he chooses, and as long as he can put winks in the pot. If he fails to put a wink in six trials he forfeits two counters to the pool. If he clears the table he can take out of the pot as many as he can put back.

Four wins in succession form a run, and for every wink in a run over three the player receives an extra counter from the pool. When the winks are all in the player who has made the largest run and the one putting in the largest number of winks divide the pool equally.

Both the English and American games are played so as to give variety, and the game is also made more interesting by varying the distances at which the mats are placed from the wink-pot at the start-out. Sometimes a line ten inches in diameter is drawn aound the wink-pot, and all winks falling in it have to be left until all others are in. This ring is called the dead line.

media description

2 illustrations

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published in · 
The Sunday (and Daily) Inter-Ocean
date · 
22 February 1891
citation · 
issue 334 • page 20 • column 1
content

Mrs. Albert J. Stone, of No. 341 Washington boulevard, gave a progressive Tiddledy Wink party on Thursday night in honor of her young son and daughter, Master Ernest and Miss Genevieve.

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published in · 
The Sunday (and Daily) Inter-Ocean
date · 
26 February 1891
title · 
Worse Than Tiddledy Winks
citation · 
page 3 • column 2
content

IndianapolisNews: The Illinois Legislature continues its daily ballot, starting in to-day on the 109th round. Compared to the proceedings of this body the new game of "tiddledy winks" seems a highly intellectual pastime.

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published in · 
The Sunday (and Daily) Inter-Ocean
date · 
1 March 1891
citation · 
issue 341 • page 20 • column 1
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published in · 
The Sunday (and Daily) Inter-Ocean
date · 
29 December 1896
title · 
GIVE COLLEGE SONGS
subtitle · 
Yale Glee and Banjo Clubs Score a Success
citation · 
volume 25 • issue 280 • page 7
content
  • If football games were not so rough
  • How sweet this life would be.
  • If tiddly-winks were good enough,
  • How sweet this life would be.
  • If Yale men were not such fearful rakes,
  • If papers did not print such fakes,
  • To give our loving parents shakes,
  • How sweet this life would be.
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Durand, Illinois, United States
Durand Gazette (newspaper)
location · 
Durand, Illinois, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
66

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published in · 
Durand Gazette
date · 
13 April 1972
title · 
David Lockwood member of world championship Tiddlywinks team
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260
Freeport, Illinois, United States
Freeport Journal-Standard (newspaper)
location · 
Freeport, Illinois, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
67

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published in · 
Freeport Journal-Standard
date · 
11 April 1972
title · 
College Student from Durand On Champion Tiddlywinks Team
by · 
Mrs. Earl Johnson
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Lasalle-Peru, Illinois, United States
Lasalle-Peru Daily News-Tribune (newspaper)
location · 
Lasalle-Peru, Illinois, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
68

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published in · 
Lasalle-Peru Daily News-Tribune
date · 
1 March 1979
title · 
There's more to a wink than a flip; Squidger can nurdle, piddle, squop
citation · 
page 2
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Mattoon, Illinois, United States
Mattoon Journal-Gazette (newspaper)
location · 
Mattoon, Illinois, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
69

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published in · 
Mattoon Journal-Gazette
date · 
10 May 1978
citation · 
page 12
summary

About Dave Lockwood.

content source · 
United Press International
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Ottawa, Illinois, United States
Ottawa Daily-TImes (newspaper)
location · 
Ottawa, Illinois, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
70

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published in · 
Ottawa Daily-TImes
date · 
10 May 1978
citation · 
page 22
summary

About Dave Lockwood.

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Rockford, Illinois, United States
Morning Star (newspaper)
location · 
Rockford, Illinois, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
64

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published in · 
Morning Star
date · 
1 March 1891
title · 
They Played Tiddledywink.
citation · 
volume 3 • issue 807 • page 1 • column 1
content

Mr. and Mrs. Byron Hewitt entertained a small company of friends at their home, 618 North Main street, last evening. The house was prettily decorated for the occasion with smilax and hyacinths. Progressive tiddledy-wink furnished the amusement for the gathering, after which an elegant lunch was served. The evening was a very pleasant one, Mr. and Mrs. Hewitt certainly adding to their reputation as entertainers.

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Rockford Register Star (newspaper)
location · 
Rockford, Illinois, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
71

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published in · 
Rockford Register Star
date · 
27 December 1980
title · 
Serious winker is a champion, Page B1
citation · 
page 1
media description

photograph

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Rockford Register Star
date · 
27 December 1980
title · 
Man takes tiddlywinks seriously
citation · 
page B1
media description

2 photographs

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Rockford Republic (newspaper)
location · 
Rockford, Illinois, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
72

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published in · 
Rockford Republic
date · 
12 October 1896
title · 
TIDDLYWINKS.
subtitle · 
A Children's Story.
citation · 
page 5
summary

About a bird named Tiddlywinks.

content

Tiddlywinks was a Partridge Cochin, a tall, fine-looking fellow, with beautiful red and gold plumage, which glistened brightly in the spring sunshine.

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Sterling, Illinois, United States
Sterling Standard (newspaper)
location · 
Sterling, Illinois, USA
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73

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published in · 
Sterling Standard
date · 
20 November 1890
title · 
New Advertisements.
subtitle · 
TIDDLEDY WINKS - Chamberlin & Walzer.
citation · 
page 8 • column 1
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published in · 
Sterling Standard
date · 
20 November 1890
title · 
TIDDLEDY WINKS
by · 
Miller & Chamberlin's
citation · 
page 8 • column 4
content

TIDDLEDY WINKS

is the name of a new game. Latest thing out. See it at

MILLER & CHAMBERLIN'S

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published in · 
Sterling Standard
date · 
20 November 1890
title · 
SEE IT! BUY IT!
subtitle · 
TIDDLEDY WINKS!
by · 
Miller & Chamberlin's
citation · 
page 8 • column 6
content

SEE IT! BUY IT

TIDDLEDY WINKS THE POPULAR NEW GAME

ALSO

REMEMBER Our Store is Full of CHOICE GOODS FOR THE HOLIDAYS!

MILLER & CHAMBERLIN

JUDD DECKER, Manager

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Indiana • (state)
Post-Tribune (newspaper)
location · 
Indiana, USA
Notes

Northwest Indiana. Formerly the Gary Post-Tribune.

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published in · 
Post-Tribune
date · 
22 January 2006
title · 
Sneers aside, it's a game of skill Tiddlywinks has share of faithful followers, plus its own world tournament.
summary

About Lockwood tiddlywinks clan.

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Bloomington, Indiana, United States
Bloomington Sunday Herald-Times (newspaper)
location · 
Bloomington, Indiana, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
75

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published in · 
Bloomington Sunday Herald-Times
date · 
14 May 1978
title · 
Squidging, squopping, piddling: champion winks way to victory
content source · 
United Press International
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photograph of Dave Lockwood

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The Herald-Telephone (newspaper)
location · 
Bloomington, Indiana, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
74

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published in · 
The Herald-Telephone
date · 
26 July 1979
title · 
Tiddlywinks
subtitle · 
Game no child's play
by · 
Dave Piccioli
citation · 
page 36
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Columbus, Indiana, United States
Columbus Daily Herald (newspaper)
location · 
Columbus, Indiana, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
76

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published in · 
Columbus Daily Herald
date · 
10 February 1893
title · 
Tiddledy Winks.
subtitle · 
A Description of the New Game and How It is Played.
citation · 
issue 3250 • page 1 • column 7
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The game of tiddledy winks is the latest fad, says the Detroit Free Press. Tiddledy winks parties are all the go. The game is innocent, if the players do not bet, and subjects the mental system to no heavy strain. It consists of a small paper box, divided into compartments in which can be found a wood tub or glass jar called a wink pot, a number of bone or celluloid chips a little larger in circumference than a quarter of a dollar, called tiddledies, and a large number of smaller chips about the size of a dime, called winks. Each hand, consisting of one tiddledy and six winks, is of a color, and, while there are generally four hands in a box, there may be as many as colors can be had. Each of the parties playing at a table, over which there should be a soft cover, takes one tiddledy and six winks, and, placing them ten to twelve inches from the wink pot, located in the center, endeavors in turn to flip the winks into the wink pot. The flipping process is accomplished by placing the tiddledy firmly upon the wink and then by drawing or sliding it off the edge of the wink is flipped and bounced toward the wink pot, if aimed in that direction. The one who tips his six winks into the wink pot first wins the game. Some very nice points are involved, which experience will teach how to discriminate between. When one person's wink flips upon that of another and remains there the lower wink can not be removed until relieved by the owner of the upper wink, which is an annoying disadvantage to the proprietor of the under wink. It requires not a little skill to give the wink the proper flip; and the sport derived from the awkwardness of the inexperienced and the obstinacy of the chips is hilarious.

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Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States
The Journal Gazette (newspaper)
location · 
Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
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The Journal Gazette
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29 January 2006
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The way of the squidger, Dad, sons share tiddlywinks passion
summary

About Lockwood tiddlywinks clan.

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Huntington, Indiana, United States
Huntington Democrat (newspaper)
location · 
Huntington, Indiana, USA
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published in · 
Huntington Democrat
date · 
19 March 1891
title · 
The Corner Man
subtitle · 
Catches Current Conversation and Carries It to the Compositor
citation · 
volume 33 • issue 41 • page 1 • column 7
content

The Corner Man called at a store containing a very great variety of wares and a goodly number of lady clerks and sought instructions upon that popular and new game, tiddledy winks, and we will give the readers of The Democrat the full and correct information received. Tiddledy winks is played with tiddledrums that are fired with a finger into a wink cuspidore. Not the kind purchased for the county officers recently. Each player has a few diddledrums, defikkillity and a dingus. Take a wink, put it on a dingus into the wink pot. If you succeed you are entitled to a defikkillity, and for every wink you jump into the wink pot from the duminkerdumdorum, you count a defikkillity, and continue so ti operate tinkwinkle upon the pollywoigithere until the pots so carried shall equal the total of the hopripmultiplied by the puterinktum and added to the contents of the winkletinklkfuldriums. It doesn't reqire much brains and you ought to learn it.

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Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Indianapolis Journal (newspaper)
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Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
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79

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published in · 
Indianapolis Journal
date · 
1 April 1901
title · 
About People and Things.
citation · 
volume 51 • issue 91 • page 4 • column 4
content

A writer in a magazine has this to say regarding the game of golf: "Gawf is a great game, but shiver me niblicks if I think it comes up to tiddledy-winks." It is played "with a couple of farms, a river or so, two or three sand hills, a number of implements resembling dentists' tools, a strange language, much like Hindoostani, any old clothes and a large assortment of oaths."

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Indianapolis Journal
date · 
2 November 1902
title · 
Social Events of the Week in Indianapolis
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volume 52 • issue 306 • page 6 • column 2
content

Mrs. Elmer C. Sewail and daughter. Mrs. Ceorge B. Elliott, entertained about fifty friends Friday afternoon for the visiting girls. Miss Plummer and Miss Thompson, of Portland, Me., with Miss Edith Adams; Miss Fisher, of Red Oak, la., with Mrs. L. H. Morrell; Miss Harris, of Newark, and Miss Gardner, of Wllkesbarre, with Miss Florence Plum, and Miss Byers. of Louisville, with Miss Lillian Reeves. The game was tiddledywinks. Miniature pumpkins were the candleholders, and chrysanthemums and American Beauty roses the decorations. The hostesses were assisted by Mrs. H. M. Lash, Mrs. L. H. Merrill and Mrs. Albert W. Coffin.

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Kokomo, Indiana, United States
Kokomo Morning Times (newspaper)
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Kokomo, Indiana, USA
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806

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published in · 
Kokomo Morning Times
date · 
28 July 1964
column title · 
the Pfarr Corner
title · 
Harvard, too, had tiddlywinks
title language · 
English
continuation title · 
Harvard, too, had tiddlywinks
by · 
Jerry Pfarr
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page 6; 7 • column 1; 1
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Page 6

A friend of the world champion tiddlywinker read this comer the other day and found an error. He is F. Haven Jones, a Harvard man, and it seems he was right smack in the middle of an esoteric bit of American sports history. Here is his exciting story:

Dear Corner:

In the fall of 1962 at Harvard College a group of enterprising undergraduates founded simultaneously a new humor magazine, The Gargoyle, and an excellent Tiddly-winks squad, the Gargoyle Undergraduate Tiddlywinks Society (GUTS).

As a classmate and friend of some of the members of this (now defunct) Society, I am obliged to enter this friendly protest to your statement that Tiddlywinks has not appeared on the American college scene.

As evidence to the contrary I have enclosed copies of two articles from the Harvard Alumni Bulletin. Aside from the information included in these articles, I know little about GUTS, except that a friend of mine, John Kernochan, now claims to be the official world champion Winker. Also, John and his teammates, unbeknownst to Harvard administrative officials who frown on such things, appeared on Garry Moore’s “I’ve Got a Secret” program during their heyday.

I hope that these articles will interest you. May I say that the Morning Times has been of interest to me, as a former Kokomo High School journalist, and I have enjoyed the first few issues. Here’s wishing you a long and prosperous editorship.

Yours very truly,

F. Haven Jones

Here, in part, are the articles:

Oct. 27, 1962

In new Harvard Athletic Association sweatshirts, seven tense but poised young men trotted into Burr “B” several weeks ago. Kneeling before their Gargoyle mascot, they offered up prayer that their efforts that afternoon would not be entirely unrewarded. Having done this, they went through some quick intensive calesthenics, picked the four most husky of their numbers, declared they were ready, and proceeded to cries of “Desquop that wink!” and “Squldge it, Harvard,” to vanquish Holy Cross and win first place for Harvard In NUTS, the National Undergraduate Tiddlywinks Society. Tiddlywinks, a sophisticated indoor game long recognized on the Continent, and finally arrived in A-erica after many years of slander and ridicule. The Boston Globe was enthusiastic in its sports section the next morning: “The Crimson tiddlers winked their way to a 23-18 victory over a green Purple team.” All this while both the football and soccer teams were going down to defeat.

Alfred L. Goldberg ‘63, “Master of the Harvard Winks” and president of the nascent humor magazine Gargoyle, sees it this way: “Oxford University’s team was over here touring and killing all American opposition, so we felt we had to do something for the country. Accordingly, we formed GUTS (the Gargoyle Un-dergraduate Tiddlywinks Society), lost to Oxford, and now represent Harvard as the strongest team In America.” The 7-12 loss to Oxford is considered locally as a moral victory, for it was the first time any American team had scored on the veteran Oxonians. Said one Britisher, “quite bad, but far and away the best team we have met here.” It was not long before growing Interest had prompted a letter challenging President Kennedy’s touch football squad to a match. The President wrote that he was really too busy, but suggested to Dean Monro that an officially-sanctioned team be set up by the University. Goldberg says that his men, led by Captain James Page 7 Parry '64, now have the sole jghts to connect the Harvard name with the game of Tiddlywinks, and considers GUTS to represent the Harvard Community.

Obyiously one game is one of inches, and calls for a steady hand and quick judgement of situation. In the Holy Cross game, Crimson tiddlywlnkers frequently huddled with non-player advisors to come up with plays at crucial junctures of the match.

But in spite of Its demanding nature and its still esoteric reputation, tiddlywinks is attracting many recruits at Harvard. Already a group in Eliot House is thinking of petitioning Master Finley for recognition as a team ndependent from GUTS, and other Houses may follow in the future. As for GUTS itself, Winkmaster Goldberg has already announced an upcoming match with Mt. Holyoke. He does not want his men “to become over-confident,” he says, but he admits that he does not think the contest will be the closest the team will have this year. Negotiations are under way with other Ivy League colleges, and Goldberg hopes to be able to have a Grand Competition for the “John Harvard Challenge Wink” (an Oldsmobile hub-cap), symbolic of American tiddlywink supremacy later this year.

Nov. 24, 1962

Harvard’s tiddlywinks team was defamed by Brown all season. Harvard, undefeated in Ivy competition, “has refused to play the Bruins out of fear,“ Brown has claimed. On Saturday, Harvard silenced these claims once and for all by maintaining their undefeated record and whipping the Brownies, 21-15. The Tiddly-winkers now claim championship of the continent.

Squidge fiercely, Harvard!

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Kokomo Tribune (newspaper)
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Kokomo, Indiana, USA
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Kokomo Tribune
date · 
8 May 1994
title · 
Many collect, but not profits
by · 
Vivian Moreno
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page B10
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Associated Press
content

David Galt would be the envy of many youngsters. At his Manhattan home are 6,000 assorted games and decks of playing cards—enough to fill a toy store.

They're not ordinary playthings either. Most can't be found in toy and hobby shops. Like his 19th century tiddledy winks sets, or his 200-year old Game of Human Life, in which the objective is to live to age 84.

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Logansport, Indiana, United States
Logansport Journal (newspaper)
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Logansport, Indiana, USA
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81

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published in · 
Logansport Journal
date · 
19 November 1890
title · 
DAILY JOURNAL
citation · 
page 3 • column 1
content

Newest game out. Tiddledy Wink's to be had only at the Bazaar.

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Logansport Pharos (newspaper)
location · 
Logansport, Indiana, USA
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82

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published in · 
Logansport Pharos
date · 
16 October 1890
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page 4 • column 7
content

THE POPULAR GAME HALMA

NEW, NOVEL And Nice

We Lead Them All.

Halma, the newest game out, only to be had at GRAND BAZAAR

Also Tiddledy Wink, Tiddledy Wink Tennis, Crokinole and Progressive Halma. Call and examine.

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Logansport Pharos
date · 
18 October 1890
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page 4 • column 7
content

THE POPULAR GAME HALMA

NEW, NOVEL And Nice

We Lead Them All.

Halma, the newest game out, only to be had at GRAND BAZAAR

Also Tiddledy Wink, Tiddledy Wink Tennis, Crokinole and Progressive Halma. Call and examine.

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Logansport Pharos
date · 
18 October 1890
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page 5 • column 1
content

TIDDLEDY WINKS

The Newest Game Out

TO BE HAD Only at the Bazaar

Also Halma. Crokinole. Tiddledywinks. Tennis. Call and examine

GRAND BAZAAR, 4th. Street.

media description

illustration of tiddledy winks being played at a round table by four adults and a boy

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Logansport Pharos
date · 
21 October 1890
citation · 
page 4 • column 6
content

THE POPULAR GAME HALMA

NEW, NOVEL And Nice

We Lead Them All.

Halma, the newest game out, only to be had at GRAND BAZAAR

Also Tiddledy Wink, Tiddledy Wink Tennis, Crokinole and Progressive Halm. Call and examine.

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published in · 
Logansport Pharos
date · 
25 October 1890
title · 
Tiddledy Winks
citation · 
page 3 • column 4
content

As the "Tiddledy Winks" is a new and novel game, a brief description apropos: A flat, wide glass is placed in the center of a cloth covered table and the players surround the table. Each playor is supplied with six small checks and one larger one. The object is to flip the small checks into the glass. The cover on the table being flexible the act of flipping throws the check into the air. It requires considerable practice to become expert, and the mishaps and miscalculations of the novice are very amusing.

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Versailles, Indiana, United States
Versailles Republican (newspaper)
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Versailles, Indiana, USA
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84

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published in · 
Versailles Republican
date · 
12 January 1893
title · 
Haneys Corner.
citation · 
page 2 • column 6
content

The rag-sewing at Mrs. H. H. Kirk's last Thursday was quite a success, there being 23 guests present. After the rags were sewed the young folks proposed a game of Tiddledy Winks. Kory and Ada were the champion players.

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Iowa • (state)
Burlington, Iowa, United States
Burlington Haw-Eye (newspaper)
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Burlington, Iowa, USA
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published in · 
Burlington Haw-Eye
date · 
15 October 1890
title · 
City Briefs
citation · 
page 3 • column 2
content

"Tiddledy Winks," the latest craze, at Gnahn's book store.

The latest craze, "Tiddledy Winks," at Gnahn's book store.

Have you seen the "Tiddledy Winks" at Gnahn's.

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Burlington Haw-Eye
date · 
15 October 1890
citation · 
page 3 • column 3
content

"Tiddledy Winks" at Gnahn's

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Burlington Haw-Eye
date · 
15 October 1890
citation · 
page 3 • column 6
content

"Tiddledy Winks" and other new games at Gnahn's.

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Burlington Haw-Eye
date · 
7 November 1890
title · 
CITY BRIEFS
citation · 
page 3 • column 2
content

Tiddledy Winks! Tiddledy Winks!

At Gnahn's Book Store

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Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States
Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette (newspaper)
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA
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86

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published in · 
Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette
date · 
10 November 1890
citation · 
page 4 • column 3
content

Tiddledy Winks at Hall's

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Lemars, Iowa, United States
Lemars Sentinel (newspaper)
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Lemars, Iowa, USA
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published in · 
Lemars Sentinel
date · 
2 December 1890
title · 
Social Gatherings
citation · 
page 4 • column 3
content

A pleasant party given by Miss Flo. Argo, Saturday, was enjoyed by a large party of young guests. Tiddledy winks was the game of the evening.

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Kansas • (state)
Atchison, Kansas, United States
Atchison Champion (newspaper)
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Atchison, Kansas, USA
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published in · 
Atchison Champion
date · 
5 December 1890
title · 
A Pleasing Change
citation · 
issue 192 • page 6 • column 4
content

Jack Wylie—Have you been playing any poker lately?

Mr. B. T. Flush—No: I've quit. My luck was too bad. But I've got a cinch on that new game, "Tiddledy Winks." Ever hear of it?

Jack Wylie—Oh, yes; they call it "Idiot's Delight." But why do you do better at that?

Mr. B. T. Flush—Because the man who puts in the most chips wins.—Judge.

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Atchison Champion
date · 
16 December 1890
title · 
The Latest Popular Game.
citation · 
issue 201 • column 3
content source · 
Springfield (Mass.) Homestead
content

It need not surprise any one to drop into an evening gathering or a quiet home circle and find people who wear spectacles across their noses and carry dignity by the ton trying to snap a row of ivory chips into a little wooden cup. That is the new game, christened tiddledy winks. It requires a small wooden cup called a wink pot and two dozen bone or ivory chips called winks, also four larger ones about the size of an old fashioned pants button, known as tiddledies. There is a cushion to snap the chips upon, or you can spread a small square of Brussels carpeting under the tablecloth, which answers just as well if not better. The trick is to snap the winks into the wink pot by means of the tiddledies held between the thumb and finger, the winks lying flat on the cushion or table. This is the game of the season—the great social snap, so to speak. There are two or three ways of playing and keeping tally of the game. Ever tried it?—Springfield (Mass.) Homestead

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Atchison Champion
date · 
16 January 1891
title · 
TIDDLEDY WINKS
subtitle · 
A Description of the New Game and How it Is Played
citation · 
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content source · 
Detroit Free Press
content

The game of tiddledy winks is the latest fad, says the Detroit Free Press. Tiddledy winks parties are all the go. The game is innocent, if the players do not bet, and subjects the mental system to no heavy strain. It consists of a small paper box, divided into compartments in which can be found a wood tub or glass jar called a wink pot, a number of bone or celluloid chips a little larger in circumference than a quarter of a dollar, called tiddledies, and a large number of small chips about the size of a dime, called winks. Each hand, consisting of one tiddledy and six winks, is of a color, and, while there are generally four hands in a box, there may be as many as colors can be had. Each of the parties playing at a table, over which there should be a soft cover, takes one tiddledy and six winks, and, placing them ten to welve inches from the wink pot, located in the center, endeavors in turn to flip the winks into the wink pot. The flipping process is accomplished by placing the tiddledy firmy upon the wink and then by drawing or sliding it off the edge of the wink is flipped and bounced toward the wink pot, if aimed in that direction. The one who tips his six winks into the wink pot first wins the game. Some very nice points are involved, which experience will teach how to discriminate between. When one person's wink flips upon that of another and remains there the lower wink can not be removed until relieved by the own of the upper wink, which is an annoying disadvantage to the proprietor of the under wink. It requires not a little skill to give the wink the proper flip; and the sport derived from the awkwardness of the inexperienced and the obstinacy of the chips is hilarious.

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Atchison Champion
date · 
27 February 1891
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issue 22 • page 6 • column 3
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Atchison Daily Globe (newspaper)
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Atchison, Kansas, USA
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Atchison Daily Globe
date · 
10 December 1890
title · 
West Atchison notes
citation · 
issue 4061 • column 6
content

The latest rage in the east is a game called "Tiddledy Winks." There are so many games in the east that the western man comes honestly by his idea that the people back there do nothing else but take afternoon naps and play games.

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Atchison Daily Globe
date · 
22 December 1890
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issue 4071 • page 1 • column 1
content

The New Game "Tiddledy Winks," 10, 25, and 50 cents.

THE FAIR.

Headquarters for Holiday Goods.

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Atchison Daily Globe
date · 
28 April 1891
title · 
An Exception
citation · 
page 180 • column 2
content

"Johnny, let Willie have the tiddly-winks, and you keep the bagatelle board. You can't play two things at once."

"Yes, you can. I know a boy that played hookey and baseball at the same time."—Harper's Young People

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Hutchison, Kansas, United States
Hutchison News (newspaper)
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Hutchison, Kansas, USA
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Hutchison News
date · 
14 December 1890
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page 2 • column 4
content source · 
Kansas City Ctar
content

"Tiddledy Winks" has struck Lawrence. It is a much more intellectual and ennobling divertisement than pigs in the clover.—Kansas CityStar

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Hutchison News
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19 December 1890
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Lawrence Record (Kansas)
content

The latest way of reporting the South Carolina senatorial election is that Hampton got the "dinky-dink," while Irby made the "tiddledy-winks."—Lawrence Record

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Wichita, Kansas, United States
Wichita Daily Eagle (newspaper)
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Wichita, Kansas, USA
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Wichita Daily Eagle
date · 
19 December 1890
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page 4 • column 3
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Lawrence Record (Kansas)
content

The latest way of reporting the South Carolina senatorial election is that Hampton got the "dinky-dink," while Irby made the "tiddledy-winks."—Lawrence Record

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Wichita Daily Eagle
date · 
8 January 1891
title · 
Oklahoma Outlines.
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page 4 • column 5
content

"Tiddledy winks" has struck Guthrie. There, however, it is necessary to tiddledy a dime also before you get your drink.

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Kentucky • (state)
Bowling Green, Kentucky, United States
Park City Daily News (newspaper)
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Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA
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Park City Daily News
date · 
6 July 1958
title · 
Tiddlywinks on Upsurge in Britain
by · 
Alvin Steinkopf
citation · 
page 14 • column 5
summary

About the Oxford vs. Cambridge match.

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Associated Press
content

London (AP)—Tiddlywinks used to be for kids.

But in Britain lately the game has caught the interest of muscular athletes, intellectuals, and even the royal family.

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Lexington, Kentucky, United States
Lexington Herald-Ledger (newspaper)
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Lexington, Kentucky, USA
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93

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Lexington Herald-Ledger
date · 
22 January 2006
title · 
Squop it with a Squidger, Competitive Tiddlywinks is Maryland Family's Claim to Fame
summary

About Lockwood tiddlywinks clan.

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Louisiana • (state)
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
The Daily Picayune (newspaper)
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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The Daily Picayune
date · 
22 February 1891
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Times-Picayne (newspaper)
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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Times-Picayne
date · 
14 April 1940
title · 
FLIPBALL IS GOOD GAME FOR INDOORS
by · 
Harold Jay
citation · 
page 2 • column 13
content

Do you want something different to do to pass away the hours when it's chilly and miserable outdoors? Of course you do, so why not make a game of flipball?

The materials you need are few and easy to get:

Nine small round discs such as are used in playing tiddlywinks.

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digital copy (NATwA)
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GenealogyBank (subscription) (tw-ref-link-id 105)
tw-ref-ID · 
305
published in · 
Times-Picayne
date · 
31 January 1956
title · 
British View
subtitle · 
Back President's "Firm Answer"
by · 
Ernie Hill
citation · 
page 8 • column 5
content

The Russian bid for a 20-year friendship treaty with the United States is regarded with suspicion by the British.

Cassandra in the Labor party London Daily Mirror says that the Soviets are the best chess players in the world and often anticipate the moves of other countries well ahead of time.

"This is not chess," he declares. It is tiddlywinks played for morons and neutralists["]

links · 
GenealogyBank (subscription) (tw-ref-link-id 106)
tw-ref-ID · 
306
published in · 
Times-Picayne
date · 
2 March 1958
title · 
NAMES MAKE NEWS
citation · 
page 21 • column 1
content

PRINCE PHILIP bowed out of a tiddlywinks match Saturday, explaining with tongue in cheek:

"While practicing secretly I pulled an important muscle in the second or tiddly joint of my winking finger."

The prince had been recruited by a team of entertainers known as the Goons to meet the Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club.

media description

photograph of Prince Philip captioned "No tiddlywinks"

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307
published in · 
Times-Picayne
date · 
10 May 1958
title · 
Oxford Tiddlywink Team Claims World Title After Cambridge Win
by · 
Sterling Slappey
citation · 
page 10 • column 1
content source · 
Associated Press
content

The Oxonian Tiddlers defeated the Cantab Winkers at Tiddlywinks (or perhaps you spell it tiddlewinks) today and immediately claimed the world championship.

The score was a nip-and-tuck 113-111 favoring the Oxonians from Oxford University over the Cantabs from Cambridge.

collection · 
digital copy (NATwA)
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308
published in · 
Times-Picayne
date · 
13 May 1958
title · 
BRITISH GO ALL OUT FOR TIDDLYWINKS
citation · 
page 34
content source · 
International News Service
content

Tiddlywinks, that inane-sounding game in which the object is to snap small discs into a small cup, is all the rage in Britain today. Thanks to the Duke of Edinburgh, who actually sponsors a tiddlywinks team of comedians, the nation's oldest universities, members of the August House of Commons and other intellectuals are taking up the game.

collection · 
digital copy (NATwA)
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309
published in · 
Times-Picayne
date · 
5 July 1958
title · 
Off Balance
citation · 
page 10 • column 1
content

The chief cashier of the Washington, D.C., treasury (not to be confused entirely with Uncle Sam's) states that yearly the District gains about $1500 and loses about $95 from the deposit in parking meters of dimes, pennies, mutilated nickles [sic], foreign coins, slugs, buttons and tiddlywinks.

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310
published in · 
Times-Picayne
date · 
30 January 1962
citation · 
page 27
content

Godchaux's fashion leadership for 122 years

TIDDLYWINKS... gold mylar scuff on wedge heel, compo sole. Embroidery and multicolor tiddlywinks span the vamp.

media description

illustration of ladie's shoe with three tiddlywinks on it.

collection · 
digital copy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
311
published in · 
Times-Picayne
date · 
13 May 1984
title · 
Get your squidger ready for a tiddlywink squop
by · 
Robert Doherty
citation · 
page 3-13
summary

Interview with Larry Kahn.

content

The next time you get in the dumps and need some perspective, just think of tiddlywinks, the Rodney Dangerfield of games.

collection · 
digital copy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
312
Maine • (state)
Bangor, Maine, United States
Bangor Daily News (newspaper)
location · 
Bangor, Maine, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
97

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for Bangor Daily News.
published in · 
Bangor Daily News
date · 
17 April 2004
title · 
One man's quest for tiddlywinks
by · 
Isaac Kimball
citation · 
page online
content

I once heard my grandmother complain that children don't know how to play anymore. At the time, I didn't know what she meant.

That is, until I tried to buy a set of tiddlywinks.

It all started a couple of months ago, when I was trying to find some obscure information on the Internet. I believe it had something to do with substituting my power drill for a wood lathe, and all I managed to find was a page describing how to polish a "squidger."

A squidger, I soon learned, is the flat, round piece that is used to flip tiddlywinks into a little cup. I read on. It didn't take long before I just had to obtain my own tiddlywinks set.

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318
Bangor Daily Whig and Courier (newspaper)
location · 
Bangor, Maine, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
96

Toggle showing 5 tiddlywinks references for Bangor Daily Whig and Courier.
published in · 
Bangor Daily Whig and Courier
date · 
10 October 1890
citation · 
page 1 • column 1
content

Improved Tiddledy Wincks [sic], 25 and 50 Cents

collection · 
digital copy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
313
published in · 
Bangor Daily Whig and Courier
date · 
18 December 1890
title · 
The Latest Popular Game.
citation · 
issue 2999 • page 1 • column 5
content source · 
Springfield (Mass.) Homestead
content

It need not surprise any one to drop into an evening gathering or a quiet home circle and find people who wear spectacles across their noses and carry dignity by the ton trying to snap a row of ivory chips into a little wooden cup. That is the new game, christened tiddledy winks. It requires a small wooden cup called a wink pot and two dozen bone or ivory chips called winks, also four larger ones about the size of an old fashioned pants button, known as tiddledies. There is a cushion to snap the chips upon, or you can spread a small square of Brussels carpeting under the tablecloth, which answers just as well if not better. The trick is to snap the winks into the wink pot by means of the tiddledies held between the thumb and finger, the winks lying flat on the cushion or table. This is the game of the season—the great social snap, so to speak. There are two or three ways of playing and keeping tally of the game. Ever tried it?—Springfield (Mass.) Homestead

links · 
Gale Cengage Learning (subscription) (tw-ref-link-id 112)
tw-ref-ID · 
315
published in · 
Bangor Daily Whig and Courier
date · 
19 December 1890
citation · 
issue 4069 • column 4
content

The New Game "Tiddledy Winks,"

10, 25, and 50 cents.

THE FAIR.

Headquarters for Holiday Goods.

links · 
Gale Cengage Learning (subscription) (tw-ref-link-id 113)
tw-ref-ID · 
316
published in · 
Bangor Daily Whig and Courier
date · 
31 December 1890
title · 
BREWER LOCALS
content

Several of the young ladies were busy yesterday making preparations to have a progressive tiddly winks party in City Hall on New Year's evening. Owing to some reason, however, they decided not to give it and something else will have to be arranged for if the young people expect to have any fun that evening.

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314
published in · 
Bangor Daily Whig and Courier
date · 
31 January 1891
title · 
Lincoln Letter.
citation · 
issue 27 • page 1 • column 5
content

Mrs. E. C. Clark gave a small company, Tuesday evening, for Lou and Katie Fuller. "Tiddledy Winks" was the game.

links · 
Gale Cengage Learning (subscription) (tw-ref-link-id 114)
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317
Maryland • (state)
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Baltimore Sun (newspaper)
location · 
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
98

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published in · 
Baltimore Sun
date · 
8 October 1890
title · 
DRY GOODS ETC.
citation · 
page 2 • column 5
content

GAMES.—TIDDLEDY WINKS, 25 CTS. Fish Pond, Snake Game, Donkey Party, Parcheesi, Halma, Logomachy, Anagrams, Messenger Boy, Steeple Chase, Yacht Race, &c.

JOHN H. HITCHENS, 225 West Lexington street, (Dollar Store)

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319
published in · 
Baltimore Sun
date · 
17 October 1890
citation · 
page 2
notes · 
Similar to 8 October 1890 advertisement
tw-ref-ID · 
320
published in · 
Baltimore Sun
date · 
28 December 1973
title · 
The Morning After
citation · 
page C1
summary

Mention in discussion of groupies in sports.

collection · 
transcript (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
321
published in · 
Baltimore Sun
date · 
28 January 1975
title · 
Tiddledies without a wink
citation · 
page C1
summary

About tiddlywinks marathon involving Joe Sachs and Rich Steidle

content source · 
Associated Press
media description

photograph of Rich Steidle and Joe Sachs

collection · 
transcript (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
322
published in · 
Baltimore Sun
date · 
3 July 1988
citation · 
page Sun Magazine 4
summary

In table of contents

collection · 
original (NATwA)
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323
published in · 
Baltimore Sun
date · 
3 July 1988
citation · 
page Sun Magazine 8
media description

color photograph of Rick Tucker, Larry Kahn

collection · 
original (NATwA)
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324
published in · 
Baltimore Sun
date · 
3 July 1988
title · 
squop, boom, gromp, lunch, blitz, piddle, and of course, your basic nurdle
by · 
Patrick A. McGuire
citation · 
page Sun Magazine 9
collection · 
original (NATwA)
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325
published in · 
Baltimore Sun
date · 
3 July 1988
citation · 
page Sun Magazine 18
media description

photograph of Dave Lockwood

collection · 
original (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
326
published in · 
Baltimore Sun
date · 
3 July 1988
citation · 
page Sun Magazine 19
tw-ref-ID · 
327
Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States
Gaithersburg Gazette (newspaper)
location · 
Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
99

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published in · 
Gaithersburg Gazette
date · 
16 March 1983
title · 
Villager is world champion in tiddlywinks play
citation · 
page B16
summary

About Larry Kahn.

media description

photograph

collection · 
original (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
328
Montgomery County, Maryland, United States
Montgomery Sentinel (newspaper)
location · 
Montgomery County, Maryland, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
100

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published in · 
Montgomery Sentinel
date · 
3 February 1984
title · 
Watch out Squidgers, here come the Squoppers
citation · 
page 25
collection · 
original (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
329
published in · 
Montgomery Sentinel
date · 
3 February 1984
title · 
It does take practice
citation · 
page 26
media description

photograph

collection · 
original (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
330
published in · 
Montgomery Sentinel
date · 
~ June 1984
notes · 
Expected article in Tempo section about the NATwA Singles
tw-ref-ID · 
331
Massachusetts • (state)
Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
Amherst Bulletin (newspaper)
location · 
Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
101

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for Amherst Bulletin.
published in · 
Amherst Bulletin
date · 
14 January 2005
title · 
"Winker" playes for U.S. honor
summary

About Ferd Wulkan.

content

At 56, Ferd Wulkan is still at the top of his game. But for Wulkan, it's not about the fame or the money. He has no entourage or corporate sponsorship. It's all for the love of —tiddlywinks. It's "the perfect game, combining intricate strategy with manual dexterity,"said Wulkan, a union organizer at the University of Massachusetts who lives in Montague.

collection · 
excerpt (NATwA)
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332
Beverly, Massachusetts, United States
Beverly Citizen, Saturday Morning Citizen (newspaper)
location · 
Beverly, Massachusetts, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
102

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published in · 
Beverly Citizen, Saturday Morning Citizen
date · 
4 October 1890
title · 
TWINKLES
citation · 
page 4 • column 1
content

"Tiddledy-winks" parties are now fashionable.

The latest fad in the social world of the ladies is the forenoon tiddledy winks party, with a "breakfast" served by hostess just before the departure of guests.

collection · 
digital copy (NATwA)
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333
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
(unknown Boston newspaper) (newspaper)
location · 
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
114

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for (unknown Boston newspaper).
published in · 
(unknown Boston newspaper)
date · 
Fall 1962
by · 
Bud Collins
notes · 
Article that inspired Holy Cross challenge?
tw-ref-ID · 
374
Boston After Dark (newspaper)
location · 
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
104

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published in · 
Boston After Dark
date · 
28 March 1972
title · 
MITy FINE
citation · 
page 5
tw-ref-ID · 
335
Boston Daily Advertiser (newspaper)
location · 
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
103

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published in · 
Boston Daily Advertiser
date · 
22 February 1894
citation · 
page 4 • column 7
content

Complete stock of English, French and German Chessmen, in all the sizes and all the desirable patterns; also Folding and Pocket Chess Boards, with and without Men, from 75c. to $25; Backgammon Boards, Checkers, Cribbage Boards, Poker Sets, Connters, Playing Cards, Dominoes, New Social Games, Tiddledy Winks, etc., etc.

collection · 
digital copy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
334
The Boston Globe (newspaper)
alternate name · 
Boston Daily Globe; Boston Evening Globe; Boston Sunday Globe; Boston.com
location · 
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
website · 
tw-pub-ID · 
105

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published in · 
The Boston Globe
date · 
5 October 1890
by · 
Houghton & Dutton
citation · 
page 3 • column 5
content

Toys - Games - Dolls

GAMES

  • Halma… 56c
  • Basalinda… 58c
  • Anabasis… 56c
  • Tiddledy Winks… 19c
  • Bagatelle and Base Ball Combination Boards .... 49c

We have the largest line of Games in Boston.

All the popular Games at manufacturer prices.

Houghton & Dutton

Tremont and Beacon Sts.

collection · 
digiitized image PDF (NATwA)
notability rating · 
very minor
tw-ref-ID · 
336
published in · 
The Boston Globe
date · 
16 October 1890
title · 
Under the Rose
citation · 
page 21 • column 1 (1/3 down from top)
content

The days were spent in tramping marshes and sprinkling salt on birds' tails, and the evening amusements were sometimes so innocent as a game of tiddledy winks with the folks at the inn, for John T. Wheelwright had the happy thought of introducing that restful pastime.

collection · 
digitized image PDF (NATwA)
notability rating · 
minor but interesting
tw-ref-ID · 
3779
published in · 
The Boston Globe
date · 
2 November 1890
title · 
TABLE GOSSIP
citation · 
page 21 • column 3 (1/4 up from bottom)
content

A large party of ladles and gentlemen playing that jolly little game, "Tiddledy Winks," at the Algonquin Club Tuesday night, made the luxuriously appointed ladles' reception room assume a very home­like and attractive appearance.

collection · 
digitized image PDF (NATwA)
notability rating · 
minor but interesting
tw-ref-ID · 
337
published in · 
The Boston Globe
date · 
16 November 1890
title · 
UNDER THE ROSE
citation · 
page 12 • column 1
content

The days were spent In tramping marshes and sprinkling salt on birds' tails, and the evening amusements were sometimes so innocent as a game of tiddledy winks with the folks at the inn, for John T. Wheelwright had the happy thought of introducing that restful pastime.

collection · 
digital copy (NATwA)
links · 
NewspaperArchive.com (subscription) (tw-ref-link-id 120)
tw-ref-ID · 
338
published in · 
The Boston Globe
date · 
14 December 1890
title · 
Disgraceful.
citation · 
page 9 • column 7 (1/4 up from bottom)
content

[Harvard Lampoon]

Procter (determined to be severe)…What? do you mean to deny that you have been playing poker! Here are the chips, three colors, and there is the basket to hold them. What do you claim to be playing?

'94 (in chorus) Tiddledy Winks.

collection · 
digitized image PDF (NATwA)
notability rating · 
minor but interesting
tw-ref-ID · 
339
published in · 
The Boston Globe
date · 
14 December 1890
citation · 
page 22
content

Tiddledy Winks, 17c

collection · 
to be retrieved
tw-ref-ID · 
340
published in · 
The Boston Globe
date · 
2 March 1891
title · 
HOP SCOTCH TIDDLEDY WINKS.
citation · 
page 5
content

The latest and best thing in the way of a home game. It is becoming a perfect rage in New York, both as a home game and for progressive parties.

Hop Scotch is played upon a felt matting, marked in the plan of a Hop Scotch court. The cup, or as the English say, "the pudding," is placed at the curved end of the court. The game is very simple and very fascinating. Price $1.

collection · 
digitized image PDF (NATwA)
notability rating · 
interesting
tw-ref-ID · 
341
published in · 
The Boston Globe
date · 
8 March 1891
by · 
R. H. White & Co.
citation · 
column 2; 5 (at bottom)
content
Column 2, at bottom

Play Hop Scotch Tiddledy Winks.

Column 5, at bottom

Play Hop Scotch Tiddledy Winks.

collection · 
digitized image PDF (NATwA)
notability rating · 
minor
tw-ref-ID · 
3780
published in · 
The Boston Globe
date · 
4 January 1959
title · 
What's Wrong with Sports-IV
subtitle · 
Must Golf Be That Slow? (And Baseball Had Best Take Heed)
by · 
Dr. Vannevar Bush
citation · 
page A-10 • column 3 (of article)
content source · 
Sports Illustrated
content
Black and white photograph of two baseball players in a dugout.
WHO'S FOR TIDDLYWINKS? This glum scene in a major league dugout would seem to beat out Dr. Bush's contention that to the spectator baseball can be as boring as golf.
media description

photograph of baseball game

collection · 
digitized image PDF (NATwA)
notability rating · 
very minor
tw-ref-ID · 
342
published in · 
The Boston Globe
date · 
26 July 1960
title · 
Preserve Us from Squops!
subtitle · 
Many's the Kink Twixt Pot, Wink
by · 
Red Smith
citation · 
page 33 • column 1 (of article)
content

LONDON, July 25—It all began with a headline in a London paper reading: “Does Prince Philip cheat at tiddlywinks?”

Naturally, this had to be answered. Cambridge threw out a challenge and the prince accepted, naming a flock of actors who were designated ’ as “Ye Goons.” Cambridge won with its ears standing up, 120% to 55%. That’s when intercollegiate tiddlywinks was born.

“We now have a regular league,” said N. M. Riley, a Yorkshireman who is captain of the tiddlywink team at University College, London. “We have London University, Oxford, Cambridge, Bristol, Birmingham, Lancashire and several minor colleges.”

“Exactly how is the game played?” asked a guy who hadn’t tiddled a wink since childhood.

“There are eight players,” Mr. Riley said, “who make four pairs. Each pair plays six winks, four small winks and two large ones.”

Rules of the Game

Could be a lot of people have only the vaguest memory of the game they played as kids. They’ll recall that there was a whole mess of little wafers which they were supposed to flip into a cup in the middle of the table, and that’s about all they’ll remember.

“The tabic must be covered,” Mr. Riley said, "'by a needle-loom carpet. In the center of the table is a box 1½ inches high and 1 15/16 inches in diameter. Each player, as I say, has four small winks and two large ones.

“He uses a large sort of wafer, which we call the squidger, as an instrument to flip the winks into the pot. You know how it’s done. You press with your squidger on the near side of the wink and make the wink hop toward the pot in the center of the table.

“Turns go clockwise, and the first man to get all his winks into the pot scores four points. The second man into the pot with all his winks scores two points, and the third scores one.”

Don’t Get Squopped

“All winks are tiddled from a line three feet from the pot. It takes a powerful tiddler to score from that distance. There is one other rule you should know. If you have a wink that is covered by an opponent’s wink, this is known ns squopping. A squopped wink can’t be played until it is unsquopped.”

"What.” Mr. Riley was asked, “is the standard of excellence in tiddling? I mean like a batter hitting .300 or a pitcher winning 20 games or a cricket player making a century, or that sort of thing?”

"I should think,” he said “if a tiddler were to put six straight winks into the pot that would be the ultimate. You see, if you tiddle a wink into the pot, you get another chance, and you can go on playing until you miss.” ‘‘Has that ever been done?’ he was asked. “Has any played ever tiddled six straight winks into the pot?”

“Well,” Mr. Riley said, “No."

Pitch and Putt

“From three feet away,” Mr. Riley said, “the best you can hope for from a first rate tiddler is that he tiddle each wink into the pot in two tiddles.” “You mean,” it was suggested, “that each wink should go in with a pitch and a putt.” “Exactly,” Mr. Riley said. He was silent a moment groping for a standard the world could understand amnappreciate.

“This,” he said, “has nothing to do with intercollegiate competition, but I believe it is a world record. If my memory serves, a Cambridge team potted 24 winks, 16 small and eight large ones, in 37½ seconds.”

“Of course,” Mr. Riley conceded, “Cambridge are the world champions.”

collection · 
digitized image PDF (NATwA)
notability rating · 
important
tw-ref-ID · 
343
published in · 
The Boston Globe
date · 
14 October 1962
title · 
Harvard Humbles Holy Cross In 1st U.S. Tiddly Winks Match
by · 
Charles E. Claffey
citation · 
page 81
content

Displaying digital dexterity that would evoke envious expletives from a prosperous pick-pocket, Harvard University humbled Holy Cross, Saturday, in the nation's first inter-collegiate tiddly winks match. [...]

media description

photograph

collection · 
digital copy (NATwA), transcript (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
344
published in · 
The Boston Globe
date · 
~ 1967
summary

About MIT team in Sports section?

tw-ref-ID · 
345
published in · 
The Boston Globe
date · 
21 February 1969
title · 
"In" Cheer at M.I.T.: Squop That Wink
citation · 
page 24
tw-ref-ID · 
346
published in · 
The Boston Globe
date · 
24 March 1972
title · 
New England Newsmakers
citation · 
page 3
content

MIT's eight-man North American championship tiddlywinks team, boasting 26 collective years of practice at squidging, squopping, and potting, is flying to England tonight in hopes of out-potting Southhampton University for the World Championship. [...]

media description

photograph of Tim Schiller

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347
published in · 
The Boston Globe
date · 
4 April 1972
title · 
A world's champion and only few care
citation · 
page 3
tw-ref-ID · 
348
published in · 
The Boston Globe
date · 
7 January 1979
title · 
Ask the Globe
by · 
Fred Shapiro
citation · 
page New England Magazine 41
tw-ref-ID · 
349
published in · 
The Boston Globe
date · 
8 June 1986
title · 
Museum to Play Exhibition Game; "Science of Sports" Coming to Town
citation · 
page 70
summary

About tiddlywinks exhibition at the New England Science Museum.

tw-ref-ID · 
350
published in · 
The Boston Globe
date · 
6 November 1992
title · 
"SECRET GARDEN" UNLOCKS GATE TO GIRLHOOD FEELINGS
by · 
Patti Hartigan
citation · 
page Living 33
summary

Review of theater production.

tw-ref-ID · 
351
published in · 
The Boston Globe
date · 
19 November 2000
title · 
To What End?
content

That would be true even if the Clinton administration hadn't, for the last few years, been mostly about trifles and tiddlywinks

tw-ref-ID · 
352
published in · 
The Boston Globe
date · 
24 November 2003
title · 
From coastal to kitschy to cosmic
content

The aisles overflow with everything from whistling yo-yos to such classics as Mr. Potato Head, tiddlywinks sets, finger paint, ball and jacks, Pick Up Sticks, face painting sets, Silly Putty, and Paint-By-Number kits.

tw-ref-ID · 
353
published in · 
The Boston Globe
date · 
4 December 2003
title · 
Unions accuse Gephardt of retaliatory threat
content

"This isn't tiddlywinks; it's politics, and everybody's committed to doing what they need to do, " said Bob Kelley

tw-ref-ID · 
354
published in · 
The Boston Globe
date · 
11 February 2004
title · 
Revving up the NASCAR simulations
content

But the will to win is the will to win, no matter if it's playing the Super Bowl or playing Tiddlywinks.

tw-ref-ID · 
355
published in · 
The Boston Globe
date · 
8 May 2004
title · 
He's in Class by Himself
by · 
Kevin Paul Dupont
publisher · 
Boston.com
citation · 
page online
content

Some boys and girls grow up wanting to play in the major leagues. Still others dream of becoming astronauts. Jason Szuminski, MIT class of 2000, fell somewhere in between.

An aerospace engineer by degree, Szuminski these days is a San Diego Padres relief pitcher by trade.

[...]

Prior to Szuminski, the top Engineer competitor of them all might have been Larry Kahn, class of 1975, the world singles titleholder in tiddlywinks.

[...]

Meanwhile, from his office in Falls Church, Va., 50-year-old righthanded tiddlywinker Larry Kahn yesterday set the record straight.

Listed in MIT literature as the former world singles champ, Kahn would like the world to know that he reclaimed the title just last year at a tournament in England.

Kahn, a systems engineer with Mitretek Systems, nonetheless concedes that Szuminski has passed him on MIT's totem pole of athletic achievement.

"But hey, I still play Ultimate Frisbee," boasted Kahn, who also claims to hold more tiddlywinks titles than anyone in the world. "I learned that at MIT, and I'm still playing it. At least [Szuminski] is getting paid for what he's doing. If I got paid for [tiddlywinks], I could have retired by now."

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date · 
23 February 2006
title · 
Considering the Source
by · 
Kay Lazar
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"Individually, it's tiddlywinks," Hall said. ''But if a thousand people did this in Newburyport, that would be serious."

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The Boston Globe
date · 
28 June 2006
title · 
At Strawberry Banke, toys from times past
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Boston.com
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page online
content

Leave the Game Boys behind and get ready for building with Lincoln Logs and playing tiddlywinks.

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date · 
30 July 2006
title · 
Dishing
subtitle · 
May the Best Brat Win
by · 
Allison Amett
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Boston.com
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page online
content

OK, so I know that every sporting event from major league baseball to competitive tiddlywinks has to run on ESPN.

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The Boston Globe
date · 
28 January 2007
title · 
MIT group aims to reclaim tiddlywinks glory
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page online
content

In the 1970s and '80s, MIT dominated the sport of tiddlywinks. But over the last two decades, its popularity waned. Until Yan Wang came to town. Seeking to rekindle the glory days of tiddlywinks on campus, the MIT sophomore has petitioned the university's student activities office to recognize it as a club sport. He has even heard from an alumnus who promised to channel them travel funds for tournaments [...]

media description

photograph of MIT team in 1972

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The Boston Globe
date · 
20 September 2013
title · 
Buccaneers-Patriots prediction roundup
by · 
Eric Wilbur
publisher · 
Boston.com
citation · 
page online
content

Don Banks, Sports Illustrated: Patriots 23, Buccaneers 17. “I don’t know about Tom Brady, but I’ve never played tiddlywinks and wouldn’t even know how. But I do know this: The Bucs have found creative ways to lose both of their games at the last possible minute, and the Patriots have found ways to somehow squeak out two razor-thin victories.

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published in · 
The Boston Globe
date · 
27 February 2016
title · 
Tiddlywinks, the parlor game for nerds, is nearing extinction
subtitle · 
Once a staple at Harvard and MIT, the 50-year-old game has fallen out of fashion.
by · 
Allison Pohle
publisher · 
Boston.com
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page online
content

In its heyday in the early 1960s, the all-male Harvard tiddlywinks team gathered in wood-paneled cocktail lounges wearing jackets and vests while cheerleaders in sweaters and long skirts lined the sides of the room. With plastic discs called “squidgers’’ in their hands, they crowded around the set like surgeons around an operating table, placing the squidgers precisely on the colored discs in order to fling them so that they landed in a red cup.

The goal was to “pot’’ as many colored discs, called “winks,’’ into the cup as they could.

“Tiddle the wink,’’ the cheerleaders would chant as they waved their pom-poms. “Apply game theory!’’

Nowadays, games played on long white tables with red cups have a certain connotation on college campuses — and generally involve beer. But back then, the unusual British parlor game of skill and strategy was the perfect sober pastime for unathletic collegians.

“We were nerds. Here was a game that did not require strength, and you didn’t have to run fast,’’ said Ferd Wulkan, who helped launch the game at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology decades ago. “But it also happened to have both physical dexterity and a whole strategy element. For us, that was very appealing.’’

Although the game once thrived at both Harvard and MIT, neither school has had an active tiddlywinks society in at least a decade. Now, on the 50th anniversary of the North American Tiddlywinks Association, which fostered competitive play between universities, the remaining players are left wondering who the next generation of winkers will be — and whether the game will continue to exist at all.

Listening to winkers talk about the game is like listening to a Harry Potter fan discuss the mechanics of a game of quidditch. The words are fantastical, but loaded with serious meaning. “Squopping,’’ for example, is what happens when an opponent flings a wink on top of another player’s wink, effectively putting it out of play. From “squidge-offs’’ to “nurdling’’ and “gromping,’’ players speak a secret language that hearkens back to another era.

College students first began organizing competitive tiddlywinks play at England’s Cambridge University in 1955, but the game didn’t make its way across the pond until a team from Oxford University took a tour of the U.S. in 1962, during which they played the “New York Football Giants’’ and took on a team of Harvard students. (Because no one in the states had ever heard of such a game, unsurprisingly, the Oxford team trounced everyone they challenged).

The Brits left some discs and cups behind, planting the first seeds of the game in the U.S. By the time Life magazine covered the sport late in 1962, the author said students were squopping on 25 college campuses nationwide.

How to play Tiddlywinks

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A brief description of how to play Tiddlywinks

After reading the Life article, which detailed a team of Harvard students who played the game, Severin Drix decided that he and Wulkan, his best friend, would make the game their signature sport when they reached college. The son of Holocaust survivors who moved to Brooklyn from Germany in the 1940s, Drix had grown up playing the game in a cramped Brooklyn apartment.

But unbeknownst to them, many of the teams were fading in popularity by the fall of 1965. Determined to create a tiddlywinks renaissance, they launched teams at MIT and Cornell University, hanging signs around campus, attending activities fairs and diligently playing winks in the common rooms of their dormitories for hours on end.

Decades later, Drix is now known as the “foster father’’ of North American tiddlywinks, and most active winkers can trace their lineage back to him. Together, he and Wulkan almost singlehandedly created a tiddlywinks revival at Ivy League colleges that lasted years.

Photograph of (top row) Ferd Wulkan, Betsy Smith, Don Fox, Larry Rosenberg, (bottom row) Mary Kirman, Nancy Brady, Bob Henninge, and Gred Gross.

Ferd Wulkan, top left, and some of his fellow winkers.

“It was really the first indigenous winks movement,’’ Drix said. “It wasn’t necessarily all freaks, but a group in which freaks could be. In general, a much, looser, more informal atmosphere came in with the new winkers.’’

After they graduated, MIT became the bastion of American tiddlywinks during the sport’s golden era in the early ‘70s. That’s where Larry Kahn — now known as the greatest North American player of all time — often paired with Rick Tucker, a tiddlywinks historian who is writing a book about the history of the game.

“One of the best things about playing winks then was that there were so many people going to team events,’’ Kahn said. “You’d have 50 to 60 people playing, and, [one] time, we all got snowed in and had to stay an extra day. We were sleeping on Cornell winkers’ floors, and hanging out and getting to know each other. We had nothing to do but play winks.’’

Color photograph by Rick Tucker.

Winkers at the 1981 Continentals team championships at Haverford College in Pennsylvania.

In those days, tournaments lasted entire weekends. Except for lunch breaks and the occasional bye game, winkers would be potting for hours on end. The outside world ceased to exist.

“Some people think, ‘tiddlywinks is a simple thing, it’s beneath me,’’’ Tucker said. “But it was a group of people with something in common, with all different personalities, who all worked together. It gave us common ground. And that doesn’t exist in college anymore.’’

At MIT, Kahn and Tucker wrote themselves into the game by naming moves after successful attempts they’d had, hundreds of which are compiled on the tiddlywinks website.

But after they graduated, it was harder to find people who were fluent in the winks lexicon.

Kahn became an ocean scientist and set up a mat in his basement, where he practiced alone. Every few weeks, he would get together with other winkers in the area to play, but the game became a largely solitary activity.

For Drix, too, the game became more reminiscent of the days when he played alone in his family’s apartment as a child. Some of the meaning was lost.

“It went from being a game we played in teams to one we played alone,’’ he said. “In that way the nature of the game changed, too.’’

Color photograph from the NATwA/Drix collection, provided by Rick Tucker

Severin Drix, lower left, team caption of Cornell and Bryon Alexandroff, second from right, team caption of the University of Toronto winking during the 1967 NATwA Continentals team championship.

They kept the game alive in whatever way they could, though. Wulkan, who stayed in Massachusetts, started a team called the “Somervillains,’’ based in Somerville, who traveled to compete against other local winkers. Kahn, meanwhile, still travels to England once a year to compete against the winkers across the pond, where he’s proven himself to be the indomitable North American champion since 2002.

The world of winks is now so small that most winkers, both in the U.S. and abroad, know each other by nickname. (Kahn is nicknamed ‘The King’). They know each other’s moves. They know who stopped playing because they got caught up in their jobs or families or life in general.

Drix has been trying to create yet another renaissance by introducing the game to students at Ithaca High School in Ithaca, N.Y., where he’s been a math teacher for many years. He’s had students go on to Ivy League colleges vowing to start clubs, only to have them fizzle out after a few months.

Black and white photograph by Dan Dern, provided by Rick Tucker.

Dave Lockwood, left, and Franz Christ play winks at MIT in 1972.

“The fact that they don’t keep playing past graduating high school is a problem,’’ he said. “When we were students in the 60s and 70s, people made more time for other things, but now there’s more pressure for schoolwork. People get too busy, and don’t want to go play when they have a test to study for.’’

Although the official anniversary of the association is February 27, the “golden jubilee’’ celebration will be held in August in Montague, Mass., where some visiting British winkers will play the Americans in an international match. The following weekend, the North American Society will meet in D.C., where they will host pairs and singles matches to determine the reigning continental champion, just like in the old days.

Even though there are fewer of them now, the remaining winkers still speak of squidgers and squidge-offs, of nurdling and gromping. Drix and Wulkan still play the occasional game when they see one another.

“We don’t see each other as often as we’d like, but we do meet at tournaments and play then,’’ Drix said. “ We will certainly get in some games together at this summer’s events celebrating the 50th anniversary. A couple of years ago we teamed up to challenge for the World Pairs title and got trounced. But it was fun.’’

Color photograph provided by Rick Tucker.

Rick Tucker, center, contemplating his next shot in a game against Larry Kahn, right, in the 1988 NATwA Singles championship won by Larry.

No matter what, they’ll always carry one of the best lessons the game taught them. Tiddlywinks, they say, is one of the few games where mind and hand play an equal part. The players decide on their shots, then put the winks where they want them. But before they make a move, they ask themselves: “Can I make this shot?’’

Playing winks taught them that, yes, they could.

It’s a lesson the winkers don’t want the world to lose.

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Boston Globe (newspaper)
location · 
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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169

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published in · 
Boston Globe
date · 
21 February 1969
title · 
'In' Cheer at M.I.T.: Squop That Wink
by · 
Leigh Montville
citation · 
page 24
content

"I suppose the name of our group really hasn't hurt our success, either," said Ferd, a slender kid, whose eyes now widened under an early Bob Wylan [sic correct=Dylan] let-it-grow haircut. "I mean, look, our club is called the 'Pot Heads.'"

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photocopy (Drix/NATwA); digital copy (NATwA)
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Boston Herald American (newspaper)
location · 
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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107

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published in · 
Boston Herald American
date · 
25 April 1978
title · 
The thrill of winking, the agony of squopped
citation · 
page 1
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original (NATwA)
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362
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Boston Herald American
date · 
25 April 1978
title · 
When the going gets tough, the winkers get gromping
citation · 
page 6
media description

2 photographs

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original (NATwA)
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published in · 
Boston Herald American
date · 
26 November 1978
title · 
PLAYING GAMES
citation · 
section Magazine • page 26
summary

Mention in article about Milton Bradley.

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transcript (NATwA)
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Boston Herald Traveler (newspaper)
location · 
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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108

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published in · 
Boston Herald Traveler
date · 
16 February 1970
title · 
Somerville Six Top Squoppers
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page 1
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365
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Boston Herald Traveler
date · 
16 February 1970
title · 
Their Victory is Something to Flip About
citation · 
page 15
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366
Boston Investigator (newspaper)
location · 
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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109

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published in · 
Boston Investigator
date · 
15 March 1893
title · 
Things We Meet With
citation · 
page 4 • column 1
content

What is the matter with Rev. Tiddledy-Winks Talmage?

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digital copy (NATwA)
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Boston Phoenix/BAD (newspaper)
location · 
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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110

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published in · 
Boston Phoenix/BAD
date · 
29 November 1977
title · 
The Bristol Gromp
citation · 
section Lifestyle • page 3
media description

photograph

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Boston Phoenix/BAD
date · 
29 May 1984
by · 
Alan Lupo
summary

Mention in article about D-Day.

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Boston Post (newspaper)
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Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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111

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Boston Post
date · 
6 February 1921
citation · 
page A-3 • column 1
content

At the old Howard this week

Boston's Leading Burlesque Theatre

Champion Tiddledy Wink Winkers

Winks

There are all kinds of "winks"—there's the brass rail wink, the drug-store wink, but the greatest of them all is the "Tiddledy Winks", the burlesque bunch that will slide many a cheery glance to the boys down front. These winkers are said to be the most polished that ever came this way, and you'll be wise if you're on hand Monday to give them the high sign of welcome. [...]

Tiddledy Winks Burlesque

With Harry S. LeVan, Ambark (Bumps) Ali and Joy-Winkers Chorus

A merry whirl of pretty girls—that's what makes burlesque the big card among all theatre fans, and it's the most popular form of entertainment in the world. Harry LeVan and Ambark sure work the comedy line to perfection, and Ruth Hastings, Edythe Lyons and Pearl Briggs form a trio of getters that are not excelled in this burlesque game [...]

This Sunday, Today, 3 P.M., at the old Howard

Best Concert Programme in Boston. Doors open at 2:30. Show starts at 3. Continuous. 5 Vaudeville Acts. Admission 25 Cents

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Boston Record American (newspaper)
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Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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112

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Boston Record American
date · 
1967 ?
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page centerfold
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photograph

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Christian Science Monitor (newspaper)
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Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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1

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Christian Science Monitor
date · 
21 March 1946
title · 
Rough Sport at Oxford
title language · 
English
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page 22
content

A Reuters dispatch from Oxford reports that Cambridge University lowered Oxford's colors in the first tiddlywinks contests between the two seats of learning by seven games to one.

keywords

Oxford

Cambridge University

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Christian Science Monitor
date · 
3 March 1958
title · 
Philip Overtrains for Tiddlywinks
title language · 
English
citation · 
page 4
content source · 
Associated Press
keywords

Goons

Prince Philip

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Christian Science Monitor
date · 
15 July 1958
title · 
Tiddlywinks Muscles In
title language · 
English
citation · 
page 3
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Associated Press
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Christian Science Monitor
date · 
26 March 1959
title · 
Duke Humiliated: Team Outwinked
title language · 
English
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page 6
content source · 
Associated Press/Reuter
media type · 
drawing
media description

drawing

notes · 
Sunday
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Christian Science Monitor
date · 
8 May 1959
title · 
Mastering the Art of Tiddlywinks
title language · 
English
citation · 
page 1
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4
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Christian Science Monitor
date · 
3 August 1962
title · 
Tiddledywinks!
title language · 
English
citation · 
page 3
content source · 
Associated Press
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transcript (NATwA)
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6
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Christian Science Monitor
date · 
1 October 1962
title · 
Will Tiddlywinks Replace Baseball?
title language · 
English
citation · 
page 13
media type · 
drawing
notes · 
Philadelphia dateline
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Christian Science Monitor
date · 
13 October 1962
title · 
Harvard Tiddlywinks
title language · 
English
citation · 
page 4
keywords

Harvard

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Christian Science Monitor
date · 
5 February 1969
title · 
Tiddlywinks title seekers
title language · 
English
citation · 
edition East and London/Overseas • page 11
content source · 
Associated Press
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Christian Science Monitor
date · 
9 March 1970
title · 
Yeah, tiddlywinks!
by · 
Phil Elderkin
citation · 
edition East and London/Overseas • page 13
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Christian Science Monitor
date · 
9 March 1970
title · 
Yeah, tiddlywinks!
by · 
Phil Elderkin
citation · 
edition West and Midwest editions • page 7
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Christian Science Monitor
date · 
2 March 1972
title · 
Just for fun...
citation · 
page 4
content source · 
Associated Press
notes · 
Reprinted in March 1972 MIT Observer.
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Christian Science Monitor
date · 
15 December 1980
title · 
Choosing electronic games to challenge kids
citation · 
edition Midwest • page 17
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excerpt (NATwA)
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Christian Science Monitor
date · 
30 June 1983
title · 
Thousands of athletes showcase talents at sports festival
citation · 
page 10
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Christian Science Monitor
date · 
18 May 1984
title · 
Antique games
citation · 
page 21
content

TIDDLYWINKS, old maid, Uncle Wiggley… Do these names evoke memories of childhood, a wave of nostalgia? At Ellen Liman's Manhattan home, these are just a few of several hundred antique games a visitor finds, many of them displayed on the bookshelves of her wood-paneled library.

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published in · 
Christian Science Monitor
date · 
27 November 1985
title · 
Learning to like the nutty, buttery lima bean
citation · 
page 47
collection · 
excerpt (NATwA)
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Christian Science Monitor
date · 
6 September 1988
title · 
Squop a wink
summary

About the 100th anniversary of tiddlywinks.

content

FEW people realize that this year is the 100th anniversary of tiddlywinks. The game was invented in 1888 by Joseph Assheton Fincher, who apparently has no other claim to fame. And if the game had to be invented, a fellow with a name like Fincher would be the one to do it. [...]

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Christian Science Monitor (free) (tw-ref-link-id 13)
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published in · 
Christian Science Monitor
date · 
9 September 1988
column title · 
Lightly
title · 
Squop a wink
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published in · 
Christian Science Monitor
date · 
3 February 1989
title · 
Tiddlywinks, Anyone?
citation · 
page 17 • column 1
summary

About Oxford.

keywords

Oxford

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Christian Science Monitor
date · 
30 March 1990
title · 
President Bush Comes Out to Play,  Whether at tennis or tiddlywinks, "Mr. Smooth" is a fierce competitor - a letter from Washington
content

His zeal is wide-ranging, from the country-club staples of golf and tennis to the good-old-boy traditions of fishing and horseshoes to such previously unrecorded presidential pastimes as Wally Ball and tiddlywinks.

Yes, President Bush plays tiddlywinks.

keywords

George H. W. Bush

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The Congregationalist (newspaper)
location · 
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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113

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published in · 
The Congregationalist
date · 
1 January 1891
citation · 
issue 1 • page 6 • column 5
collection · 
to be retrieved
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published in · 
The Congregationalist
date · 
19 February 1891
title · 
THIS AND THAT.
citation · 
issue 8 • page 6 • column 5
content

A little girl in this vicinity is so fond of the game of tiddledy-winks, which is popular just now with children and grown people, that she began to play it by herself one Sunday morning. Her mother naturally objected, but the little maiden replied gravely that her conscience did not trouble her at all in the matter. "Don't you see, mamma," she explained, "that this is the church," pointing to the little dish in the center of the table, toward which the tiddledies are snapped, "and these are the heathen, and this is the missionary trying to get them to go in?"

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The Congregationalist
date · 
26 January 1901
title · 
The Conversation Corner
citation · 
volume 86 • issue 4 • page 137 • column 1
content

Dear Mr. Martin […]

I had lots of games and toys at Christmas, a game of fish-pond from my aunt, a game of tiddledy-winks from one of my boyfriends, and another aunt gave me a game of parlor croquet. […]

Harold H.

That boy is fortuante is [sic; correct: in] having so many grandmothers and aunts; I have not a single grandmoster and only one aunt in the wide world! I know what tiddledy-winks are, for a a little boy in Dorchester showed me his the other day, but what is the “game of fish-pond”? [...]

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very minor
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The Edge (newspaper)
location · 
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Notes

Oriented towards Boston-area college students

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361

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published in · 
The Edge
date · 
June 1979 to July 1979
title · 
Tiddlywinks Taken Seriously at MIT
citation · 
page 2
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original (NATwA)
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The Sacred Heart Review (newspaper)
publisher · 
Review Publishing Company
location · 
194 Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
archive website · 
Notes

Catholic Church and Church in New England news

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published in · 
The Sacred Heart Review
date · 
4 May 1895
column title · 
Our Future Men and Women
title · 
Uncle Jack's Talks with the Boys and Girls
by · 
Mary A. Holmes
citation · 
volume 1 • issue 18 • page 10 • column 1
content

Some of the games that are played at our meetings are as follows; Enlarged Tiddley Winks, containing four buckets. Games of Store, Doctor Busby, Peter Coddles, Cricket on the Hearth, Cards of Fate, Snap, Parlor Steeple Chase, Authors, Dominoes, Checkers, Old Maid, Puzzles, and many others too numerous to mention.

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digital image (NATwA)
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Boston College – digitized image and text (free) (tw-ref-link-id 965)
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published in · 
The Sacred Heart Review
date · 
17 October 1903
title · 
For ONE Subscription
subtitle · 
Table Golf.
by · 
The Sacred Heart Review
citation · 
volume 30 • issue 16 • page 10 • column 3
content

For One New Subscription

At $2.00 a year, we will send you Free any of the following premiums:—

Black and white Illustration of the cover of Table Golf game

A thoroughly "up-to-date" game of Golf that can be played on the parlor table. Links provided with bunkers, water hazard, tee, and the regulation nine holes. All the elements of the regular outdoor golf. Links are laid out on a felt 33x15 inches, to which are fastened nine wooden cups (holes), while three places are marked thereon for the bunkers, and a pond of water is outlined. The implements consists of four bone chips (balls) and a piece of wood called the "baffy". The game is played as Tiddledy Winks, using the baffy to propel the chips (balls) as per rules on cover of the box.

collection · 
digital image (NATwA)
links · 
Boston College – digitized image and text (free) (tw-ref-link-id 954)
tw-ref-ID · 
1492
published in · 
The Sacred Heart Review
date · 
24 October 1903
title · 
For ONE New Subscription
citation · 
volume 30 • issue 17 • page 270 • column 3
content

Table Golf.

Illustration of box top of game, TABLE GOLF

A thoroughly "up-to-date" game of Golf that can be played on the parlor table. Links provided with bunkers, water hazard, tee, and the regulation nine holes. All the elements of the regular outdoor gold. Links are laid out on a felt 33x15 inches, to which are fastened nine wooden cups (holes), while three places are marked thereon for the bunkers, and a pond of water is outlines. The implements consist of four bone chips (balls) and a piece of wood called the "baffy." The game is played as Tiddledy Winks, using the baffy to propel the chips (balls) as per rules on cover of the box.

collection · 
digital copy (NATwA)
links · 
Boston College (free) (tw-ref-link-id 225)
tw-ref-ID · 
572
published in · 
The Sacred Heart Review
date · 
24 October 1903
title · 
For ONE New Subscription
subtitle · 
Table Golf.
by · 
The Sacred Heart Review
citation · 
volume 30 • issue 17 • page 14 • column 3
content

At $2.00 a year, we will send you Free any of the following premiums:—

Black and white Illustration of the cover of Table Golf game

A thoroughly "up-to-date" game of Golf that can be played on the parlor table. Links provided with bunkers, water hazard, tee, and the regulation nine holes. All the elements of the regular outdoor golf. Links are laid out on a felt 33x15 inches, to which are fastened nine wooden cups (holes), while three places are marked thereon for the bunkers, and a pond of water is outlined. The implements consists of four bone chips (balls) and a piece of wood called the "baffy". The game is played as Tiddledy Winks, using the baffy to propel the chips (balls) as per rules on cover of the box.

links · 
Boston College – digitized image and text (free) (tw-ref-link-id 956)
tw-ref-ID · 
1494
published in · 
The Sacred Heart Review
date · 
3 November 1903
title · 
For ONE New Subscription
subtitle · 
Table Golf.
by · 
The Sacred Heart Review
citation · 
volume 30 • issue 22 • page 12 • column 3
content

At $2.00 a year, we will send you Free any of the following premiums:—

Black and white Illustration of the cover of Table Golf game

A thoroughly "up-to-date" game of Golf that can be played on the parlor table. Links provided with bunkers, water hazard, tee, and the regulation nine holes. All the elements of the regular outdoor golf. Links are laid out on a felt 33x15 inches, to which are fastened nine wooden cups (holes), while three places are marked thereon for the bunkers, and a pond of water is outlined. The implements consists of four bone chips (balls) and a piece of wood called the "baffy". The game is played as Tiddledy Winks, using the baffy to propel the chips (balls) as per rules on cover of the box.

links · 
Boston College – digitized image and text (free) (tw-ref-link-id 955)
tw-ref-ID · 
1493
published in · 
The Sacred Heart Review
date · 
13 January 1912
title · 
Another Letter From Providence.
by · 
Raymond Dewdney
citation · 
volume 47 • issue 4 • page 58 • column 2
content

While the members were waiting for the meeting to open, they played little games like, "Tiddledy Winks," ' Catch the Rabbit,'' ''Table ring game," and others, and put cut-out puzzles together. They seemed to enjoy it.

collection · 
digital image (NATwA)
links · 
Boston College – digitized image and text (free) (tw-ref-link-id 963)
tw-ref-ID · 
1501
Sunday Herald Advertiser (newspaper)
location · 
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
106

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for Sunday Herald Advertiser.
published in · 
Sunday Herald Advertiser
date · 
5 August 1973
title · 
The Champion Winker
citation · 
section Pictorial Living Coloroto Magazine • page 3, 18
media description

3 photographs

collection · 
excerpt (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
361
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Cambridge Chronicle (newspaper)
location · 
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
115

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published in · 
Cambridge Chronicle
date · 
6 December 1890
title · 
As You Like It
citation · 
volume 46 • whole 2335 • page 6 • column 3
content

"Is the professor al home" asked the doctor addressing the wife of the sage and philosopher.

"He is," was the reply.

"I wish to consult him in regard to a new discovery In spectrum analysis. Is he in the library?"

"No, he is in Ihe parlor playing Tiddly Winks."

collection · 
digitized image PDF (NATwA)
links · 
Cambridge Public Library – digitized image PDF (free) (tw-ref-link-id 1385)
tw-ref-ID · 
1965
published in · 
Cambridge Chronicle
date · 
22 April 1899
title · 
City Notices.
citation · 
page 14 • column 2
content

"Tiddledy Winks" is Warren's newest confection. Ask for it

links · 
Cambridge Public Library (free) (tw-ref-link-id 137)
tw-ref-ID · 
375
published in · 
Cambridge Chronicle
date · 
14 October 1899
citation · 
page 13 • column 5
content

Warren's Tiddledy Winks have come in favor again. 40 cents a pound.

links · 
Cambridge Public Library (free) (tw-ref-link-id 138)
tw-ref-ID · 
376
published in · 
Cambridge Chronicle
date · 
2 March 1972
title · 
Tiddlywinks Team Champs Hail from M.I.T.
citation · 
page 13
tw-ref-ID · 
377
published in · 
Cambridge Chronicle
date · 
16 March 1972
title · 
Odds Even on MIT's Tiddlywinkers
citation · 
page 8
notes · 
Reprinted in March 1972 MIT Observer
tw-ref-ID · 
378
published in · 
Cambridge Chronicle
date · 
13 April 1972
title · 
Tiddlywinkers Flip Lids
citation · 
page 13
tw-ref-ID · 
379
Cambridge Phoenix (newspaper)
location · 
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
116

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published in · 
Cambridge Phoenix
date · 
?
summary

Advertisement by Sunshine about tiddlywinks.

notes · 
(Might be in Boston After Dark instead.)
tw-ref-ID · 
380
published in · 
Cambridge Phoenix
date · 
4 March 1970
title · 
Sports. Dept.
citation · 
page 2
content

The Somerville Tiddlywink Squad, believe it or not, recently won the International Tiddlywink Competition held at Ithaca, New York. The Somervillers beat the defending champions, the Cornell University team, by a sizable margin. The team was welcomed at Logan Airport by thousands of cheering fans before being whisked to a lavish linguini repast at the Hi De Ho Lounge on lovely Beacon Street.

collection · 
photocopy (NATwA/Drix); digital of photocopy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
381
Cambridge Sentinel (newspaper)
location · 
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
484

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published in · 
Cambridge Sentinel
date · 
8 December 1906
title · 
Golf
citation · 
volume 4 • issue 6 • page 6 • column 5
content

A writer in an English paper has this to say regarding the game of golf: “Golf is a great game, but shiver me niblicks if I think it comes up to tiddledywinks. It is played with a couple of farms, a river or so, two or three sand hills, a number of implements resembling dentist’s tools, a strange language much like Hindoostanee, any old clothes and a large assortment of oaths.”

links · 
Cambridge Public Library – digitized image PDF (free) (tw-ref-link-id 2234)
tw-ref-ID · 
1966
published in · 
Cambridge Sentinel
date · 
23 July 1932
column title · 
Cheerio Chapters - Fun for All the Children
title · 
Game of Golf Hazard
by · 
Dorothy Edmonds
citation · 
volume 28 • issue 30 • page 6 • column 4
content source · 
Western Newspaper Union
content
Black and white illustration of a rectangle depicting nine irregularly shaped golf greens, marked 1 through 9 from upper right to lower left.

This game is for as many players as wish to join. Directions for play are as follows: There are nine holes. Each player starts at hole number one. Each player has three small very flat buttons and one large one or if you have celluloid disks such as are used in the game of Tiddly Winks, these are better still for it is by snapping these into place that moves are made. One snap is allowed at each turn. The players must get their men around the entire course and the one who does it first wins. The button must land in the center of each hole, not touching the sides. If it goes beyond the hole he is aiming for the player loses his next turn. If it does not go as far as the hole he Is aiming for he loses two turns. If another player is on the hole desired by the player moving, he must successfully skip this one and land in the one beyond, but if he misses he must go back to the beginning.

(© 1932, Western Newspaper Union.)

collection · 
digitized image PDF (NATwA)
links · 
Cambridge Public Library – digitized image PDF (free) (tw-ref-link-id 1383)
tw-ref-ID · 
1963
published in · 
Cambridge Sentinel
date · 
27 August 1932
column title · 
Cheerio Chapters - Fun for All the Children
title · 
Game of Forest
by · 
Dorothy Edmonds
citation · 
volume 28 • issue 35 • page 6 • column 5
content source · 
Western Newspaper Union
content
Black and white illustration of a square depicting 15 trees, each of which is marked as "Minus" or "Plus", and each of which is also marked with a number. They are marked: Minus 4, Minus 7, Plus 6, Plus 9, Plus 5, Minus 12, Plus 17, Plus 1, Plus 13, Plus 2, Plus 14, Minu 8, Minus 4, and Minus 10.

Four players are the most that can play this game. Implements of play are flat buttons or celluloid disks that can be snapped as In the popular game of Tiddly Winks. Each player starts from a corner circle. Each plays In turn. The object of the game is to obtain the highest plus score. Each must shoot first for the tree in the center of the board, marked minus twelve. Each starts with this handicap. UntiI each has successfully landed on this tree he cannot progress further. When shooting for the other trees In order of their sequence if the implement of play lands well inside the surface of the tree he Is shooting for, he may count the score written thereon. If It lands more than half way off the surface, the score does not count and he starts again his next turn from his last vantage point. It Is the aim to avoid landing of course on the trees nearing a minus score, but if In shooting a player does land, even so that he is touching the edge of a minus tree, he must count the number indicated on his minus score, Each tree is played only once by each player, except the minus ones, and these count against the score as many times as they are touched.

collection · 
digitized image PDF (NATwA)
links · 
Cambridge Public Library – digitized image PDF (free) (tw-ref-link-id 1384)
tw-ref-ID · 
1964
published in · 
Cambridge Sentinel
date · 
2 November 1935
column title · 
Hugh Bradley Says:
by · 
Hugh Bradley
citation · 
volume 30 • issue 44 • page 7 • column 5
content source · 
New York Post; Western Newspaper Union Service
content

Tiddlywinks has become (no kidding) the favorite gambling game of the Long Island polo set during these chilly evenings.

collection · 
digitized image PDF (NATwA)
links · 
Cambridge Public Library – digitized image PDF (free) (tw-ref-link-id 1382)
tw-ref-ID · 
1962
Fitchburg, Massachusetts, United States
Fitchburg (Daily) Sentinel (newspaper)
location · 
Fitchburg, Massachusetts, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
118

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published in · 
Fitchburg (Daily) Sentinel
date · 
6 January 1891
title · 
Local Matters
citation · 
volume 18 • issue 207 • page 2 • column 2
content

The regular monthly meeting of the Chapin club at the Day street vestry, Monday evening, was enlivened by music, select readings and an original essay on the game of "Tiddledy Winks," after which the game of "progressive Tiddledy Winks" was enjoyed.

collection · 
digital copy (NATwA)
links · 
Newspapers.com (subscription) (tw-ref-link-id 140)
tw-ref-ID · 
383
published in · 
Fitchburg (Daily) Sentinel
date · 
9 December 1918
citation · 
page 7
content

Nichols and Frost

Toyland is Open

Games

  • Tiddledy-winks
  • Tiddledy-winks Tennis
tw-ref-ID · 
384
Greenfield, Massachusetts, United States
The Recorder (newspaper)
location · 
Greenfield, Massachusetts, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
119

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published in · 
The Recorder
date · 
27 May 1991
title · 
Don't go squopping without a squidger
citation · 
page 1, 10
media description

photograph of Ferd Wulkan

collection · 
photocopy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
385
published in · 
The Recorder
date · 
24 June 1991
notes · 
Article expected with photographs of NATwA's 25th anniversary celebrations in Gill, Massachusetts
tw-ref-ID · 
386
published in · 
The Recorder
date · 
24 January 2005
by · 
Karen P. Chynoweth
summary

Reporting on the NATwA-ETwA competition at the 50th anniversary of the Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club events.

content

Peter "Ferd" Wulkan and the other seven members of the United States tiddlywinks team report having had an incredible time last week receiving a severe beating from a British opponent.

tw-ref-ID · 
387
Town Crier (newspaper)
location · 
Greenfield, Massachusetts, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
120

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published in · 
Town Crier
date · 
19 June 1991
title · 
Gill To Host Weekend Tiddlywinks Tournament
citation · 
page 1, 2
collection · 
original (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
388
Montague, Massachusetts, United States
The Montague Reporter (newspaper)
location · 
Montague, Massachusetts, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
250

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published in · 
The Montague Reporter
date · 
4 August 2016
title · 
Fifty Years of Focused Squidging: Town to Host Tiddlywinks Bash
by · 
Pete Wackernagel
citation · 
volume 14 • issue 40 • page A1 • column 1
content
Color photograph of Ferd Wulkan in profile, leaning down to shoot a wink. Photograph by Rick Tucker.
Montague's own Ferd Wulkan, playing in a North American Tiddlywinks Association competition singles match last year.

MONTAGUE—On the 20th and 21st of this month, Tiddlywinks players from around North America and Europe will gather at the Montague Common Hall in Montague Center. The occasion is the 50th anniversary of the North American Tiddlywinks Association, or NATwA.

[...]

collection · 
original (NATwA); digital image (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
882
published in · 
The Montague Reporter
date · 
4 August 2016
title · 
TIDDLYWINKS from page A1
by · 
Pete Wackernagel
citation · 
volume 14 • issue 40 • page A6 • column 1
content
Two black and white photographs [...]
collection · 
original (NATwA); digital image (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
883
Northampton, Massachusetts, United States
Daily Hampshire Gazette (newspaper)
location · 
Northampton, Massachusetts, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
121

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for Daily Hampshire Gazette.
published in · 
Daily Hampshire Gazette
date · 
11 January 2005
title · 
He's ready to "squop" for honor of U.S.: It's tiddlywinks, folks
summary

About Ferd Wulkan.

content

At 56, Ferd Wulkan is still at the top of his game. But for Wulkan, it's not about the fame or the money. He has no entourage or corporate sponsorship. It's all for the love of tiddlywinks. It's "the perfect game, combining intricate strategy with manual dexterity," said Wulkan, a union organizer at the University of Massachusetts who lives in Montague. [...]

collection · 
transcript (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
389
Peabody, Massachusetts, United States
Daily Peabody Times (newspaper)
location · 
Peabody, Massachusetts, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
122

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published in · 
Daily Peabody Times
date · 
? May 1978
summary

About Dave Lockwood.

content source · 
United Press International
tw-ref-ID · 
390
Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
Springfield Republican (newspaper)
location · 
Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
126

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published in · 
Springfield Republican
date · 
23 June 1991
citation · 
edition Franklin County edition
media description

photograph of Don Fox

tw-ref-ID · 
422
Springfield Union (newspaper)
location · 
Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
124

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published in · 
Springfield Union
date · 
23 July 1948
title · 
Water Polo Is Tiddlywinks In Comparison to Politics
by · 
Hal Boyle
citation · 
page 10
content source · 
Associated Press
content

New York, July 22 (AP)—Water polo used to be regarded as the most strenuous of sports

Anyone who sat through the Republican and Democratic conventions in Philadelphia, however, would have to admit it is tiddlywinks in comparison to the great American game of politics.

collection · 
digital copy (NATwA)
links · 
GenealogyBank (subscription) (tw-ref-link-id 146)
tw-ref-ID · 
398
published in · 
Springfield Union
date · 
9 October 1950
title · 
Cops Are Only Good At Tiddlywinks Firemen Charge
citation · 
page 8
content

West Springfield, Oct. 8—Firemen today said they will challenge the police to a "Tiddlywinks" game.

collection · 
digital copy (NATwA)
links · 
GenealogyBank (subscription) (tw-ref-link-id 143)
tw-ref-ID · 
395
published in · 
Springfield Union
date · 
5 March 1953
title · 
Industry's Elder Statesman
citation · 
page 21 • column 1
notes · 
Extended analogy
collection · 
transcript (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
396
published in · 
Springfield Union
date · 
3 November 1957
citation · 
page 3 • column 5
content

Penney's ALWAYS FIRST QUALITY

Tiddlywinks anyone? Parchesi, checkers! 66c

media description

notional illustrations

collection · 
transcript (NATwA)
links · 
GenealogyBank (subscription) (tw-ref-link-id 145)
tw-ref-ID · 
399
published in · 
Springfield Union
date · 
9 May 1958
title · 
British Wink at Tiddly
citation · 
page 1 • column 6
content source · 
Associated Press
content

Varsity teams from Oxford and Cambridge Universities clash tomorrow in what is billed as the game of the century to introduce a new intercollegiate sport—tiddlywinks [...]

collection · 
digital copy (NATwA)
links · 
GenealogyBank (subscription) (tw-ref-link-id 150)
tw-ref-ID · 
400
published in · 
Springfield Union
date · 
9 May 1958
title · 
British Wink
citation · 
page 16
content source · 
Associated Press
content

Continued From Page 1

[...] One of the Oxford players is a girl. Her presence on the team may be contested by Cambridge players, some of whom insist that tiddlywinks is for gentlemen only.

collection · 
digital copy (NATwA)
links · 
GenealogyBank (subscription) (tw-ref-link-id 148)
tw-ref-ID · 
401
published in · 
Springfield Union
date · 
12 May 1958
title · 
Parliament Has Tiddlers
citation · 
page 2 • column 8
content source · 
Associated Press
content

Oxford University's varsity tiddlywinks team—claimant to the world championship—is scheduled to meet a team made up on members of Parliament in July. [...]

collection · 
digital copy, transcript (NATwA)
links · 
GenealogyBank (subscription) (tw-ref-link-id 151)
tw-ref-ID · 
402
published in · 
Springfield Union
date · 
14 June 1958
title · 
Campus Capers
citation · 
page 10 • column 1
content

American undergraduates whose joy in spring was titillatingly enhanced by the news from Britain that Cambridge and Oxford had decided to engae in competitive varsity tiddlywinks are enjoying a fresh delight in the report that the two universities have added birdwatching to their calendar.

collection · 
digital copy (NATwA)
links · 
GenealogyBank (subscription) (tw-ref-link-id 152)
tw-ref-ID · 
403
published in · 
Springfield Union
date · 
18 May 1959
title · 
Can Tiddlywinks Hasten Peace?
subtitle · 
Nikita, Choose Your Squidger
citation · 
page 4 • column 3
content source · 
Newspaper Enterprise Association
content

LONDON (NEA)—The foreign ministers are haggling in Geneva over such issues as Berlin and Germany, but Rev. Edgar A. Willis has a simpler suggestion for easing East-West tension:

Advantages Cited

Let Nikita Khrushchev take up tiddlywinks. [...]

media description

photograph of Gen. Sir Hugh Stockwell playing tiddlywinks.

collection · 
digital copy (NATwA)
links · 
GenealogyBank (subscription) (tw-ref-link-id 153)
tw-ref-ID · 
404
published in · 
Springfield Union
date · 
18 May 1959
title · 
We're Losing Ground
citation · 
page 4 • column 1
content

As a matter of fact, our own campus zanies have been losing ground rapidly to their British counterparts in the Silliness Sweepstakes. Jamming phone booths started in England. So did varsity tiddlywinks.

collection · 
digital copy (NATwA)
links · 
GenealogyBank (subscription) (tw-ref-link-id 154)
tw-ref-ID · 
405
published in · 
Springfield Union
date · 
13 July 1960
title · 
Cousin Is Welcomed
citation · 
page 19 • column 3
content

Walter Boughton welcomes Jean Burns to the Clarence Day household in the Valley Players production of "Life With Father." Shirley Bryan as Mrs. Day, looks on while her children played by Richard Holmes and Barry Keating amuse themselves with tiddlywinks.

collection · 
digital copy (NATwA)
links · 
GenealogyBank (subscription) (tw-ref-link-id 155)
tw-ref-ID · 
406
published in · 
Springfield Union
date · 
7 July 1962
title · 
Cannot Squop Wink Without Squidge
citation · 
page 3 • column 2
summary

About Oxford University tour of the United States.

content

"A wink cannot be squopped until it has been brought into play by being squidged from its starting position."

No, gentle reader. This is not doubletalk nor is it a part of the lyrics of a current teen-age-level song hit. [...]

collection · 
digital copy (NATwA)
links · 
GenealogyBank (subscription) (tw-ref-link-id 156)
tw-ref-ID · 
407
published in · 
Springfield Union
date · 
30 August 1962
title · 
New Tiddlywinks Challenge Issued In Windsor Locks
citation · 
page 33 • column 5
content

A challenge to an Oxford tiddlywinks team to compete with a 17-year-old Connecticut boy and a local "milk squad" is still unanswered.

collection · 
digital copy (NATwA)
links · 
GenealogyBank (subscription) (tw-ref-link-id 157)
tw-ref-ID · 
408
published in · 
Springfield Union
date · 
30 June 1963
title · 
Reporter's Notebook
by · 
Frank B. Murray
citation · 
page 50 • column 7
content

As the powerful hoses tore into the building, the streams flipped off the slates on the roof life Tiddlywinks. [...]

collection · 
digital copy (NATwA)
links · 
GenealogyBank (subscription) (tw-ref-link-id 160)
tw-ref-ID · 
409
published in · 
Springfield Union
date · 
5 January 1970
title · 
Tiddlywinkers Flip! Snap! Pop! To New Record
citation · 
page 3 • column 6
content source · 
Associated Press
content

Eight British schoolboys finished 85 hours of nonstop tiddlywinks Sunday night and did a little something for charity in the process.

[...]
collection · 
digital copy (NATwA)
links · 
GenealogyBank (subscription) (tw-ref-link-id 161)
tw-ref-ID · 
410
published in · 
Springfield Union
date · 
6 November 1970
title · 
TIDDLYWINKS TABOO
citation · 
page 22 • column 1
content source · 
United Press International
content

York, England (UPI)—Organizers of a tiddlywinks contest for charity in a local pub were told by police to find another game—tiddlywinks for a prize is illegal under the new betting and gaming act. They decided to substitute a contest in which peas are blown through a straw.

collection · 
digital copy (NATwA)
links · 
GenealogyBank (subscription) (tw-ref-link-id 162)
tw-ref-ID · 
411
published in · 
Springfield Union
date · 
30 November 1970
title · 
Meters in Detroit Will Reject Slugs
citation · 
page 25 • column 3
content source · 
Associated Press
content

DETROIT (AP)--The city is installing a device on parking meters which will reject any kind of slug, including tiddlywinks, beer-can rings, washers and token coins. [...]

collection · 
digital copy (NATwA)
links · 
GenealogyBank (subscription) (tw-ref-link-id 163)
tw-ref-ID · 
412
published in · 
Springfield Union
date · 
8 May 1971
title · 
Auction Slated on Wednesday
citation · 
page 4 • column 5
content

Among the articles to be sold are a Peruvian sheepskin coat, a set of ivory antique tiddlywinks, [...]

collection · 
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published in · 
Springfield Union
date · 
3 April 1972
title · 
Happy Tid-Bits
citation · 
page 22 • column 2
content source · 
United Press International
content

SOUTHAMPTON, England (UPI)--Tough tiddling sparked by senior Timothy Schiller of Fresno, Calif., led the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Engineers to a 122-101 upset tiddlywinks victory over defending champion University of Southampton. [...]

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published in · 
Springfield Union
date · 
25 August 1973
title · 
A Conservative View
subtitle · 
Of Burping Cows and Tiddlywinks
by · 
James J. Kilpatrick
citation · 
page 10 • column 2
content

At the risk of immodesty, I may add that one of my own editorials is included in the Eritas collection. This was a piece to the Richmond News Leader of May 14, 1958, under the caption of "Notes on an Ancient Game." It dealt with the history and current play of tiddlywinks in the British Isles. [...]

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published in · 
Springfield Union
date · 
1 January 1979
title · 
Cotton Bowl
subtitle · 
Houston vs. Notre Dame
citation · 
page 27 • column 1
content source · 
Associated Press
content

"I'm familiar with Notre Dame's background," said Yeoman. "They don't take a casual approach to anything, even tiddlywinks. [...]"

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published in · 
Springfield Union
date · 
27 February 1980
title · 
Wednesday's TV Highlights
citation · 
page 30 • column 2
content

REAL PEOPLE—Offering continuing proof that truth is stranger than fiction, this week's show looks at a talking refrigerator, a method for toilet training cats, a psychic who conducts seances for Elvis Presley's family, a tiddlywinks champion and many other oddities. 8 p.m. on 22.

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published in · 
Springfield Union
date · 
20 February 1981
title · 
Scorsese's "Raging Bull": Sheer, brutal
by · 
Richard Freedman
citation · 
page 20 • column 1
content source · 
Newhouse News Service
content

For sheer brutal realism, the boxing in "Raging Bull" makes the fights in the "Rocky" movies look like a Seven Sisters Tiddlywinks tournament.

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published in · 
Springfield Union
date · 
27 February 1981
title · 
Contest rides on a twink of the wink
citation · 
page 2 • column 4
content source · 
Associated Press
content

HAVERFORD, Pa. (AP) -- Squidges and squops are nothing to wink at in some circles.

To the players in the 15th annual North American Tiddlywinks Championship, the unusual names are just tools of the trade.

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published in · 
Springfield Union
date · 
20 September 1981
title · 
Out of my head
subtitle · 
Airport '81: It Hertz to know No. 2 wants to clip your wings
by · 
Robert Chipkin
citation · 
page 4 • column 1
content

"Yes, I am. But, believe me, what I've been through today makes Monday night football look like a tiddlywinks match."

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420
published in · 
Springfield Union
date · 
14 November 1981
title · 
KIRKPATRICK
subtitle · 
Diogenes the Cynic, meet Stockman the Candid
by · 
James. J. Kilpatrick
citation · 
page 12 • column 3
content

What did Mr. Stockman say that was so awful? In essence, he disclosed that here in Washington, politicians play politics. In the name of all the angles and the saints, what games are politicians supposed to play? Pinochle? Tiddlywinks?

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Sunday and Daily Republican (newspaper)
location · 
Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
123

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published in · 
Sunday and Daily Republican
date · 
20 September 1890
citation · 
page 8 • column 1
content

"Tiddledy Winks." A new puzzle in great demand, but no supply. Left aisle.

Forbes

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391
published in · 
Sunday and Daily Republican
date · 
23 June 1991
title · 
Tiddlywinks tourney lures players
citation · 
page A11
summary

Coverage of NATwA's 25th reunion events in Gill, Massachusetts.

content

Bill "Red Scarf"Gammerdinger traveled all the way from Texas for this tournament. Another player, a member of the "Zoo Creatures," came from San Francisco.

Yesterday, in the Gill town hall, players squidged and they [sic original="squoped" correct="squopped"].

Many have played the game since they were postadolescents. Several learned the game from one man, Peter "Ferd" Wulkan, the event's organizer. [...]

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published in · 
Sunday and Daily Republican
date · 
13 December 1993
title · 
Toy exhibit whets holiday appetites
subtitle · 
Museum displays antique games, dolls
by · 
Fred Contrada
citation · 
page 16
content

A miniature horse-drawn cart once belonging to Calvin Coolidge Jr. is among the toys and Christmas cards on display this month in a special holiday exhibit at Historic Northampton Damon House, 46 Bridge St.

The collection includes 19th century dolls, antique tiddlywinks and Springfield's Milton Bradley Co. games dating back as far as 1860. Most items were used or donated by Northampton residents. [...]

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published in · 
Sunday and Daily Republican
date · 
28 August 2005
title · 
Tiddlywinks champ marks milestone
by · 
Nancy H. Gonter
citation · 
page HFP1
summary

About Ferd Wulkan.

content

MONTAGUE - When Ferd Wulken heard about Tiddlywinks, he knew it was the sport for him. "My best friend said this is a sport for us nerds who aren't very athletic," says Wulken, who was in college back then. So as a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Wulken started the school's Tiddlywinks team in 1966. From there, he was hooked.

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Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
Waltham News-Tribune (newspaper)
location · 
Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
127

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published in · 
Waltham News-Tribune
date · 
April 1972
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Associated Press
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Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Worcester Daily Spy (newspaper)
location · 
Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
128

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published in · 
Worcester Daily Spy
date · 
15 September 1890
title · 
Just Out.
subtitle · 
TIDDLEDY WINK!
citation · 
page 4 • column 3
content

The most enchanting and fascinating game for young or old in the market. All the rage in Boston and New York. Price only 25c. For sale by C. F. HANSON & CO., 317 Main st.

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published in · 
Worcester Daily Spy
date · 
17 September 1890
citation · 
page 4
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published in · 
Worcester Daily Spy
date · 
24 September 1890
title · 
TIDDLEDY WINK!
citation · 
volume 45 • issue 228 • page 4 • column 3
content

The new and pleasing game, has already become popular in the city. Several are having progressive "Tiddledy Wink" parties. It pleases the old and young. Everybody must have a hand in it. Prices 25 and 50c. each. Sold at C. F. HANSON & CO.'S, 317 Main ST.

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published in · 
Worcester Daily Spy
date · 
25 September 1890
title · 
TIDDLEDY WINK!
citation · 
volume 45 • issue 229 • page 4
content

The new and pleasing game, has already become popular in the city. Several are having progressive "Tiddledy Wink" parties. It pleases the old and young. Everybody must have a hand in it. Prices 25 and 50c. each. Sold at C. F. HANSON & CO.'S, 317 Main ST.

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published in · 
Worcester Daily Spy
date · 
6 October 1890
title · 
TIDDLEDY WINK!
citation · 
volume 45 • issue 238 • page 4 • column 3
content

The popular new game, is raging in Worcester. Everybody is fascinated with it. We are having new invoices each week. Prices from 25c to $1. Call and get one of Tiddledy Wink Parlor Tennis. Just out. It's immense. Sold at C. F. Hanson & Co.'S, 317 Main St.

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published in · 
Worcester Daily Spy
date · 
7 October 1890
title · 
Ho! Ho! TIDDLEDY WINK Ha! Ha!
citation · 
volume 45 • issue 239 • page 4 • column 4
content

Everybody have a fine old time with this new game. The old play it; the young enjoy it; everybody is wild over it. Sold by C. F. HANSON & CO. 317 Main Street.

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published in · 
Worcester Daily Spy
date · 
10 October 1890
title · 
PROGRESSIVE TIDDLEDY WINK PARTIES
citation · 
volume 45 • issue 242 • page 4 • column 4
content

Are now in full bloom of Popularity. Sold by C. F. HANSON & CO. 317 Main Street.

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published in · 
Worcester Daily Spy
date · 
10 October 1890
title · 
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
citation · 
volume 45 • issue 242 • page 8 • column 3
content

The Young Women's Christian Association tonight have a pleasant social from 7:30 to 9 p.m. The new game of Tiddledy Winks will be used for the first time. These socials are for members and those who whill become members of the association.

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published in · 
Worcester Daily Spy
date · 
11 October 1890
citation · 
volume 45 • issue 243 • page 4 • column 4
content

Whist and Euchre parties
Outdone by the every popular Game,
TIDDLEDY WINK
And TIDDLEDY WINK TENNIS. Sold by
C.F. HANSON & CO.
317 Main Street.

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published in · 
Worcester Daily Spy
date · 
13 October 1890
citation · 
volume 45 • page 4 • column 3
content

Tiddledy Winks, 10c
Left aisle
DENHOLM & McKAY
Main St., opp. Park

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published in · 
Worcester Daily Spy
date · 
14 October 1890
citation · 
volume 45 • issue 245 • page 4 • column 3
content

Well! If you don't wish to have a hand in a Game of
TIDDLEDY WINK
Have one in TIDDLEDY WINK TENNIS
C.F. HANSON & CO.
317 Main Street.
Deals them on from 25c to $1.00.

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published in · 
Worcester Daily Spy
date · 
15 October 1890
citation · 
volume 45 • issue 246 • page 4 • column 4
content

Now the winter evenings will soon be here; what shall we do to pass the time away?
Why! have a Game of
TIDDLEDY WINK
SOLD AT
C.F. HANSON & CO.
317 Main Street,
Deals them out, only 25c to $1.00.

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Michigan • (state)
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Ann Arbor Argus (newspaper)
location · 
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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129

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published in · 
Ann Arbor Argus
date · 
15 May 1891
citation · 
volume 57 • issue 37 • whole 2998 • page 8 • column 3
content

FOR ONE NEW SUBSCRIBER

Illustration of a gun.
The Ann Arbor Argus.
The Greatest Parlor Amusement of the Day.
Illustration of the barrel of a gun.

IT BEATS TIDDLEDY WINK. PLEASES YOUNG AND OLD.
One of these Guns and a Target will be Given to Every One who Gets One New Subscriber to the Argus
GET THE GUN NOW BEFORE THEY ARE GONE.

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Cass City, Michigan, United States
Cass City Chronicle (newspaper)
location · 
Cass City, Michigan, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
130

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published in · 
Cass City Chronicle
date · 
19 September 1930
title · 
Current Comments
subtitle · 
Tiddledywinks Beat Thumb-nail Golf
citation · 
volume 25 • issue 23 • page 2 • column 1
content

Have you tried miniature golf yet? We heard so much about it that we stopped at a couple of courses the other evening and watched a lot of people who seemed to be thoroughly enjoying it, but we couldn't seem to understand how they got a kick out of it. Back in the old days we heard more laughter and outbursts of enthusiasm from one game of tiddledywinks than we heard at either course, but we know we must have the wrong slant on this hothouse golf because millions are playing it and fortunes being made by makers of equipment and some owners of the courses. In the meantime, if you want some real fun, get out the old horseshoes - there's a game that has lasted through the ages. - Cassopolis Vigilant.

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published in · 
Cass City Chronicle
date · 
2 February 1945
title · 
Holbrook-Wickware Recreation Club
citation · 
volume 39 • issue 42 • page 8 • column 6
content

The recreation club met on Friday, Jan. 26, at the home of Harold Hendrick where Marjorie Marsh was hostess. Members present had fun playing cards, tiddledy winks, and bingo.

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Detroit, Michigan, United States
Detroit Free Press (newspaper)
location · 
Detroit, Michigan, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
131

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published in · 
Detroit Free Press
date · 
21 December 1890
title · 
TIDDLEDY-WINKS
subtitle · 
The New Game Now the Thing for Amusement
citation · 
page 25
content

Tiddledy winks is now the great game for social amusement. Progressive euchre is played out. "Pigs in clover" is ancient history—whist, checkers, chess—all the games which have outlasted a season have, for the time being, gone into eclipse under the bright but doubtless fleeting light of "tiddledy winks."

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Detroit Free Press
date · 
13 December 2011
title · 
Classic board games, tiddledywinks, jacks making a comeback
by · 
Kim Cook
citation · 
edition online
content source · 
Associated Press
content

In Christmas Past, children would find all sorts of simple games under the tree: tiddledywinks, pick-up sticks and board games that could amuse young minds for hours.

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440
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
Grand Rapids Press (newspaper)
location · 
Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
132

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published in · 
Grand Rapids Press
date · 
12 May 1978
summary

Abour Dave Lockwood.

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United Press International
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441
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Grand Rapids Press
date · 
3 June 2002
title · 
Much-married earl
citation · 
page D4
content

WILTSHIRE, England—Johnny Kimberley, the fourth Earl of Kimberley, a glorious failure in a variety of private and public endeavors including the posts of Liberal spokesman in the British House of Lords and chairman of Britain's National Council on Alcoholism, died May 12. He was 78.

He also had been a member of Britain's national bobsled team, a championship tiddlywinks player, a breeder of prize pigs and an amateur steeplechase jockey and shark fisherman of note.

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published in · 
Grand Rapids Press
date · 
23 January 2005
title · 
Squop it
subtitle · 
Tiddlywinks is a serious matter, Adult Americans, Brits face off in 50th annual tournament
content

A whole lot of squidging, squopping and potting has been going on at Cambridge University in England, all part of a prestigious jubilee: The 50th anniversary of tournament tiddlywinks.Yes, tournament tiddlywinks. No, not just that silly kids' game. Well, sort of.There's more to tiddlywinks than flipping small discs into a little pot. [...]

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Holland, Michigan, United States
The Holland Sentinel (newspaper)
location · 
Holland, Michigan, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
133

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published in · 
The Holland Sentinel
date · 
25 January 2006
title · 
Father and sons revel in competitve tiddlywinks
summary

About Lockwood family tiddlywinks clan.

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Minnesota • (state)
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Saint Paul Daily Globe (newspaper)
location · 
Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
134

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published in · 
Saint Paul Daily Globe
date · 
14 December 1890
title · 
IN TIDDLEDY WINKS.
citation · 
volume 12 • issue 348 • page 14 • column 1
content

St. Paul Society Finds Amusement for a Few Leisure Hours.

A Little Fad That Has Become the Present Fashionable Craze,

Ladies Doing Their Best to Learn It, and Succeeding Admirably.

What Tiddledy Winks Is, and How the Game Is Played.

Do you play Tiddledy Winks?

If not, get a set and learn the came.

All St. Paul society is playing it, and it has become the fad.

[illustration of hand pressing squidger on a wink on a pad, shooting it with a trajectory into the pot]

In the East it has become a veritable craze, and ail social affairs are considered dull and insipid unless Tiddledy Winks is introduced.

Already it is the prime subject of gossip among the ladies in this city, and the first question the fair ones ask when they meet is: "How are yon getting along with Tiddledy Winks? Have you learned it yet?" Then they compare experiences as to the best way of playing Tiddledy Winks.

It is a very simple game, easily learned and yet requires sufficient skill to make it interesting. There are many reasons why it should be the ruling winter game. New features are being added to increase the complications and consequently the skill required. One of these features is a miniature tennis court, but the original "Tiddledy Winks" will be found sufficiently entertaining. The complications can come later.

One, two, three or four persons may play the game. It is all the more pleasIng when the players are divided into partners. It is necessary to have a table covered with cloth. A round table is probably the best, as it enables the players to arrange themselves more comfortably.

The Implements Are

tiddledies, winks, a wink-pot and counters. A tiddledy is a thin disc of bone or ivory, and about the size of a 25-cent piece. A wink is a disc of the same material, but smaller, being about the size of a 10-cent piece. A wink-pot is a little wooden vessel, like a tiny bucket, with an opening the size of a siiver dollar, and about an inch deep. There are little pads, somewhat resembling the "cheating rags" urchins use in playing marbles. The idea is to press on the wink with the tiddledy and make it jump into the wink-pot. The tiddledies are of various colors, with winks of corresponding hues. The pads are of colored silk and as pretty as taste may suggest. The counters are of colored pressed pasteboard.

When the players are ready to begin each takes a tiddledy and six winks, and the counters are equally divided among them. Then each contributes an agreed upon number of counters to a pool, which is placed in charge of one of the players. The wink pot is placed in the middle of the table. The object is to jump as many winks into the pot as possible. Each plays in turn to the left, the one to lead being decided by lot. The player places his or her pad at any distance from the wink pot and jumps six winks, one alfer another, paying no attention to those which fail to go into the pot. The winks lie tlat on the pad, and the player, holding the tiddledy by the thumb and first two lingers presses with its edge

Upon the Wink,

As the tiddledy slips it causes the wink to jump. The best result is produced by resting the tiddledy on the center of the wink and drawing it back under slight pressure. A litte practice will enable a player to jump a wink a distance of several feet and a foot or more in the air. For each wink landed in the wink pot the player receives one counter from the pool. If he sends four or more winks into the pot in succession he makes a "run" and receives one extra counter from the pool for each wink over three put in on a run. If he jumps six winks into tlie pot in succession he makes a "sweep" and receives, besides the counters taken from tne pool, one from each opponent.

All counters received, except one for each wink put into the wink-pot, should be kept separately, so as to tally the winks jumped into the pot. If a player fails on six jumps to land a single wink in the pot, he pays two counters to the pool. After each player has jumped his six winks, then the first player takes any wink lying outside the pot, places it where he pleases and makes it jump. It it goes in. he tries another. As soon as he fails the player next to the left proceeds in the same manner.

So the game goes on until all the winks have been jumped into the pot. The player putting the largest number of winks into the wink pot in one turn takes one-half the counters remaining in the pool, the remaining half going to the player having put the greatest number of winks in the pot. A tie is decided by the two contestants jumping six winks each, the one winning that lands the most of them.

The counters may be given any value agreed upon, as in poker, or if the game is purely for fun, the player having the greatest number of counters when the last wink is landed in the pot of course wins. The same enables ladies with long, tapering fingers to display them to the best advantage.

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Nebraska • (state)
Beatrice, Nebraska, United States
Beatrice Daily Sun (newspaper)
location · 
Beatrice, Nebraska, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
135

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published in · 
Beatrice Daily Sun
date · 
3 July 1958
title · 
Tiddlywinks used to be for the kids
by · 
Alvin Steinkopf
citation · 
volume 56 • issue 305 • page 5 • column 3
content source · 
Associated Press
content

Tiddlywinks used to be for kids.

But in Britain lately the game has caught the interest of rnuscular athletes, intellectuals, and even the royal family.

To play tiddlywinks you take a firm hold of a bone or plastic disk and snap other disks around a table.

At Cambridge University there is talk, admittedly on the sophomorlc side, of making tiddlywinks an event of the Olympic Games. Why the sudden upsurge in the popularity of the humble little game? No one really knows, but possibly the lazy weather of recent weeks has something to do with it. It's more fun than irregular verbs.

Tiddlywinks, a very old game not figuring conspicuously on the sports pages, got lifted into the academic atmosphere at Cambridge, where students idled away some spare time snapping the disks. Cambridge organized a team—Peter Downes, captain—and claimed the world's tiddlywinks championship. There being no other known contender, Cambridge's claim was secure until the University of Oxford challenged.

There was a noisy match, and Oxford won by an eyebrow, 113 to 111. So presumably Oxford holds the championship, but Cambridge protested that the play was an unimportant preliminary to serious, official tiddlywinks competition.

Oxford received a challenge from the University of Pennsylvania and the Oxford captain Elliott Langford, agreed to take his mates to America next year if they can raise the fare for the journey.

Then the Goons, popular troupe of entertainers, challenged Cambridge and invited a conspicuous athlete, Prince Philip, to join their team. From Buckingham Palace the prince issued a light-hearted statement saying:

"While practicing secretly I pulled an important muscle in the second, or tiddly, joint of my winking finger."

Being partial to polo, the prince indicated that tiddlywinks must take a secondary place in his esteem.

Then Oxford challenged the House of Commons. Lawrence Taylor, who represents Oxford In Parliament, agreed to organize a team of tiddling lawmakers.

So tiddlywinks is snowballing, and there are indications that there will have to be a world convention to lay down some rules. Tho kids, who up to now have monopolized the game, play it without umpires, or precise laws.

But in Britain there is a rudimentary literature of tiddlewinks. [sic]

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McCook, Nebraska, United States
The McCook Tribune (newspaper)
location · 
McCook, Nebraska, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
136

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published in · 
The McCook Tribune
date · 
24 April 1891
title · 
Tiddledywink.
citation · 
volume 9 • issue 48 • page 8 • column 4
content

An exchange says: The new game "Tiddledy wink" Is a daisy. Few understand how to play it, but it is very simple when you know how. The game is plajed with tiddledies, winks and winkpot, dinguses, duflicities, etc. Each player takes a dingus. The winks are divided evenly, and likewise the duflicities. Then you take a wink, put it on the dingus, press a tiddledy on the wink and make it jump into the winkpot, if you can. If you succeed you are entitled to a difliciety and for every wink you jump into the dingpot from the duwlnk you count a flictiddledy, and you keep on operating the tinkwinkle upon the polIywog until the points so carried equal the sum-total of the bogwip multiplied by the puter-inktum and added to the contents of the wink pot or words to that effect, and you have then won the game.

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Nevada • (state)
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Deseret News (newspaper)
location · 
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
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137

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published in · 
Deseret News
date · 
5 December 1993
title · 
S. L. Toy Enterprise Spreads Its Wings
by · 
Max B. Knudson
citation · 
edition online
content

GG Enterprises has had good success with a line of games played on pieces of indoor/outdoor carpet that the company manufactures in its new plant in Midvale.

Sport-Winks, as the two tiddlywink games are called, include Golf-Winks and Hoop-Winks - the latter promoted by Utah Jazz guard Jeff Malone.

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Reno, Nevada, United States
Reno Evening Gazette (newspaper)
location · 
Reno, Nevada, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
138

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published in · 
Reno Evening Gazette
date · 
9 December 1890
citation · 
page 2 • column 1
content

It is peculiarly edifying to read in the papers that "Miss So-and-So gave a highly enjoyable Tiddledy-Winks party at her house Tuesday evening."

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New Hampshire • (state)
Concord, New Hampshire, United States
Concord Monitor (newspaper)
location · 
Concord, New Hampshire, USA
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139

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published in · 
Concord Monitor
date · 
22 January 2006
title · 
Become the squidger, my son
by · 
Lori Aratani
citation · 
edition online
content source · 
Washington Post
content

Dave "The Dragon" Lockwood has heard it all before. He has seen the smirks; he has heard the jokes. But as a former world champion, he has also basked in the glory of a sport that some describe as just the right mix of skill and intellect. And now he is passing that on to his children.

NASCAR has the Earnhardts; baseball, the Ripkens; and football, the Mannings. Now competitive tiddlywinks has… the Lockwoods.

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Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
Nashua Telegraph (newspaper)
location · 
Nashua, New Hampshire, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
140

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published in · 
Nashua Telegraph
date · 
3 February 1969
title · 
Matches Slated in Tiddlywinks
citation · 
volume 100 • issue 284 • page 16 • column 3
content

The 1969 championships of the North American Tiddlywinks Association are scheduled to be held this month at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with four colleges competing.

The matches are scheduled for Feb. 22 and 23. Competing will be MIT, Cornell, Toronto and Case Western Reserve University.

MIT is defending champion and rated a slight favorite over Cornell, but no champion has defended it title successfully in the association's four-year history.

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New Jersey • (state)
Atlantic and Cape May Counties, New Jersey, United States
Whoot! (newspaper)
location · 
Atlantic and Cape May Counties, New Jersey, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
142

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published in · 
Whoot!
date · 
9 July 1987
title · 
Ocean City Calendar
citation · 
column 27
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Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States
Atlantic City Press (newspaper)
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Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
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141

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published in · 
Atlantic City Press
date · 
14 December 1986
title · 
Gromped!
subtitle · 
The Nation's Top `Winkers' Wield`Squidgers' in O.C.
citation · 
page A1
media description

photograph of Larry Kahn in Ocean City, New Jersey

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Atlantic City Press
date · 
14 December 1986
title · 
Winks
citation · 
page A14
media description

photograph of Jim Marlin; photograph of kids; photograph of winks

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Atlantic City Press
date · 
12 July 1987
title · 
Squopped!
subtitle · 
Ocean City Hosts Tiddlywinks exhibition
citation · 
page B1
media description

photograph of Larry Kahn

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Atlantic City Press
date · 
12 July 1987
title · 
Squopped
citation · 
page B4
media description

overhead photograph of players around mat

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Bergen, New Jersey, United States
Bergen News (newspaper)
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Bergen, New Jersey, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
144

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published in · 
Bergen News
date · 
17 May 1978
citation · 
page 18
summary

About Dave Lockwood

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United Press International
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Bergen Record (newspaper)
location · 
Bergen, New Jersey, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
143

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published in · 
Bergen Record
date · 
17 May 1978
title · 
Not Essential
citation · 
page A2? • column 18
content source · 
United Press International?
media description

photograph of Dave Lockwood

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Bergen Record
date · 
6 December 1979
by · 
Sony Betamax
citation · 
page D11
content

If a football game happens to have the world tiddlywinks finals on at half-time, fly by it with Beta Scan.

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Cape May, New Jersey, United States
Cape May County Herald (newspaper)
location · 
Cape May, New Jersey, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
145

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published in · 
Cape May County Herald
date · 
10 December 1986
title · 
Tiddly Winks Invasion
citation · 
page 45
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Ocean City, New Jersey, United States
The Sandpaper (newspaper)
location · 
Ocean City, New Jersey, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
148

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published in · 
The Sandpaper
date · 
11 December 1986
title · 
Ocean City Celebrates the Season With Christmas Festivities
citation · 
page 6
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The Sandpaper
date · 
9 July 1987
title · 
Calendar
subtitle · 
Events
citation · 
page 10
content

Tiddlywinks Contest

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The Sentinel-Ledger (newspaper)
location · 
Ocean City, New Jersey, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
149

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published in · 
The Sentinel-Ledger
date · 
11 December 1986
title · 
Ruggieri to conduct Pops in annual children's concert Saturday
citation · 
page 1 • column 13
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The Sentinel-Ledger
date · 
11 December 1986
title · 
World champion tiddly winks player will be on hand Saturday
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page 2 • column 12
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The Sentinel-Ledger
date · 
16 December 1986
title · 
Carolfest caps a full program of yuletide events in Ocean City
citation · 
page 1 • column 8
media description

photograph of Rick Tucker

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The Sentinel-Ledger
date · 
10 July 1987
title · 
Strategy for tiddlywinks
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The Sentinel-Ledger
date · 
10 July 1987
citation · 
page 1 • column 10
content

l Alberts, string band, tiddly winkers all here this weekend

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Ocean City-Somers Point, New Jersey, United States
The Record (newspaper)
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Ocean City-Somers Point, New Jersey, USA
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146

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published in · 
The Record
date · 
11 December 1986
title · 
This Week…
citation · 
page 1
summary

Mention of tiddlywinks.

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The Record
date · 
11 December 1986
title · 
Tiddly Winks Champ In Town
citation · 
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The Record
date · 
9 July 1987
title · 
Tiddlywinks by the sea in O.C.
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Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Town Topics (newspaper)
location · 
4 Mercer Street, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
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380

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published in · 
Town Topics
date · 
2 September 1962 to 8 September 1962
title · 
O.U.T.S. TO TIDDLE
subtitle · 
Against Bucks Team.
citation · 
page 6 • column 3
content

The Oxford University Tiddlywinks Society (0.U.T.S.) will compete with a team from the Bucks County Playhouse on Sunday afternoon at Tom Reddy's Playhouse Inn. Members of the Oxford team, champions of England, are Elizabeth King, Philip Moore. Peter [sic original="Freemand" correct="Freeman"] and Dave Willis. The Bucks County Playhouse team will include S. J. Perelman and Dennis King, the other two players will be named soon. The game is played with small counters that a player pops into a cup by pressing their edges with a larger disc. The name comes from the win[n]er's saying "Tiddle-a-wink" when he goes out, according to a spokesman for the OUTS.

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Town Topics
date · 
27 November 1969
title · 
Visit Our Stocking Stuffer Table
by · 
the game room
citation · 
page 4 • column 2
content

Gradual Despair Idiot's Delight Nervous Breakdown Deelie Bobbers Bali Buttons Mystic Wedge Gee Haw Whimmy Diddie fingermajig Instant Insanity Zick Zack Kaleidoscopes 8-Man Puzzle Tiddly Wink in a mushroom shell Boob Cube Magnetic Slide Puzzle Brain Teaser Sunny Origami

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1554
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Town Topics
date · 
4 November 1987
title · 
It's New to Us
subtitle · 
Fiddlesticks Offers Toys At New Forrestal Village
citation · 
page 14B
content

A lot of items we have are things that can be passed down. Almost things your grandparents could have played with. We have tiddly winks, pick-up sticks, all different sizes of marbles, for example.

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Town Topics
date · 
7 April 2010
title · 
Putting Last Year's Frustrations Behind, Hun Baseball Upbeat About 2010 Season
by · 
Bill Alden
citation · 
page 37 • column 4
content

"They aren't pitchers but they are athletes and competitors. They will battle you no matter what game you are playing; it could be tiddlywinks and one of them will win.

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Red Bank, New Jersey, United States
Red Bank Register (newspaper)
location · 
Red Bank, New Jersey, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
147

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published in · 
Red Bank Register
date · 
11 February 1891
title · 
Epworth League Sociables.
subtitle · 
Eentertainments [sic] at the Houses of the Members.
citation · 
volume 13 • issue 33 • page 1 • column 2
content

The house sociables held by the Epworth league of the Red Bank Methodist church are becoming a popular means of entertainment among the young folks of the town. At these gatherings a short musical and literary programme is provided, games are played, and at an opportune hour refreshments are served. [...]

The young people played bean-bag, go-bang, and tiddledy-winks. Everybody appeared to be in a social mood, and everybody had a good time.

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Trenton, New Jersey, United States
Trenton Times (newspaper)
location · 
Trenton, New Jersey, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
150

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published in · 
Trenton Times
date · 
10 December 1890
by · 
Sharpless Brothers
citation · 
volume 9 • whole 2489 • page 4 • column 4
content

[...] Curious Puzzles, Tenpins, Tops and Balls, and Building Blocks in colors gay, and Tiddledy Winks, the most popular game of the day.

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published in · 
Trenton Times
date · 
4 December 1959
title · 
Poor Man's Philosopher
by · 
Hal Boyle
citation · 
volume 78 • issue 39 • page 28 • column 7
content source · 
Associated Press
content

Horace McGrubb, chairman of the giant Acme Tiddlywinks Co., is one corporation head who doesn't have to worry about the party problem.

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Trenton Times
date · 
4 September 1962
title · 
Before Bewildered Audience
subtitle · 
Bucks Tiddlywinkers Lose
by · 
Howard J. Tedder (Tiddlywinks Editor)
citation · 
page 8
content

NEW HOPE—A small but bewildered audience watched the Oxford University Tiddlywinks Society cream a Bucks County team, 23 to 5, at the Playhouse Inn Sunday.

The missile gap is serious enough—but the U.S. is apparently so far behind in tiddlywinks that it will probaby never catch up.

The match began after Peter Freeman unsuccessfully tried to explain what the game is all about. Several members of the press had ringside seats and were prepared to take notes on the proceedings. They soon gave that up.

Ellis Scores

A weak cheer was heard from the Bucks County rooters as it appeared that Mike Ellis had scored the first point for his team. With beginners luck quickly running out, the Americans fell behind and never again came within striking distance.

Miss Moore, on behalf of the Oxford team, accepted a 100-year-old French helmet donated by Playhouse Inn proprietor Tom Reddy.

S. J. Perelman, Ellis, Patricia Scott and Dennis King are all competent in the world of the stage, but as tiddlywinks players they gave evidence of needing work.

The object of the game, we finally learned, is to flick tiny pieces of celluloid (winks) into a pot. A larger piece of celluloid, called a squidger, is used to prople the winks into the pot. Covering an opponents [sic] wink is called squopping and a wink that is squopped cannot be played. Clear enough?

Our squad was out-squidged and out-squopped. There was just no squopping the British team you might say.

The Bucks County players were pleased to learn that they had done as well as any of the other U.S. teams faced by the Oxford squad. The British team consists of Peter Freeman, his fiancee, Elizabeth King, Philip Moor and Dave Willis.

Impressions of U.S.

Miss Moore said the team members enjoyed their trip here. She was asked which things about the U.S. did not live up to her expectations.

She didn't like out "news readers["] (radio and television announcers) and thought our commercials boring and repetitious. New York subways are abominable, according to Miss Moore, and our people in uniform "are too officious."

She was impressed with the friendliness of the people the team met here and she was happy to see some of our big cities as a touring tiddlywinks player. Miss Moore has a degree in physics and will continue her studies in experimental nuclear physics.

Her fiance, Freeman, has a chemistry degree and is doing graduate work in History and Philosophy of Science. Philip is a second year mathematics student and Dave Willis has completed studies in politics, philosophy and economics.

The trip here resulted from negotiations by Miss King and the Guinness Company. She was secretary of the Oxford team last year and suggested that the time had come for tiddlywinks to be introduced into the mother country.

The Britishers came here August 3. They beat the Chin Chin Irregulars, a team representing a New York restaurant, and received the Parker Golden Squidger for that conquest. The Golden Squidger is the American counterpart of Prince Philip's award, the Silver Wink.

Then they went to San Francisco and played a game under Chinese rules. Other matches followed in Long Branch, Philadelphia, Pike, New Hampshire and Seattle.

The Oxford team also won at the Berkshire Music Festival after working out with the New York Giants football team at Stratford, Conn. The Britishers return to England Saturday after not having lost a match on its American tour.

The Bucks County team intends to go into serious training and hopes for a rematch next year, Ellis said.

Photograph.
PLOT MOVE: Humorist S. J. Perelman and actress Patricia Scott plan move during match between Oxford University Tiddlywins Society and team representing Bucks County Playhouse yesterday. The Britishers won easily 23-5.
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Trenton Times
date · 
11 February 1966
title · 
Rutgers, Princeton To Squidge, Squop
citation · 
page 2
content

NEW BRUNSWICK—UPI—Rutgers and Princeton, who share the oldest football rivalry in the country, have agreed to a new, less bruising competition—tiddlywinks.

Aaron Kriegel, president of the Independent Students Countil at Rutgers said Thursday he challenged the Princetonians to a tiddlywinks tournament and the men from Old Nassau promptly accepted.

In his invitation letter, Kriegel wrote:

"In this age of hurry and confusion, fear and insecurity, the men of Rutgers and the women of Douglass have decided to relax in the comfort and joy of their youth. We have looked back into our childhood to the happiness of tiddlywinks."

Richard Bell of Princeton, accepting the challenge, told the Rutgers men:

"We are going to squidge and squop our way to victory. We will win for the honor of our school."

Bell, who hails from Lake Forest, Ill., will lead the Princeton six-man team, while O. Charles Mohr, of Egg Harbor, will captain the Rutgers sextet.

The tourney will be staged on Feb. 24 at the Tutgers University Lodge, the student union building at the campus here.

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Trenton Times
date · 
28 May 1971
title · 
The Lighter Side
subtitle · 
Harsh Light On Another Major Sport
by · 
Dick West
citation · 
page 23
content

Ever since a couple of baseball and football players wrote bestselling books of revelations about their games, publishers have been scouting the locker rooms for other disenchanted athletes of literary bent.

It is therefore hardly surprising to learn the Pishtosh Press is publishing an expose of tiddlywinks written by the game's great superstar, "Iron Thumb" McFlick.

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Trenton Times
date · 
17 February 1981
title · 
In the eye of a wink
subtitle · 
They're testing their tiddly talents
citation · 
page C3
summary

Coverage of the 15th North American Continentals team championships at Haverford College in Pennsylvania.

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Associated Press
content
Photograph of Dave Lockwood shooting a wink at a cup.
David Lockwood is a picture of concentration as he shoots a wink during a tiddlywinks championship at Haverford College in suburban Philadelphia.

HAVERFORD, Pa. (AP)—Suidges and squops are nothing to wink at in some circles.

To the players in the 15h annual North American Tiddlywinks Championship, the unusual names are just tools of the trade.

Haverford College in suburban Philadelphia was considered a neutral site for most of some 50 players who streamed here over the weekend from places like Ithaca, N.Y., and Boston, said David Sheinson, spokesman for the North American Tiddlywinks Association

:The main tiddlywinks circles are M.I.T. and Cornell University," Sheinson said.

Severin Drix, 33, known as the foster father of North American tiddlywinks, said tiddlywinks is something like "a cross between chess and brain surgery."

"It's a game for the mathematically minded. It's a game of quarter-inches. You're always making delicate maneuvers. You have to be able to look at a pile of winks and have an intuitive sense of what's going to happen," said Drix, a Cornell graduate who teaches high school math near Ithaca.

Drix took up the game as a youth.

"I made up solo games and people got to know me as the guy who plays tiddlywinks. When a team from Oxford came to the United States in 1965 [sic], I decided to form a team myself. We played Harvard in 1966, and held our first championship tournament in 1967," he said.

The object of the game is to flick winks, or small discs, into a cup. In tournament tiddlywinks, this shot is known as potting. Players also use the squop, where a winker flicks his wink with a 2-inch wide disc or "squidger" on an opposing wink to immobilize it, and the approach, where winks are shot into friendly positions as defenders.

IT IS RARE to pot all the winks within the usual 25-minute limit, so the winner is decided by a complicated point system.

"You want to control your opponents by maximizing the mobility of your own winks." Drix said. "By setting the pace and geography of the game, you can force your opponent to play in your area. But you don't shoot too many winks into the cup too soon. because you may need them later."

At one point, he said, "One wink was just over another. The winker knew he could shoot, but could he disturb the pile? I decided it was really a separate pile, so he could touch it."

David Lockwood, 28, of New York, the North American tiddlywinks singles champion and captain of the Alliance team, said he enjoys playing "because tiddlywinks is such a marvelous combination of physical and mental skills.

"Take that bounce. We lost 6-1, but if it hadn't bounced, it would have been only 4-3." Lockwood said.

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published in · 
Trenton Times
date · 
14 December 1986
title · 
Shopper watch 'winkers
subtitle · 
Tiddlywink players take game seriously
citation · 
page A17 • column 5
summary

Cites Larry Kahn, Jim Marlin, and Rick Tucker.

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Associated Press
content

OCEAN CITY (AP)—Larry Kahn watched his opponent get nurdled almost immediately, so he didn't dare pot his own wink. Instead, he shot so he could squop and piddle later.

The jargon boggled Holiday shoppers passing by the table at a department store where Kahn and two other members of the North American Tiddlywinks Association were perfecting their skills yesterday

Some shoppers, intrigued by the flying plastic discs, stopped and "squidged," or flipped a few themselves.

"My Dad used to con us into playing all the time," said Jeane Kaufmann, who convinced her husband to stop watching a football game and reminisce a little.

BUT THE tiddlywinks action was not the children's version, where the object is to flip winks into a small pot. Kahn and his partners concentratedon tournament tiddlywinks, where strategy can be more important than skill.

Kahn, 33, of Silver Spring, Md., is the national tiddlywink champion and a former world champion. With him at yesterday's exhibition were Jim Marlin of Washington, D. C., and Rick Tucker of Falls Church, Va.

The three met more than 15 years ago while students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where tiddlywinks is an acknowledged sport.

Since then, they have remained loyal to the art of flipping the tiny, multicolored discs. To the surprise of many who watched them yesterday, however, the object in the professional game is not necessarily to get the winks into the pot.

"You want to squop your opponent," Kahn said, explaining that squopping means covering your an opponent wink with one of your own to trap the opponent.

OR, KAHN SAID, an offensive tiddlywinks player can "boondock" an opponent by shooting the opposing winks to the edge of the felt mat—as far from the pot as possible.

"Piddling a wink is a delicate shot whereby winks can be gently nudged free.

"Nurdling" a wink means flipping it so close to the pot that it takes a skilled hand to move it away.

Kahn and Marlin concentrated on an exhibition game, wile Tucker let the curious try his custom-made squidgers—the large discs that are used to press the winks into action.

Tucker and Kahn carry their hand-made squidgers in special holders. Marlin prefers his pocket. All use imported Italian winks and felt mat made in Frances.

NOT MANY OF Kahn's or Marlin's winks ended up in the tiny pot in the center of the mat.

"If you've got all your opponents covered, you might not need to put any in the pot to win," said Kahn.

All three players have competed in world championship[s] played in Cambridge, England. Until recently, Kahn was the defending world tiddlywinks singles champion.

When he is not playing with winks, Kah is an ocean engineer for OCI Inc. in Silver Spring.

"PEOPLE SORT of wonder why a bunch of adults go around playing tiddlywinks," Kahn said, grinning. "But it's not kjust a play game. I'm probably the best technical player in this country. I end up turning the game with really hard shots.

"Sometimes the game gets really constipated, where everybody is on a pile and you can't go anywhere. That's when things really get rambunctious.

Ocean City sponsored the exhibition. Mark Soifer, a city spokesman, said the seaside plans to sponsor a tiddlywinks tournament in July.

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Wayne, New Jersey, United States
Wayne Today (newspaper)
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Wayne, New Jersey, USA
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151

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Wayne Today
date · 
22 August 1979
title · 
Tiddlywinks not just kid stuff
subtitle · 
Tougher than chess
citation · 
page 16
content source · 
Newspaper Enterprise Association
tw-ref-ID · 
479
New Mexico • (state)
Las Vegas, New Mexico, United States
Las Vegas Free Press (newspaper)
location · 
Las Vegas, New Mexico, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
152

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published in · 
Las Vegas Free Press
date · 
9 April 1892
citation · 
volume 1 • issue 99 • page 4 • column 1
content

The Tiddledywinks club met with Mocco Warner last night.

collection · 
digital copy (NATwA)
links · 
Library of Congress (free) (tw-ref-link-id 200)
tw-ref-ID · 
480
New York • (state)
Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States
Brooklyn Life (newspaper)
publisher · 
Brooklyn Life Publishing Co.
location · 
199 Montague Street, Brooklyn, New York, New York, USA
archive website · 
tw-pub-ID · 
805

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for Brooklyn Life.
published in · 
Brooklyn Life
date · 
27 December 1890
column title · 
Here and There
title language · 
English
citation · 
volume 2 • issue 43 • page 5 • column 2
content source · 
digitized image (NATwA)
content

THE crowning oddity of the year has recently alighted in the social lap of this populous town. Like the alleged witticism which is so bad that it is really good, Tiddledy Winks is fascinating in the very nature of its apparently absolute inanity. The game of Tiddledy Winks is played by two or more persons seated at a table. There must be a plush or soft cloth cover only on the hard surface. The implements of the game consist of colored bone chips about the size and thickness of a ten-cent silver piece and a wooden bowl about three inches in height with the opening about two and one-half inches in diameter at the top. It is the endeavor of the players in turn, by pressing one end of the chips down on the soft fabric, to jump them into the bowl. Of course, the Tiddledy Winker that flips the greatest number of Tiddledy Winks into the cup wins the prize. From this concise description of the game, it will be difficult to understand how persons of even ordinary intelligence could easily become interested in its operation, but it is a fact that Tiddledy Winks is having a run just now throughout the higher social strata—the sanity of whose denizens has never before been questioned, yet, who seem to revel in its irresistible fascination. Tiddledy Winks is not altogether a stranger to me. I recall a bit of doggerel that passed current for the words of an alleged comic song that was done in the English variety halls a dozen years ago — the chorus being rendered something after this fashion:

  • “Tiddle-dee-winks, Tiddle-dee-winks, Tiddle-dee-winks, the barber,
  • Tiddle dee winks, Tiddle-dee-winks he tried to shave his father,
  • The razor did slip and cut deep his lip which made the old man roar.
  • With an oath and frown he threw Tiddle-dee down, and pummelled him on the floor.”
  • There is something of poetic license in stretching “father” to rhyme with “barber,” but I have no doubt but that those addicted to the vagaries of the game, will find in the versification an additional incitement to continued enjoyment.

links · 
Newspapers.com (subscription) (tw-ref-link-id 2217)
tw-ref-ID · 
3785
Dunkirk, New York, United States
Dunkirk Evening Observer (newspaper)
location · 
Dunkirk, New York, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
154

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published in · 
Dunkirk Evening Observer
date · 
4 November 1890
title · 
LIST OF GAMES—Continued.
by · 
Erie Store
citation · 
volume 20 • issue 73 • page 1 • column 7
content

by the Erie Store. Lists games and prices for over 50 games

The New Game of Tiddledy Winks 69c

collection · 
digital copy (NATwA)
links · 
NewspaperArchive.com (subscription) (tw-ref-link-id 201)
tw-ref-ID · 
483
published in · 
Dunkirk Evening Observer
date · 
5 November 1890
title · 
LIST OF GAMES—Continued.
by · 
Erie Store
citation · 
volume 20 • issue 74 • page 1 • column 7
content

by the Erie Store. Lists games and prices for over 50 games

The New Game of Tiddledy Winks 69c

collection · 
not retrieved
tw-ref-ID · 
484
published in · 
Dunkirk Evening Observer
date · 
10 December 1890
citation · 
volume 20 • page 1
collection · 
not yet retrieved
tw-ref-ID · 
485
Elmira, New York, United States
Elmira Star-Gazette (newspaper)
location · 
Elmira, New York, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
155

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for Elmira Star-Gazette.
published in · 
Elmira Star-Gazette
date · 
17 February 1981
title · 
Tiddlywinks is nothing to wink at
subtitle · 
Cornell and M.I.T. are top circles
citation · 
page 3A • column 1
content source · 
Associated Press
content
black and white photograph of Dave Lockwood, potting a wink; AP LaserPhoto.
Tiddlywinks champ David Lockwood shoots a wink

Squidges and squops are nothing to wink at in some circles.

To the players in the 15th annual North American Tiddlywinks Championship, the un[u]sual names are just tools of the trade.

Haverford College in suburban Philadelphia was considered a neutral site for most of some 50 players who streamed there over the weekend from places like Ithaca and Boston, said David Sheinson, spokesman for the North American Tiddlywinks Association.

"The main tiddlywinks circles are M.I.T. and Cornell University," Sheinson said.

Severin Drix, 33, known as the foster father of North American tiddlywinks, said tiddlywinks is something like "a cross between chess and brain surgery

"It's a game for the mathematically minded. It's a game of quarter-inches. You're always making delicate maneuvers. You have to be able to look at a pile of winks and have an intuitive sense of what's going to happen." said Drix, a Cornell graduate who teaches high school math near Ithaca.

Drix took up the game as a youth.

"I made up solo games and people got to know me as the guy who plays tiddlywinks. When a team from Oxford came to the United States in 1965 [actually 1962], I decided to form a team myself. We played Harvard in 1966, and held our first championship tournament in 1967," he said.

The object of the game is to flick winks, or small discs, into a cup. In tournament tiddlywinks, this shot is known as potting. Players also use the squop, where a winker flicks his wink with a two-inch-wide disc or "squidger" on an opposing wink to immobilize it, and the approach, where winks are shot into friendly positions as defenders.

It is rare to pot all the winks within the usual 25-minute limit, so the winner is decided by a complicated point system.

"You want to control your opponents by maximizing the mobility of your own winks," Drix said. "By setting the pace and geography of the game, you can force your opponents to play in your ara. But you don't shoot too many winks into the cup too soon, because you may need them later."

At one point, a shout rang out from one table, where the Alliance team was playing the Relix team in the finals. A wink had shot into the cup and popped out.

"We don't have officials. When there's a problem, someone from another team makes the decision. It's a matter of honor," Drix said.

At one point, he said, "One wink was just over another. The winker knew he could shot, but could he disturb the pile? I decided it was really a separate pile, so he could touch it."

David Lockwood, 28, or New York, the North American tiddlywinks singles champion and captain of the Alliance team, said he enjoys playing "because tiddlywinks is such a marvelous combination of physical and mental skills.

"Take that bounce. We lost 6-1, but if it hadn't bounced, it would have been only 4-3," Lockwood said.

media description

photograph of Dave Lockwood

collection · 
original (Drix/NATwA); digital copy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
486
Hempstead, New York, United States
Hempstead Sentinel (newspaper)
location · 
Hempstead, New York, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
157

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published in · 
Hempstead Sentinel
date · 
1903
title · 
Counter Golf
citation · 
page 5? • column 3
content

London, from which the plague of pingpong came to us, has gone crazy over another game. This new affliction, which is called counter golf, is a cross between tiddledy winks and the Scotch pastime. It is played on a large parlor table with small disks which are made to skip in the manner of the old familiear tiddledy winks. A course of six holes is laid out, and each player makes the circuit three times, the players alternating and the one havin gthe least jumps to his score winning. Rings constitute the holes, and various obstacle and bunkers are laid on the course.

collection · 
digital copy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
488
published in · 
Hempstead Sentinel
date · 
23 May 1918
title · 
Describes Battle Three Miles in Air
by · 
Allen (or Alan) F. Winslow (letter)
citation · 
page 3 • column 6
content

Aiming, shooting and flying at over 100 miles an hour, and at a target which is moving toward you at the same time, is not like playing tiddledy winks. Then, at the end of the third attack, I made a reversement and tried to get him as he passed under me. But again, no. Yet, I must have either scared him to death, riddled his machine badly, or wounded him, for completing that attack he put on full gas and turned tall, beating it straight for Hunland.

tw-ref-ID · 
489
Ithaca, New York, United States
(unknown Cornell or Ithaca NY newspaper) (newspaper)
location · 
Ithaca, New York, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
171

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published in · 
(unknown Cornell or Ithaca NY newspaper)
date · 
after 18 February 1967
title · 
Winksmen Top Two
content

In a fantastic display of athletic prowess, the Cornell tiddlywinks club defeated Harvard and MIT in Cambridge, Saturday [18 February 1967]

Red Captain Severin Drix and Richard Garson paced the Cornell winkers to a 150-130-55 win. [editing error here, not sure what the remainder means] ren Chane, 258; Warren Lena, 254; and Andy Carr and Myron Bily) with 253 each.

collection · 
original (Drix/NATwA); digital copy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
522
published in · 
(unknown Cornell or Ithaca NY newspaper)
date · 
9 December 1968
title · 
Squop!
subtitle · 
Tiddlywinkers Meet
summary

Includes photographs

content
Black and white photograph of Richard (Fitz) Nowogrodzki looking down at winks and pot on a tiddlywinks mat.

THINK WINK: Richard Nowogrodzi '69, captain of the Cornell Tiddlywinks Team, which lost yesterday to MIT and the University of Toronto, tries to determine whether or not his wink is being squopped.

Photo by Stuart Luppescu

collection · 
original (Drix/NATwA); digital copy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
520
published in · 
(unknown Cornell or Ithaca NY newspaper)
date · 
around 28 November 1974
title · 
Tiddleywinks Champion Is An IHS Math Teacher
by · 
Alan Goodman
content

[...]

Ithaca is also the home of another titlist—the world singles tiddleywinks team champion.

Ithaca High match teacher Sezerin [sic correct=Severin] Drix earned the distinction by unseating the newly crowned champion in six games Friday and Saturday in Boston.

[...]

collection · 
original (Drix/NATwA); digital copy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
546
published in · 
(unknown Cornell or Ithaca NY newspaper)
date · 
9 December 1980
collection · 
original (Drix/NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
2832
Good Times Gazette (newspaper)
location · 
Ithaca, New York, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
156

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published in · 
Good Times Gazette
date · 
24 February 1977
title · 
THE INSIDE SQUOP ON PIDDLING YOUR WINKS
by · 
Julie Tausche
citation · 
whole 189 • page 9 • column 1
media description

b&w photograph of Larry Kahn (not Carl Chenkin) and Severin Drix; b&w photograph of Severin Drix

collection · 
original (Drix/NATwA); digital copy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
487
Ithaca Journal (newspaper)
location · 
Ithaca, New York, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
158

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published in · 
Ithaca Journal
date · 
25 February 1967
title · 
Mighty Big Red Tiddlywinkers Dash Opponents ... Good Show, Hey What?
by · 
Roger Langley
citation · 
page 20
content

FOLLOWING A FINAL squidge-off and after settling its squopping, Cornell's varsity tiddlywink team potted out recently to conquer Harvard and MIT.

We're number one! We're number one! shouted the Big Red fans that accompanied the tiddlywinkers on their trip to MIT.

The final accounting showed Cornell with 150½ points, MIT with 130, and Harvard 55½.

The twinkers are now looking forward to an international meet scheduled for April in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

[...]

media description

b&w photograph of Richard Garson; photograph of Richard Nowogrodzki and Rosie Wain; b&w photograph of ?, Richard Nowogrodzki, ?, Rosie Wain, Ferd Wulkan; photograph of Richard Garson and Severin Drix; b&w photograph of Severin Drix and Harvard winker

collection · 
original (Drix/NATwA); digital copy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
490
published in · 
Ithaca Journal
date · 
16 February 1970
title · 
Somerville Pots Out on Cornell Felts
by · 
Patricia Nordheimer (photographer)
citation · 
page 13
media description


  • b&w photograph of Ralph Welton

  • b&w photograph of a wink in flight

  • b&w photograph of Ralph Welton, Marty Vine, Sid Freund

  • b&w photograph of Lee Cousins and Naomi Gusowski

  • b&w photograph of Jeff Wieselthier, Phil Villar, Severin Drix, Richard Nowogrodzki

  • b&w photograph of Ferd Wulkan and Ralph Welton

collection · 
original (Drix/NATwA); digital copy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
491
published in · 
Ithaca Journal
date · 
18 February 1974
title · 
Wide World of... Tiddlywinks!
by · 
Joyce Levine (photographer)
content
Black and white photograph of Bill Renke shooting, with Bill Gammerdinger at left A finalist from Massachusetts concentrates on his next move in the North American Continental Tiddlywinks Championship, held this weekend at the Willard Straight, at cornell University. Cornellian "winkers" finished seventh in the major tournament attended by professionals from the U.S. and Canada.
collection · 
original (Drix/NATwA); digital copy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
492
published in · 
Ithaca Journal
date · 
16 November 1974
title · 
TIDDLYWINKS
citation · 
edition Leisure • page 1 • column 3
content

They play it for serious up at Cornell. Sid Mesibov talks with the Captain of the squad.

collection · 
original (Drix/NATwA); digital copy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
493
published in · 
Ithaca Journal
date · 
16 November 1974
title · 
In the winks, it's far from kid's stuff
subtitle · 
Why are these people brooding?
by · 
Sid Mesibov
citation · 
page 4 • column 1
media description


  • b&w photograph of Bob Savitzky

  • b&w photograph of Philip Cohen

  • b&w photograph of Dave Barbano

  • b&w photograph of Diane Bachman

collection · 
original (Drix/NATwA); digital copy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
494
published in · 
Ithaca Journal
date · 
25 November 1974
title · 
A `Wink' For Ithaca
by · 
Ray Raub
citation · 
page 3 • column 2
media description

b&w photograph of photo of Jake Solomon, Dean Solomon, Bill Gammerdinger, and Sunshine, by Jon Crispin

collection · 
original (Drix/NATwA); digital copy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
495
published in · 
Ithaca Journal
date · 
14 November 1977
by · 
Raymond Pompilio (photographer)
citation · 
page 1 • column 4
content
Black and white photograph of Chuck Paulson with chin on mat, grinning at a pile of winks.
Charles Paulson of the MIT team takes a careful look at the tiddlywink table during competition this weekend at Cornell's North Campus Union. For more on the event, turn to Page 3.
media description

b&w photograph of Charles (Chuck) Paulson

collection · 
original (Drix/NATwA); digital copy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
496
published in · 
Ithaca Journal
date · 
14 November 1977
title · 
The Tiddly Bowl
by · 
Raymond Pompilio (photographer)
citation · 
page 3 • column 1
content
Black and white photograph
Bob Henninge (left) of Athens, Ohio, and Andy Leed of Garrett Road, Ithaca, compete in tiddlywinks tournament over the weekend held at Cornell's North Campus Union.

It wasn't the Super Bowl, but it could lead there.

About 40 people took to the tables Sunday at Cornell for regional tiddlywinks competition.

Their goal was to advance to the North American championships scheduled in February in Boston.

Tiddyling—or is it winking?—to first place was the Renaissance team from Ithaca, followed by a team called Toads from Ohio and Cornell's team. The Ithaca High team finished fourth, and will probably travel to Boston to play in B Division competition.

The object of the game is cover up your opponent's winks while at the same time having yours free to shoot into the center cup. Games are played for 20 minutes a round for five rounds. Total score wins.

The trophy the teams are competing for is now on display at the Renaissance bookstore on the Commons. The chief competition is expected to come from the M.I.T. team, local tiddlywinks experts say.

B&W photograph of Joe Sachs making a shot
Joe Sachs of Sommerville [sic], Mass., takes careful aim.
collection · 
original (Drix/NATwA); digital copy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
497
published in · 
Ithaca Journal
date · 
29 April 1978
notes · 
TV listing
tw-ref-ID · 
498
published in · 
Ithaca Journal
date · 
16 June 1978
title · 
Why is this man 'winking'?
by · 
Raymond Pompilio (photographer)
citation · 
edition Saturday Magazine • page 1
content
Black and white photograph of Severin Drix in profile looking down at winks and pot, and smiling.
Ithaca High math teacher Severin Drix, a world-class tiddlywinks player, eyes his game.
media description

b&w photograph of Severin Drix

collection · 
original (Drix/NATwA); digital copy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
500
published in · 
Ithaca Journal
date · 
16 June 1979
title · 
Drix flicks tiddlywinks with world-class style
by · 
Jon Craig
citation · 
edition Saturday Magazine • page 4
media description

B&W photograph of Michael Moore and Severin Drix, taken by Ryamond Pompilio.
B&W photograph of Arye Gittelman from above, shooting a wink, taken by Ryamond Pompilio.

collection · 
original (Drix/NATwA); digital copy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
499
published in · 
Ithaca Journal
date · 
14 April 1980
title · 
Dragon burns Ithaca's paper tiger out of tiddly title
by · 
Joseph Schwartz
citation · 
page 1
collection · 
original (Drix/NATwA); digital copy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
501
published in · 
Ithaca Journal
date · 
8 August 1989
title · 
Tiddlywinks aren't child's play, 3C
citation · 
page 1C
media description

photograph of Chris Strong Marlin

collection · 
original (Jim Marlin)
tw-ref-ID · 
502
published in · 
Ithaca Journal
date · 
8 August 1989
title · 
Tiddlywink players are popping up in Newfield
citation · 
page 3C
media description

photograph of Chris Strong Marlin

collection · 
original (Jim Marlin)
tw-ref-ID · 
503
Ithaca New Times (newspaper)
location · 
Ithaca, New York, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
160

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published in · 
Ithaca New Times
date · 
15 November 1977
title · 
News Notes
by · 
Byron Smith (photographer)
citation · 
page 3 • column 2
content
Photograph of Severin Drix potting in the game of tiddlywinks, with another winker looking on at right.
TIDDLY-WINKER: Severin Drix, of the Renaissance Bookstore team, winning the World Singles Championship at North Campus Union last Saturday.
collection · 
original (Drix/NATwA); digital copy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
504
Ithaca Times (newspaper)
location · 
Ithaca, New York, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
159

Toggle showing 5 tiddlywinks references for Ithaca Times.
published in · 
Ithaca Times
date · 
14 June 1979 to 20 June 1979
title · 
this time
subtitle · 
Tiddlywinks/13
citation · 
volume 1 • issue 50 • page 1 • column 1
media description

B&W photograph of Severin Drix potting a wink.
B&W photograph of Arye Gittelman and Severin Drix at a winks mat, looking at the camera.

collection · 
original (Drix/NATwA); digital copy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
505
published in · 
Ithaca Times
date · 
14 June 1979 to 20 June 1979
title · 
He Wears the Tddlywinks Crown
by · 
S. K. List (article)
persons involved · 
Nancy Carrey (photographer)
citation · 
volume 1 • issue 50 • page 13 • column 1
media description

B&W photograph of Severin Drix potting a wink.
B&W photograph of Arye Gittelman and Severin Drix at a winks mat, looking at the camera.

collection · 
original (Drix/NATwA); digital copy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
506
published in · 
Ithaca Times
date · 
10 April 1980
title · 
this time
subtitle · 
Winks/13
citation · 
volume 2 • issue 40 • page 1 • column 1
content
Black and white photograph of Severin Drix
Winks/13
collection · 
original (Drix/NATwA); digital copy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
507
published in · 
Ithaca Times
date · 
10 April 1980
title · 
World Match This Winkend
by · 
S. K. List (article)
persons involved · 
Nancy Carrey (photographer)
citation · 
volume 2 • issue 40 • page 1 • column 13
content
Black and white photograph of Severin Drix, wearing a winter coat outside in downtown Ithaca, New York, shooting a wink toward a cup on a tiddlywinks mat. Going into the cup instead of a wink is a photograph of a person jumping.
DRIX: The "Paper Tiger" takes on "The Dragon" in this weekend's dramatic World Singles Championship. photo/Nancy Carrey
[...]
collection · 
original (Drix/NATwA); digital copy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
508
published in · 
Ithaca Times
date · 
17 April 1980 to 23 April 1980
title · 
Drix Defeated
by · 
List
citation · 
page 5 • column 4
content
Black and white photograph of Severin Drix and Dave Lockwood looking down at winks on a tiddlywinks mat.
Drix (l) and Lockwood.

Severin ("Paper Tiger") Drix, holder of the North American singles tiddlywinks crown, failed in an April 12 attempt to unseat the reigning world singles champion, Dave ("The Dragon") Lockwood.

The hotly contested, well-attended match, held in Logos Bookstore Emporium on the Ithaca Commons, went on from 10:00am till late in the afternoon. In the sixth of seven possible games, Lockwood reached an overall winning score of 26½ to Drix's 15½ points. (The first player to gain more than 24½ takes the match.)

Drix, the local favorite, commented, "I knew what I had to do, but I didn't do it—that is, control my anxiety. I have to detach myself more."

collection · 
original (Drix/NATwA); digital copy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
509
Long Island and New York, New York, United States
50 Plus Lifestyles (newspaper)
location · 
Long Island and New York, New York, USA
website · 
tw-pub-ID · 
17

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published in · 
50 Plus Lifestyles
date · 
1 April 2002
title · 
TIDDLYWINKS, THE GLUE THAT BINDS GENERATIONS
content

ON THE LIGHT SIDE Ker-plunk! Into the cup sailed the last Tiddlywink, the sound music to my ears. I love to play that game, just like I love to play Pick Up Sticks and Monopoly. But Tiddlywinks has always been my all-time favorite. Don't laugh—I was once crowned the official Grand Champion during a week-long tournament my friend Betty and I organized back in first grade. [...]

tw-ref-ID · 
62
Lyons, New York, United States
Lyons Republican (newspaper)
location · 
Lyons, New York, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
199

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published in · 
Lyons Republican
date · 
30 August 1956
title · 
Old Timers Lose to Kids 14-0 As Time Takes Toll
citation · 
page 8 • column 4
content

The old Weehawken Flash, Charlie Maloney, was held hitless and also had a bad time afield. When last seen he had resolved to give up baseball and take up either tiddledy winks or crocheting.

tw-ref-ID · 
575
Middletown, New York, United States
Middletown Daily Press (newspaper)
location · 
Middletown, New York, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
201

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published in · 
Middletown Daily Press
date · 
25 October 1890
by · 
Hanford and Horton
citation · 
page 3 • column 8
content

HAVE YOU

Tiddledy Winks—the new game that will be the rage this winter. Prices from 10 cents up

tw-ref-ID · 
585
Middletown Times Herald (newspaper)
location · 
Middletown, New York, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
202

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published in · 
Middletown Times Herald
date · 
6 April 1972
title · 
Tough tiddling
title language · 
English
citation · 
page 60 • column 1
summary

Coverage of MIT tour of England

content source · 
UPI
content

SOUTHAMPTON, England UPI--Tough tiddling sparked by senior Timothy Schiller of Fresno, Calif., led the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to a 122-101 upset tiddlywinks victory over defending champion University of Southampton.

A spokesman for MIT, who announced the victory Friday night, said he wasn't sure how one played the game, but, "It has something to do with putting those little things in the cup." He added it is the first time an American team has won the title.

collection · 
digitized image (NATwA)
links · 
NewspaperArchive.com (subscription) (tw-ref-link-id 228)
tw-ref-ID · 
587
published in · 
Middletown Times Herald
date · 
≥ February 1979
summary

Possible article

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New York, New York, United States
(unknown newspaper) (newspaper)
location · 
New York, New York, USA
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published in · 
(unknown newspaper)
date · 
1897
by · 
F.A.O. Schwarz
summary

Advertisement on wall of F.A.O. Schwarz office in New York City.

content

Most popular game ever produced

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793
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (newspaper)
location · 
New York, New York, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
198

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published in · 
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper
date · 
2 August 1890
by · 
E. I. Horsman
citation · 
page 560 • column 4
content

The New Game!
TIDDLEDY WINKS.
By mail on receipt of Fifty cents.
PUBLISHED BY
E.I. HORSMAN, 80 & 82 William St., N. Y.

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International Herald Tribune (newspaper)
location · 
New York, New York, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
206

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published in · 
International Herald Tribune
date · 
18 May 1958
by · 
Joe Suir
collection · 
excerpt (Winking World 7, page 4)
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593
published in · 
International Herald Tribune
date · 
16 July 1958 ?
title · 
Old Child's Game Rage in England
content source · 
Associated Press
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594
National Observer (newspaper)
publisher · 
Dow Jones and Company
location · 
New York, New York, USA
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published in · 
National Observer
date · 
10 June 1972
title · 
Winking to Win
citation · 
page 1
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published in · 
National Observer
date · 
10 June 1972
title · 
But Even the Champions Wince at Childish Image
citation · 
page 14
media type · 
photograph
media description

4 photographs

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New York Age (newspaper)
location · 
New York, New York, USA
Notes

African-American oriented newspaper

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203

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published in · 
New York Age
date · 
3 January 1891
column title · 
Saratoga Springs
citation · 
issue 15 • page 4 • column 1
content

Mrs. J. Thompson who is spending the holidays with her daughter in Lebanon, made the club a present of a "tiddledy winks" set.

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New York Daily News (newspaper)
location · 
New York, New York, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
204

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published in · 
New York Daily News
date · 
10 December 1968
citation · 
page 28
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589
published in · 
New York Daily News
date · 
31 July 1980
column title · 
Sports et cetera
title · 
Tiddlywinks
citation · 
page 93
summary

Announcement of World Singles

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590
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New York Daily News
date · 
21 February 2006
title · 
CURT GOWDY: SIGNING OFF ON AN ERA. Voice giant Gowdy dies
citation · 
page 64
content

Gowdy's magnificent voice and presence could elevate the status of a tiddlywinks league.

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New York Extra (newspaper)
location · 
New York, New York, USA
Notes

Published during a newspaper strike.

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205

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published in · 
New York Extra
date · 
September 1978
summary

Article about Dave Lockwood

content source · 
United Press International
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New York Mirror (newspaper)
location · 
New York, New York, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
207

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published in · 
New York Mirror
date · 
1958
by · 
Dan Parker
summary

About the University of Pennsylvania tiddlywinks team

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New York Post (newspaper)
location · 
New York, New York, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
208

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published in · 
New York Post
date · 
28 March 1972
citation · 
page 5
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596
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New York Post
date · 
21 July 1983
by · 
Dick Young
citation · 
page 70
summary

Letter by Walter H. Jacobs

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The New York Times (newspaper)
location · 
New York, New York, USA
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164

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published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
21 December 1890
title · 
The Game of "Tiddledy-Wink."
citation · 
volume 40 • whole 12267 • page 17 • column 6 (near bottom)
summary

Describes Tiddledy-Wink Tennis by E.I. Horsman

content

Somebody took old Mr. Kriss Kringle into a toy store in Fourteenth Street yesterday and showed him the new game called "Tiddledy-Wink." Mr. Kringle nearly fell off the revolving stool with delight, and at once scurried around town and bought up the entire supply. The number of them found in stockings Christmas morning will greatly exceed the number of bottles of eye wash manufactured by Col. Mulberry Sellers for the unfortunate inhabitants of Inda.

"Tiddledy-Wink" is a regular what-is-it sort of game. It will do everything except eat and play poker, and possesses fascination for old and young alike. There are a number of little round ivory wafers and a few big round ivory chips, a woolen cloth with the diagram of a tennis court on it, a "net," and a bone cup.

The game is to cause the little ivory wafers to "hop up" by pressing the edge of the big chip on their own edge. The wafers can be made to "hop up" over the net in a vest-pocket style of lawn tennis, or they can be put in a circle around the cup and filliped neatly therein. There are dozens of combinations to "Tiddledy-Wink." The inventor and make of the game is E. I. Horsman, 80 William Street.

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The New York Times
date · 
6 December 1891
by · 
R. H. Macy & Co.
citation · 
volume 41 • whole 12567 • page 17 • column 2
content

All the newest and most popular games of the seasion, including [...] TIDDLE DE WINKS

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published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
6 December 1891
column title · 
New Books
citation · 
volume 41 • whole 12567 • page 19 • column 5
summary

Review of John Kendrick Bangs' book, Tiddledywink Tales

content

Tiddlewink [sic correct=Tiddledywink] Tales. By John Kendrick Bangs. Illustrated by Charles Howard Johnson. New-York: R. H. Russel [sic correct=Russell] & Son. Jimmieboy made it all up. Mr. Bangs had nothing to do with the story, only such perfunctory business, perhaps, as stringing together what Jimmieboy said, and the putting in of occasional punctuation marks in the narrative. A dear little boy has a basket full of those bone disks, and they call themselves "Tiddledywinks." They act as such, and the Tiddlewinks [sic] are bossed by a Green Snapper, and Jimmieboy and the counters fraternize and are presented by the Tiddledywinks to a very select and assorted party. Jimmieboy enjoys an acquantance with the Wobbledypie, Whimperjam and the Tartlejig, and naturally feels sorry for the unfortunate Whimperjam, for this creature can live only on strawberry jam and whimpers when he can't get any. The visit to the Zoo is lovely, for there are on exhibition the Nightmare, the dread Annierooney bird, the latter when singing requiring a fearful banjo accompaniment. What pleases Jimmieboy most is the Cockadoodledon't, who is the most generous and self-sacrificing of birds. The Zoo is self-supporting. When a creature strays away the Mr. Conklin of that Tiddledywink Zoo offers a reward; then the animal comes back of its own accord and properly claims and is paid the money. There is a hot roasted peanut tree in the woods of that happy country. When the peanuts are quite ripe they are red-hot. You have to wait until they cool. What would Tiddledywinks do without athletic sports? There the grand prize is for the one who can go to sleep first. They train these by means of arithmetics and bromides. There is an endless amount of pleasant fooling in this book, and little boys and girls will laugh over it, and likewise their fathers and mothers. Isn't it logical that Cinderella couldn't dance with a glass slipper on anything else than a soft-wood floor? Who would not agree with this verse:

"I do not pine for them that ride and hunt,
For them that run and row I have no care—
Give me that noble being none can stunt,
At sitting motionless in a chair.

The nonsense verse running through the text, with the variations on the nursery ballads, are all neatly worked up. "Tiddledywink Tales," with its pictures, is a capital child's book.

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published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
2 October 1892
title · 
Two Books of Merry Verse
citation · 
volume 42 • whole 12825 • page 19 • column 4, 5
summary

Review of John Kendrick Bangs' book, The Tiddledywink's Poetry Book

content

The Tiddledywinks's [sic] Poetry Book. By John Kendrick Bangs. Illustrated by Charles H. Johnson. Oblong 8vo. New-York: R. H. Russell & Co.

Of Tiddledywinks and Jimmieboy one may have thought he knew some little when they were in sober prose, but in poetry with ever so many happy jingling rhymes to the verse, one appreciates Jimmieboy, if it were possible, better than ever. The Mangatoo, how well he describes himself in a purely ornithological way:

In manner rahter grave than coy,
'What is a Mangatoo, do tell!'
The creature thought and answered: 'Well,
A Mangatoo
Is—entre nous—
Well, he's a wondrous sort of bird.'"

In that wretched Anirooney Bird you see a depressing thing, squalling away at her dolorous air and in vigorous verse. Mr. Bangs offers a reward to any little girl or boy who will salt that monotonous bird's tail and put it in jail. The Wobbledykie, "who sees through a wonderful window-glass eye," is the sworn enemy of the Tidds. His vengeful life is spent in grabbing up the Winks and sousing them into the mucilage pot. The ballad of the turtles has a rhythmic melody as they dance slowly round and round. It is an extra kind of fun Mr. Bangs indulges in, never conventional, and you and your small boy and tiny maid will accept the Whimperjam as well as the Cockadoodledont, together with the pictures as Mr. Johnson has drawn them. The prettiest musical effect you will hear is when around the nursery fire this Christmas, to your heavier guffaw as a bass, chimes in the silvery laugh of your pretty ones.

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The New York Times
date · 
15 February 1894
title · 
Mrs. Howe Feels Abused
subtitle · 
Treated Heartlessly by Her Husband, She Complains
citation · 
volume 43 • whole 13255 • page 9 • column 1 (at bottom of article)
content

"How did you while away the evenings when all the folks were home?"

"We placed tiddlywinks."

The case will be closed to-day.

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The New York Times
date · 
24 October 1902
title · 
"Tiddley Winks" Is Coming.
citation · 
volume 52 • whole 16474 • page 9 • column 7
content

Now that Mascagni is touring, the next New York venture of Mittenthal Brothers will be the production of a new comic opera, the lyrics of which are by Arthur J. Lamb and the music by Harry von Tilzer. It is to be known as "Tiddley Winks," and is a satire on Amercans' supposed mania for work. It is to be produced within five or six weeks in a Broadway theatre.

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The New York Times
date · 
30 June 1907
title · 
Neglected Victims of Victorious Trolley Come to Port Under the Auspices of the Ethical Society
citation · 
section 5 - Magazine • page 3 • column 6
content

In one car of the parlor suite there will be a table, for ping-pong, tiddle-de-winks, parchesi, jack straws, and other rainy day amusements.

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The New York Times
date · 
6 November 1909
title · 
Tiddledy-Wink Athletes
by · 
C.H.M.
citation · 
volume 59 • whole 18914 • page 8 • column 5
content

Let the good work go on, and may the time never come when the tiddledy-wink athletes can make the laws.

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601
published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
28 June 1914
title · 
Proving the Worth of Golf
citation · 
volume 63 • whole 20609 • page 14 • column 4
content

Correspondents of The London Times have worked themselves into a fine frenzy over the subject of golf. Usually when the tennis fiend remarks that golf is no game, none bothers to reply; but The London Times's contributors have shouldered the assertion seriously, and have come out from the perusal of the dictionaries with subtle scorn and hair-splitting definitions of "game," "sport," and "pastime." Golf is allowed to be a pastime, a "pastime for duffers," just about one removed in point of dignity from tiddle-dy-winks.

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The New York Times
date · 
3 March 1916
title · 
LATEST CUSTOMS RULINGS.; Prices of Imports Increased to Make True Market Values.
citation · 
volume 45 • whole 21223 • page 16 • column 3
content

George Borgfeldt Co. lost yesterday before the Board of General Appraisers in a claim that small, flat, circular pieces of bone used as counters by children in a game of tiddlywinks should have been assessed at 20 per cent. as manufactures of bone. The Collector took duty at 35 per cent. as parts of toys.

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The New York Times
date · 
18 November 1917
title · 
U.S. Not Yet Awake
subtitle · 
Frank A. Vanderlip Says Bluntly That "Business as Usual" and "Pleasure as Usual" Must Stop if We Are to Win War
by · 
George MacAdam
citation · 
section 7 - Magazine • page 1 • column 3
content

This war isn't tiddle-de-winks, and we're going to find it out. The present smashing through Italy has proved a partial eye-opener to us Americans. It is giving us some measure of the gial strength of our adversary.

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published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
25 January 1922
title · 
Righteousness at Albany
citation · 
volume 61 • whole 23377 • page 14 • column 4
content

This, presumably, is only a beginning. There are other and as vicious means of wasting the precious hours. These are some of the snares of Satan: Backgammon, checkers, fox-and-geese, nine men's morris (blind men's morris), giveaway, dominoes—one of the most sinful of game—old maid, sancho pedro, five hundred, seven-up, whisky poker (that double crime), casino, cribbage, tiddle-de-winks, jackstones, battledore and shuttlecock, stick-knife, marbles, toddletops—but pages would be needed for the Leporello list of profane and superfluous devices of this generation of vipers to amuse itself, to bet, to quarrel, to lose its time and often its tempter, to substract itself from mral discipline and to give itself up to frivolous sport. The whole multitude of sins should be forbidden when the Alliance has done its perfect work; forbidden on all days and not on Sundays alone.

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published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
13 February 1925
title · 
Transition Recapture Seen as City's Aim
subtitle · 
Gordon Report Indicates Borrowed Funds Would Be Used for This Purpose
citation · 
page 9 • column 2
content

"Now comes the McAvoy report and all the newspapers, Republications and near-politicians are playibng 'tiddlywinks' with themselves and believe that Tammany will turn down Mayor Hylan and that his political doom is sealed. Even resolutions for his removal by the Governor are in order. [...]"

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published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
9 June 1925
title · 
N.Y.U. to Announce Honor Men Today
subtitle · 
Faculty Will Award Prizes During Exercises on University Heights Campus
citation · 
volume 74 • whole 24608 • page 4 • column 5
content

Announcement of the winners of prizes and honors will be made at New York University today during exercises on the University Heights campus. After the exercises the seniors will stage a burlesque of chapel services, with a student impersonator of Tom Thorpe, former Violet football coach, making an impassioned plea for support of the tiddle-de-winks team, just as Tom used to ask support of the football team on the eve of an important game.

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published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
10 March 1928
title · 
Poker and Bridge Professors For Iowa Urged in Assembly
citation · 
volume 77 • whole 25613 • page 12 • column 7
content source · 
Associated Press
content

DES MOINES, Ia., March 9 (AP).—The Athletics Department of the University of Iowa should include coaches for tiddly winks, ping pong and professors of poker and bridge whist, according to a resolution offered in the Iowa Assembly by Senator Charles J. Fulton of Jefferson County. Pointing out that the salaries of the department total $50,000 annually, the resolution urged that "some mild form of sport of equal social and cultural value" be included. The resolution was laid over under the rules.

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published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
3 June 1928
title · 
As Croquet Is Played in the Park
subtitle · 
Rain or Shine, Its Many Devotees Are to Be Seen With Their Mallets
by · 
Bertram Reinitz
citation · 
volume 77 • whole 25698 • page 2 • column 3
content

"Perhaps, I, myself, some years ago might have been one of those who thought croquet was as invigorating as crocheting or tiddlywinks," Mr. Wildey said, "but I have lived to see my error. There is a certain well-directed strength required in 'tight croquet' that is not brought into play in any other sport. [...]"

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The New York Times
date · 
22 December 1929
title · 
Even Toys Keep Pace With a Changing World
by · 
Eunice Fuller Barnard
citation · 
section 9 - XX • page 12 • column 8
content

But nothing in the mise en scène of modern childhood makes the forlorn adult feel so much at home as the games. Here at last he can meet youth on common ground. For the young person whose doll's house boasts its electric stove and room after room of exact replicas of early American furniture is nevertheless shaking her dice for parcheesi with all the zest of the child of an older and simpler generation. Anagrams and authors, flags and ping pong, tiddle-dy-winks and jack straws are still very much on the nursery program, with few more recent arrivals popular enough to threaten their prestige. Games, one begins to feel, are the most constant thing in a kaleidoscopic world.

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published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
13 April 1934
title · 
The Play
subtitle · 
How They Lied to Their Wives and Husbands in a Comedy Entitled 'Wife Insurance'
by · 
Brooks Atkinson
citation · 
volume 83 • whole 27838 • page 24 • column 5
content

Believing that the public has tired of novelties, the author and producer of "Wife Insurance," which was acted at the Ethel Barrymore last evening, have gone back to playing tiddle-de-winks with literature and infidelity.

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date · 
21 April 1935
title · 
London's Stages Keep Active
citation · 
volume 84 • section 9 • whole 28211 • page 2 • column 3
content

It was a relief from the tedious and flashy dialogue when the two women sat down to a game of tiddly-winks or when the whole company began to play croquet with the floor as lawn and the furniture as hoops.

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The New York Times
date · 
29 April 1935
title · 
Charge Tampering in Schultz Case
subtitle · 
Federal Agents Investigate Reports of Cash Offers to Prospective Jurors
citation · 
page 6 • column 2
content

"We're going to give the Dutchman both barrels next time," one government man said grimly. "At least we'll try to show the next jury that we're not playing tiddlywinks with him.

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The New York Times
date · 
19 May 1935
title · 
Benefit Group Plans a Game Tournament
subtitle · 
Varied Entertainment Will Mark Dinner Dance May 28 for 'Republication Builders.'
citation · 
section 2 - Society News - N • page 6 • column 3
content

Princess Chlodwig Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst and several of her friends are planning a dinner-dance and game tournament to be held on May 28 in the Italian Garden of the Ambassador for the benefit of the general fund of the National Republican Builders, Inc.

The entertainment features of the function will include bridge, backgammon and a progression tournament of such indoor games as ring-toss, putting, dartell, bag-o'-ball, ten pins and tiddley-winks.

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The New York Times
date · 
26 May 1935
title · 
Novel Features for Dinner Dance
subtitle · 
Indoor Games on Program for Event at the Ambassador Next Tuesday Night
citation · 
section 2 - Society News - N • page 6
content

Novel features are being planned by a group headed by Princess Chlodwig Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst for the dinner dance to be held on Tuesday evening at the Ambassador for the benefit of the National Republican Builders, Inc. The Louis XV Ballroom of the hotel will be transformed into a game room for the occasion. There will be tables for bridge and backgammon, as well as facilities for indoor sports, including ring-toss, tiddley-winks, putting, dartell, bag-o-ball and ten pins.

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The New York Times
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28 May 1935
title · 
Gives Dinner Tonight
subtitle · 
Mrs. Marshall H. Russell.
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volume 84 • whole 28248 • page 32 • column 6
content

Many reservations have been made for the dinner dance and game tournament to be given tonight at the Ambassador for the benefit of the National Republican Builders. [...]>

There will be tables for bridge and backgammon, and facilities for ring-toss, tiddley-winks, putting, dartell, bag-o-ball and ten pins. The guests will keep record of their score and later in the evening prizes will be awarded to thos having the highest totals.

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29 November 1936
title · 
NEW GAMES FOR INDOORS; In Volume and Variety The Amusement Devices for the Family Grow
by · 
Marshall Sprague
content

As a result, there are more new games and more resurrected ones tha ever before. Everything from Tiddledy Winks to Roulette and from Geography to Parlor Bedlam will be available for the indoor season.

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The New York Times
date · 
19 September 1937
title · 
3 Manhole Lids Vanished in Bronx in Day; Police Seek Collector of 175-Pound Disks
citation · 
page 38 • column 3
content

Mr. Cohen said he could not imagine why any one should steal them [manhole covers]. And he only smiled wanly at the suggestion that they were to be used for playing tiddlywinks, or added to a collection of cast iron art work.

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The New York Times
date · 
31 May 1938
title · 
Steinbrink Flays Albany Proposals
subtitle · 
He Ironically Assails Some of Measures as Tending to 'Liquidate the Bar'
citation · 
volume 87 • whole 29347 • page 8 • column 4
content

"When I was a kid and was playind tiddle-dy-winks, I snapped one of the little chips so hard that it bounced over the table an struck my playmate in the eye. So you see that all sports have an element of danger. [...]"

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published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
20 November 1938
title · 
A Gaudy Gallery of Gamblers
subtitle · 
Herbert Asbury Chronicles the Gambling Activities of America From The Colonies to Canfield
citation · 
page 4 • column 2
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SUCKER'S PROGRESS. An Informal History of Gambling in America From the Colonies to Canfield. By Herbert Asbury. Illustrated. 493 pp. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. $3.50.

[...]

Spit-in-the- river and so forth might better be played with tiddlywinks.

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29 January 1939
title · 
New Things in City Shops: Jewelry in Today's Manner
by · 
Charlotte Hughes
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volume 88 • section D • whole 29590 • page 7 • column 2
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Tiddly-Winks Athletics

Table games based on active sports seem to be satisfying to people who like to take life easy during the Winter. Take, for instance, a tiddly-winks version of tennis. The court is a bit of green felt properly marked off. The net is made of paper. You can serve and volley and keep score the way it's done in the real game, the aim being to flip the little tiddly-winks disks back and forth over the net.

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11 July 1939
title · 
M'Carthy at Fair Mows 'em Down
subtitle · 
Wisecracking Favorite Gets a Reception Equaled Only by That for British Rules
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Frank S. Adams
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volume 88 • whole 29753 • page 14 • column 1
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Reporting of dummy Charlie McCarthy with Edgar Bergen at 1939 New York World's Fair

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The last stop was in the Court of Peace, where 4,000 persons were waiting under a burning sun to see him. Charlie soon got into a tangled discussion with Mr. Bergen iver the identity of Aristotle. Charlie said he had gone to school with Aristotle, in fact had played on the same tiddly-winks team with him.

"I was All-American left tiddle," he confided.

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18 September 1939
title · 
'America Needs a Bomb Dropped Upon It—A Bomb From God,' Is Assertion of Dr. Ayer
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volume 89 • whole 29822 • page 14 • column 6
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"We have smallness and bitterness, and those who play tiddlywinks instead of thinking of the kingdom of God. And there is selfishness, lethargy and acrimony in the United States, too."

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21 March 1940
title · 
Envoy to Germany Returns to Soviet
subtitle · 
Moscow Trip Interpreted in Berlin as Sign That Pact With Axis Is Imminent
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volume 89 • whole 30007 • page 10 • column 4
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The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung writes: [...]

"We, however," it continues, "are not at all interested in the parliamentary tiddle-de-winks that led to this first change in government in the Western camp."

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19 August 1940
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Topics of the Times
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volume 89 • whole 30158 • page 16 • column 4
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On the next voyage the American Pioneer Line expects to provide the crew with a hostess. There will be tiddlywinks and jack-straws in the crew's social hall after supper.

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15 December 1940
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Child and Parent
by · 
Catherine Mackenzie
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section Magazine • page 20 • column 3
content

Four to six years: Auto coaster, roller skates, sled, swing, tricycle (large), veloci- pedes, play houses, toy stores and supplies, cowboy and Indian outfits, rubber stamping outfits, sewing sets, tracing books, tool chest, games like jackstraws and tiddlywinks.

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8 June 1941
title · 
Setter-Upper for Uncle Sam
subtitle · 
Gene Tunney, the box now a lieutenant commander, has undertaken to promote the fitness of the Navy
by · 
Meyer Berger
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section Magazine • page 6 • column 4
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Lieut. Comdr. Tunney has prescribed at least twenty minutes of this, before breakfast, for every man in service. He thinks even a half hour of it isn't too much. Yet it isn't all. In the afternoon every man must go in for some competitive game, and it can't be tiddle-de-winks or acey-deucey. It must be one of these ten&mdash:basketball, touch-football, volley ball, soccer, deck tennis, cross-country running, boxing, handball, lawn tennis or rowing.

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18 September 1941
title · 
Reared a Family in Gloomy Court
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Retiring Custodian of Old Criminal Building Says They Never Had Nightmares
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"My kids never got nightmares," he said. "They used those old marble halls for a playground and had a better time, maybe, than most kids." Nights, Mr. Quinlan said, were solemn and still, except when fire engines or trucks bounced manholes in Lafayette Street. "Then, it was like giants playing tiddle-de-winks."

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16 November 1941
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Father Grows Older
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After the play had been running for a spell the youngster who was play Harlan, the 60-year old son, grew too big for oatmeal and tiddly winks. Since then three others have had the part.

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7 June 1942
title · 
Malnutrition of the Box Office
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In Which It Is Suggested That a Diminishing Public Is a Cause Of the Low State of the Theatre
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"Life With Father" is a striking example of a good show that was to a large extent promoted along the lines of a major motion picture. This included radio programs, national advertising tie-ups and store window displays of every type from mustache cups at Hammacher & Schlemmer to parchesi and tiddlywinks at Schwartz.

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22 November 1942
column title · 
Parent and Child
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Games for the Family
by · 
Catherine Mackenzie
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content

Miss Musselman does not neglect the use of most table games in developing children's powers of observation, quickness, of response and memory, but her emphasis is on their enjoyment when she mentions parchesi and jackstraws and tiddlywinks and Up Jenkins.

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31 October 1943
title · 
Tokens For Change
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volume 93 • section Magazine • whole 31326 • page 35 • column 2
content

Beginning next February, housewives will carry in their purses red and blue plastic "coins," slightly larger than nickels, slightly thinner than dimes. These tokens, which will look somewhat like tiddlywink disks, will be used to make change from ration-book coupons.

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9 January 1944
title · 
The GI 'Makes With the Hot Foot"
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The town has never seen so much strut and swing before. And half of it's done by men in service.
by · 
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Of course, you could spend the evening playing tiddlywinks with them, but that's not too sociable. When you're dancing together, stepping to the same rhythm, not necessarily saying a word, it's kind of intimate in a nice way.

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10 February 1944
title · 
Banks Here Receiving Ration 'Tiddly-Winks'
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Cartons of red and blue "tiddly-winks" -- the new ration currency that will go into use Feb. 27 -- were carried yesterday into many of the metropolitan area's 1,600 banks, which will start distributing them next week.

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10 February 1944
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Churns and Churning
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We have heard of city housekeepers who use an egg beater to churn butter in a bowl. [...] The milk was put in tall, cylindrical cans, about three feet tall and a foot in diameter. The cream rose to the top, inches thick, like a mammoth tiddlywink.

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27 February 1944
title · 
OPA Heralds Tokens' Use Today; For Once Its Poets Have a Say
subtitle · 
System of Making Change Described as [‘]Something Old, Something New, Something Red and Something Blue’
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The use of red and blue "tiddlywinks" in rationing, which begins today throughout the nation, was heralded yesterday by the Office of Price Administration with praise and poetry.

"Nothing could be simpler than shopping with ration tokens," said Daniel P. Woolley, OPA regional administrator.

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28 February 1944
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Dime-Size Ration Tokens Hailed By Shoppers, With Few Objectors
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volume 93 • whole 31446 • page 1 • column 2
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The dime-sized red and blue ration tokens came into their own yesterday as they clicked their way into the purses and pockets of shoppers throughout the nation.

The grocer and the housewife, already masters of the stamp and point ritual, found in most cases that use of the plastic "tiddlywinks" as ration change-makers simplified the across-the-counter transactions.

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26 July 1946
title · 
Schindler Calls Upon Business To Weed Out Duplicate Orders
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page 27 • column 3
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Turning to the labor situation, Mr. Schindler emphasized "Should the price-wage spiral get out of hand, labor management strife of recent months might appear as a mere game of tiddly-winks compared to what may lie ahead. [...] "

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5 January 1947
title · 
Menace to All Sports—The 'Fix'
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Major sports are usually clean, but gamblers are always on the prowl to make a 'killing.'
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Arthur Daley
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And it's also difference of opinion that is responsible for betting on fights, football, basketball, baseball and every other form of athletic endeavor up to and including a friendly game of tiddlywinks. Yet the only form of gambling that has been legalized in the United States is on-the-course betting through the mutuel windows at the race tracks.

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8 June 1947
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TIDDLYWINKS
by · 
Austin Y. Hoy
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content

TO THE EDITOR:

Henry Longhurst's aricle, “Our Golf Isn't Cricket to the British,” doesn't begin to tell the full story of othe way we have degraded the good old Scotch game of golf. It has, indeed, fallen so low here that it might well be renamed “outdoor tiddlywinks” and be duly legitimized by an entirely new set of rules. [...]

AUSTIN Y. HOY.

Southport, Conn.

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13 May 1950
title · 
Murray Demands Pay Rise, Price Cut
subtitle · 
Workers Won't Let Industry Practice 'Extortion', He Says at Steelworkers' Parley
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Congress came in for further attack in a speech by Roy Wilkins, acting secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, who accused opponents of civil rights legislation in the Senate of "playing parliamentary tiddlywinks while millions of their fellow Americans are penned behind the barbed wire of economic ghetto."

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19 September 1950
title · 
Coast Guard Boss Moving to Boston
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George Horne
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page 63 • column 1
content

For Capt. Walter R. Richard life as the deputy Eastern area commander of the United States Coast Guard has been a mixture of air-sea searchs, tiddlywinks, icebergs and orchids.

[...]

Across one wall on the tenth floor is a huge map of the Atlantic area and on it, in one form or another, are up-to-the-minute indicators of everything noteworthy going on across the vast area.

The plastic coin-like tiddlywinks come in here. The game buttons are attached to small magnets and the wall behind the big chart is steel. Icebergs, ships in distress, vessels asking for medical aid, liners and freighters that have sent in their positions—all are located by the numbered buttons.

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13 November 1951
column title · 
Sports of The Times
title · 
Overheard in a Huddle
by · 
Arthur Daley
citation · 
volume 101 • whole 34261 • page 37 • column 2
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"Yes, we had a rough game with Dartmouth on Saturday, conceded Lou Little. "But it wasn't anything to make a fuss about. After all, football's a rough game."

"Nor was that tiddly winks we played against the Redskins yesterday," said Steve Own, "even if there was almost a fist fight after the final gun. [...]"

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27 April 1952
title · 
'Game of Politics' Introduced by Parkers, Originator of 'Monopoly,' for Election Year
by · 
George Auerbach
citation · 
section 3 - Business • page 1 • column 2
content

Parker is not a newcomer to the game field. The company was founded in 1883 by George S. Parker, who invented the game of "Banking" while in high school. Mr. Parker is still with the company as chairman of the board. During the years the company has produced many well=known time passers such as Mah Jong [sic correct=Jongg], Ping Pong, Tiddly Winks, Pit, Flich, Rook, and in recent years, Sorry, Clue and Boom or Bust, a game based on inflation.

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18 May 1953
title · 
About New York
subtitle · 
Bomber Without Wings Is Taken for Submarine—Army Parades Pose Problems for Experts
by · 
Meyer Berger
citation · 
page 23 • column 6
content

Parades are a menace to manholes on any city rout. When the Eighty-second Airborne moved up Fifth Avenue at war's end, its equipment crached Fifth Avenue's manhole covers as if they were so many plastic tiddlywinks buttons. Now Army orders detour tanks and cannon around the covers.

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14 June 1953
column title · 
Sports of The Times
title · 
Out of the Rough
by · 
Arthur Daley
citation · 
volume 102 • section Sports • whole 34840 • page 2 • column 6
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The follow who really had the crowd gasping, however, was Samuel Jackson Snead. The hillbilly from West Virginia was knocking the daylights out of the ball. "He hit every tee shot five miles," said Jimmy Demaret, his playing partner. Jimmy is no tiddly-winks hitter himself, but he spoke in awe. Slammin' Sam drove beyond the pin on the 292-yard seventeenth and he let go a prodigious blast of 300 yards a hole later.

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7 August 1953
column title · 
About New York
title · 
Subway Vending Machines Comprise Biggest Operation of Kind—Odd Craft Moved
by · 
Meyer Berger
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volume 102 • whole 34894 • page 21 • column 3
content

Few who drop tiddle-de-wink buttons, slugs, washers, paper clips, cardboard, hairpins—among other curious items—into vending machines are aware that they are violating a municipal law as well as Section 167 of the Federal Criminal Code.

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31 December 1953
title · 
Clueless Puzzle Put in 900 Pieces
subtitle · 
British Jigsaw Is for Adults, but Stores Also Present Similar Games for Young
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volume 103 • whole 35040 • page 12 • column 5
content

There are collections of games for those who can't decide which one to buy. Tiddlywinks, checkers, backgammon and anagrams are some of those at Schwarz.

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18 April 1954
title · 
A Present for a King
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volume 103 • section Book Review • whole 35148 • page 12 • column 5
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Minky, the left-behind kitten, sets out in pursuit of her twin, endures brief imprisonment in a bank (where the clerks play tiddlywinks with sixpences), crashes the King's birthday procession and brings about a perfect understanding between the King and Mr. Finch on the care of lost and lonely animals.

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6 September 1954
title · 
Television in Review
subtitle · 
Mickey Rooney Falls Flat on New Program—And His Show, Sadly, Follows Suit
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V.A.
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content

It is difficult to foresee how this program will add luster to Mickey Rooney's long career. If it is representative of N.B.C.'s new line-up of Saturday nigh comedy shows this fall, tiddlywinks may be headed for a revival.

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27 January 1955
title · 
Newell Chase, 50, Composer, Pianist
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volume 104 • whole 35432 • page 23 • column 2
content

His orchestral works included Concerto for Louise, Midnight in Mayfair, Tanglewood Pool, Trickette, Idawanna, Classical Satire, Tiddlywinks and Bachette.

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5 February 1956
title · 
Bevan Expresses Open Rebellion
subtitle · 
Accuses Laborite Leadres of Dictatorial Methods, Betrayal of Priciples
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page 17 • column 2
content

"I am getting fed up with that metaphor. Play inside the team, indeed! When you join a team in the expectation that you are going to play rugger [rugby] you cannot expect to be enthusiastic if you are asked to play tiddlywinks."

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11 February 1956
title · 
Attlee Tells Bevan to Be Loyal or Stick to His Tiddlywinks
by · 
Drew Middelton
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volume 105 • whole 35812 • page 3 • column 7
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LONDON, Feb. 10—Earl Attlee told Aneurin Bevan today that if the Welsh radical could not display loyalty and team spirit in the Labor party he had better stick to tiddlywinks.

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12 February 1956
title · 
Bevan Widens the Split in Labor
subtitle · 
Gaitskell's Efforts at Unity Balked
by · 
Drew Middleton
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section 4 • page 4 • column 4
content

Curiously the first rebuke to Mr. Bevan came from Lord Attlee, whom Mr. Gaitskell succeeded as leader. The former Prime Minister brusquely told Mr. Bevan in a newspaper article that if he couldn't display loyalty and team spirit he had better stick to tiddlywinks.

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2 March 1958
title · 
Duke Cheers His Team But It Plays 2d Tiddle
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page 6 • column 2
content

London, March 1—Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, apologized jokingly today for not joining a tiddlywinks team he sponsors in a match with a Cambridge University team.

In a message to the two teams, he said: "At one time I had hoped to join my champions but, unfortunately, while practicing secretly I pulled an important muscle in the second or tiddly joint of my winking finger." In the game small discs are snapped from a flat surface into a cup.

The Duke's team, known as the Goons, is composed of professional comedians. "Wink up, fiddle the game and may the Goons' side win," he exhorted. But the university students beat them by 120½ points to 50.

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9 May 1958
title · 
Oxford - Cambridge Game is a Snap
subtitle · 
Teams to Introduce New College Sport: It's Tiddlywinks
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page 28 • column 6
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LONDON, May 8 (AP)—Varsity teams from Oxford and Cambridge Universities will meet tomorrow in what is billed as the game of the century to introduce a new intercollegiate sport&tiddlywinks.

[...]

Illustration with a hand holding a squidger and a wink shown in various positions heading toward the pot. The illustration incorrectly depicts the spin of the wink.
For those who have forgotten, this is how you tiddle.
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10 May 1958
title · 
Oxford, Outsnapping Cambridge, Claims World Tiddlywinks Title
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volume 107 • whole 36631 • page 25 • column 7
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Associated Press
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OXFORD, England, May 9 (AP)—The Oxonian Tiddlers from Oxford University defeated the Cantab Winkers of Cambridge University in tiddlywinks today, 113-111, and immediately claimed the world championship.

[...]

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11 May 1958
title · 
House of Commons Gets into Tiddlywinks Act
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volume 107 • section Sports • whole 36632 • page 4 • column 6
content source · 
United Press
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LONDON, May 10 (UP)—Oxford students moved into Britain's House of Commons today to stake their claim to the world tiddlywinks championship.

The Oxford Winkers assigned Oxford's Tory member of Parliament, Lawrence Turner, to the task of organizing a team of tiddlywink-minded parliamentarians to meet Oxford here in July. He accepted.

The Oxford team touched off a storm yesterday by beating Cambridge University in a friendly match and then claiming the world title.

Cambridge had claimed the title after a match with the Goons—a team of comedians—last month. Cambridge refused to concede the title to Oxford on the ground the game was "experimental,"

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12 June 1958
title · 
Books of the Times
by · 
Charles Poore
citation · 
page 29
content

American college sports interested the Willoughbys. Of course, they found nothing comparable to the Oxford and Cambridge tiddlywinks teams that have recently been in the news.

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15 June 1958
title · 
Tiddlywinks Title Claimed
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section V • page 4 • column 6
content source · 
United Press International
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LONDON, June 14 (UPI)—Cambridge University today claimed the tiddlywinks championship of the world under new international match rules. The Cambridge team soundly defeated the Telcon Terribles, a factory teach from Crawley, England, last night. The new rules were drawn Thursday.

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published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
27 February 1959
title · 
Virile Cambridge Wins Healthful Tiddlywinks
citation · 
volume 108 • whole 36924 • page 31 • column 6
content source · 
United Press International
content

CAMBRIDGE, England, Feb. 26 (UPI)—Cambridge University won the all-England tiddly winks championship today by defeating Oxford, 64-48.

The umpires were Stirling Moss, an automobile race driver, and Christopher Brasher, 1956 Olympic steeplechase champion.

Also present was the Rev. E. A. Willis, secretary-general of the English Tiddly Winks [sic correct=Tiddlywinks] Association and stanch [sic correct=staunch] supporter of the sport.

He says the game taxes every fiber of the brain and every muscle of the body; that it develops delicacy of touch, corrects color-blindness and makes for restful sleep.

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613
published in · 
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date · 
17 May 1959
title · 
Star Out With Hangnail But Tiddlywinkers Win
citation · 
page 18 • column 2
content source · 
United Press International
content

SEATTLE, May 16 (UPI)—"It was a team effort. Our chaps came to tiddle and they didn't even blink when the winks were down."

Those were the words today of Courtney Johnston, coach of the Star-Spangled Colonialist Tiddlywink Society of the University of Washington.

Although one of its top players was sidelined with a hangnail, the Washington team rallied yesterday to post a 19-9 tiddlywinks victory over Seattle University.

Johnston declared "We are now looking forward to tiddlying with Cambridge University, champions of the British Empire.

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614
published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
30 October 1959
column title · 
Sports of the Times
title · 
Rivalry With Wings
by · 
Arthur Daley
citation · 
page 20 • column 2
content

The humble beginnings of the Army-Navy spectacle will not be paralleled by the entrance of the Air Force Academy into the service sweepstakes. The Falcons ventured no challenges for tiddlywinks. Nor did they blunder unknowingly into football.

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738
published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
4 March 1960
title · 
Woman Joins Oxford Team
citation · 
volume 109 • whole 37295 • page 30 • column 4
content source · 
United Press International
content

OXFORD, England, March 3 (UPI)—Mary Otto, 21, yesterday became the first woman member of an official Oxford University sports team. She was allowed to join the tiddlywink first team.

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615
published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
21 October 1960
title · 
Collecting Is No Mild Disease, Its Victims Assert
subtitle · 
Reasons for Habit Range From Desire for Security to Acquisitiveness
by · 
Rita Reif
citation · 
volume 110 • whole 37526 • page 37 • column 3
content

After equating the objects collected with the possessor's need for security, strength or identification with a bygone age, Mr. Wormley went on to cite some of the oddments people choose to hoard: powder horns, grape scissors, pigeon's blood, end-of-the-day glass, eye cups, bootjacks, patch boxes (for beauty spots)[,] Bible lasps, swan-skin fans, mustache curl- ers, Frozen Charlotte dolls, tiddlywinks, Betty lamps and courting mirrors.

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739
published in · 
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date · 
22 December 1960
title · 
Commons Awards Verdict to Boxing
subtitle · 
Refuses to Consider Bill by Dr. Edith Summerskill to Outlaw the Sport
by · 
Seth S. King
citation · 
page 30 • column 7
content

Automobile racing, he said, was far more dangerous for drivers and spectators as well, and no one was moving to stop it.

"If we follow the thing to its logical conclusion and play for absolute safety, we shall end up by playing only tiddlywinks," the colonel said.

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766
published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
8 June 1961
title · 
Sports of the Times; Distance Casts a Spell
citation · 
volume 110 • whole 37756 • page 42 • column 2
content

Mickey Wright has overdriven the green on a 385-yard hole, has won driving contests with measured wallops of 285 yards, has averaged seventy-three strokes a round for the past year and has scored a 66. It's enough to make every male duffer abandon golf and take up tiddlywinks or some game better suited to their talents because Mickey Wright is not a guy but a doll.

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616
published in · 
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date · 
18 July 1961
title · 
Sports of The Times
subtitle · 
The Cobb We Knew
by · 
John Drebinger
citation · 
page 21 • column 7
content

"I didn't get those playing tiddlywinks," said Ty [Cobb]. "They gave it to me as hard as I gave it to them. [...]"

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740
published in · 
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date · 
6 August 1961
title · 
Who's Who Of Collectors
citation · 
volume 110 • section Magazine • whole 37815 • page 15 • column 2
content

By comparison, the playboy collector, although he is an interesting figure, is having a go at tiddlywinks both spiritually and financially.

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741
published in · 
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date · 
20 August 1961
title · 
Plea to Quit Spurned
subtitle · 
Jersey City Educator Firm in Dispute With Mayor
citation · 
volume 110 • whole 37829 • page 28 • column 1
content

JERSEY CITY, Aug.19—The president of the city Board of Education disregarded Mayor Thomas Gangemi's demand to resign today.

John F. Sheehan, the president, said, "I'm afraid my resignation would open the door for the Mayor to bring in people who would take the educational dollars out of the classrooms and put it into tiddly-winks and boon-doggling."

The dispute started earlier this week when Mr. Sheehan branded as "pure fiction" a plan announced by the city to use school buildings for after-school recreation programs.

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764
published in · 
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date · 
7 November 1961
title · 
Art: Wry Constructions
subtitle · 
Kay Sage Arranges Simple Objects in Surrealist Environment for Effect
by · 
Brian O'Doherty
citation · 
volume 111 • whole 37908 • page 30 • column 4
content

Miss Sage has obviously had a delightful time making these pieces; she shows excellent taste, tact, discretion, elegance, breeding, all the things that rise to the top like cream, but which are not enough. Miss Sage has had a delightful game of artistic tiddlywinks. But nothing more.

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742
published in · 
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date · 
17 June 1962
column title · 
In the Mailbox
title · 
Tiddlywinks, Anyone?
by · 
Philip Moore (Oxford University)
citation · 
page S3 • column 8
content

TO THE SPORTS EDITOR:

I am one of a party of four Oxford undergraduates who are making a tour of America this summer, playing tiddlywinks. We are sponsored by Guinness and are being filmed in London later this month by CBS. We hope to be appearing on television in New York.

However, we are at the moment short of matches during our stay in New York - between Aug. 3-16 and Sept. 6-15, approximately. Do any of your readers know anyone who might like to play us?

I can assure you that this is a serious venture; I would be grateful for an early reply.

PHILIP MOORE.

Keble College,
Oxford, England

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617
published in · 
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date · 
5 August 1962
title · 
Britain Tops U.S. in Tiddlywinks
subtitle · 
Big Muscles No Match for Strong Oxford Thumbs
citation · 
volume 111 • whole 38179 • page 23 • column 1
content

A British tiddlywinks team defeated a pair of more muscular but weaker-thumbed Americans here yesterday.

The match was played in Maria's Cin Cin Restaurant at 224 East Fifty-third Street.

The British team came here under sponsorship of Guinness' Stou. The Americans were regular patrons of the restaurant.

The Britons proved to the satisfaction of a small but appreciative group that clothes do not make a winner. The casual street wear of Elizabeth King, who played in stocking feet, and her partner, Peter Freeman, contrasted sharply with the gaudy garb of the Americans. Bryan Clare and Ken Baker, who wore black blazers, tam-o-shanters, white duck trousers and sneakers.

[...]

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618
published in · 
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date · 
8 August 1962
title · 
Advertising: Goodyear Drive Turns on Jazz
subtitle · 
Tiddlywink Drive
by · 
Peter Bart
citation · 
volume 111 • whole 38182 • page 38 • column 6
content

Howard Gossage, president of Weiner & Gossage, Inc., of San Francisco, who recently made an important contribution to the music world (he developed the Bach and Bethoven [sic] sweat shirts), has now moved into the field of sports.  Mr. Gossage has arranged for his client, Rainier Ale, to challenge the visiting tiddlywinks team for Oxford University to a tournament.  The great event will be held in San Francisco between August 13 and 17.  According to the official itinerary of the tiddlywinks team, the "International Tournament in San Francisco will be co-sponsored by Rainier Ale and Guinness Stout, two breweries locked in desperate struggle for undisputed position of last place in the malt beverage field."

Last week-end the British team beat an American team in a contest in a restaurant here.

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619
published in · 
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date · 
30 September 1962
title · 
Success (?) Secret of the Starmakers
by · 
Elaine Kendall
citation · 
volume 112 • whole 38235 • page 43 2
content

The game content is often so incidental and so repetitious that tiddlywinks or "Steal the Old Man's Bundle" would probably do as well.

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743
published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
21 October 1962
title · 
Harvard Squops, beats Columbia
subtitle · 
Crimson Tramples Lions in Ivy League Tiddlywinks
citation · 
volume 112 • whole 38256 • page 83 • column 3
content

In a small office on the Columbia University campus yesterday, four college students huddled over a table covered with a small rug. A little cup stood in the middle of the table surrounded by colorful plastic disks.

The four students were participating in the first tiddlywinks match between Ivy league schools. The match took an hour and a half, and Harvard easily defeated a hastily assembled Columbia team, 11-3

[...]

Black and white photograph of a winker in profile looking down at a mat with winks and a pot and shooting with both hands.
A SHIFT TO DEFENSE: James Parry, the self-proclaimed captain of Harvard tiddlywink team, displays deep concentration before attempting to immobilize several Columbia winks.
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620
published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
23 October 1962
title · 
Cuba Action Gets Public's Backing
subtitle · 
But Check of U.S. Indicates Many Fear Result
citation · 
volume 112 • whole 38258 • page 21 • column 4
content

" [...] What did they think the Rus[s]ians were doing down there, playing tiddlywinks? I haven't felt so trembley since D-Day. The President said it well, but it seems awfully late in the game—maybe too late.["]

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744
published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
21 November 1962
title · 
Ken Strong and Yost Honored by N.Y.U. Club
subtitle · 
Varsity Group Names Football Hero and Baseball Star as Sports Alumni of the Year
by · 
Joseph M. Sheehan
citation · 
volume 112 • whole 38287 • page 38 • column 8
content

Along with freshman and junior varsity matches, nine regulation football games will be played between the colleges. Eliot of Harvard will oppose Saybrook of Yale in the title contest. There also will be varsity and freshman touch football games beetween [sic correct=between] intramural units.

By way of adding variety to the program, there will be a tiddlywinks match, in which Harvard's undefeated forces will be challenged by a reportedly formidable Yale side.

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745
published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
22 May 1963
column title · 
Sports of the Times
title · 
Erin Go Bragh
by · 
Arthur Daley
citation · 
page 46 • column 2
content

Gaelic football is an eminently attractive game, 15 on a side. It combines some of the neater features of basketball and soccer. It is not a gentle as tiddlywinks.

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746
published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
8 September 1963
title · 
Surfers Holding Out for Giant Waves
by · 
Steve Cady
citation · 
section Sports • page 6 • column 6
content

In addition, there are the hodads. A hodad, it was explained, is "a hanger-on, a surf bum, a person who would like to surf but doesn't have the nerve." Judging from today's action—surfboards hurtling through the air like giant tiddlywinks, riders doing somersaults, etc.—it would seem that being a hodad is easy.

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747
published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
7 March 1965
citation · 
page X17
content

Obviously you had a very unhappy childhood; apparently (1) you were never taken to Coney Island; (2) you never played tiddly-winks

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621
published in · 
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date · 
20 April 1965
column title · 
Books of the Times
title · 
Fred Allen's Letters Are a History of Our Time
by · 
Charles Poore
citation · 
page 37 • column 2
content

Particularly sundry: "This is my seventh year of this drudgery," he wrote Frank Sullivan in 1938, and "unless we find some way of lightening the burden I will have to look for something easier, like checking the altitude oon tiddlywink chips."

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757
published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
27 May 1966
title · 
Hydroplane to Use Auto Engines
by · 
Steve Cady
citation · 
page 59 • column 3
content

"If you take up tiddlywinks," Bil[l] Sterrett said with a Kentucky drawl, "you're going to find competition, right? It's no different with unlimited hydroplanes.

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748
published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
28 June 1966
column title · 
Sports of the Times
title · 
Much Ado About Nothing
by · 
Arthur Daley
citation · 
volume 115 • whole 39602 • page 53 • column 6
content

In the first place, Terrell and Jones are doing battle for the World Boxing Association heavyweight championship, a bauble that has all the earth-shattering implications of the junior tiddlywinks championship of Hoboken. In spite of its high-sounding name and pretensions of universality, the W.B.A. is a nothing organization, as inept as it is powerless.

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749
published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
10 July 1966
title · 
Russians to Be Taught Fine Art of Tiddlywinks
citation · 
volume 115 • whole 39614 • page 21 • column 2
content source · 
United Press International
content

LONDON, July 9 (UPI)— Six Cambridge University students left for the Soviet Union today to instruct the Russians on tiddlywinks.

The students, all members of the university's Tiddlywinks Club, plan a 10-week trip to villages, towns and, eventually, Red Square in Moscow.

John Penhallow, 22-year-old leader of the group, said: "The Russians haven't heard of tiddlywinks. We hope to get them interested."

Tiddlywinks, an old English game, is played with different colored disks about three-quarters of an inch in diameter. The disks are flicked into a container by pressing the rim of one against another.

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516
published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
13 July 1966
title · 
Tiddlywink Team Off to Soviet
citation · 
volume 115 • whole 39617
content source · 
United Press International
notes · 
Not found on microfilm.
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622
published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
18 February 1967
title · 
City Displays Model of Park Stables
by · 
McCandlish Phillips
citation · 
page 31 • column 6
content

The largest and most controversial structural feature of the design provides two large horse riding rings. One would be underground and one outdoors, with the latter resting atop the former.

Both rings would be covered with a deep layer of soft tanbark and both would be adaptable to a variety of uses. The indoor ring would have seats for 1,500 spectators; the other, seats for 1,000.

"Not only can they be used for hippie activities—horse riding, horse shows, polo," Mr. Hoving said, "but for soccer and Gallic football, dog shows, and giant tiddly winks contests if you wish."

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771
published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
12 June 1968
title · 
De Vi[n]cenzo's Loss in Masters Leads U.S. Open to Aid Scoring
by · 
Lincoln A. Werden
citation · 
page 53 • column 2
content

[Hord] Hardin said one critic recommended that the golfing fathers concentrate hereafter on rules for tiddlywinks because "you could make some real silly rules there."

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750
published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
1 February 1969
title · 
NASA Takes Cooper Out of Daytona Orbit
citation · 
volume 118 • whole 40551 • page 34 • column 2
content

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., Jan. 31—The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ordered astronaut Gordon Cooper today to withdraw from the 24 Hours of Daytona, evidently because of the possibility of injury.

Cooper, who has been designated back-up command pilot for the Apollo 10 lunar exploration in May, was angry that NASA had given him such short notice.

"I made no secret about my racing," he said today. "NASA has never said anything about it before, and now they wait until the last minute to shut me off. I do not appreciate it. They ought to hire tiddlywinks players as astronauts."

Cooper was to have driven a Mercury Cougar in the touring-car class with Charles Buckley, chief security officer of NASA at Cape Kennedy.

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623
published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
17 April 1970
title · 
Tiddlywinks Mark Claimed
citation · 
volume 119 • whole 40991 • page 8 • column 6
content source · 
United Press International
content

THAME, England (UPI)—Four schoolboys claimed a tiddlywinks record after playing 2,007 games in 101 hours. The boys played in shifts as part of a fund‐raising charity drive.

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624
published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
30 July 1972
title · 
Freud, Fear and Foreign Trade
by · 
Paul A. Samuelson
citation · 
section 3 • page 1 • column 5
content

To almost all Americans today it is an article of faith that using quotas on a wide scale—to save the textile, shoe, steel industries, and also the TV, electronics, auto and tiddlywink industries—will be an important step in keeping real wages in America from deteriorating from their present all-time peak levels.

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761
published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
8 April 1973
title · 
Low-Key MIT Makes Variety Spice of Sports
citation · 
page S2
content source · 
United Press International
notes · 
Reprinted in MIT Observer, February 1973; not on New York Times microfilm.
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published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
10 May 1973
column title · 
Chess
title · 
Would the Killer Instinct Give Fischer the Tiddleywinks Title?
by · 
Robert Byrne
citation · 
page 42 • column 2
summary

Article only mentions tiddlywinks in headline

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777
published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
14 May 1973
title · 
Guest Coach Puts English on 'Croquet'
by · 
Israel Shenker
citation · 
volume 122 • whole 42114 • page 33 • column 1
content

Mr. Aspinall, folding his 6 foot 2 inch frame back on a park bench, noted: "Croquet is 10 times more exciting than tiddlywinks, and I'd be very hard put to decide what is less exciting. It's been called the world's worst spectator sport, but for those who play it's desperately exciting."

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751
published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
9 December 1973
title · 
What They Are Saying
citation · 
section Sports • page 22 • column 5
content

Travis Raven, athletic director of Austin (Tex.) High School, refuses the Governor's request to schedule basketball games in the afternoon to conserve electricity: "There's not enough light anyway in our gym to play tiddlywinks, much less basketball."

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752
published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
25 May 1978
title · 
About New Yoork
subtitle · 
In the Barrio: A Hot Line That Cares
by · 
Francis X. Clines
citation · 
page B9 • column 1
content

Judy Resnick dropped herself into East Harlem randomly in the middle of the night, skittering in like a tiddlywink into the forest, propelled far from her home in Mount Vernon.

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755
published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
13 December 1978
title · 
Challenge Him to a Game!
by · 
Morsan's
citation · 
page B11 • column 5
content
Photograph of Dave Lockwood
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published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
11 February 1979
column title · 
What They Are Saying
citation · 
page S7 • column 2
summary

Mention by John Walker

content

John Walker, New Zealand's mile-record holder: "The Olympics are over-commercialized. I think it would be better, if all the team sports—soccer, basketball and the like—were dropped and there be only individual competition. Now I hear they want to add rugby to the program in Moscow. The next thin you know, they will be wanting to add tiddlywinks."

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published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
25 February 1979
title · 
This Game Isn't Child's Play
by · 
David H. Lockwood
citation · 
page S2 • column 1
summary

Dave Lockwood's response to John Walker.

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United Press International (photograph only)
content
Black and white photograph of Joe Sachs during 1975 tiddlywinks marathon in MIT's building 10.

United Press International

M.I.T. student playing tiddlywinks: Campetitors [sic correct=Competitors] take game seriously.

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published in · 
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date · 
7 December 1980
title · 
Health; The Battle of Wounded Knees
citation · 
section 6 • page 202 • column 5
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published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
18 January 1981
title · 
Westchester Journal
citation · 
section 7 - Westchester • page 30 • column 3
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published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
7 February 1982
title · 
The Quiet, Powerless Twilight of 'The Largo Eight'
citation · 
section 1 • page 22 • column 3
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630
published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
7 March 1983
title · 
Allen Wins Again In Nation's Capital
by · 
Michael Janofsky
citation · 
volume 132 • whole 45610 • page C4 • column 5
content

"[...] I've learned that whether you win in the N.F.L., the U.S.F.L. or tiddly-winks, it's all exhilarating. When you win you're reborn. When you lose, you die a little. I still feel that way."

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published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
4 December 1983
column title · 
Sports of The Times
title · 
Watson-Player Fallout
by · 
Dave Anderson
citation · 
section Sports • page 3 • column 2
content

On the men's Caribbean tour several years ago, a relatively obscure touring pro was caught flipping his ball-marker several feet closer to the hole, as if he were playing tiddly-winks. He was suspended.

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773
published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
19 March 1984
title · 
Jim Brown's Best Sport
citation · 
page C6 • column 4
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excerpt (NATwA)
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631
published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
24 July 1984
title · 
Arab Isle: Window to a War, Toast of Saudis
citation · 
page A2 • column 3
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excerpt (NATwA)
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632
published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
22 February 1985
column title · 
TV Weekend
title · 
Finnegan Begin Again
citation · 
page C26 • column 1
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excerpt (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
633
published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
21 March 1985
title · 
How Games Grew in U.S. History
citation · 
page C3 • column 1
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excerpt (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
634
published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
18 February 1986
title · 
Sports of the Times/Put a '?' on His Chest
citation · 
page D19 • column 1
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excerpt (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
635
published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
8 April 1987
column title · 
ADVERTISING
title · 
ADVERTISING; New Home For James Parry Inc.
by · 
Philip H. Dougherty
citation · 
edition online
content

Mr. Parry comes from Hamilton, N.Y. (''the pearl of the Chenango Valley,'' he said of the town 25 miles southwest of Utica) and from Harvard College, class of '64, where he got his degree cum laude in social studies, but more important was founder and captain of the tiddlywinks team that went undefeated and brought publicity to The Gargoyle, a humor magazine trying to compete with The Crimson.

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636
published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
5 July 1987
title · 
When the Fourth of July Was a (Dangerous) Blast
by · 
Hervie Haufler
citation · 
page 20 • column 5
content

Memory also reminds me how close I came to being a statistic. I had treated myself to some big red four-inch monster crackers. They had been great, exploding with a force to rattle windows. My last cracker I placed under a garbage can lid, expecting to see it fly skyward like a giant tiddlywink. Instead, the cracker's fuse sparked and, seemingly, died. After a cautious interval I went to see what had gone wrong. Gingerly, I picked up the cracker. And at that moment it went off. My fingers were badly burned.

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760
published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
28 September 1988
title · 
'Uncle Bob' Marks 50 years on the Radio
by · 
Jack Cavanaugh
citation · 
volume 136 • section Connecticut Weekly • whole 46911 • page 3 • column 2
content

Other trademarks of the Bob Steele Show are a ''Happy Birthday'' segment for listeners 80 years old and older, a twice-daily report on weather in major cities and ''tiddly winks,'' a potpourri of off-beat news items that strike Mr. Steele's fancy.

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776
published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
13 August 1989
title · 
Not Quite on Top of the World
by · 
Katherine Bouton
citation · 
section Book Review • page 11 • column 3
content

Peary was a bristly man, except to his supporters, who continued to lavish money on him as year after year he and others took turns recording ''farthest norths,'' like a giant game of tiddlywinks. Peary was widely acknowledged by his peers to be the consummate explorer. Their feeling seems to have been that even if his documentation was weak, he deserved to be the first man on the North Pole.

It is Peary's flawed personality that is compelling, and whether he was at the pole or 40 miles away seems almost irrelevant - except that he lied about it and carried that lie to his grave. In the late 20th century it is the deceit that fascinates, and the tiddlywink jump that finally lands on the pole recedes into the realm of curious fact.

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759
published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
26 April 1992
column title · 
Sunday View
title · 
A Bushel and a Peck for Adelaide
by · 
David Richards
citation · 
section 2 - Arts & Leisure • page 5 • column 2
content

The rolling of the dice has prompted some spectacular acrobatics on the part of the dancers—high-flying leaps, midair splits and, in the case of Scott Wise, a breathtaking front flip through the ozone that has him landing, easy as a tiddlywink, on his knees.

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762
published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
25 September 1992
column title · 
The 1992 Campaign
title · 
Showing the Good Ol' Boys How to Play Their Own Game
by · 
Francis X. Clines
citation · 
page A18 • column 2
content

"Goodness!" Mrs. Christmas said, tiddly-wink-eyed as she happily played Orphan Annie to the local Daddy Warbucks. She pocketed the check, then allowed the bank president to take her hand, little-girl fashion, and introduce her to every teller and client in the bank.

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775
published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
13 February 1998
column title · 
FILM REVIEW
title · 
A View of Ayn Rand (With Assistance From the Statue of Liberty)
by · 
Janet Maslin
citation · 
page E16 • column 1
content

Meanwhile, Ms. Rand, who was born Alice Rosenbaum and later took Ayn Rand as a stage name, was also developing tastes in popular culture. She became a devotee of jaunty songs (which she called ''tiddlywink music'') and of operettas. She was also fascinated by American movie stars, with an early interest in Gary Cooper that may have helped her shape Howard Roark, the arch-defiant architect he played in ''The Fountainhead.''

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756
published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
15 March 1998
collection · 
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758
published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
12 April 2002
column title · 
CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK
title · 
Just Fun and Games? No! It's Greed and War, Too
by · 
Sarah Boxer
citation · 
page E38 • column 6
content

Some games appear to be without guile. The show includes two versions of Pillow Dex, which is called the precursor to American Ping-Pong; several versions of Tiddledy Winks, in which a wink is flicked with a tiddly or squidger into a cup; and a half-dozen games of dexterity called Fish Pond, Frog Pond and Four and Twenty Blackbirds, in which one uses a line and hook to pluck flat figures (fish, frogs or blackbirds) out of their slots without dropping them. What could be wrong with this?

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637
published in · 
The New York Times
date · 
29 October 2008
title · 
The Last Week Quiz
content

No, I'm not going there. We need a break. Dare you to answer this end-of-the-endless election quiz:

  1. Speaking about the campaign, John McCain said: "It's not an easy business. It's not ...
    • A) Mumblety-peg.
    • B) Beanbag.
    • C) Tiddledy Winks.
    • D) Table Skittles.
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638
Newsday (newspaper)
location · 
New York, New York, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
200

Toggle showing 9 tiddlywinks references for Newsday.
published in · 
Newsday
date · 
11 December 1968
title · 
MIT to LI Girl? Pure Tiddleywinks
by · 
Barbara Shea
citation · 
page 3A
content

The next time, Arlene Fingeret will know better than to squob [sic correct=squop] when she should have potted. She just needs a little more practice. But then, that's the great game of tiddleywinks for you.

[...]

Black and white photograph of winkers looking down at table with winks, along with the CHYM North American Teams Championship trophy.
Wand, Left, David Sheinson, Miss Fingeret, Jeff Wiesseltheier [sic correct=Wieselthier]
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576
published in · 
Newsday
date · 
1973 or 1974
summary

Quote by USC or UCLA athletic director

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577
published in · 
Newsday
date · 
14 December 1978
title · 
Winking away a challenge
by · 
Bill Nack
citation · 
page 191
content source · 
(see Hartford Courant)
content
Illustration
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578
published in · 
Newsday
date · 
27 February 1980
column title · 
tv tonight
citation · 
section II • page 60
summary

Real People television show listing

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579
published in · 
Newsday
date · 
8 September 1985
title · 
A Find Not to Be Winked At
by · 
Leo Seligsohn
citation · 
section Sunday Magazine • page 22
summary

Coverage of June 1985 NATwA Singles.

content
Black and white stroboscopic photograph of a wink being potted, taken by Rick Tucker.
Stroboscopic photograph captures the flip of a wink into a cup. For photographic purposes, black glove is worn to absorb the brilliant flashing light.

[...]

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580
published in · 
Newsday
date · 
8 September 1985
title · 
GAMES
subtitle · 
The 'Jabberwocky' of Sports
by · 
Leo Seligsohn
citation · 
section Sunday Magazine • page 20
summary

Coverage of June 1985 NATwA Singles.

content

On A SATURDAY morning not long ago, a group of determined men—mostly Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni in their 30s—arrived in Silver Spring, Md., to grapple with the intricacies of a merciless game: tiddlywinks.

[...]

Color photograph across pages 20 and 21 of winks and a cup and a hand holding a green squidger on a yellow wink, taken from above.
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original (NATwA)
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581
published in · 
Newsday
date · 
8 September 1985
title · 
The Wink Language
by · 
Leo Seligsohn
citation · 
section Sunday Magazine • page 21
summary

Coverage of June 1985 NATwA Singles.

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original (NATwA)
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582
published in · 
Newsday
date · 
8 September 1985
by · 
Leo Seligsohn
citation · 
section Sunday Magazine • page 22; 60-61
summary

Coverage of June 1985 NATwA Singles.

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583
published in · 
Newsday
date · 
17 April 1995
title · 
It's Mortal Kombat Over Pogs
by · 
Marilyn Goldstein
citation · 
page A08
content

It was devised by an Oahu elementary school teacher for her class, based on the Depression game tiddledywinks.

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Wall Street Journal (newspaper)
location · 
New York, New York, USA
website · 
tw-pub-ID · 
4

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published in · 
Wall Street Journal
date · 
before 12 March 1984
title · 
In U.K. Panel Shows Players Don't Squeal And Don't Win Cars
by · 
Barry Newman
citation · 
page 1, 23 • column 1
collection · 
excerpt (NATwA)
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25
Weekly World News (newspaper)
location · 
New York, New York, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
5

Toggle showing 3 tiddlywinks references for Weekly World News.
published in · 
Weekly World News
date · 
17 March 1981
title · 
IT'S A MAD, MAD WORLD
subtitle · 
Docs discover why woman had trouble breathing for 20 years—a tiddlywinks in her nose
citation · 
volume 2 • issue 23 • page 2
links · 
Google Books (free) (tw-ref-link-id 15)
tw-ref-ID · 
26
published in · 
Weekly World News
date · 
11 October 1988
title · 
TRIVIA
by · 
Ragan Dunn
citation · 
page 33
content

Dwight D. Eisenhower was a tiddlywinks champion at West Point.

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tw-ref-ID · 
27
published in · 
Weekly World News
date · 
29 January 1991
title · 
Top Toy in 1940
citation · 
page 3 • column 1
content

How times have changed. Fifty years ago the hottest selling game at top toy store F.A.O. Schwarz was tiddly-winks, reports American Demographics magazine.

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28
Nyack, New York, United States
Rockland County Journal (newspaper)
location · 
Nyack, New York, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
217

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for Rockland County Journal.
published in · 
Rockland County Journal
date · 
7 February 1891
title · 
Tiddledewinks
citation · 
page 5 • column 3
content

The new game of tiddledewinks has become popular in Nyack, and a young lady of this place, quoting the language of another, gives the following description of the interesting pastime:

"Each player takes a dingus. The winks are divided equally, likewise the difficulties. Take a wink, put it on the dingus, then by pressing the tiddledy on the wink, make it jump into the wink pot$mdash;if you can. If you succeed you are entitled to a duflicity, and for every jump into the ding pot from the duwink you count a fictiddledy, and continue to so operate the tong winkle upon the pollywog until the points so carried shall equal the sum total of the hogwip multiplied by the puterinktum and added to the contents of the aforesaid wink pot, or words to that effect, you may be said to have won the game."

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796
Olean, New York, United States
The Olean Weekly Democrat (newspaper)
location · 
Olean, New York, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
216

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for The Olean Weekly Democrat.
published in · 
The Olean Weekly Democrat
date · 
18 December 1890
title · 
TIDDLEDY WINK.
subtitle · 
Another Amusement which is Rapidly Growing in Favor.
citation · 
volume 12 • issue 4 • page 12 • column 3
content

Tiddledy-wink.

A Tiddledy-wink social.

There is no joke about it. It is a serious, soul-absorbing topic, and if you ever run up against a lay-out you'll think so.

"Lay-out" sounds queer in connection with a social, but "Tiddledy-wink" socials look, at first sight, very much like a "lay-out." Chips--red, green, blue and white--are used in this new game with such a queer name. They are not placed as in a "game," but they are all-important just the same in "Tiddledy-wink."

A "Tiddledy-wink" social is like this: You invite a crowd to your house, having previously secured a "lay-out." You clear the table of chairs, and on the big center table you place a heavy woollen cover. In the center you place a small glass--one that they use in saloons for whiskey straights is just the thing. Then you deal out the chips. There are twenty-four in number, and about the size of a nickel. Four persons play. They get six chips apiece. In the hand of each person is another and larger chip. The six chips are placed in a row in front of the player, and then number one presses down hard on the edge of one of his small chips with the large one and tries to "flip" it into the small whiskey glass in the center of the table.

It looks easy.

But it isn't.

Well, you go on pressing down on those chips until somebody has all he had in the glass. Then it's his game. Then everybody else laughs, and they all try it over again.

There are several tricks in "Tiddledy-wink." For instance, if you and somebody else are in the game, and you get one of your chips out near the glass and the other fellow gets on top of your chip, then yours is a prisoner and you can't "flip" it without first moving his, and the only move you can make with another man's chip is to place it in the glass, thereby pushing him ahead one notch. So when you play "Tiddledy-wink"--for you will play it before long[--]the great idea is to make some other fellow's chip prisoner, and then before he can get his own chip in the glass he must gently lift yours in first.

"Tiddledy-wink" is a great game. It is fully as absorbing as "pigs in clover," and it is threatened that the country will have to stand a siege of it.

How on earth the name "Tiddledy-wink" got mixed up with the game is still a mystery, and just about the only mystery in it.

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Scarsdale, New York, United States
Scarsdale Inquirer (newspaper)
location · 
Scarsdale, New York, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
218

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for Scarsdale Inquirer.
published in · 
Scarsdale Inquirer
date · 
16 December 1927
title · 
Scarsdale Supply Company
subtitle · 
The Time Honored Game of Tiddledy Winks
citation · 
page 5 • column 5
content
Illustration of a Tiddledy Winks boxed game with girl, dog, and boy on cover; also shown is the glass cup, winks, and bowling pins

This time-honored game of Tiddledy Winks furnished just as much innocent amusement today as ever it did in the gay nineties. And if you think it's easy to pop one of those little chips into the glass—just try it yourself!

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Syracuse, New York, United States
Cortland Herald American (newspaper)
location · 
Syracuse, New York, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
153

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published in · 
Cortland Herald American
date · 
15 February 1970
title · 
Cornell host to tiddlers
subtitle · 
Tiddledywinks crown at stake
by · 
Connie Schreiber
citation · 
section Metro • page 1
collection · 
photocopy (Drix/NATwA); digital of photocopy (NATwA)
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543
published in · 
Cortland Herald American
date · 
15 February 1970
title · 
Cornell to host tiddlers
by · 
Connie Schreiber
citation · 
section Metro • page 15 • column 6
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photocopy (Drix/NATwA); digital of photocopy (NATwA)
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544
published in · 
Cortland Herald American
date · 
1 August 1982
title · 
Students flipping over game
by · 
Alice Shragowitz
citation · 
edition Cortland local news • page E1 • column 1
content

[page E1] ITHACA—A handful of dedicate college students, swimming aginst the tide of electronic entertainment, are preserving a simple game of luck and dexterity that requires only a handful of chips, a cup and a blanket to play.

They are devotees of tiddlywinks, a traditional children's game that has been modified for adult competition and has a small, though ardent, following in much of the English-speaking world.

The latest version and rules for the game, which dates back at least to 19th-century England, were developed in 1955 by a group of students at Cambridge, University. The new adult version, unfamiliar to many who played the game as children, entails complex strategies like those of chess.

Tiddlywinks requires manual dexterity and is "a game of minute differences," said Severin Drix, a member of the Cornell University team. Even a change in humidity can affect the flight of the tiny discs used as playing pieces, he said.

As played by the International Federation of Tiddlywinks Associations, the game uses four sets of [page E2] small colored chips called "winks." It can be played as singles, doubles, or in teams.

The object of the game is to "squidge," or press a small wink with a larger one, called a squidger, and send the smaller wink flipping through the air. If a player squidges all his winks into a target cup at the center of a table before his opponent does, he picks up more points.

Sometimes, it is better to concentrate on "squopping"—landing a wink on an opponent's to prevent him from moving it. That is how the newer version differs from the children's game.

The addition of squopping creates a difference "like night and day" from the children's version of the game, said Drix, a mathematics teacher at Ithaca High School. "It's more than the difference between checkers and chess."

Because players can become obsessed with squopping and thereby blocking the other players from moving, the official game has a 20-minute time limit for singles, and a 25-minute limit for doubles. Most games last an hour because each player gets five more shots after time is up.

Usually during those last five rounds the game gets strategically tense, Drix said.

Despite few changes in the rules since 1955, there has been a constant evolution in strategic concepts that govern the way people approach the game.

Tiddlywinks afficionados find the game attractive because it is "well balanced," Drix said.

In contrast to chess, which is "all strategy" and can be boring, tiddlywinks is on-third skill, on-third strategy, and on-third luck, since the pieces are so small, Drix said.

In 1962, a team came from Oxford University in England in an effort to promote the game in the United States. The team traveled across the country playing such notables as the New York football Giants, who defaulted during the warm-up period, and extended an invitation to President John F. Kennedy, who declined.

Eventually teams were established at such universities as Cornell, Harvard, and M.I.T.

Today, there are only about 8 or 9 clubs in the North American Tiddlywinks Association, Drix said. The Cornell and M.I.T. teams are the only surviving college teams, though there are several independent teams from the Boston, Philadelphia, Toronto, New York and Washington areas.

The international association is made up of three national associations—the North American, the English and the Irish, which has been inactive in recent years.

Drix, age 34, was a child when he discovered tiddlywinks. He was in high school when he heard about the Oxford team's visit to the U.S. and realized that the official game involved variations similar to those he had invented as a child—namely, squopping.

Drix attended Cornell and started a team there in 1966.

"I've been called the foster father of American tiddlywinks," he said. His best friend founded a team at M.I.T. With the birth of these two teams, the dying North American Tiddlywinks Association was revived.

"Most of the people playing are in computer programming or related fields, like math and science," Drix said. Women and humanities students are in the minority among players, he said.

"There are people who will never give up this game," he said. The game's World Singles Champion from 1974 through 1978, Drix said there are traditional rivalries as well as a lot of camaraderis in the game.

A few players are overly competitive, he said, but to others, like the Irish, the game is "a complete lark."

There are about 50 or 60 active players in the U.S., Drix said. Cornell's team in the fall should have about six or seven regulars, he said, and he hopes it will recruit more players.

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481
published in · 
Cortland Herald American
date · 
1 August 1982
title · 
Tiddlywinks live at Cornell University
citation · 
edition Cortland local news • page E2 • column 2
collection · 
original (Drix/NATwA); digital copy (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
482
The Post-Standard (newspaper)
location · 
Syracuse, New York, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
220

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published in · 
The Post-Standard
date · 
8 September 1994
title · 
No More False Fronts: Downtown Buildings Uncover Their New Old Faces
title language · 
English
by · 
Robert W. Andrews
citation · 
edition online
content

McCarthy's sold everything from London fashions to tiddlywinks.

collection · 
digital web page (NATwA)
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3770
published in · 
The Post-Standard
date · 
28 January 2005
title · 
Tournament takes winks to extreme
by · 
Dru Sefton
citation · 
page E-1; E-2 • column (E-1) 2; (E-2) 3
summary

Report on NATwA winking in general plus a report on a World Masters match in Vienna, Va.

content source · 
Newhouse News Service
content
[page=E-1 column=2]

Tournament tiddlywinks celebrates 50 years

Black and white photograph of Larry Kahn leaning down near the pot to make a shot.
Larry Kahn, of Vienna, Va., is one of the top tiddlywinks players in the world.

A whole lot of squidging, squopping and potting is happending this year in celebration of the 50th anniversary of tournament tiddlywinks.

Yes, tournament tiddlywinks. No, not just that silly kids' game. Well, sort of.

There's more to tiddlywinks than flipping small discs into a little pot. There's a complex lexicon (to "nurdle" is to "shoot a wink too close to the pot to be pottable or otherwise useful."), 31 categories of official rules, a journal ("Winking World") and lively trans-Atlantic competition between the Brits and the Yanks, their two countries the last still containing avid winkers.

One of those is Larry Kahn, widely regarded as one of the [page=E-2 column=3] best in the world. The mantelpiece in the rec room of his Vienna, Va., home holds 44 tiddlywink trophies. He was world champion in 2001, and featured in Sports Illustrated in 1995.

Black and white close-up photograph of Larry Kahn's hand after potting a wink.
Using a squidger (right), Larry Kahn pots a tiddlywink at a practice table in his home in Vienna, Va.

"It involves physical skill plus strategy as well as a luck factor," Kahn said while potting winks—fpt-dink! fpt-dink!—on his practice table. "If you only have one of those you're going to stink."

Serioius tournaments began at Cambridge University in England in 1955, and the American sport coalesced at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1960s and '70s. At the height of its popularity back then, Canada and Scotland also had active winking communities; those have since faded.

Most of today's active players are MIT grads of the '70s, including Kahn, Rick Tucker and Dave Lockwood. They were among 25 Americans who flew to Cambridge for the jubilee and six days of competition in mid-January.

"It's a small community," said Tucker, of Alexandria, Va. The suburban Washington, D.C. area "is one of the major centers of winking" in North America, along with Ithaca and Boston.

Tucker runs the official Web site of the North American Tiddlywinks Association (www.tiddlywinks.org). He's an avid collector of historic tiddlywink games and has played competitively since 1972.

Lockwood, of Silver Spring, Md., traveled to the jubilee with his wife and five children, ages 9 to 21. Lockwood vs. Kahn is one of the great competitive legends of modern winking. Sports Illustrated described it: "Forget Ali and Frazier, Chamberlain and Russell, Evert and Navratilova. Kahn and Lockwood have been dueling one another since the early 1970s."

Lockwood's wink nickname is Dragon, Kahn's is Horsemeat ("I used to say that instead of (expletive) during tournament play," he explained.)

"We've both been at or near the top for decades," Lockwood said. He's been to England 92 times, "mostly for tiddlywinks."

This time around, during World Masters jubilee play, Lockwood and Brit Andy Purvis squared off for the championship. Purvis defeated Lockwood, 12-9.

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Syracuse Daily Standard (newspaper)
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Syracuse, New York, USA
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Syracuse Daily Standard
date · 
13 September 1890
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Durstons' Book Store
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page 5 • column 3 (above center)
content

Tiddledy Winks

The Best Game Out. Every body is Playing it

Price 25 cents

DURSTONS' BOOK STORE.

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Tonawanda, New York, United States
Tonawanda News (newspaper)
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Tonawanda, New York, USA
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215

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Tonawanda News
date · 
18 December 1964
title · 
Redistricting Isn't Any Easy Task
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content

Adding machines lined the sides of the tables and clerks called off population figures to the female workers. When one block of figures was read, it was covered with tiddly-winks so it would not be duplicated

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Watertown, New York, United States
Daily Times (newspaper)
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Watertown, New York, USA
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Daily Times
date · 
18 October 1890
by · 
D. S. Miller Co.
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page 10 • column 4
content

Tiddledy Winks,

A New Round Game!

Price 25 Cents.

Big Stock of Games, Toys, and Children's Books

D. S. Miller & Co.

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North Carolina • (state)
Asheville, North Carolina, United States
Asheville Democrat (newspaper)
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Asheville, North Carolina, USA
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223

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Asheville Democrat
date · 
23 April 1891
title · 
Little Smiles.
citation · 
page 6 • column 3
content

Tiddledywinks soda is out. The accent is on the wink.

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Lexington, North Carolina, United States
The Dispatch (newspaper)
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Lexington, North Carolina, USA
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12 May 1980
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BOOKS
title · 
Light And Death Perfectly Combined
by · 
John Leonard
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page 12 • column 3
summary

Review of Robert Oppenheimer. Letters and Recollections, edited by Alice Kimball Smith and Charles Weiner, Harvard Press

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He [Robert Oppenheimer] invents 'a lethally' complicated version' of tiddlywinks

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Bismarck, North Dakota, United States
Bismarch Daily Tribune (newspaper)
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Bismarck, North Dakota, USA
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Bismarch Daily Tribune
date · 
12 February 1891
column title · 
THE CITY
title · 
Bismarck in Brief
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page 3 • column 1
content

Tiddledy-wink tables at the church social to-night.

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Cambridge, Ohio, United States
Cambridge Jeffersonian (newspaper)
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Cambridge, Ohio, USA
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Cambridge Jeffersonian
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25 December 1890
column title · 
Local Matters
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page 3 • column 2
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The Daily Irontonian gives the following lucid and graphic explanation of "Tiddledy winks," which is now the fad in society. The game is played with tiddledies, winks, a wink pot, dinguses, difficulties, etc. Any number of players may engage in the game. Each player takes a dingus.The winks are divided equally, likewise the difficulties. Take a wink, put it on the dingus, then by pressing a tiddledy on the wink, make it jump into the wink-pot—if you can. If you succeed you are entitled to a duflicity, and for every wink you jump into the ding-pot from the duwink you count a fl ctidledy, and continue so to operate the tink-winkle upon the polly wog until the points so carried shall equal the sum total of the hogwip multiplied by the puterinktum and added to the contents of the aforesaid wink-pot, or words to that effect, you may be said to have won the game.

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Canton, Ohio, United States
The Repository (newspaper)
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Canton, Ohio, USA
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1 July 2003
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Surfer Site of the Day
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edition online
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Yet another way to blow off a whole summer with your friends. Play Tiddlywinks. The Scots take it seriously. http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~ben/tiddlywinks/

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Surfer Site of the Day
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r these folks, the old game of Tiddlywinks is a modern obsession. http://www.tiddlywinks.org

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Surfer Site of the Day
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Remember Tiddlywinks? Prepare yourself for the new trend. http://www.tiddlywinks.org

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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
The Cincinnati Enquirer (newspaper)
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The Cincinnati Enquirer
date · 
31 October 1890
title · 
Papenbrock's Bargains
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volume 48 • whole 304 • page 5 • column 6
content

THESE ARTICLES GIVEN AWAY With Boys' Suits, Overcoats, and Children's and Ladies' Cloaks:

RINGS, VASES, ORNAMENTS, DICTIONARIES,

MECHANICAL TOYS, TIDDLEDY WINKS, MUSICAL TOPS, DANDY DUDES,

BLACK-BOARDS ON EASELS, KNIVES AND GLOBES, Double-Barreled Guns,

SPIRAL BILLIARDS, MENAGERIE ANIMALS, FOUNTAIN PENS, MAYPOLE DANCE.

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6 December 1890
title · 
TIDDLEDY WINKS.
subtitle · 
The New Game That Is All the Rage
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volume 48 • whole 340 • page 4 • column 5
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It Has Become the Fad in Fashionable Society.

All the Ladies Are Doing Their Best to Learn It,

And Some of Them Are Already Very Adept.

It is the latest fad in society. All the ladies are talking about Tiddledy Winks and learning to play it.

In the East it has become a veritable craze, and all social affairs are considered dull and insipid unless Tiddledy Winks is Introduced.

Already It is the prime subject of gossip among the ladies in this city, and the first

Illustration of a hand holding a squidger against a wink on a rectangular mat to shoot it along a dashed curved path in the air into the pot at left, with 5 additional winks to the side.
question the fair ones ask when they meet is, "How are you getting along with tiddledy winks? Have you learned it yet?" Then they compare experiences as to the best way of playing Tiddledy Winks.

IT IS A VERY SIMPLE GAME,

Easily learned, and yet requires sufficient skii! to make it interesting. There are many reasons why it should be the ruling winter game. New features are being added to increase the complications, and consequently the skill required. One of these features is a miniature tennis court, but the original "Tiddledy winks" will be found sufficiently entertaining. The complication can come later.

One, two, three or four persons may play the game. It is all the more pleasing when the players are divided into partners. It is necessary to have a table, covered with cloth. A round table is probably the best, as it enables the players to arrange themselves more comfortably.

THE IMPLEMENTS ARE

Tiddledies, winks, a wink-pot and counters. A tiddledy is a thin disk of bone or ivory and about the size of a twenty-five-cent piece. A wink Is a disk of the same material, but smaller, being about the size of a ten-cent piece. A wink-pot is a little wooden vessel, like a tiny bucket, with an opening the size of a silver dollar, and about an inch deep. There are little pads, somewhat resembiing the "cheating rags" urchins use in playing marbles. The idea is to press on the wink with the tiddledy and make it jump into the wink-pot. The tiddledies are of various colors, with winks of corresponding hues. The pads are of colored silk, and as pretty as taste may suggest. The counters are of colored pressed pasteboard.

WHEN THE PLAYERS ARE READY

To begin each takes a tiddledy and six winks, and the counters are equally divided among them. Then each contributes an agreed-upon number of counters to a pool, which is placed in charge of one of the players. The wink-pot is placed in the middle of the table. The object is to jump as many winks into the pot as possible. Each plays in turn to the left, the one to lead being decided by lot. The player places his or her pad at any distance from the winkpot and jumps six winks one after another, paying no attention to those which fail to go into the pot. The winks lie flat on the pad, and the player holding the tiddledy by the thumb and first two fingers presses with its edge

UPON THE WINK

As the tiddledy slips it causes the wink to jump. The best result is produced by resting the tiddledy on the center of the wink and drawing it back under slight pressure. A little practice will enable a player lo jump a wink a distance of several feet and a foot or more in the air.

For each wink landed in the wink-pot the player receives one counter from the pool. If he sends four or more winks into the pot in suc[c]ession he makes a "run" and receives one extra counter from the pool for each wink over three put in on a run. If he jumps six winks into the pot in succession he makes a "sweep" and receives, besides the counters taken from tlie pool, one from each opponent.

All counters received, except one for each wink put into the wink-pot, should be kept separately, so as to tally the winks jumped into the pot. It a player fails on six jumps to land a single wink in the pot, he pays two counters to the pool.

AFTER EACH PLAYER

has jumped his six winks, then the first player takes any wink lying outside the pot, places it where he pleases and makes it jump. If it goes in he tries another. As soon as he fails the player next to the left proceeds in the same manner.

So the game goes on until ail the winks have been jumped into the pot. The player putting the largest number of winks into the wink-pot in one turn takes one-half the counters remaining in the pool, the remaining half going to the player having put the greatest number of winks in the pot. A tie is decided by tlie two contestants jumping six winks each, the one winning that lands the most of them.

The counters may be given any value agreed upon, as in poker, or if the game is purely for fun, the player having the greatest number of counters when the last wink is landed in the pot of course wins.

The game enables ladies with long, tapering fingers to display them to the best advantage.

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date · 
14 December 1890
title · 
Tiddledy Winks.
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volume 48 • page 23 • column 6
content source · 
Austrailian Law Times
content

"Tiddledy Winks" is so well known in the parlors this season that one is not especially surprised to see it in the law reports. It finds its way thither, however, in a peculiar way illustrating the benighted condition of the Australian mind, which knows not the American "tiddledy winks." The Australian Law Times reports, according to a published summary, a case in which a Chief Justice and two associates considered the question as to whether the word ""tiddled winks" applied to a person was libelous. The person aggrieved by having been called by that epithet produced in Court a witness who considered himself an expert in slang, and who defined the verb "tiddledy wink" to mean "to use little dodges to accomplish one's ends." The Judges, nevertheless, decided that the word was not libelous.

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14 December 1890
by · 
The Thomson Company
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volume 48 • whole 348 • page 12 • column 6
content

[...]

TIDDLEDY WINKS
And All kinds of Games.

THE THOMSON COMPANY,
72 WEST FOURTH ST.

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21 December 1890
by · 
The Thomson Company
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volume 48 • whole 355 • page 2 • column 6
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All kinds of GAMES, BLOCKS, PUZZLES, Alphabet Blocks or 5c and 10c, worth 25c and 25c. The four great games are TIDDLEDY WINKS, CHIVALRY, HALMA, PARCHEESI. Over 7,000 TIDDLEDY WINKS sold yesterday.

[...]

THE THOMSON CO.'S,
72 West Fourth Street
Opposite Pike's Opera House

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The Cincinnati Enquirer
date · 
4 January 1891
column title · 
Random Notes
title · 
HILLSBORO.
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A very pleasant progressive "Tiddledy Winks" party was given on Thursday evening by Mrs. J. M. Hibben in honor of Miss May Cummings and her friend, Miss Grier. About fifty guests were present.

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25 January 1891
column title · 
Random Notes
title · 
CILLICOTHE.
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page 18 • column 9
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Miss Ruhrah's Dove Party—Reception by Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Duncan—Miss Scearces' High Five—The Young Men's Euchre Club Entertains—Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Evans' Tiddledy-Wink—Other Society Notes and Personals

[...]

Mr. and Mrs. William E. Evans' home on Caldwell avenue was the scene of a merry gathering on Thursday enjoying the intricacies of tiddledy winks. Four tables were in progress, and a very interesting and plasant evening was spent. Dainty refreshments were served and prizes awarded the winners.

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The Cincinnati Enquirer
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22 February 1891
column title · 
Random Notes
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page 18 • column 5
content

An enjoyable evening was spent at the residence of Miss Alice Folger, of Pine street, on the evening of February 13. Tiddledy-winks and anglling were indulged in, after which refreshments were served. Mr. Edward Var Hart succeeded in winning the first prize and Mr. Finley Rogers received the booby prize. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. Romp. Misses Nettie Harris, Belle Mitchell, Jessie Russell, Stella Swayer, Emma Leindenger, Julia Rollwagen. Clara and Mary Anderson, Ida and Grace Monelly, Jennie Shaw, Mabel Ferguson. Messrs. Robinson, Wellington, Bailey, Chambers, Garner, W. Van Hart and others.

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date · 
22 February 1891
column title · 
Random Notes
title · 
DAYTON.
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page 18 • column 6
content

Meeting of the Mozart Club—A Musical Recital—The Patton-Breene Nuptials—Miss Anna Ware Gives a Tea Party—Miss Louis Entertains to Tiddledy Winks—Sherman Memorial Meting—Personal News.

[...]

Miss Lou King, of Home avenue, enterained about twenty young ladies to tea Thursday evening. The chief feature of the evening was tiddledywinks.

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16 March 1891
column title · 
In Society's Domain
title · 
The Season of Pleasure in Various Places
subtitle · 
Carlisle Kentucky
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The reception given by Colonel and Mrs. R. S. Beck on Thursday evening in honor of their granddaughter, Miss Mattie Norman, of Frankfort, was quite a brilliant affair. About seventy of our young ladies and gentlemen were in attendance, all in full evening dress, and enjoyed cards, checkers, chess, parchesia [sic correct=parchesi], chrocinole [sic correct=crokinole], tiddledy wink and like games. Refreshments were served at 10 p.m., prepared by Heuer. of Maysville. Misses Anna Lillie Scudder assisted in the entertainment in their usually graceful and hospitable style, and all left loud in their praises of the Colonel and his estimable lady.

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date · 
29 March 1891
column title · 
Random Notes
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The residence of Miss Lulu Earl was the scene of a delightful entertainment Wednesday, March 25. The following programme was rendered: Miss Mary Kearns, instrumental; Mr. H. Tuxworth, vocal music, followed by Miss Emma McFaddin, recitation. Tiddledy-winks, euchre and dancing were indulged in. Among those present were Misses Nellie Allie, Nellie Morandt, Messrs. Lenord Arnaijo, Andrew Tuxwerth, Will Rover, D. Kerns, Harry Verclas and others.

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date · 
26 July 1891
title · 
BOTH TOGETHER.
subtitle · 
The Local Teams, Victorious.
citation · 
page 2 • column 1
content

PITCHER FRANK DWYER was as slow Friday against the St. Louis Browns as the rubber game in the Tiddledy Winks tournament.

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13 December 1891
title · 
Books, Games, &c.
by · 
The Cincinnati Mercantile Company
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content

The popular game, Tiddledy-Winks, we are selling at half price.

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22 June 1907
title · 
Forgot
subtitle · 
Or Laid Aside Dignity
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volume 44 • whole 173 • page 8 • column 3
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An Earnest Game.

The dance hall was captured early by Judge Caldwell, Prosecutor Rulison, Tom Paxton, Judge Spiegel and Attorneys Fox, Tuttle and Brown, who secured a table in one corner, where they spent the greater part of the day playing "tiddledy-winks," while Bailiff Wm. Brown took care to see that the "winks" were all there. Judge Spiegel won first prize, while Prosecutor Rulison was dubbed "the booby."

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10 January 1908
title · 
A Mystery Solved.
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volume 45 • whole 10 • page 6 • column 7
content source · 
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"What is the Navy sailing for?" quoth I to Captain Binks.
"I do not know," the Sea Dog said. "But this is what I thinks:
Bob Evans wants to teach the Japs the game of Tiddledywinks."

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date · 
25 November 1908
title · 
A Stupendous Advance Christmas Sale
by · 
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TOY DEPARTMENT

Opening of Toyland

Friday Morning

All the newest toys for particular children. All the newest novelties from Toyland. Friday and Saturday Specials: [...]

50c Games 39c

GYPSY FORTUNE TELLING.
LOGOMACHY.
LOTTO.
KRIS KRINGLE'S VISITS.
DEPARTMENT STORE.
TIDDLEDY WINKS.

[...]

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18 November 1939
title · 
Children's Books For All The Year
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TABLE GAMES FOR RECREATION: How To Make and How To Play Them. By Ray J. Marran. Barnes.—With simple tools and materials always at hand in schools and in most homes the older child or adult can make these dozens of entertaining games: Spinning arrow, spinning top and numbered cube games; a variant of bingo, checkerboard games, Chinese checkers, games in which pieces are snipped with the fingers, tiddledy wink games. If you like table games don't miss this book.

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13 October 1940
title · 
Contrast
subtitle · 
Paints Vivid Picture
citation · 
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content

At Annual Auto Show in New York City.

Ancient Cars Antedate 1910—Machines Like Today's Undreamed Of Then.

It is impossible to describe a "typical" motorist today. He is to be found in the city and on the farm. He might earn $100,000 a year or $1,000. His hobby might be lion hunting or tiddledy-winks. He fits no pattern.

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22 October 1940
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Football
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volume 100 • whole 194 • page 22 • column 2
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Blurb re University of Chicago Maroons football team changes around 1939-1940.

content

Chicago quite football last fall. This year Chicago took up six-man football. Next year it probably will switch to tiddledy-winks.

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25 December 1942
title · 
Play Game On Stay-At-Home Evenings
subtitle · 
Old Favorites and New Novelties Entertain On Both War And Home Fronts
by · 
Elizabeth MacRae Boykin
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content

[...]

WITH THE USO providing thousands of game kits for our service men—on request— and with more staying at home and playing the game on the civiliant front, new recreational habits are being formed that will affect the pastimes of this entire war generation, even into the peace-time home evenings of the future. Right now there is a big boom in games of all kinds… oddly enough the old favorites are still the first favorites.

[...]

[...] Then you'll find current versions of jackstraws, tiddledy-winks, and parcheesi, along with a doodling tit-tat-tow that you play with marbles. [...]

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9 July 1948
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Edith Gwynn's Hollywood
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Briton's Deal For Bette's Film Cancelled.
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page 7 • column 6
content

Robert Taylor has just bought one of the new midget cars from England. He says "These new models are so small—you can play tiddledy-winks with the hub caps!"

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published in · 
The Cincinnati Enquirer
date · 
29 September 1961
title · 
Big George
by · 
Virgil Partch
citation · 
page 17 • column 2
content

Black and white illustration of a boy on the flooring who has just shot a wink into the air, heading into the open mouth of character, Big George, as he is sleeping in front of a television.
"For heaven's sake, Randolph, no tiddlywinks while your father's concentrating on his TV serial!"
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837
published in · 
The Cincinnati Enquirer
date · 
17 March 1968
title · 
Communication? Only in Two Areas
citation · 
edition Pictorial Enquirer • page 41 • column 1
content

See, the big thing now is that our young people don't know who they are. You'd think they had a chronic case of amnesias. They spend hours, days, and whole years contemplating The Big Question, while you nag at them to mow the lawn. They meditate endlessly in an effort to overcome their identification crisis, as it is known in their peer group. An unwritten rule of the game is that one teen type dares not tell another who he is, if he should happen to know, because that spoils all the fun and leaves no alternative but tennis or tiddledy-winks or even lawn-mowing to keep boredom at bay.

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published in · 
The Cincinnati Enquirer
date · 
around 2 April 1972
title · 
Tough Tiddling Triumphs
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published in · 
The Cincinnati Enquirer
date · 
15 December 1976
title · 
Miami, UC Square Off At Oxford
by · 
Bill Ford
citation · 
section Sports • page C-1 • column 3
content

Because of the tradition, the romance and the rivalry of the series, both campuses are hyperactive when a Miami opposes a Cincinnati, be it football, debate or tiddledy winks.

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published in · 
The Cincinnati Enquirer
date · 
16 December 1986
title · 
He squops, piddles and winks
subtitle · 
Tiddlywinks involves serious strategy for adult devotee
citation · 
page D7
content source · 
Associated Press
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published in · 
The Cincinnati Enquirer
date · 
25 December 1987
title · 
How to put spark into your courtship
subtitle · 
Pair offers ideas for "creative dating"
citation · 
page D4
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811
published in · 
The Cincinnati Enquirer
date · 
5 December 1999
title · 
Museum chronicles America's 20th century
subtitle · 
Faculty in Dearborn stresses Yule season
by · 
Tish Williams
citation · 
section Travel • page 6 • column 1
content

At holiday time, there is no place like Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Mich.

[...]

This year, visitors will journey through a display of classic toys of the 20th century. There are banks, "penny toys," mostly cars and trucks from the early 1900s; cash registers and educational blocks (1920s); paper dolls; Betsy Wetsy dolls, chemistry sets, leather work kits and gardening sets (1930s); yo-yos, Tiner Toys, Li'l Abner and his Dogpatch Mechanical Bank, Tiddledy Winks and Tootsie Toy cars (1940s), fire trucks, Dream House Kitchen sets, Davy Crockett coonskin caps, Music Box Snoop and Roy Rogers paraphernalia (1950s), Lincoln Logs, Batman and Man from Uncle items and sewing sets (1960s) and Mr. Potato Head, Slinky, a Fisher Price camera and Sesame Street radio (1970s).

[...]

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Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Cleveland Plain Dealer (newspaper)
location · 
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
231

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published in · 
Cleveland Plain Dealer
date · 
10 June 1958
title · 
Weak in Tiddlywinks? Try Out for Bobolinks
citation · 
page 19 • column 5
content source · 
Associated Press
content

at Oxford and Cambridge who recently added tiddlywinks to their traditional rivalry today added birdwatching.

In the first match, Oxford won. In the prescribed 24-hour period the Oxfordites booked 128 types of birds. Cambridge spotted only 108.

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published in · 
Cleveland Plain Dealer
date · 
27 February 1959
title · 
Tiddlywinks Joins Boxing and Football
citation · 
page 8 • column 3
content source · 
Associated Press
content

Tiddlywinks today became an official intervarsity sport between Oxford and Cambridge.

It now takes its place beside the boat race, rugby union, track and field, soccer, boxing, and other athletic activities

Cambridge tiddled the winks more skillfully and defeated Oxfor 64-48 to take the first official title.

Now Cambridge has an American challenge to take up—from the University of Pennsylvania.

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published in · 
Cleveland Plain Dealer
date · 
10 January 1976
column title · 
Cappy Dick
title · 
Young Hobby Club
citation · 
page 21-C
content

A new version of tiddlywinks is today's fun project for boys and girls. If you do not have a set of tiddlywinks, you can use buttons. You will need five medium-size buttons and one rather large one to use as a shooter.

You will also need five containers, or targets, of graduated size. The largest of these may be as big as a paper cup. The other four should be smaller, as shown in Figure 1. Any type of containers may be used, including small jars.

Place the five targets in a row. A player lines up his five buttons nine inches away. One at a time he lobs them at the No. 1, or largest, container as the boy is doing in Figure 2. For each button he lands in this container he wins one point.

He then shoots his five buttons at the No. 2 target and wins two points for each button he lobs into it. He continues shooting the five buttons at the containers, winning additional points as he lands buttons in them, until he has shot at all five. He makes a note of his total score. The highest a player may get is 75 points.

When the first player has completed his round, the next player shoots. The player with the largest total score winks the game.

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840
published in · 
Cleveland Plain Dealer
date · 
27 February 1980
column title · 
Today's selections
citation · 
page 6E
summary

Television listing for Real People show

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841
published in · 
Cleveland Plain Dealer
date · 
14 August 1994
title · 
Like Chess, But Not
by · 
David Budin
citation · 
section Sunday Magazine • page 14, 15, 17
content
Black and white photograph of Marg Henninge Calhoun./figure>

Margaret Henninge Calhoun walks around the table, studying every conceivable shot. She leans over it, lining up possibilities, while her opponent, trying to anticipate Henninge Calhoun's next move, plans his potential strategies. You can feel the tension. Then she shoots, and wins the game.Sure, the Cleveland Indians are fielding their best team in 35 years, and that's good. But the city already has a bona fide sports champion for 1994. [...]

Black and white photograph of winks on a mat.
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842
Cleveland Press (newspaper)
location · 
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
232

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published in · 
Cleveland Press
date · 
1 April 1972
title · 
Americans win title - tops in tiddlywinks
citation · 
page 1
content source · 
United Press International
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843
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Columbus Citizen-Journal (newspaper)
location · 
Columbus, Ohio, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
233

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published in · 
Columbus Citizen-Journal
date · 
30 March 1979
title · 
Titillating tiddlywinks tourney to bring gromps & squops here
citation · 
page 1
content
Photograph of Mary Kirman.
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844
Dayton, Ohio, United States
Dayton Daily News (newspaper)
location · 
Dayton, Ohio, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
234

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published in · 
Dayton Daily News
date · 
9 June 2005
title · 
Eaton Academic Quiz Team benefits charity
content

("How many winks are in a Tiddlywinks set?")

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845
Dover, Ohio, United States
The Daily Reporter (newspaper)
location · 
Dover, Ohio, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
230

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published in · 
The Daily Reporter
date · 
23 May 1964
title · 
Your I.Q.
citation · 
page 42 • column 1
content

2. In what game does the team having superior ability to squidge and squop win?

Answers

2. Tiddlywinks

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846
Marion, Ohio, United States
Marion Star (newspaper)
location · 
Marion, Ohio, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
235

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published in · 
Marion Star
date · 
6 December 1890
citation · 
page 4 • column 1
content

The social question of the hour seems to be whether Tiddledy Winks shall succeed whist and eucher [sic correct=euchre] this winter in social diversions. The Tiddledy Wink craze hasn't struck Marion very hard yet, but the momentous question will come up. In the meantime a considerable portion of the male population will indulge in old fashioned poker.

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847
Salem, Ohio, United States
Salem Daily News (newspaper)
location · 
Salem, Ohio, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
236

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published in · 
Salem Daily News
date · 
31 October 1890
by · 
Hawley's Book Store
citation · 
page 4 • column 5
content

ACTUAL BASE BALL GAME!

The ball passes from the pitcher's box over the "home-plate" and is then rapped out into the field and is actually fielded by the players, with varying results following, conforming precisely with the professional game as played. No cards, no dice, no dials, simply ball as played every day.

WACHTER'S BASE BALL GAME,
PRICE $1.00

HAWLEY'S BOOK STORE,
NO. 13 BROADWAY

TIDDLEDY WINKS FUNNIEST GAME OUT

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848
Sandusky, Ohio, United States
Sandusky Daily Register (newspaper)
location · 
Sandusky, Ohio, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
237

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published in · 
Sandusky Daily Register
date · 
9 January 1891
title · 
Went off Quick
citation · 
page 4 • column 4
content

In Tuesday morning's Register we announced a new invoice of the new house game, Tiddledy Winks. One day after we had sold out every one on hand and have had a half dozen more calls we could not fill. Another lot has been ordered by express and will be here in two or three days.

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849
Toledo, Ohio, United States
The Blade (newspaper)
location · 
Toledo, Ohio, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
238

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published in · 
The Blade
date · 
4 June 1891
title · 
Growing Old Gracefully, and Presbyterianism
by · 
Robert G. Ingersoll
content

I knew a young man, or rather heard of him, who won at progressive euchre a silver spoon. At first this looks like nothing, almost innocent, and yet that spoon, gotten for nothing, sowed the seed of gambling in that youn man's brain. He became infatuated with euchre, then with cards in general, then with draw-poke in particular,&mdash:then into Wall Street. He is now a total wreck, and has the impudence to say that it was all "preordained." Think of the thousands and millions that are being demoralized by games of chance, by marbles—when they play for keeps—by billiards and croquet, by fox and geese, authors, halma, tiddledywinks and pigs in clover. In all these miserable games, is the infamous element of chance—the raw material of gambling.

notes · 
Reprinted in the book, The works of Robert G. Ingersoll, voume 8, page 460.
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Oregon • (state)
Heppner, Oregon, United States
Heppner Gazette (newspaper)
location · 
Heppner, Oregon, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
247

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published in · 
Heppner Gazette
date · 
11 December 1902
title · 
Bring the Children to See Santa Claus in His Home in the Window
by · 
The Fair
citation · 
page 5 • column 4
content

Books and Games

In great variety, of interest to both old and young.

[...]

Ping Pong, the fashionable indoor game $1.19 to $4.25
Archarena adn Carrom Boards at 89c to $4.25
Bowling Alley
Ten Pins
Authors
Tiddledy Winks
Dominoes
Checkers and Boards
Crokinole

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873
published in · 
Heppner Gazette
date · 
18 December 1902
title · 
Bring the Children to See Santa Claus in His Home in the Window
by · 
The Fair
citation · 
page 5 • column 4
content

Books and Games

In great variety, of interest to both old and young.

[...]

Ping Pong, the fashionable indoor game $1.19 to $4.25
Archarena adn Carrom Boards at 89c to $4.25
Bowling Alley
Ten Pins
Authors
Tiddledy Winks
Dominoes
Checkers and Boards
Crokinole

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Hood River, Oregon, United States
The Hood River Glacier (newspaper)
location · 
Hood River, Oregon, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
244

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published in · 
The Hood River Glacier
date · 
7 March 1891
title · 
The Latest Popular Game
citation · 
volume 2 • issue 40 • page 2 • column 3
content source · 
Springfield (Mass.) Homestead
content

It need not surprise any one to drop into an evening gathering or a quiet home circle and find people who wear spectacles across their noses and carry dignity by the ton trying to snap a row of ivory chips into a little wooden cup. That is the new game, christened tiddledy winks. It requires a small wooden cup called a wink pot and two dozen bone or ivory chips called winks, also four larger ones about the size of an old fashioned pants button, known as tiddledies. There is a cushion to snap t he chips upon, or you can spread a small square of Brussels carpeting under the tablecloth, which answers just as well if not better. The trick is to snap the winks into the wink pot by means of the tiddledies held between the thumb and finger, the winks lying flat on the cushion or table. This is the game of the season—the great social snap, so to speak. There are two or three ways of playing and keeping tally of the game. Ever tried it?

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856
published in · 
The Hood River Glacier
date · 
20 December 1901
title · 
Store News
subtitle · 
Semi-Centennial Saturday Surprise Sale
by · 
Booth's
citation · 
page 3 • column 4
content

GAMES— Chess, Checkers, Pillow Dex, Authors, Jack Straws, Tiddledy Winks, Cribbage Boards, 5c, 10c, 15c, 25c.

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published in · 
The Hood River Glacier
date · 
17 December 1903
title · 
Christmas at the Paris Fair
citation · 
page 2 • column 3
content

Christmas is so near you cannot delay buying your presents longer with safety. Our stock is complete now but later it will be broken. Buy your holiday goods NOW, so you can get what you want. We have a large assortment of Games, among which are—

Ping Pong, Parlor Croquet, Ten Pins
Crokinole Boards, Checker Boards, Tiddledy Winks
Percheese [sic correct=Parcheesi] and many others too numerous to
mention in this small space. [...]

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875
published in · 
The Hood River Glacier
date · 
13 December 1906
title · 
The Toys You Want are Here
subtitle · 
At Prices You'll Be Pleased With
by · 
Booth's
citation · 
page 7 • column 1
content

Games

Flinch Sherlock Holmes, "500," Pinockle, Donkey Party, Tiddledy Winks, Authors, Chessind[i]a, Wall Street, U. S. Mail, Checkers, Crokinole, Jack Straws, Chess, Cribbage, Watermelon Party, Fish Pond, Dominoes, and a score of others from 5c, to $4.50.

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Portland, Oregon, United States
The Oregon Daily Journal (newspaper)
location · 
Portland, Oregon, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
248

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published in · 
The Oregon Daily Journal
date · 
20 December 1904
title · 
Largest Stock of Toys in Portland
by · 
Shanahan's
citation · 
page 3 • column 7
content

[...]
PARCHEESI
TIDDLEDY WINKS
LOTTO
FISH POND
ANAGRAMS
DOMINOES, best grade
CHECKERS, good grade
BACKGAMMON BOARDS
FASCINATION GAMES
BALL PILLOW DEX
BAGATELLE BOARD
MODERN TEN PIN ALLEY and thousands of other games too numerous to mention.

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published in · 
The Oregon Daily Journal
date · 
23 December 1904
title · 
Last Day Saturday To Buy Holiday Goods
by · 
Shanahan's
citation · 
page 11 • column 7
content

[...]
PARCHEESI
TIDDLEDY WINKS
LOTTO
FISH POND
ANAGRAMS
DOMINOES, best grade
CHECKERS, good grade
BACKGAMMON BOARDS
FASCINATION GAMES
BALL PILLOW DEX
BAGATELLE BOARD
MODERN TEN PIN ALLEY and thousands of other games too numerous to mention.

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The Oregonian (newspaper)
alternate name · 
Morning Oregonian; Sunday Oregonian
location · 
Portland, Oregon, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
242

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published in · 
The Oregonian
date · 
25 February 1891
citation · 
whole 9482 • page 2 • column 6
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854
published in · 
The Oregonian
date · 
2 December 1900
title · 
Christmas Is Coming - Santa Claus Has Arrived
by · 
Olds & King
citation · 
volume 19 • issue 49 • page 15 • column 5
content

Items From Our Bright, Busy Toy Store

[...]

GAMES—

Authors
Lotto
Pillow Dex Tennis
Postoffice
Tiddledy-Winks
Crokinole
Steeplechase
War in Cuba
Wide World
Night Before Christmas

[...]

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published in · 
The Oregonian
date · 
14 December 1900
title · 
Don't Delay Your Christmas Purchases - Every Day Makes Them More Difficult
by · 
Olds & King
citation · 
page 12 • column 1
content

GAMES! GAMES!

A small expenditure here will bring rich returns in amusement or information for little people and their elders. These any many more await you on our great toy floor. Prices begin at 5c.

Snaps
Animal Zoo
Jack Straws
Old Glory
Cock Robin
Picture Puzzles
Battledore and Shuttlecock
Golf
Parcheesi
Authors
Steeple Chase
Rough Riders
Tiddledy Winks
Ball Pillow Dex
Crokinole, Etc.

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871
published in · 
The Oregonian
date · 
3 July 1904
title · 
Women Should Take Regular Rest
citation · 
page 4 • column 4
content

It makes no difference what a woman does—whether she embroiders or knits or weaves baskets or bead-chains or hammers brass or burns wood —so long as it diverts her. If she doesn't do this she would better play cards of tiddledy-winks. The object is of no importance—"the play's the thing."

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published in · 
The Oregonian
date · 
16 June 1907
tw-ref-ID · 
880
published in · 
The Oregonian
date · 
10 June 1958
title · 
What's Next? Hopscotch?
citation · 
page 1 • column 5
content source · 
Associated Press
content

Undergraduates at Oxford and Cambridge who recently added tiddlywinks to their traditional rivalry Monday added birdwatching.

In the first match, Oxford won. In the prescribed 24-hour period the Oxfordites booked 128 types of birds. Cambridge spotted only 108.

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884
published in · 
The Oregonian
date · 
6 July 1958
title · 
Game of Tiddlywinks Newest Rage in Engand
by · 
Alvin Steinkopf
citation · 
page 33 • column 1
content source · 
Associated Press
content
Black and white photograph with winker (wearing glasses) is shooting near the pot at right, with four other winkers looking on: man with glasses (upper right) and two men at left.
Oxford University captain Elliott Langford carefully tiddles his wink in the world's championship tiddlywink match at Oxford, England. Teammate Pat Laugharne (left) keeps careful watch as their team triumped over Cambridge University, 113 to 111. The former children's game is booming among England's college set.

LONDON (AP)—Tiddlywinks used to be for kids.

But in Britain lately the game has caught the interest of muscular athletes, intellectuals, and even the royal family. [...]

Black and white illustration depicting two women and three men flicking winking in the air in a room.
One of the many versions of the revived game of tiddlywinks, tag tiddlywinks, involves a great deal of physical exertion not unlike the old parlor game of musical chairs.
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published in · 
The Oregonian
date · 
27 February 1959
title · 
Now It Can Be Told--I Lettered in 'Tiddly'
citation · 
page 32
content source · 
Associated Press
content

Tiddlywinks Thursday became an official inter-varsity sport between Oxford and Cambridge.

The Rev. E. A. Willis, secretary general of the English Tiddlywinks Association, umpired one of the games and told skeptical onlookers: "This is a game that requires a lot of skill."

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published in · 
The Oregonian
date · 
8 July 1973
title · 
UCLA-USC rivalry always fierce, no matter the sport
citation · 
page 5
content source · 
Associated Press
content

Even if we met in tiddlywinks," says UCLA's J. D. Morgan of the rivalry with the University of Southern California, "some segment of the city would want to know who is starting at tiddle.

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Salem, Oregon, United States
Evening Capital Journal (newspaper)
location · 
Salem, Oregon, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
245

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published in · 
Evening Capital Journal
date · 
10 March 1891
by · 
Patton's Bookstore
citation · 
page 3 • column 1
content

Tiddledy Winks and Tiddledy Wink Tennis—the popular games at Patton's Bookstore.

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857
The Dalles, Oregon, United States
The Dalles Daily Chronicle (newspaper)
alternate name · 
The Dalles Weekly Chronicle
location · 
The Dalles, Oregon, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
241

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published in · 
The Dalles Daily Chronicle
date · 
28 November 1891
column title · 
Local Brevities
citation · 
page 3 • column 1
content

A very enjoyable "Tiddledy Winks" party was held at the residence of Mrs. A. M. Williams on Thanksgiving night. The following are the names of the participants: The Misses Maie and Nettie Williams, Louise Ruch, Nellie Michell, Gertrude Myers, Lizzie FitzGerald, Matilda Hollister, and Miss Lown; and Messrs. Ed and Griff Williams, Harry Lonsdale, Sam Campbell, Herman Ernst, Dr. Sutherland and Mr. Lakin.

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859
published in · 
The Dalles Daily Chronicle
date · 
15 January 1892
column title · 
Local Brevities
title · 
Drive Whist and Tiddledy Winks Party
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page 3 • column 2
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Mr. and Mrs. Schenck, gave a very pleasant party at tneir elegant residence on Fourth street last evening. Drive whist and progressive Tiddledy-Winks were enjoyed till a late hour, when a delicate lunch was served. Mrs. Beall received the ladies first prize and Mrs. W. H. Wilson the second prize. Mr. W. H. Wilson carried off the gentlemen's head prize and Mr. Beall the second.

The head -prize in Tiddledy-Winks was awarded to Mrs. Hostetler and the second prize to Miss Lawn.

A most enjoyable evening was spent aud all departed near the "wee sma" hours with many thanks to the host and hostesss. Among those present were:

Judge and Mrs. Bradshaw, Judge and Mrs. Bennett, Dr. and Mrs. Rinehart, Mr. and Mrs. II. S. Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Beall, Mr. and Mrs. Morgan, Mr. and Mrs. Brooks, Mr. and Mrs. Kinersly, Mr. and Mrs. Hostetter, Mr. and Mrs. Garretson, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Crossen, Mr. and Mrs. Sutcliffe, Misses Lawn, Myers and Brooks, and Messrs. Dr. Southerland, Ainsworth and Frank Garretson.

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The Dalles Daily Chronicle
date · 
5 February 1892
title · 
Tiddledy Wink's Party
citation · 
page 3 • column 2
content

A tiddledy wink's party was given last night at the residence of Mr. I. C. Nickelsen, to a number of young friends of the Misses Christine, Julia and Clara Nickelsen. The young folks were promptly on time at seven o'clock and a lively game was kept up till nearly ten o'clock when, after a bountiful refection they parted for the night, all agreeing that they had spent a most enjoyable time. The head prizes were won by Miss Pearl and Master Carl Williams and the boobies by Miss Annie Keller and Master Jack Pruyn.

The following are the names of the participants: Matt and Jack Pruyn, Carl, Robert and Pearl Williams, Annie Keller, Georgia and Victor Sampson, Archie and May Barnett, Paulina Drews, Hilda and Oscar Beck, Gussie Meins, Grace Kelly, Carl and Pete Nickelsen and Christine, Julia and Clara Nickelsen.

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The Dalles Daily Chronicle
date · 
3 June 1892
title · 
A Tiddledy Winks Party
citation · 
page 3 • column 4
content

A Tiddledy Winks party was given by Arthur Stubling, on Thursday evening, June 1st, to his schoolmates. The following were invited:

Miss Maie and Mattie Cushing, Bertie and Edna Glenn, Georgia Sampson, Hattie Marden, Esther Freiman, Anna Hawthorne, Lizzie Sampson, Joseph Stadelman, Ben Wagonblast, Simmon Freiman, Theodore Liebe, Harry Fredden, Victor Schmidt, Elmer Ward and Victor Sampson. The first lady's prize was won by Edna Glenn, the second by Mattie Cushing. The first gentleman's prize was won by Victor Schmidt, the second by Simon Freiman. The boobies were won by Anna Hawthorne and Joseph Stadelman.

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The Dalles Daily Chronicle
date · 
3 June 1893
title · 
A Tiddledy Winks Party
citation · 
volume 5 • issue 143 • page 3 • column 4
content

A Tiddledy Winks party was given by Arthur Stubling on Thursday evening, June 1st, to his schoolmates. The following were invited:

Miss Maie and Mattie Cushing, Bertie and Edna Glenn, Georgia Sampson, Hattie Marden, Esther Freiman, Anna Hawthorne, Lizzie Sampson, Joseph Stadelman, Ben Wagonblast, Simmon Freiman, Theodor Liebe, Harry Fredden, Victor Schmidt, Elmer Ward and Victor Sampson. The first lady[s] prize was won by Edna Glenn, the second by Mattie Cushing. The first gentleman's prize was won by Victor Schmidt, the second by Simon Freiman. The boobies were won by Anna Hawthorne and Joseph Stadelman.

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date · 
9 June 1893
title · 
A Tiddledy Winks Party
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page 5 • column 4
content

A Tiddledy Winks party was given by Arthur Stubling, on Thursday evening, June 1st, to his schoolmates. The following were invited:

Miss Maie and Mattie Cushing, Bertie and Edna Glenn, Georgia Sampson, Hattie Marden, Esther Freiman, Anna Hawthorne, Lizzie Sampson, Joseph Stadelman, Ben Wagonblast, Simmon Freiman, Theodore Liebe, Harry Fredden, Victor Schmidt, Elmer Ward and Victor Sampson. The first lady's prize was won by Edna Glenn, the second by Mattie Cushing. The first gentleman's prize was won by Victor Schmidt, the second by Simon Freiman. The boobies were won by Anna Hawthorne and Joseph Stadelman.

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date · 
28 December 1898
column title · 
Wayside Gleanings
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page 3 • column 2
content

Monday evening Miss Anna Stubling who leaves next Monday to attend the business college in Portland entertained her Sunday School class, composed of a dozen or more bright lads, at her home on Eighth street. Progressive Tiddledy Winks was the game of the evening, and if ever a party entered into a game with a will it was these boys, Gus Walthers coming out ahead, Oscar Beck second best, and Gus Weigel securing the booby. The lunch was enjoyed equally as well. During the evening Miss Stubling was presented by the boys with a beautiful gold pen as a parting gift. The members of the class present were: Oscar Beck, Charles Weigel, Alfred Prinz, Gus and George Walthers, Charles Mellquest. Adolph Schmidt, Otto Keller, Gus Weigel, Joseph Nitschke, Arthur and Theodore Drews

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31 December 1898
column title · 
Wayside Gleanings
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page 3 • column 3
content

The holidays seem to be the favorite lime for Sunday school teachers to entertain their classes at their homes. Last evening Miss Christine Nickelsen's class met at her residence and enjoyed the hours most pleasantly in games. etc, tiddledy winks being the rule of the evening. At this game Bertha Swain won the prize for being the lucky one and Anne Stevens the booby. The following members of the class were present: Nina Noble, Josie Nickelsen, Esther Beck, Lafrida Harper, Maggie and Katie Steveson, Clara Groler, Anna Steveson, Delia Harper, Josie Lawerson, Louisa and Marie Keller, Hattie Longmier, Bertha Swain, Edna Campbell.

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date · 
4 January 1899
column title · 
Local Brevities
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page 3 • column 2
content

The holidays seem to be the favorite time for Sunday school teachers to entertain their classes at their homes. Last evening Miss Christine Nickelsen's class met at her residence and enjoyed the hours most pleasantly in games, etc, tiddledy winks being the rule of the evening. At this game Bertha Strain won the prize for being the lucky one and Anne Stevens the booby. The following members of the class were present: Nina Noble, Josie Nickelsen, Esther Beck, Lafrida Harper, Maggie and Katie Steveson, Clara Groler, Anna Steveson, Delia Harper, Josie Lawerson, Louisa and Marie Keller, Hattie Longmier, Bertha Swain, Edna Campbell.

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The Dalles Times-Mountaineer (newspaper)
location · 
The Dalles, Oregon, USA
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246

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published in · 
The Dalles Times-Mountaineer
date · 
9 January 1892
title · 
Bidding Adieu to the Old Year.
citation · 
page 4 • column 1
content

The young people's social club of this city have spent a number of very pleasant evenings during the past few weeks; but through the efforts of their hostess, Miss Matilda Hollister, assisted by her brother, Dr. O. C. Hollister and wife, the last evening of the year was the crowning one of all. The early part of the evening was passed in playing Progressive Tiddledy Winks. Mr. Lonsdale proving that he possessed a steady nerve and consequently carryed [sic correct= carried] off a beautiful water colored painting. Mr. Booth, although a less skilful player, was no less fortunate in capturing another painting, both showing the artistic work of the hostess. Of the ladies Miss Lown was successful in winning the head prize, a silver bonboniere, and Miss Michell was contented to accept the booby prize, so long as it was a pretty calendar. During lunch and long after the game had been decided the young gentlemen, bent on making the most of their time, continued to wink until the appearance of the new year, when it was apparent that they would be compelled for a year at least to "wink the other eye," that fact being emphasized by the yound ladies, who completely cornered them with the assertion that the long list of bachelors in The Dalles was certainly appalling, and that they propose—that it should be greatly augmented before the end of the year.

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The Dalles Times-Mountaineer
date · 
27 February 1892
column title · 
Items in Brief
citation · 
page 1 • column 8
content

A tiddledy-wink party was given by Hattie Glenn at the residence of her parents to her associates Saturday afternoon, and a very enjoyable occasion was had. The game was indulged in until the little folk became tired, when refreshments were served, which was duly appreciated. Those present were Rose Mary Baldwin, Mary McInerny. Josephine Mclnerny, Winnie Wilson, Edna Barnett, May Barnett, Pearl Barnett, May Jackson, Dora Nielsen, Maude Michell and Hattie Glenn. Prizes were awarded to the most and least successful players, and the young folks enjoyed tnemseives as only children can.

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The Dalles Times-Mountaineer
date · 
27 February 1892
column title · 
Items in Brief
citation · 
volume 32 • issue 10 • page 1 • column 9
content

Miss Daisy Beall entertained a number of her young friends last night in honor of Bennie Snipes, who was visiting in the city, but returned to tbe Bishop Soott grammar school in Portland this morning. Progressive Tiddledy Winks was the rule of the evening and was thoroughly enjoyed, the prizes being won by Evelyn Newman, Charlie Clark and Victor Marden. Of course this jolly crowd of boys and girls did not confine themselves to one amusement, but lunch being over, singing and games of all sort were indulged in until quite late, when after bidding Bennie good-bye and the others good night, they returned to tbeir homes more then pleased with the loyal way in which they were entertained. The following were present: Misses Daisy Beall, Beulah Patterson, Georgia Sampson, Mabel Mack, Laura Thompson, Evelyn Newman and Myrtle Michell; Messrs. Ben Snipes, Will Crossen, Charlie Clarke, Joe Bonn, Winterton Curtis and Victor Marden. An elegant repast was served, of which all partook bountifully.

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date · 
10 June 1893
column title · 
Items in Brief
citation · 
page 1 • column 7
content

Mr. Arthur J. Stubling gave a tiddledy-winks party at his father's residence in this city last Thursday evening, aud a very agreeable time was spent. The following were those invited: Maie and Mattie Cashing, Bertie and Edna Glenn, Georgia Sampson, Hattie Marden, Esther Freiman, Anna Hawthorne and Lizzie Sampson. Simeon Freiman, Eimer Ward, Joseph Stadleman, Victor Sampson, Harry Fredden, Tjeo. Liebe, Ben. Wagenblast and Victor Schmidt. Edna Glenn won the first girl's prize, Victor Schmidt the first boy's prize, Mattie Cashing the second girl's prize. Simeon Frieman, second boy's prize, Anna Hawthorne, girl's booby and Joseph Stadleman, boy's booby.

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Union, Oregon, United States
The Oregon Scout (newspaper)
location · 
Union, Oregon, USA
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243

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published in · 
The Oregon Scout
date · 
19 February 1891
title · 
The Latest Popular Game
citation · 
volume 7 • issue 35 • page 5 • column 2
content source · 
Springfield (Mass.) Homestead
content

It need not surprise any one to drop into an evening gathering or a quiet home circle and find people who wear spectacles across their noses and carry dignity by the ton trying to snap a row of ivory chips into a little wooden cup. That is the new game, christened tiddledy winks. It requires a small wooden cup called a wink pot and two dozen bone or ivory chips called winks, also four larger ones about the size of an old fashioned pants button, known as tiddledies. There is a cushion to snap t he chips upon, or you can spread a small square of Brussels carpeting under the tablecloth, which answers just as well if not better. The trick is to snap the winks into the wink pot by means of the tiddledies held between the thumb and finger, the winks lying flat on the cushion or table. This is the game of the season—the great social snap, so to speak. There are two or three ways of playing and keeping tally of the game. Ever tried it?

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Clearfield, Curwensville, Philipsburg, Moshanon Valley, Pennsylvania, United States
The Progress (newspaper)
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Clearfield, Curwensville, Philipsburg, Moshanon Valley, Pennsylvania, USA
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251

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The Progress
date · 
21 February 1966
title · 
Tiddlywinks Players Claim Championship; No Competition
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page 17 • column 5
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Associated Press
content

WATERLOO, Ont. (AP)—"If you squop my wink, it'll be a difficult squidge to score a plop."

Sound strange? Well it's not a bit strange to a group of students at the University of Waterloo who have formed a tiddlywinks club and claim the Canadian championship for the game.

Why the Canadian championship?

"You see, there was no other club to challenge us," says Colin [sic, should be: Charles] MacLeod, organizer of the club which now boasts more than 80 players. "some came to laugh, but stayed to play."

The ultimate goal is to challenge Harvard University next month for the North American "wink" title and then challenge Oxford University for world title.

Eight members who really know their tiddlies—winks—will be chosen to play the matches, but McLeod, a graduate student from the University of Aberdeen, says members are having troubles with their "squops."

"To squop," he explains, "is to cover your opponent's wink with your wink and prevent him from plopping or snapping it into a cup. Then of course, you must squidge your own wink and land it in the cup."

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Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States
Indiana Evening Gazette (newspaper)
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252

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Indiana Evening Gazette
date · 
20 May 1959
title · 
Nikita, Choose Your Squidger
subtitle · 
Tiddlywinks and Peace
citation · 
page 18 • column 1
content
Black and white photograph of Gen. Sir Hugh Stockwell at right, leaning down to shoot a wink using two hands, with a male onlooker to left rear.
GEN. SIR HUGH STOCKWELL IN ACTION: Squopping his opponent's wink with a squidger.

LONDON—(NEA)—The Foreign Ministers are haggling in Genever over such issues as Berlin and Germany, but the Rev. Edgar A. Willis has a simpler suggestion for easing East-West tension:

Let Nikita Khrushchev take up tiddlywinks.

The Rev. Willis, a retired [sic original="Angelican" "correct="Anglican"] clergyman, has been playing the game for 50 years and feels it is the perfect sport.

"It not only taxes every muscle but the fibres of the brain as well," he declares. "It develops a delicacy of touch, corrects color blindness and is a soothing influence on the nerves.

"Besides, it brings out a strong sense of sportsmanship."


Unfortunately it's doubtful that the Rev. Willis' theory on Khrushchev will ever be put to the test but as secretary general of the [sic original="British" correct="English"] Tiddlywinks Association, the minister is partly responsible for the tiddlywink craze now sweeping British universities and which numbers the Duke of Edinburgh as a fan.

The Cambridge [sic original="" correct="University"] Tiddlywinks Club recently defeated an Oxford team to become All-English Champions and is now looking for American contenders to take on.

So far the response from American universities has been only lukewarm, according to a Cambridge enthusiast, who says that Americans regard tiddlywinks as kid's stuff.

"To scorn tiddlywinks as a child's game is to refuse milk because it is fed [sic original="t obabies" correct="to babies"]," he indignantly claims.

It was an article titled "Does Prince Philip Cheat at Tiddlywinks?" printed in a [sic original="Cambridge undergraduate" correct="national"] magazine [sic original="last year" correct="in 1957"] which sparked the vogue for the game.

[sic original="The Duke of Edinburgh promptly challenged Cambridge" correct="Cambridge promptly challenged the Duke of Edinburgh"] to a match, the proceeds to go to the National Playing Fields Association, but at the last minute His Royal Highness was forced to bow out.

"Unfortunately," he explained, "I pulled an important muscle in the second or tiddly joint of my winking finger."

A team of radio comedians, delegated to pinch-hit for the Duke, was roundly defeated by Cambridge.

Since then Cambridge has sponsored the World Tiddlywinks Congress, the first of its kind ever held, at which international rules for the game were laid down. At present it is attempting to standardize the terms used in connection with the game.

It is not uncommon to hear a player exclaim, "I squopped his wink with my squidger." Squop, in this context, means to cover up an opponent's wink, while a squidger is the big wink with which lesser winks are flipped into the tiddlypot.

To straighten out these knotty problems Cambridge has appointed a Master of the Wink.

Oxford on the other hand, claims that Cambridge takes the game too seriously. Oxonians poke fun at the formal attire which their Cambridge rivals wear to important matches including neckties embroidered with tiddlypots. They also claim that before the recent Oxford-Cambridge match, the Cambridge team had their thumbs insured by Lloyds of London.

As the latest development, the Royal Air Force Bomber Command has issued a challenge to Cambridge. The bombardiers' team, which is said to be a powerful one, has as its motto: "Squidge hard, squidge sure."

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Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, United States
Lock Haven Evening Express (newspaper)
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253

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Lock Haven Evening Express
date · 
12 November 1890
citation · 
page 1 • column 6
content

Can you play Tiddledy Winks? No! Then you are behind the times, and you should proceed at once to invest in a small cup; some ivory bits, and some "Snappers." Tiddledy Winks is a great game. It cultivates patience and is a sure cure for conceit. To be had at Kinsloe's book store for 25 cents.

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Lock Haven Evening Express
date · 
3 December 1890
column title · 
Pungent Pot Pourri
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page 1 • column 5
content

The girls have got to playing tiddledy-winks for the soda.

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date · 
3 December 1890
column title · 
Pungent Pot Pourri
citation · 
page 1 • column 5
content

Mr. Qulip says that the popular game known as "Tiddledywinks" must have been invented as a safe alternative for persons unable to stand the mental strain of prolonged indulgence in the "Idiot's Delight."

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
The North American (newspaper)
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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254

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The North American
date · 
27 December 1890
column title · 
Society Gossip
title · 
A Debutante Writes of Her Impressions of Society
citation · 
page 5 • column 2
content

Announcements for Next Week.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 29.

Miss Ella McG. Huber, daughter of Mr. John Y. Huber, has issued cards for a children's tiddledy winks tea.

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The North American
date · 
25 April 1891
citation · 
page 4 • column 3
content

FRIDAY (To-day). [...] Miss Alice Grant gave a "tiddlywinks" party for Miss Glidden, of Baltimore.

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Philadelphia Bulletin (newspaper)
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182

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Philadelphia Bulletin
date · 
13 February 1971
title · 
Top Tiddly Teams Tussle For Total Title at Toronto
by · 
William K. Mandel
content

Squidgers in hand, the Hark Yon Tree Hath No Leaves But They Will Out Club is off to Toronto to squop and counter-squop for the North American Tiddlywinks Championship.

[...]

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Philadelphia Bulletin
date · 
15 February 1971 or 16
title · 
Tiddlywinkers Win 4th Place at Toronto Tourney
content

The Hark Yon Tree Hath No Leaves But They Will Out Club returned from Toronto, having won fourth place in the North American Tiddlywinks Championship over the weekend.

[...]

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Philadelphia Bulletin
date · 
16 February 1981
citation · 
page A1
content
Photograph of winks.
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895
published in · 
Philadelphia Bulletin
date · 
16 February 1981
title · 
Squop that wink, or pot a disc
citation · 
page B1
content
Photograph of Dave Lockwood and Ed Morse.
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Philadelphia Bulletin
date · 
16 February 1981
title · 
In the jargon of tiddlywink experts, it's as easy as flicking with a squidger
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Philadelphia Daily News (newspaper)
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327

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Philadelphia Daily News
date · 
26 February 1966
title · 
The Big Tiddlywinks Match
citation · 
page 30 • column 4
content
Black and white photograph of men sitting on the floor, playing tiddlywinks.
Tense moment is at hand in Rutgers-Princeton tiddlywinks game at New Brunswick. Rutgers walloped the Princeton tiddlers, 2,770-1,160.

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181

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The Philadelphia Inquirer
date · 
15 March 1901
column title · 
Womanly Answers to Womanly Questions
title · 
Table Golf with Tiddlywinks
citation · 
page 7 • column 2
content

Several kinds of table or parlor golf have been invented and put upon the market. But about the simplest device of the kind originated the other evening when some young folks wearied of the usual indoor games and cast about them for something new and novel.

A box of tiddledywink chips was lying on the table, and a boy present had a sudden inspiration.

"Hey, boys!" he cried. "let's play golf with these chips!"

[...]

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The Philadelphia Inquirer
date · 
28 January 1975
citation · 
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content source · 
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content
Photograph of Joe Sachs and Rich Steidle during tiddlywinks marathon in Lobby 10 at MIT.
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published in · 
The Philadelphia Inquirer
date · 
14 December 1986
title · 
Flipping a Few Winks for the Pot
summary

About a tiddlywinks demonstration at a department store by Larry Kahn and others.

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Piittsburgh Post-Gazette (newspaper)
location · 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
256

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published in · 
Piittsburgh Post-Gazette
date · 
27 February 1980
column title · 
Tonight in Preview
citation · 
page 24
summary

Television show listing for Real People with a tiddlywinks segment

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Pittsburgh Dispatch (newspaper)
location · 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
255

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published in · 
Pittsburgh Dispatch
date · 
1 February 1891
title · 
The Latest Games.
subtitle · 
Recreations for the Home Circle Brough Out Recently.
citation · 
section Part 2 • page 15 • column 4
content

The Latest Craze.

Tiddledy Winks is one of the most fun-provoking games of a class differing altogether from the board games, all of which, by the way, bear a relationship, more or less remote, to chess and checkers. It is too well known to need description. A capital improvement, however, is tiddledy winks tennis, in which a felt cloth accurately marked out as a miniature lawn tennis court is used, and a net in the center takes the place of the original cup. The small countered are "served" over the net by means of the large on, and the method of scoring is that employed in lawn tennis. Beginners usually give their opponents the first few games by a succession of "faults," but practice soon begets skill at this curious pastime.

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The Pittsburgh Press (newspaper)
location · 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
163

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published in · 
The Pittsburgh Press
date · 
26 February 1966
title · 
Oh, How Collegiate
citation · 
volume 82 • issue 244 • page 11 • column 2
summary

About Princeton vs. Rutgers

content source · 
United Press International
content
Black and white photograph of winkers sitting crosslegged on the floor playing tiddlywinks, with onlookers standing behind.

OH, HOW COLLEGIATE—Mitchell Lipton of Rutgers University shoots as Bill Brauer of Princeton and Keith Hazeltine, and official, watch his tiddly-winks aim. Rutgers twisted the tiger's tail to defeat Princeton 2770-1160 in the contest.

UPI Telephoto

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Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States
(unknown newspaper) (newspaper)
location · 
Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
257

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published in · 
(unknown newspaper)
date · 
February 1981
summary

Article was expected to be published.

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902
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States
Times Leader (newspaper)
location · 
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA
website · 
tw-pub-ID · 
794

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published in · 
Times Leader
date · 
16 February 2010
title · 
Sally Forth
by · 
Francesco Marciuliano; Jim Keefe
citation · 
section Funnies • page 10D • column 1
content

Frame 1: We've played every video game, watched every decent movie and TV show…

Frame 2: People, I'm afraid we've run out of every entertainment option known to man.

Frame 3: You know what's due for a comeback? Tiddlywinks.

Great. Right after a rousing afternoon of rebuses and puppetry.

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York, Pennsylvania, United States
York Daily Record and The York Dispatch (newspaper)
location · 
York, Pennsylvania, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
63

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published in · 
York Daily Record and The York Dispatch
date · 
4 April 2014
title · 
Steve McKee
content

TROY, NY Steve McKee, a journalist and the author of a memoir about living in the shadow of family heart disease, died on Monday at Albany Medical Center in Albany, N.Y. He was 61 and lived in Troy, N.Y. The cause of death was complications following surgery to repair a torn aorta. McKee was 16 when, at home in York, Pa., one night in 1969, he watched his 50-year-old father suffer a fatal heart attack. The tragedy propelled McKee to devote himself to staying in shape. He ran a marathon in Alaska, completed a triathlon in New York, and lifted weights and pulled on a rowing machine for hours on end. McKee first wrote about his lifelong effort to avoid his father's fate in The Wall Street Journal, where he worked as a copy editor for more than a decade. His stories received an outpouring of response, and McKee followed with a book, My Father's Heart: A Son's Journey (Da Capo Press, 2008). Despite his best efforts, McKee was told after an extensive physical in 2005 that he, too, had heart disease. "It was devastating, absolutely devastating, because I never ever thought this was going to happen because I had spent all those years keeping myself in good to very good shape," McKee said in a 2008 interview on NPR. "It took a while for me to realize that, no, even if I have heart disease I am not like that part of my father I didn't want to be," he said. "My dad, I felt, gave up. I had always fought against it. That is his legacy to meI have always fought against it." After the publication of My Father's Heart, McKee spoke to numerous health-care organizations about cardiovascular disease. He also wrote a one-man play based on the book, which was performed in workshops in Pennsylvania. Stephen J. McKee was born in Ridgewood, N.J., on Nov. 17, 1952, and raised in York. He graduated from Allentown College of St. Francis DeSales (now DeSales University) in Allentown, Pa., and spent six years in Alaska, first with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps teaching at a native boarding school in the Alaskan bush, and later working and studying in Fairbanks. McKee's first book, The Call of the Game, (McGraw-Hill, 1987), described his year-long odyssey attending more than 50 sporting events, from the Continental Team Tiddlywinks Championships to the Super Bowl. For Coach (Stackpole Books, 1994), an oral history of the profession, McKee interviewed hundreds of coaches in dozens of sports at all levels. McKee joined the The Wall Street Journal as a copy editor in 1994. He was the first sports editor of the paper's Weekend Journal section and in 2001 was the first writer of its online sports column, "The Daily Fix." He is survived by his wife, Noreen; their son, Patrick, also of Troy; and a sister, Kathleen McKee Hansen of Punta Gorda, Fla. Visitation will be held at the Joseph G. Duffy Funeral Home, Brooklyn, N.Y., from 5 to 9 p.m. on Friday, April 4th, followed by a Mass of Christian burial at the Oratory Church of St. Boniface at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, April 5th. The family asks that, in lieu of flowers, donations be sent to the Albany Medical Center Foundation, 43 New Scotland Avenue, Mail Code 119, Albany, NY, 11208. In My Father's Heart, McKee wrote movingly about his personal genetic fate, but also about the cardiovascular health-care crisis facing millions of Americans and the need for individuals and institutions to do something about it. "Every day, nearly 2,400 Americans die of cardiovascular disease's major heart breakers," he wrote. "That's one death every 36 seconds. If we could wave a magic wand and eliminate this scourge, we could all expect to live nearly seven years longer. If only."

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Rhode Island • (state)
Newport, Rhode Island, United States
Newport Mercury (newspaper)
location · 
Newport, Rhode Island, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
258

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published in · 
Newport Mercury
date · 
20 September 1890
title · 
A. C. Landers' Column
subtitle · 
NEW *GAMES*
content

ANABASIS Or Marching into the Interior.

Royal Arabia, the Game of Shirks

Ambuscade, Bounce, Constellation, Game of War, [sic original="Baslinda" correct="Basilinda"], Tiddledy Winks, Kilkenny Cats, Parlor Tennis, Game of Rex, Monopolist, Halma, Chivalry, Witches' Sepll, Go Bang, Tivilo, Fox and Geese, Base Ball Game, Parlor Polo, Steeple Chase, Office Boy, Louisa, Bagatelle, Fish POnd, Checkers, Chess Men, Cribbage Boards, Dominoes, Jack Straws, Donkey Party.

25c. GAMES.

Knowledge Box, Witchcraft Game, Old Maid, improved, Tadpole Game, Doctor and the Quack, Bible Questions, My Wife and I, Tommy Town's Visit to the Country, Peter [sic original="Codley's" correct="Coddles'"] Visit to N.Y.[,] Literary Salad, Young People's Geographical Game, Cornery Grocery, The Presidential Game, Billy Bumps' Visit to Boston, Checkers, Dominoes, Authors, Dividends.

[...]

AT A. C. LANDERS', 167 THAMES STREET, Covell's Block

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Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Providence Journal-Bulletin (newspaper)
location · 
Providence, Rhode Island, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
259

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published in · 
Providence Journal-Bulletin
date · 
27 February 1980
column title · 
Tonight on TV
citation · 
page D6
summary

Television show listing for Real People with a tiddlywinks segment

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South Carolina • (state)
Charleston, South Carolina, United States
(unknown newspaper) (newspaper)
location · 
Charleston, South Carolina, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
260

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published in · 
(unknown newspaper)
date · 
21 May 1978
summary

About winker Dave Lockwood.

content source · 
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905
The News and Courier (newspaper)
location · 
Charleston, South Carolina, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
261

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published in · 
The News and Courier
date · 
27 February 1959
title · 
Tiddlywinks Now Official Sport
citation · 
page 6-A • column 5
content source · 
Associated Press
content

CAMBRIDGE, England (AP)—Tiddlywinks Thursday became an official intervarsity sport between Oxford and Cambridge.

It now takes its place beside the boat race, rugby union, track and field, soccer, boxing, and other athletic activities.

Cambridge tiddled the winks more skillfully and defeated Oxford 64-48 to take the first official title.

All previous matches were declared illegal and mere practice for the great day Thursday. Oxford had won the "practice" sessions.

Now Cambridge has an American challege to take up—from the University of Pennsylvania. The American students issued their challenge last year. It's still on the table.

Here's what happens at tiddlywinks: An egg cup is placed in the middle of a blanket. Players are called on to snap winks, little bone or plastic disks, into the egg cup with the tiddly, the aiming disk.

The Rev. E. A. Willis, secretary general of the English Tiddlywinks Assn., umpired one of the games and told skeptical onlookers: "This is a game that requires a lot of skill."

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906
published in · 
The News and Courier
date · 
10 October 1959
title · 
Tiddlywinks Title Might Console Sad Chicagoans
citation · 
page 3-B • column 3
content source · 
Associated Press
content

CHICAGO (AP)—The University of Chicago Friday supplied some balm to Chicagoans who saw a World Series baseball title snatched from White Sox reach by the Los Angeles Dodgers.

The university's tiddlywinks team took the world championship by default.

The Cambridge University team of England, which had challenged Chicago. forfeited the title game because a London brewery has withdrawn its financial support of the British team.

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South Dakota • (state)
Aberdeen, South Dakota, United States
Aberdeen Daily News (newspaper)
location · 
Aberdeen, South Dakota, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
262

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published in · 
Aberdeen Daily News
date · 
10 January 1983
title · 
In search of 'Tiddlewinks scholarship'
citation · 
page 7 • column 2
content source · 
Associated Press
content

"Even if your child has never mastered anything more complicated than the game of Tiddlywinks," the letter to several thousand parents and students begins, "somewhere, sometime, someone has set up a scholarship fund for Tiddlywinks players."

Scores of scholarship search firms have grown up across the country in the past couple of years to help students find out what scholarships or grants they may qualify for, as government sources of student aid have dried up.

The author of the Tiddlywinks letter is George C. Jordan III, president of one of those firms, Scholarship Research of America, Lenox, Mass.

Jordan admitted in an interview that there really wasn't a "Tiddlywinks scholarship." [...]

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Huron, South Dakota, United States
Daily Huronite (newspaper)
location · 
Huron, South Dakota, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
263

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published in · 
Daily Huronite
date · 
19 December 1890
citation · 
page 4 • column 2
content

The Chicago Post declares that tiddledy wink will produce softening of the brain.

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Texas • (state)
Abilene, Texas, United States
Abilene Reporter-News (newspaper)
location · 
Abilene, Texas, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
264

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published in · 
Abilene Reporter-News
date · 
27 February 1959
title · 
Tiddlywinks Official Now in England
citation · 
volume 78 • issue 262 • page 11-A • column 1
content source · 
Associated Press
content

CAMBRIDGE, England (AP)—Tiddlywinks Thursday became an official intervarsity sport between Oxford and Cambridge.

It now takes its place beside the boat race, rugby union, track and field, soccer, boxing, and other athletic activities.

Cambridge tiddled the winks more skillfully and defeated Oxford 61-48 to take the first official title

All previous matches were declared illegal and mere practice for the great day Thursday. Oxford has won the "practice" sessions.

Now Cambridge has an American challenge to take up—from the University of Pennsylvania. The American students issued their challenge last year. It's still on the table.

Here's what happens at tiddlywinks: an egg-cup is placed in the middle of a blanket. Players are called on to snap winks, little bone or plastic disks, into the egg cup with the tiddly, the aiming disk.

The Rev. E. A. Willis, secretary general of the English Tiddlywinks Assn., umpired one of the games and told skeptical onlookers: "This is a game that requires a lot of skill."

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Brownsville, Texas, United States
Heraldo de Brownsville (newspaper)
location · 
Brownsville, Texas, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
265

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published in · 
Heraldo de Brownsville
date · 
17 December 1936
by · 
Grant's Toyland
citation · 
page 13
content

Old and Young Enjoy





GAMES





Beano — Tiddlywinks —





Scores of others.





10c and 20c

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Corpus Christi, Texas, United States
Corpus Christi Times (newspaper)
alternate name · 
Corpus Christi Caller-Times
location · 
Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
266

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published in · 
Corpus Christi Times
date · 
22 December 1947
title · 
At Walgreen's
subtitle · 
Last Minute GIFT SUGGESTIONS
citation · 
page 2 • column 3
content

TIDDLEDY WINKS GAME

4 sets of plastic-winks, pads, cup & instructions 39c

tw-ref-ID · 
912
published in · 
Corpus Christi Times
date · 
18 May 1959
title · 
MAKES THE TEAM
subtitle · 
College Coed Serious ABout Tiddlywinks
citation · 
page 17 • column 1
content source · 
Associated Press
content
Female winker at left shooting a wink as a smiling male winker at right looks on.

'TWINK' GOSS (LEFT) AT PRACTICE SESSIO&hellip. tiddlywink coach David Stern watches.

(AP Wirephoto)

SEATTLE. (AP)—Nine men and a girl are practicing like mad at the University of Washington these days in preparation for an international tiddlywink match with Cambridge University.

Dave Stern, manager of the Was[h]ington team, says the English school accepted the challenge in a letter from Frank G. [sic original="Kenshaw" correct="Kershaw"], honorary secretary of the Cambridge TIddlywink Society. If financial arrangements can be made, Kenshaw said the West Coast contest would follow scheduled matches at Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Chicago, and other universities.

"Tiddlywinks is a sport not a stunt," [sic original="Kenshaw" correct="Kershaw"] wrote, "as we hope to be able to prove to you… Gamesmanship is inapplicable.

Stern and his nine-man-one-girl team consider it a sport, too. They are busily trying to become ambidextrous (approved under international rules) and working on thumb development.

As in most sports tiddlywinks has its own vocabularly. The squop is a tactical move to cover an opponent's tiddly and the pot is something you try to shoot in not rake in.

Stern's team won its first collegiate match against Seattle University 19-9, and is now considering a challenge it has received from Washington faculty members.

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Corsicana, Texas, United States
Corsicana Daily Sun (newspaper)
location · 
Corsicana, Texas, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
267

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published in · 
Corsicana Daily Sun
date · 
27 February 1959
title · 
Tiddley-Winks Comes of Age
citation · 
page 7 • column 2
content source · 
United Press International
content

CAMBRIDGE, England, Feb 27 (UPI)—Tiddley-Winks has come of age, and there's a shiny silver cup in the trophy room of Cambridge University.

Using a masterful offense known as "squopping," Cambridge led rival Oxford University in an inglorious 64-48 defeat yesterday as racing driver Stirling Moss refereed.

The match was the first official inter-varsity tiddley winks contest for the vacant all-England tiddley title

In the old days, tiddley players unanimously went about the game by trying to pot their winks. The individual, or team, which potted the most winks won.

But in the flashy new attack developed by Cambridge, one member of each two-man team is a "potter" and the other is a "squopper."

Oxford, bogged down with an old-fashioned potting offense with everyone trying to score points, just couldn't keep up the pace.

The Cambridge squoppers saved the day

In case you're not familiar with the rules of tiddley-winks, if your wink falls on one of your opponent's winks, it takes the opponent's wink out of play.

That's the job of the squopper—to knock out the other fellow's winks, instead of trying to hit the pot.

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Dallas, Texas, United States
The Dallas Morning News (newspaper)
location · 
Dallas, Texas, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
268

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published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
10 January 1891
title · 
A Perfect Craze
by · 
The Arcade
citation · 
page 8 • column 2
content

FOR EVENING PARLOR GAMES, WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THE PEOPLE? EVERYBODY WANTS EITHER "HALMA"[,] TIDDLEDY WINKS, TIDDLEDY WINK TENNIS, OR PARCHEESI. WE CAN'T GET "EM" FAST ENOUGH. LEAVE YOUR ORDER.

  • "Halma:… Price $1.00
  • Tiddledy Wink Tennis… " 1.00
  • Parcheesi… " 1.00
  • Tiddledy Winks&hellip " 1.00
  • Tiddledy Winks&hellip " 50
  • Tiddledy Winks&hellip " 25

THE MOST POPULAR AND AMUSING GAMES EVER PUBLISHED. THE ARCADE, 838 AND 840 ELM STREET.

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published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
12 January 1891
column title · 
A Week's Amusements
title · 
What People Have Been Doing in Society's Path
citation · 
page 2 • column 1
content

For the benefit of the uninitiated in the mysteries of the new society game with the classic appelation of "tiddledy winks" here is a description of it found in an exchange:

Any number can play; each person has six small composition wafers the size of a silver dime called winks, and one larger one the size of a silver half dollar which is used as a taw and called the tiddledy; a small wooden pot the size of a lemon is in the center of the table; the object of the game is to get the winks in the pot by using the tiddledy on the edge of the winks and flipping them in the pot; each player takes his turn, and the person or couple potting their winks into the pot first wins the game and leaves the table as in progressive euchre. A great deal of amusement is derived and the excitement runs high as the game becomes close.

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published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
2 March 1891
citation · 
page 2
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940
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
16 March 1891
citation · 
page 2
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941
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
20 April 1891
column title · 
Society's Giddy Whirl.
title · 
Meetings of the Literary Clubs of More than Usual Interest&Parties, Dinners, Teas and Luncheons.
citation · 
page 2 • column 2
content

For the affair that night the large, handsome double parlors were thrown open and thickly studded with palms and ferns, among which were placed tables upon which such games as euchre, jackstraws, angling, steeple chase, Bly-Bisland trip around the world, dominoes and tiddledy-winks were played.

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published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
25 May 1891
column title · 
The Whirl of Society
title · 
Vernon
citation · 
page 2 • column 6
content

Judge and Mrs. J. V. Green entertained the Married Ladies' Social club and their young friends Thursday evening last in an interesting manner at their elegant home. These married ladies' sociables are always interesting and pleasant and are looked forward to with considerable interest by the young folks. Judge and Mrs. J. V. Green did all they could to entertain their guests, and the evening was spent in playing tiddle-de-winks and dominoes. [...]

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published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
27 July 1891
column title · 
Society in MidSummer
title · 
Amusements and Merrymaking Among the Stay-at-Homes.
citation · 
page 2 • column 3
content

A progressive Tiddledy Winks party was given Saturday evening at the residence of Prof. S. M. N. Marra in honor of their guests, the Misses King of Stephenville.

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943
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
18 September 1891
by · 
The Arcade
citation · 
page 8 • column 2
content

CHILDREN'S DAY.

TOYS! TOYS! TOYS! TOYS!

[...] We'll mention a few items and prices for to-day, which will be found only on the second floor.

[...]

8c For a complete game of tiddledy winks.

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published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
13 December 1891
title · 
Goldsmith's Grand Christmas Sale!
subtitle · 
Begins Tomorrow, Monday. December 14,
by · 
I. Goldsmith & Co.
citation · 
page 7 • column 1
content

OUR 25c COUNTER.

GAMES--Fish Pond, Tiddledy Winks, Errand Boy, Pussy and Three Mice, Grandma's Mince Pie, etc., etc.

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published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
20 December 1891
title · 
Goldsmith's Suitable Holiday Presents
subtitle · 
At Prices that Defy Competition
by · 
I. Goldsmith & Co.
citation · 
page 7 • column 3
content

OUR 25 CENT COUNTER.

GAMES--Fish Pond, Tiddledy Winks, Errand Boy, Pussy and Three Mice, Grandma's Mince Pie, etc., etc.

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published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
19 February 1893
citation · 
page 1 • column 2
content

In Our Notion Department we show many interesting things for Children, and grown folks, too. [...]

GAMES.

We show an endless variety of Games of all kinds, at prices ranging from 5c to $6.50.

Space permits mention of only a few: Authors, Logomachy, Lotto Snap, Klymo, Fish Pond, Dissected Maps and Pictures, Tiddledy Winks, Ouija, [sic original="Parchessi" correct="Parcheesi"] [sic original="Bizique" correct="Bezique"]. Powers, Halma, Chicago Fair, McAllister and His 400, Telegraph Boy, etc. [...]

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published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
8 December 1895
by · 
Sanger Brothers
citation · 
page 5 • column 2
content

GAMES.

The Susceptible Board Game, PRICE 30c

The Toll Gate, PRICE 40c

Over the Garden Wall… PRICE 20c

Round the Circle, PRICE $1.00

Little Bo-Peep, PRICE 40c

Game of Bobb, PRICE $1.00

Mansion of Happiness… PRICE 60c

Social Brownies, PRICE $1.00

Fish Pond, At 40c, 75c, $1.25

Kelb, the new Arabian game&hellipl 40c

Pilgrim's Progress At 75c

Tiddledy Winks At 15c, 25c, 40c

[...]

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published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
17 December 1899
by · 
The Arcade
citation · 
page 23 • column 1
content

THE BIG TOY STORE

New Games

There's the old-fashioned popular games that'll always be with us. Then there's many new ones. More, we think, than ever before came out during one season. Many of the games come in several sizes and prices, hence we mention titles only.

Crokinole Boards, Dominoes, Checkers, Chess, Game of Foot Ball, Red Riding Hood, Go-Bang, Tenbpins, Indoor Target Practice, Parcheesi, Table Croquet, Steeplechase, Lotto, Klondike, Old Maid, Jack Straws, Fishpond, Authors, Foot Ball, Cake Walk, Snap, Brownies, Tiddledy Winks, Dissected Maps, Trip Trays, Drummer Boy, Ring Toss, Young America Target.

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published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
23 December 1899
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Santa's Letter Box
by · 
Phil Dean
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page 4 • column 4
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Alvarado, Tex., Dec. 19—Dear Santa Claus: Bring me a cannon and a hook and ladder and some tiddledywinks and some marbles and a toy gun and some apples and nuts and candy. I am 6 years old.

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date · 
5 November 1910
title · 
Public Library Provides Games to Keep Children Off Streets
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page 4 • column 2
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In order to keep children off the streets at night the Public Libray of St. Paul, Minn. has arranged a series of children's games. These are issued to children as books are issued to readers. St. Paul is said to be the first city to adopt this practice and is pleased with the results. [...]

The department was started with the following games on hand:

A B C, anagrams, [...] spinning egg, squire, tiddledy winks, Uncle John's trip [...]

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The Dallas Morning News
date · 
19 March 1912
column title · 
The State Press
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A Lonesome Cuerone
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page 8 • column 4
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Bartlett Tribune
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Also it is possible for a tired business man immured in his home after supper, with no one to sing to him and no one to argue with, to while away the hours till bedtime by flipping poker chips across the dining room table. There is a game called tiddle-de-winks that is played that way.

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published in · 
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date · 
3 October 1921
title · 
Talent Plentiful on Majestic Bill
subtitle · 
Impromptu Numbers Given with Real Talent at Sunday Matinee
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page 8 • column 5
content

Special attention was paid yesterday to the musical program. The organ program included a selection from "Martha," popular melodies and Tiddley Winks song melody.

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published in · 
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date · 
24 January 1922
title · 
Bangs Wrote Many Witty and Humorous Poems.
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section Part 1 • page 10 • column 6
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John Kendrick Bangs, noted lecturer and humorist, who died in Atlantic City Saturday, came of a distinguished American family. His father was a noted New York lawyer and his grandfather, Nathan Bangs, the third president of Wesleyan University, had a wide reputation as a Methodist preacher and ecclesiastical writer.

[...]

He was born May 26, 1862 and was educated at Columbia. [...]

Mr. Bangs was a prolific writer of witty poetry, as well as author of a number of dramatic and musical plays [...]. Other of his principal works are [...] "Tiddledy-wink Tales" (1891). [...]

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952
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The Dallas Morning News
date · 
3 November 1922
title · 
Boneheads Arrange for Tiddldewinks [sic] Tournament.
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section Section 2 • page 20 • column 4
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The first annual Tiddldewinks [sic] Tournament will be held at the luncheon of the Bonhead [sic] Club at the Oriental Hotel Friday noon. John Stayton and Dr. William Anderson Jr. have arranged for the match.

"This tournament has been planned because many of the members of the club are in need of exercise," Dr. Anderson said Thursday afternoon.

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916
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
28 February 1924
title · 
Baseball Moguls Only Sport Arbiters in Mystifying Class
by · 
Westbrook Pegler
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section Part 2 • page 15 • column 7
content source · 
United News
content

Every sport but baseball is honest about such things. The diameter and "bounce" of tennis balls are fixed by official standard. Even in boxing the weight of the gloves is official and the mittens do not vary more than a tiny fraction of an ounce. The official football and basket ball are made to conform to official dimensions and even tiddle-de-winks are cut to the size of the grandfather tiddled-wink which is kept in the vault of the International Tiddle-de-Winks Association, like the yardstick in the bureau of standards at Washington and the meter measure in Paris.

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date · 
17 September 1924
title · 
Mathematics Is Big Thing Now
subtitle · 
Squabbles in Majors Now Center Down to Calculus
by · 
Westbrook Pegler
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section Part 2 • page 16 • column 7
content source · 
United Press
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Tiddlywinks is a lot more fun than baseball at this time of the year. It takes much less education.

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date · 
3 November 1926
title · 
Wit and Humor
subtitle · 
Out of Luck
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section Part 2 • page 18 • column 6
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The Naked Trush: "I say, Gus, old deah, won't you play tiddley-winks with me this awftawnoon?"

"Now, Tubbo, you know my mothaw will not permit me to indulge in games of brute strength."

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date · 
18 December 1932
title · 
War Debts Problem
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1018
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
28 April 1937
column title · 
New Yorker at Large
title · 
Libby Holman Ailing from Acute Publicity
by · 
Jack Stinnett
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section Section I • page 14 • column 7
content

If Libby Holman is a playgirl, then industry's a game of tiddlywinks.

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published in · 
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date · 
6 August 1938
title · 
Motorcycle Hits Two Cars; Bruised
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section Section I • page 3
content

J. C. Shurett, 21, of 1535 Exeter, and his motorcycle played tiddle-de-winks with two automobiles at Ann Arbor and Lancaster Friday, but he escaped with slight bruises.

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1019
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9 September 1938
title · 
Two Can Sing
by · 
James M. Cain
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section Section I • page 10 • column 4
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"I know what you've got. You've go big, hard shoulders and shaggy hair, and you're a man, and you build bridges, and to you this is just some kind of foolish tiddlywinks game that you play until it's time to go to work. And that's just what it is to me! I don't want to be a singer. I want to be a woman!"

"If I'm a man, you made me one."

"Oh, yes, that's the worst of it. It's mostly tiddlywinks, but it's partly building yoruself up to the level of that woman you're married to, so you're not afraid of her any more. And that's what I'm helping you at. Making a man out of you, so she can have you … I feel terrible. I could go right out that window."

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919
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
14 September 1938
title · 
Gus Moreland Burns Up Oakmont to Win Amateur
subtitle · 
Huge Southpaw Won Set From Don Last Year
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section Section II • page 4 • column 8
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[Charles Edgar] Hare was scheduled to meet Quadruple Champion Don Budge Tuesday, but the Englishman said he felt far from like the condemned man who'd just received a reprieve from the Governor. Though the California Don has lost only a few sets since the summer season started, the giant English southpaw who tackles him on Wednesday afternoon insisted he felt no differently about playing Budge than he would about playing tiddled-de-winks with his grandmother.

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1020
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
9 October 1938
title · 
Little Johnny Won't Get Gun For Christmas, if New League Of Toy Sellers Has Its Way
by · 
Rozanne Berghane
citation · 
section Section V • page 2 • column 2
content

[...]

Between 3 and 5 years the child becomes the adventurer and explorer. His play shows better muscular control. Toy suggestions are sets of giant tiddledy winks, a drum, airplane sets, roller skates, an electric train, a diminutive electric iron and a tricycle.

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published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
20 January 1940
title · 
Dan Dunn—Secret Operative 48
by · 
Norman Marsh
citation · 
section Section II • page 6 • column 2
content

YEAH--WE TOSSED TH' BOMB INTO TH' JOINT--BUT IT DIDN'T GO OFF--YUH C'N SEE FER YERSELF--TH' WINDOW'S BROKEN-

SO--YOU BROKE THE WINDOW?? WHAT ROUGH GUYS!

YES--YOU ARE SO DANGEROUS I'M GOIN' TO GET YOU A SET OF TIDDLY WINKS TO PLAY WITH--THAT'S MORE IN YOUR CLASS!

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973
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The Dallas Morning News
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5 April 1941
title · 
Test Your Horse Sense
by · 
Dr. George W. Crane
citation · 
section Section II • page 5 • column 2
content source · 
The Chicago Tribune
content

Match the following games with the number of playing units which each player has to start with. You are entitle to one point for each correct matching.

  • Checkers
  • Euchre
  • Chess
  • Tiddlywinks
  • Bridge
  • >16
  • 3
  • 12
  • 13
  • 5
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The Dallas Morning News
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14 April 1944
column title · 
The Sports Broadcast
by · 
George White
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section Section I • page 11 • column 1
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"People who complained about the attitudes and the postwar activities of some of the men who came back last time," said Simms, "would do well to realize that war was a game of tiddly-winks compared with this one. [...]"

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974
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14 December 1945
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Western Auto Christma Gifts
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section Section I • page 12 • column 4
content

GAMES

Tiddledy Winks—Modernized! 4 sets of winks. E1271 49c

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published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
19 March 1946
title · 
Shifty Winds to Upset Golfing
by · 
Paul Crume
citation · 
section Section I • page 3 • column 4
content

And now, since Tuesday is a good day for sports, we have to hurry home and get out the tiddly-winks outfit. This is a good game, though very tiring on our less robust associates.

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975
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
6 November 1946
title · 
Reflections on an Adult Diaper
by · 
Paul Crume
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section Section I • page 4 • column 2
content

Many times now Mr. M. Gandhi has tried strenuously to starve himself to death over there in India by not taking on any food for several years and so on. He has never succeeded, but he never has become discouraged. We see where he is going to give the project a try again. Never say die—that's gandhi. The old college try.

We admire his singlemindedness and steadfastness of purpose. What this country needs is more politicians who will follow his example—especially in a Republican year.

At times, we remind ourselves of Gandhi. Of course, we do not ordinarily make a practice of starving ourselves to death. Our hobby is tiddlywinks, But our pertinacity, which is sometimes mistaken for muleheadedness, is much like his. Mr. Gandhi works hard at his hobby. We do not believe he will ever achieve his ultimate perfect goal, though.

He will die first.

[...[

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published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
5 February 1947
title · 
Morally Straight Beats Pair
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section Section II • page 16 • column 5
content

We are going back to tiddley winks. It is a highly strenuous game and develops the iron nerves needed in this kind of job. It also develops strong right thumbs which come in handy for punching the N-key of our typewriter when we don't have any thoughts, which is often.

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1005
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
26 August 1948
title · 
Senate Race Pales
subtitle · 
Fifteenth District Runoff Includes Suits, Charges
by · 
Ray Osborne
citation · 
section Section II • page 4 • column 7
content

McALLEN, Taxas, Aug. 25.—The bitter congressional race being waged in the Fifteenth District is making the Coke Stevenson-Lyndon Johnson senatorial feud look like a game of tiddle-de-winks.

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1021
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The Dallas Morning News
date · 
4 September 1948
title · 
Steve Roper
by · 
Saunders and Woggon
citation · 
section Section II • page 6 • column 2
content

I DON'T SAY THESE GUYS ARE GAMBLERS, UNDERSTAND… BUT I DOUBT IF THOSE COLORED CHIPS I'VE SEEN ON THE TABLE ARE TIDDLEYWINKS! THAT'S THE ROOM!

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1006
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
8 October 1949
column title · 
The Sport Scene
by · 
Bill Rives
citation · 
section Section III • page 7 • column 2
content

From H. T. Witcher (we lost the envelope and don't remember his home town): "I've never seen a football game that remotely resembled tiddley-winks. Sure, Arkansas plays rough. Look at any newspaper Monday in football season in any conference and see the list of injuries of any football team… Arkansas plays to win.

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1007
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
23 November 1949
column title · 
Offhand
title · 
Rake's Progress (Mystery Dept.)
by · 
Ken Hand
citation · 
section Section I • page 7 • column 6
content

There were some other circumstances which arose to baffle coroner's physicians and laymen as well. It developed that in most cases, the ashes of Viction No. 2 were buried under the name of Victim No. 1 and No. 3 under the name of No. 2, and so on through a macabre game of tiddley-winks that had law enforcement on the ropes.

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1008
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
30 January 1951
citation · 
section Part II • page 4 • column 4
content

Skillman designs carry the names of "tiddle-de-winks," "dominoes," "checkers," "tic-tac-toe" and such.

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1022
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
31 January 1951
title · 
Cool and Airy Cotton Clothes Feature June in January Show
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section Part II • page 3 • column 6
content

Two of Miss Skillman's delightfully named cottons went into an ensemble with a split personality. The severe chemise dress was made of her red and white tiddle-de-winks print.

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1023
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
12 November 1951
title · 
Banning McCarthy
citation · 
section Part III • page 2 • column 2
content

The Wisconsin State Chamber of the American Legion scarcely serves the cause of Americanism when it warns all posts to beware of inviting "political speakers" to their meetings, "particularly Sen. Joseph McCarthy."

Senator McCarthy may be as wild or wrong-headed as some ultraconservative legionnaire may think him, but he has as much right to be heard as the next one. This idea of trying to shut out the views of fellow Americans who may differ with us is all wrong. It ill-becomes the high brass of the American Legion in Wisconsin, or elsewhere. THey should be the first to stand fast at all times on the bedrock of free speech.

There is a disconcerting tendency to set ourselves up as censors of what others may or should hear—and it is not confined to Wisconsin. Even here in Texas certain legion spokesmen have presumed to say who should, or should not, be heard by a group of schoolteachers.

Censorship of this sort is an insult to the intelligence of the rank and file of citizens, whether they are in legion posts or teacher organizations. The average American is fully capable of taking care of himsel in the free market of ideas. As for avoiding "political speakers" what kind else are there these days, unless you want to hear only experts on tiddlywinks or canasta?

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922
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
3 February 1952
column title · 
Shopping the town
by · 
Jane Davis
citation · 
section Part III • page 9 • column 5
content

I counted more than four dozen games at Bill and Bob Shepard's Playthings, Inc. They keep all the old stand-bys like Tiddleywinks… and buy all the new games as they come out. The address is 5218 Lover's Lane.

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972
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
14 March 1952
column title · 
Teen Talks
by · 
Beverly Brandow
citation · 
section Part III • page 15 • column 6
content

Just because you don't dance, don't resign yourself to tiddly-winks. There are too many interesting things to do.

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976
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
4 April 1955
column title · 
Letters from Readers
title · 
B.N.
by · 
Miss Pat Gordon
citation · 
section Part 3 • page 2 • column 4
content

The Benighted Nations has recently proved beyond all doubt that it has no legitimate reason for existing.

It tried playing cops-and-robbers, and failed. Then it tried playing firemen and failed. The latest game was change-the-calendar, also a failure.

Maybe we should teach it to play tiddly-winks, farmer in the dell, and ring-around-rosy.

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977
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
8 December 1955
by · 
Sanger's Toyland
citation · 
section Part 1 • page 17
content
Black and white illustration of TIDDLE-TAC-TOE game by Schaper, in square box.

tiddle tac-toe 98c

Tiddle de Wink and Tic-Tac-Toe experts meet a real test of skill and suspense. Comes in high impact plastic with Tiddle de Winks and shooting pads. For one player or many.

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published in · 
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date · 
3 March 1958
title · 
JOLLY GOOD TIME WAS HAD BY ALL
citation · 
section Part 1 • page 10 • column 1
content

The Cambridge University Tiddlywink Team trounced Prince Philip's Royal Tiddlywinks Club 16-2 today. The prince claimed he sprained his "winking" finger practicing and could not play.

The match was a tongue-in-cheek contest that drew a sellout crowd of 500 and raised nearly £300 for the National Playing Fields Association, of which Prince Philip is the president.

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914
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
10 May 1958
title · 
Tiddlers Claim World Title After Out-Tiddling Winkers
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section Part 1 • page 4 • column 1
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Associated Press
content

OXFORD, England AP—The Oxonian tiddlers defeated the Cantab winkers at tiddlywinks (or perhaps you spell it tiddlewinks) Friday and immediately claimed the world championship.

The score was a nip-and-tuck 113-111 favoring the Oxonians from Oxford University over the Cantabs from Cambridge.

The teams represented the cream of the world's winkers—or tiddlers—and the match, which was of varsity rating, was witnessed by several hundred fans. Tea was served at half time, with the Oxonians leading 89-87.

Pat Laugharne, a [sic original="shapley" correct="shapely"] 19-year-old right-hander from England, was the only girl in the match. She was also the star, winking in the decisive button which gave Oxford the lead it held until the end.

"It was a hard-fought match but it was fairly fought," she said. "There's nothing in the world like tiddling. I do love it.

A raging controversy immediately broke out among male members of the two teams over rightful ownership of the world title.

Elliott Langford, Oxford captain[,] rose from his knees after the tiddling—snapping small buttons into a cup by pressing them with other buttons.—and declared, "We are claiming the world title."

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published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
13 May 1958
title · 
Political Tiddlywinks
citation · 
section Part 1 • page 6 • column 6
content source · 
Associated Press
content

Oxford University's varsity tiddlywinks team—claimant to the world championship—is scheduled to meet a team made up of members of Parliament in July. The match is set for the House of Commons.

The Oxonian tiddlers defeated Cambridge University last week. On that performance, they claimed the world title and fire off their challenge to the lawmakers. It was accepted.

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published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
13 May 1958
column title · 
Big D
by · 
Paul Crume
citation · 
volume 109 • section Part 1 • issue 225 • page 1 • column 1
content

MAYBE YOU'VE noticed all that hooraw about the Oxford University team in England claiming the tiddly-winks championship of the world merely because it beat Cambridge.

It was inevitable that this cavalier disregard of Texas' rights to the title would be resented, and Oscard Weichsel and Devereux Landregan have now challenged any 2-man Oxford team to a match for the for the Tiddly-Winks Championship of the World, Junior Class, subject to the following rules:

Storm sewer manhole covers to serve as buttons. Abandoned oil storage tanks are receiving cups. Any manhole cover flip of under 100 feet disqualifies the tiddly-winker for the cup involved. Limit of 12 manhole covers per player pack.

To limit this to Junior Class contenders, so that no big boy players can be run in, they propose that the combined age of each two contestants be liited to 135 years.

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979
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
11 June 1958
title · 
Old Schools Vie In Birdwatching
citation · 
section Section 1 • page 8 • column 2
content source · 
Associated Press
content

OXFORD, England, (AP)—Undergraduates at Oxford and Cambridge who recently added tiddlywinks to their traditional rivalry have added birdwatching.

In the first match, Oxford won. In the prescribed 24-hour period the Oxfordites booked 128 typoes of birds.

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published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
16 June 1958
title · 
Tiddlywinks Champs
citation · 
section Section 1 • page 10 • column 6
content source · 
United Press International
content

LONDON (UPI)—Cambridge University Sunday claimed the tiddlywinks championship of the world under new international match rules. The Cambridge team soundly defeatedthe Telcon Terribles, a factory team from Crawley, England.

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published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
18 July 1958
title · 
Daniel, Under Fire, Defends Record
citation · 
section Section 1 • page 4 • column 5
content source · 
United Press International
content

State Sen. Henry B. Gonzalez, one of Daniel's opponents in the 4-man race, called the Governor "the Texas tiddle-de-winks champion" who has smeared Democrats, working people and Texas Negroes.

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published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
28 March 1959
title · 
And Follow Through Smoothly
citation · 
section Section 2 • page 2 • column 3
content source · 
Associated Press Wirephoto
content
Photograph of British General Sir Hugh Stockwell, taken from above, with him leaning on to a mat and shooting a wink, with two other winkers looking on at right.
British Gen. Sir Hugh Stockwell shows his tiddlywinks form during the world championship match—no kidding—in London. Sir Hugh's team—he played for Duke of Edinburgh's Empress Club—challenged the champion Cambridge University crowd and lost. The Duke called on his team to use the equivalent of dirty pool, and Sir Hugh's maneuver here may not have been cricket.
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924
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
22 May 1959
title · 
Could They Be Used in a Tiddlywinks Game?
citation · 
section Section 4 • page 1 • column 2
content

Attention police:

Someone removed and hauled off 76 cast-iron manhole covers (total weight 4,916 pounds) early Thursday. And the Public Works Department wants them back—and in a hurry.

Replacements will cost city taxpayers a tidy sum—at least $500, said Asst. Public Works Directory H. E. Drumwright.

The caps were taken off storm sewer inlets along Record Crossing and Shady Trail in Northwest Dallas, presumably to be sold as scrap iron.

"They'll have a pretty hard time selling them, unless they break them up," said Drumwright.

Reason: Engraved in big letters on each cap is "CITY OF DALLAS."

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925
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
28 August 1959
column title · 
Television in Person
title · 
TV Series Provided Incentive to Reduce
by · 
Edmond O'Brien
citation · 
section Section 1 • page 14 • column 5
content

I had to pare off over 60 pounds in just about three months for a TV series.

I looked like the "before" in a before-and-after ad. And it wasn't easy… it was a task that made the roughest acting assignment I could imagine look like a simplified version of tiddlywinks.

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981
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
30 December 1959
title · 
Quotes for 1959
subtitle · 
Many Gems Fall From the Mouth
citation · 
section Section 3 • page 3 • column 4
content source · 
United Press International
content

And from the Rev. E. A. Willis, general secretary of the English Tiddlywinks Association:

"The world is now looking to tiddlywinks in its need to get back to the primeval simplicity of life.

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926
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
19 March 1961
column title · 
People
citation · 
section Section 1 • page 3 • column 2
content

THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH, who tiddles a wink on occasion, sent a pep message to the Cambridge University Tiddlywinks club as it practiced for a match with a London team: "With the greatest impartiality, I hope the best side will win… provided it is Cambridge."

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927
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
16 September 1961
column title · 
In Sunday's News
citation · 
section Section 1 • page 1 • column 1
content

All this—plus TV channels, the doings of the society set, women's news, brides, comics, columnists on everything from bridge to tiddlywinks and the latest business news. There's something for everyone in the Sunday edition of The Dallas Morning News.

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928
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
20 November 1961
by · 
David Krause
citation · 
section Section 4 • page 4 • column 4
content

Apparently those responsible for the removal of Gen. Edwin A. Walker from his command in Germany are also determined that his story shall be denied to the people of the United States and even to a committee of Congress. So the smear begins.

If Gen. Walker is silenced now, all who have been struggling to save America from the Reds now might just as well take up tiddlywinks instead.

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929
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
24 January 1962
title · 
Tough Sport For Men Only
citation · 
section Section 1 • page 1 • column 3
content source · 
United Press International
content

CAMBRIDGE, England (UPI)—Girls have been excluded from the Cambridge tiddlywinks team, now in training for the annual match with Oxford.

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930
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
23 August 1962
by · 
Sessions Discount Center
citation · 
section Section 1-A • page 5 • column 1
content

Tiddledy Winks Complete 2.00 1.39

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955
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
15 March 1963
title · 
Big D
by · 
Paul Crume
citation · 
volume 114 • section Section 1 • issue 166 • page 1 • column 1
content

Our tax laws should have exempted the gifted manager from taxes on anything earned during working hours but penalized him heavily for income accruing during idle moments. He should have been encouraged to work twenty hours a day seven days a week for months on end. Instead, we have taxed his worktime pay heavily but wiped out the taxes on what he spent for his yacht, his hunting lodge or his tiddlywinks range.

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931
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
16 May 1966
title · 
Frank & Ernie
by · 
Ed Meyers & Jim Elliott
citation · 
section Section B • page 7 • column 1
content

Here's the mail Ernie.

Ah, my tickets to the '[sic original="amature" correct="amateur"] Zeppelin watchers & Tiddlywinks Society' ball next week!

[...]

Well of course we're [sic original="amatures" correct="amateurs"]… who ever heard of a professional Zeppelin watcher?

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932
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
20 June 1966
title · 
Frank & Ernie
by · 
Ed Meyers & Jim Elliott
citation · 
section Section B • page 7 • column 1
content

But Ernie why in the world join the "Amateur Zeppelin-Watchers and Tiddlywinks Society"?

I though Zeppelin watching went out with World War I.

Yes,… Gives us a lot more time for our Tiddlywinks!

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933
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
9 July 1966
title · 
Frank & Ernie
by · 
Ed Meyers & Jim Elliott
citation · 
section Section B • page 5 • column 1
content

Too cloudy for amateur Zeppelin watching today, how about a fast game of tiddlywinks down at the club?

Don't think so Ernie, I want to finish this crossword puzzle.

You're really in trouble when your own dog won't be seen with you!

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934
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
18 July 1966
title · 
Frank & Ernie
by · 
Ed Meyers & Jim Elliott
citation · 
section Section B • page 7 • column 1
content

I'm on my way to the 'Amateur Zeppelin Watchers & Tiddlywinks Society' dinner tonight Frank.

I don't want to miss the big drawing for the door prize… it's so exciting to think I might win.

The guy's flipped his wig, what do we need with another door?

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935
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
2 August 1966
title · 
Frank & Ernie
by · 
Ed Meyers & Jim Elliott
citation · 
section Section A • page 15 • column 1
content

Amateur Zeppelin Watchers Tiddlywinks Society

Boy, us amateur Zeppelin-watchers are sure going to miss Old Claude.

What happened to him?

Turned Pro!

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936
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
14 September 1966
title · 
School Busing Plot Seen in Cities Bill
by · 
Karen Klinefelter
citation · 
section Section A • page 6 • column 4
content

"In terms of radical departure from the traditional federal role," Brock said, "the school busing scheme will make the open housing section of the House-passed 1966 Civil Rights bill look like tiddly winks."

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982
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
30 April 1967
column title · 
Dr. Rafferty's Column
title · 
It's About Time to Stop Picking on the Athletes
by · 
Dr. Max Rafferty
citation · 
section Section G • page 2 • column 7
content source · 
Los Angeles Times
content

If I just had the money, I'd incorporate the Rafferty Alumni Association, seek out the nation's best high school tiddlywinks player and announce to the wide, wide world that we were going to pay him $10,000 a year to go to Illinois.

You know what would happen to him. Nothing.

But if we did the same thing with a star halfback, they'd terrorize the kid.

Home come?

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983
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
21 October 1970
title · 
Ruritanian Fortnight
by · 
Neiman Marcus
citation · 
section Section D • page 3 • column 3
content

Memo from Coach Wizzer to members of Ruritanian Bare-knuckle Tiddley-Winks Team:

Re: Regulation dress.

In the interest of keeping our frenzied fans sartorially proud of the team, the following code goes into effect immediately upon our return from Fortnight at Neiman-Marcus:

Traveling uniforms

Printed bird's eye pattern cotton corduroy slacks 45.00, highlighted with a wool cardigan featuring ribbed sleeves, back and pockets, 30.00

[...]

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1009
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
3 December 1970
title · 
Two Colleges Cross Forks
by · 
Robert J. Misch
citation · 
section Section E • page 20 • column 1
content

NEW YORK (WNS)—As an old sports fan, I've seen colleges play one another in football, basketball, baseball, track, soccer—even fencing, tennis, water polo, and yes, tiddley-winks. But never had I seen a competition with the skillets—until recently.

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published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
16 February 1971
column title · 
Paul Crume's Big D
by · 
Paul Crume
citation · 
section Section A • page 1 • column 1
content

Over the weekend I went up to Little Mineral to replace the prop. This is usually a very satisfying do-it-yourself task since it involves no knowledge of electronics, navigation, tiddley winks or even simple mechanics.

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1011
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
24 June 1972
title · 
California Dreamin' May Plague McGovern
by · 
Carl Rown
citation · 
section Section A • page 19 • column 1
content source · 
Field Enterprises, Inc.
content

WASHINGTON—The Democratic party's credentials committee is about to play host to some scraps that could make the battle of An Loc look like tiddly-winks.

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984
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
25 December 1973
column title · 
A Woman's View
title · 
On Getting the Holiday Message
by · 
Rosalie McGinnis
citation · 
section Section D • page 2 • column 4
content

On another Christmas, my parents came back from town with a load of groceries and candles for the trees and dolls and tops and tiddlywinks and the coconut and soft chocolates rounded like strawsticks which Papa always gave to Mama.

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937
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
7 June 1974
title · 
Pari-mutuel Ban Vote Set
by · 
Mary Lenz
citation · 
section Section A • page 4 • column 5
content

HOUSTON DELEGATE Bob Gammage presented an amendmen to replace the phrase "bingo and raffles" with "lottery" because Bingo is a trade name. "We might as well include tiddly winks, Tinker toys and Monopoly in this constitution," Gammage said.

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985
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
29 June 1974
title · 
Big Difference
by · 
C. D. Colburn
citation · 
section Section D • page 2 • column 6
content

To The Dallas News

Sen. Henry Jackson said, "There is an obvious difference between me and Henry Kissinger." To that statement, a whole series of very loud "Amens." If this country had that instant-expert on everything from tiddley-winks to international diplomacy trying to hold Henry Kissinger's job, we would be at war with all the rest of the world before he could get back home. Thank the Lord for that very big favor!

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1012
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
28 July 1974
title · 
Information Welcomed Concerning Hostages
citation · 
section Section A • page 20 • column 1
content

One hostage offered that O'Brien was keeping spirits up, joking that if he were reincarnated he wanted to be a nun playing tiddledy winks.

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956
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
27 April 1975
title · 
Mariposa Cruises Hawaii In Grand Oldtime Style
by · 
Thomas B. Lesure
citation · 
section Section C • page 14 • column 2
content

Or we could just sit out on deck and watch the moon play tiddly-winks with the sea.

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986
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
11 June 1975
column title · 
Paul Crume's Big D
by · 
Paul Crume
citation · 
section Section A • page 1 • column 3
content

A Winchester is not a sword. The Scripture has had to be updated to "They shall beat their Winchesters into croquet mallets and their bullets into tiddly-winks.

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987
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
6 May 1976
column title · 
Letters
title · 
Appreciate Them
by · 
Louise Jagger
citation · 
section Section D • page 2 • column 6
content

For instance, thanks to the men and women of the armed forces, the CIA and the FBI this is still a free country with a free press. Without intelligence gathering, which after all, isn't exactly a game of tiddly winks, we might not be free.

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988
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
8 February 1977
title · 
Sports mania on CBS
by · 
Rena Pederson
citation · 
section Section A • page 13 • column 1
content

Tiddlywinks?

Yes, they had the international tiddlywinks competition on NBC's Grandstand" sports show Sunday.

Of course, it was a joke to film a match between the Harvard team (in Harvard Lampoon jerseys) and the Oxford team from England (in tuxedos).

The two teams flipped little plastic discs into a teeny cup while onlookers went "Ahhhhh!" and "Oooouuuhhh." And commentators commentated in hushed voices, "That was quite a shot! Let's take a look at it in slow motion… now back to live action."

At the end of the tongue-in-cheek sports event, a message flashed across the screen to make sure viewers knew it was [sic original="" correct="a"] joke. It said, "The preceding was staged for TV."

[...]

Tiddlywinks, anyone?

[...]

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957
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
16 September 1977
title · 
Bradley spotlight dims
by · 
Steve Pate
citation · 
section Section B • page 3 • column 1
summary

About football quarterback Bill Bradley

content

He could play baseball, basketball, throw a javelin a good half-mile and play tiddly-winks with manhole covers.

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989
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
13 May 1978
title · 
Squidging, squopping, Bristoling
subtitle · 
He really flips over tiddlywinks
citation · 
section Section A • page 3 • column 4
content source · 
United Press International
content

NEW YORK (UPI)—The master of squidging, squopping, Bristoling, potting and piddling sprinkled red, blue, green, and yellow buttons of plastic on a table and said he turned from sky diving to tiddlywinking.

David H. Lockwood, North American tiddlywinks champion, is blond, a Methodist minister's son, molded by Chicago high schools and button proud.

"As I was going off to M.I.T., they sent me a question[n]aire, asking what activities interested me. I checked of sky diving, baseball and, since it was on the list, tiddlywinks," Lockwood said.

[...]

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958
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
5 October 1978
title · 
Serenity of fishing soothing
by · 
John Anders
citation · 
section Section D • page 3 • column 1
content

They want you to dress the fish outdoors, too, and this I can understand. Fish scales have a way of flying across the room like errant Tiddly Winks, if anyone happens to recall that game. And the smell hangs on like Tom F. Mix.

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990
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
5 November 1978
by · 
The Treasury
citation · 
section Section A • page 20 • column 5
content

2/$3

SALE!

Reg. 1.99 ea. Games from Hasbro®. Tiddley winks, tic-tac-toe, ring toss. Limited quantities.

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1013
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
10 December 1978
title · 
SALT opponents gathering strength in senate, Chicago newspaper says
citation · 
section Section A • page 47 • column 4
content

The Sun-Times quoted an unidentified administration official as saying, "We're in deep, deep trouble. I'm not saying we can't or won't be able to do it. But compared with SALT II, passing the Panama Canal treaties was playing tiddlywinks."

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959
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
25 April 1979
title · 
Johnson asks, 'What scuffle?'
by · 
Hal Bock
citation · 
section Section B • page 2 • column 3
content source · 
Associated Press
content

Well, they certainly weren't playing tiddly winks when Mr. Gossage's thumb went pop.

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992
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
5 September 1979
column title · 
College Scene
title · 
Rice won't be boiling over 58-0, Alborn says
citation · 
section Section B • page 24 • column 5
content

Rice University football coach Ray Alborn wondered aloud Tuesday how it all got started that he thinks Southern Methodist University ran up a 58-0 score against the Owls last year.

[...]

"This is the first game of the season and it is our Southwest Conference opener, and if that's not enough to get a team fired up then they ought to go into tiddlywinks," Alborn said.

[...]

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960
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
8 December 1979
title · 
Introducing The Flying Betamax.
by · 
Sony
citation · 
section Section A • page 37 • column 3
content

Betamax now has an incredible feature called BetaScan. BetaScan lets you fly past the boring parts of any show and stop when you come to the real exciting stuff. It's like fast-forward and fast-reverse. But you can see what you're looking for, and stop when you find it.

If a football game happens to have the world tiddlywinks finals on at half time, fly by it with BetaScan. If during a fight, the fighters are waltzing blissfully through the first few rounds you can skip right past those rounds with BetaScan.

[...]

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961
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
20 December 1979
column title · 
Finds
title · 
Playtime for grown-ups
by · 
Leslie Pound
citation · 
section Section C • page 2 • column 4
content

To relieve the tension of the business trip, there is a wooden tiddlywinks set. It's eight inches in diameter and costs $7.50.

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962
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
29 December 1979
title · 
Devine says Cotton has best
subtitle · 
Irish coach guarantees there'll be no letdown
by · 
Mike Jones
citation · 
section Section B • page 1 • column 3
content

The people who follow Notre Dame won't permit a casual approach," theorized Yeoman, "be it a football game or tiddly-winks. That simply won't be a part of their mental posture. Anytime they're on the field, it's serious business.

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published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
12 January 1980
title · 
Introducing The Flying Betamax.
by · 
Sony
citation · 
section Section A • page 29 • column 2
content

Betamax now has an incredible feature called BetaScan. BetaScan lets you fly past the boring parts of any show and stop when you come to the real exciting stuff. It's like fast-forward and fast-reverse. But you can see what you're looking for, and stop when you find it.

If a football game happens to have the world tiddlywinks finals on at half time, fly by it with BetaScan. If during a fight, the fighters are waltzing blissfully through the first few rounds you can skip right past those rounds with BetaScan.

[...]

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published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
27 February 1980
column title · 
Channel Choices
citation · 
section Section C • page 9 • column 3
content

5 REAL PEOPLE/p>

Scheduled: a talking refrigerator, a toilet for cats, a traveling belly-dance teacher, a tiddlywinks championships and an update on Captain Sticky.

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published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
24 April 1980
title · 
Letters: Sees Method in Madness
by · 
N. L. Simmons
citation · 
section Section D • page 2 • column 3
content

To The Dallas News

My first throught was to criticize The News for having two liberal national columnists as opposed to one conservative on its Viewpoint page April 9. After reading Tom icker and James Reston that day, I began to see a method behind The News' madnress. If these two gentlemen are spokesmen for the liberal left, then the liberal left is in a bad way for spokesmen.

[...]

Reston castigates Reagan for softening opposition to the Olympics boycott. Reagan now feels that the United States is pretty much alone in its stand. Reston indicates that at least 25 other nations support our boycott. What he does not say is that these nations' Olympic committees all do not support the boycott, and furthermore, most of the nations mentioned could not field even a second-rate tiddlywinks team.

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published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
30 July 1980
column title · 
Channel Choice
citation · 
section Section C • page 7 • column 2
content

–7:00–

[...]

5 REAL PEOPLE

The Unknown Comic and Felicia, a toilet-trained cat, return; a tiddlywinks tournament at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, Calif.; an agency in New York City that provides fat models; and senior citizens participate in the Golden Age Olympics in Stanford, Fla.

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published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
21 November 1980
by · 
Sony
citation · 
section Section A • page 24 • column 2
content

Betamax now has an incredible feature called BetaScan. BetaScan lets you fly past the boring parts of any show and stop when you come to the real exciting stuff. It's like fast-forward and fast-reverse. But you can see what you're looking for, and stop when you find it.

If a football game happens to have the world tiddlywinks finals on at half time, fly by it with BetaScan. If during a fight, the fighters are waltzing blissfully through the first few rounds you can skip right past those rounds with BetaScan.

[...]

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published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
23 January 1981
column title · 
Cheap Eats
by · 
Rebecca O'Dell
citation · 
section Section F • page 1 • column 1
content

We're moving into those grey days of February; no holiday in sight until Easter, the Super Bowl nearly behind us, and the world championship tiddlywinks competition is Sunday afternoon's best offerin.

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published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
1 February 1981
title · 
Shopping the Town
by · 
Mary Beth Powell
citation · 
section Section E • page 9 • column 2
content

Among other games: Chinese Checkers, Magnetic Checkers, Tic Tac Toe, Tiddly Winks, Travel Clapper, Square Puzzle, Chess Boards, Shoot the Moon. From $5. Free gift wraps. The Luggage Rack, 2403 Promenade Shopping Center, on Coit just north of Belt Line, 231-7736.

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published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
10 November 1981
by · 
Gibson's J-Hawk Saving Center
citation · 
section Section A • page 13
content

Pressman Tidley Winks 1.27

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published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
13 December 1981
title · 
SMU fall to Lions—65-53
by · 
Barry Horn
citation · 
section Section B • page 1 • column 3
content

BLOOMINGTON, Ind.—In case you need to be reminded, SMU and Penn State come from states where football is the No. 1 sport and everything from tiddly winks to basketball is tied at No. 2.

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published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
21 December 1981
title · 
Lions give SMU a 65-53 lesson
by · 
Barry Horn
citation · 
section Section B • page 1 • column 2
content

BLOOMINGTON, Ind.—In case you need to be reminded, SMU and Penn State come from states where football is the No. 1 sport and everything from tiddly winks to basketball is tied at No. 2

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994
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
18 April 1982
column title · 
Letters to the Sports Editor
title · 
Hockey coverage knocked
by · 
Scott K. Ross, M.D., Team physician Dallas Black Hawks
citation · 
section Section B • page 21 • column 4
content

I get the impression that you'd rather report on a tiddly-winks semifinal in Tibet than tive adequate coverage to our own hockey teams.

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996
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
19 April 1982
column title · 
Television
title · 
Is 'Dallas' the (yawn) most boring TV show?
by · 
Ed Bark
citation · 
section Section C • page 10 • column 3
content

The tiddly winks who participated in the poll have anointed Dallas's own Morgan Fairchild as "the most boring woman on television."

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997
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
14 August 1982
title · 
Special Notices A-20
citation · 
section Section E • page 15 • column 2
content

TO help perpetuate the Aggie joke another softball game will be held this wkend in Carrollton, betwen a group of local Texas Aggie Students and younder potential Aggies against a mature team. The Striplings suffered 2 succesive ignominious defeats in the past outings at the hands of gentlemen twice their age. A third defeat will no doubt cause the group to seek jousting events in such sports as hopscotch, jacks, and tiddly winks.

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published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
15 August 1982
title · 
Special Notices A-20
citation · 
section Section D • page 69 • column 2
content

TO help perpetuate the Aggie joke another softball game will be held this wkend in Carrollton, betwen a group of local Texas Aggie Students and younder potential Aggies against a mature team. The Striplings suffered 2 succesive ignominious defeats in the past outings at the hands of gentlemen twice their age. A third defeat will no doubt cause the group to seek jousting events in such sports as hopscotch, jacks, and tiddly winks.

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999
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
7 January 1983
title · 
Lester Melnick
citation · 
section Section C • page 2 • column 4
content
Illustration of a young woman with short hair and a light-colored dress with a bow at mid-chest

Plink, Plank, Plunk!

Every primary hue, winning bow, 6 to 16 sizes, 56.00. By Contessa Monique.

preston royal · northpark

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published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
18 February 1983
title · 
Rough seas may have torn patch in coal carrier, crew member says
citation · 
section Section A • page 9 • column 1
content source · 
United Press International
content

Cusick told the joint Coast Guard and National Transportation Safety Board inquiry that properly scraping the rust off the hatch covers "was like playing tiddlywinks on ice on a lake."

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969
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
7 March 1983
title · 
George Allen's back in town
by · 
David Casstevenes
citation · 
section Section B • page 1 • column 1
content

"Whether it's the NFL or the USFL or tiddly-winks, winning is exhilarating," [George] Allen said hoarsely as he stood on a metal folding chair in a room adjacent to the Blitz' locker room.

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1001
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
28 October 1983
title · 
NFL Mid-Season Awards
subtitle · 
They said it
by · 
Gary Myers
citation · 
section Section B • page 6 • column 2
content

Baltimore coach Frank Kush when told some of his players thought his treatment was too harsh: "Sounds like this is a women's forum. This is football, we're not playing tiddly-winks."

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1002
published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
6 July 1984
title · 
McEnroe discusses other match
subtitle · 
Wimbledon Notes
by · 
Sally Wilson
citation · 
section Section B • page 9 • column 6
content

Navratilova used to cry if she lost at the Czech version of tiddlywinks when she was a child, but she also felt badly when she drummed an opponent.

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published in · 
The Dallas Morning News
date · 
2 December 1984
title · 
Conquering critics
subtitle · 
Doug Flutie thinks he can do the impossible, and he usually does
by · 
Howard Ulman
citation · 
section Section B • page 7 • column 3
content

In his childhood, the family games included tiddlywinks and flipping quarters across the room into a glass.

"There was always something where thre would be a winner," Joan Flutie said.

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El Paso, Texas, United States
El Paso Daily Times (newspaper)
location · 
El Paso, Texas, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
197

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published in · 
El Paso Daily Times
date · 
25 December 1891
title · 
ENTERTAINMENT! AMUSEMENT!
subtitle · 
Instruction. PARTIAL LIST OF NOVELTIES FOR HOLIDAY PRESENTS
by · 
W. G. Walz
citation · 
page 6 • column 1
content

[...] Ring a Peg, [...] Tiddledy Winks, [...] Tiddledy Wink Tennis [...]

[...]

W. G. WALZ CO., 103 El Paso Street, Jos Schutz Block, New Two Story Brick, Main Street, Ciudad Juarez.

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Galveston, Texas, United States
Galveston Daily News (newspaper)
location · 
Galveston, Texas, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
269

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published in · 
Galveston Daily News
date · 
21 December 1890
title · 
CHRISTMAS NIGHT FUN.
subtitle · 
GAMES FOR THE PARLOR IN THE HOLIDAY'S CLOSING HOURS.
by · 
James W. Johnson
citation · 
issue 235 • page 10 • column 1
content

[...]

Black and white Illustration of men and women playing tiddledy-winks on a round table with a cup at the center

TIDDLEDY-WINKS

Lawn tennis has long proved a favorable field for the experiments of the inventors; and several parlor games in imitation of this grand outdoor sport have been put on the market. Until this year, however, their efforts have [not] met with much success. They adhered too closely to the original; and for obvious reasons very few housewives could be found who would smile on a parlor pastime in which flying balls, no matter how light, were a constant and serious menace to her choicest bits of bric-a-brac.

This season the difficulty was finally overcome by the invention of a game of table tennis.

The inspiration for this game came through the revival a few months ago of an ancient English game known as "tiddledy winks." which has created almost as great a furor as the pigs-in-clover or 13-14-15 puzzles did in their day. "Tiddledy winks" is simplicity itself. In fact it is so very easy that one of the greatest houses in the trade, to whom the idea was first submitted a year ago by a clever employe, declined to handle it because they did not believe the public would take to such an absurdly simple thing. The paraphernalia consists of two dozen or more different colored bone chips of the size and shape of an ordinary copper cent; a half dozen larger chips like those used in poker; a cup of bone, wood or glass, as large as a medium-sized whisky tumbler, and a heavy woolen mat, or, better still, a heavy table cover. The little chips are divided among any number of players up to six, and the scheme is to jump them into the cup, or "wink-pot," as it is known, by laying them flat on the mat or table cover, and then pressing their edges with the larger disk.

In the tennis game that has grown out of "tiddledy winks," and which is known by the rather trying name of "tiddledy wink tennis," a green felt mat about eighteen inches long and nine inches wide is ruledoff, exactly like a lawn tennis court. The game is scored as in ordinary tennis. In the center is stretched the "net" made of pasteboard, about two inches high, and the little "tiddledy wink" counters are served over this net, the poker chips doing duty as rac-tennis and can be played in "singles" or "doubles."

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Houston, Texas, United States
Houston Chronicle (newspaper)
location · 
Houston, Texas, USA
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270

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published in · 
Houston Chronicle
date · 
22 January 2006
title · 
Family dynasties? You don't know tiddly
subtitle · 
A former world tiddlywinks champ schools his kids in ways of the gam
by · 
Lori Aratani
citation · 
volume online
summary

About the Lockwood tiddlywinks clan

content source · 
Washington Post
content

WASHINGTON - Dave "The Dragon" Lockwood has heard it all before.

He has seen the smirks; he has heard the jokes. But as a former world champion, he has also basked in the glory of a sport that some describe as just the right mix of skill and intellect.

And now he is passing that on to his children.

NASCAR has the Earnhardts; baseball, the Ripkens; and football, the Mannings. Now competitive tiddlywinks has ... the Lockwoods.

From his home in Silver Spring, Md., Lockwood is grooming his own dynasty.

Even as he hones his skills — hoping to recapture the No. 1 ranking he last held in 2001 — Lockwood is busy schooling his children in the ways of the squidger. All five of his children play tiddlywinks, and of them, Max, the middle child, appears to have the most potential to join his father in the top echelons of the wink world.

At 12, Max was one of the youngest players ever to hold a world title. At 16, he is ranked 52nd in the world in tiddlywinks. But his brothers, Jon, 13, and Ben, 10, also have potential, their father said.

"Tiddlywinks doesn't sound very serious," said Max, who participates in other sports, such as wrestling, and started a tiddlywinks club at his school. "But you start playing, and you realize how different and challenging it is to do each shot. There's so much strategy."

Added Lockwood, the father: "Sometimes it's hard to stand up and take the ridicule that comes when you say that you take tiddlywinks seriously. But it does have a physical element." The elder Lockwood was a freshman at MIT when he was handed a list of activities he could participate in. On the list: tiddlywinks.

Two years later, in 1972, Lockwood was on a plane to London, where the Americans battled the English. Much to the dismay of the Brits, the brash Yanks won.

When most Americans think of tiddlywinks, they probably envision a brightly colored Milton Bradley set procured from the local drugstore.

Lockwood said real tiddlywinks, which involves two or four people, is played on a 6-by-3-foot felt mat. Winks come in two sizes: two large winks and four small ones. And there's a pot, generally a red cup, in the middle. The winks are shot using a squidger (a disk that is one to two inches in diameter). Players earn points for the number of winks they land into a tiny red plastic cup. But to Lockwood, the game is much more than just shooting plastic disks into a cup. He wants to take tiddlywinks to the next step.

To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the North American Tiddlywinks Association this year, Lockwood is hoping to persuade Prince Philip, reportedly a tiddlywinks aficionado, to suggest that tiddlywinks be a demonstration sport during the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London. If the Games can have synchronized swimming, he said, why can't there be winks?

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Utah • (state)
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Deseret News (newspaper)
location · 
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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271

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Deseret News
date · 
14 April 2010
title · 
FLYNN, JOHN
citation · 
volume online
content

Sometimes his letters were satirical, as when he proposed a multi-million dollar sweetheart deal to build a stadium for tiddlywinks (at tax payer expense), and some were deadly serious, as in his defense of academic freedom in the face of the State's insistence that people be allowed to carry concealed weapons on campus.

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The Salt Lake Tribune (newspaper)
location · 
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
272

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published in · 
The Salt Lake Tribune
date · 
7 December 1890
citation · 
page 7 • column 5
content

The Misses Morlan give a Tiddledy Winks party at their residence on South Main Tuesday evening next.

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published in · 
The Salt Lake Tribune
date · 
21 December 1890
title · 
FUN ON CHRISTMAS NIGHT.
subtitle · 
Games for the Parlor in the Holiday's Closing Hours.
by · 
James W. Johnson
citation · 
page 13 • column 1, 2
content

THEY ARE OF MUCH VARIED KIND

And Many of Them are Indoor Adaptations of Open-Air Summer Sports--Some of the Newest Inventions in Card Games.

Black and white iillustration of a well-dressed man and woman

Thanks to the inventive gentlemen who devise new games for a living, Christma night holds many a treat in store for the American citizen and his female relatives who have a passion for home amusements and indoor sports. [...]

This season the difficulty was finally overcome by the invention of a game of table tennis.

Black and white illustration of men and women playing tiddledy-winks at a table.
TIDDLEDY-WINKS.

The inspiration for this game came through the revival a few months ago of an ancient English game known as "tiddledy winks" which has created almost as great a furor as the pigs-in-clover, or 13-14-15 puzzles did in their day. "Tiddledy Winks" is simplicity itself. In fact it is so easy that one of the greatest houses in the trade, to whom the idea was submitted a year ago by a clever employee, declined to handle it because they did not believe the public would take so such an absurdly simple thing. The paraphernalia consists of two dozen or more different colored bone chips of the same size and shape of an ordinary copper cent; a half dozen larger chips like those used in poker; a cup of bone, wood or glass, as large as a medium sized whiskey tumbler, and a heavy woolen mat or, better still, a heavy table cover. The little chips are divided among any number of players up to six, and the scheme is to jump them into the cup or "wink pot," as it is known, by laying them flat on the mat or table cover and then pressing their edges with the larger disk.

In the new tennis game that has grown out of "tiddledy winks," and which is known by the rather trying name of "tiddledy wink tennis," a green felt mat about eighteen inches long and nine inches wide is ruled off exactly like a lawn tennis court. In the center is stretched the "net" made of pasteboard, about two inches high, and the little "tiddledy wink" counters are "served" over this net, the poker chips doing duty as racquets. The game is scored as in ordinary tennis and can be played as "singles" or "doubles."

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published in · 
The Salt Lake Tribune
date · 
26 May 2006
title · 
The tiddlywinks tax
by · 
John J. Flynn
citation · 
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Letter establishing the "Fighting Utah Tiddlywinks team, intending to join NATwA and build a tiddlywinks arena.

content

This letter announces the establishment of the Fighting Utah Tiddlywinks (FUT) team, and our intention to join the North American Tiddlywinks Association (NATwA).In order to represent Utah in style, compensate the organizers of FUT and jump on the bandwagon of state and local government welfare for the rich, we are proposing a quarter-cent sales tax increase on ice cream and candy sales to finance construction of a state-of-the-art tiddlywinks indoor arena.

In order to represent Utah in style, compensate the organizers of FUT and jump on the bandwagon of state and local government welfare for the rich, we are proposing a quarter-cent sales tax increase on ice cream and candy sales to finance construction of a state-of-the-art tiddlywinks indoor arena.

We estimate a 15,000 seat arena with widescreen TVs to catch all the action can be built with public subsidies of $20-$25 million. We will put up the land for the venture and, of course, take title to the arena. World class winkers will bring their squidgers and winks to Utah and show our youth how to pot out with the best of them. The sales tax increase will be limited to ice cream and candy sales over the next 20 years. Only those folks risking diabetes and excess weight will be affected by the tax.

If government can help finance facilities for soccer teams and an aquarium in the middle of a desert, why not the exciting sport of tiddlywinks? If Salt Lake or Utah counties are not interested in providing government welfare for our venture, remember Kanab is always an alternative. Kanab's local government will buy anything. We prefer to have our cake and eat it too in the cultural center of Utah - with easy access to the airport.

So lean on your city, county and state representatives to help us obtain government welfare through tax subsidies and bring the exciting game of tiddlywinks to Utah.

John J. Flynn

Salt Lake City

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The Salt Lake Tribune
date · 
8 July 2006
title · 
How to raise the money
by · 
John J. Flynn
summary

Follow-up letter regarding building a tiddlywinks arena.

content

My proposal for tax support for a tiddlywinks stadium (Forum, May 28) has not generated widespread public support.

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Vermont • (state)
Vermont Standard (newspaper)
location · 
Vermont, USA
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276

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Vermont Standard
date · 
4 March 1982
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Vermont Standard
date · 
11 March 1982
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Vermont Standard
date · 
18 March 1982
content
Black and white photograph of Dave Lockwood and two children winking at a Bridgewater Mill Mall tiddlywinks demonstration.
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The Vermont Watchman (newspaper)
location · 
Vermont, USA
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277

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published in · 
The Vermont Watchman
date · 
26 November 1890
column title · 
Business Mere Mention.
by · 
G. W. Wilder's
citation · 
issue 48 • page 1 • column 1
content

The new and celebrated game of "Tiddledy Winks" for sale at G. W. Wilder's, head of State street, Montpelier, Vt.

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Milton, Vermont, United States
Milton Independent (newspaper)
location · 
Milton, Vermont, USA
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274

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published in · 
Milton Independent
date · 
27 May 2010
title · 
Pastimes
by · 
Lorinda A. Henry
citation · 
volume online • page 3
content

I was also influenced by finding, in that same week, a small box in the cupboard that contained two games - jacks and tiddlywinks - and was already pondering as to whether anyone still plays games as basic and un-electronic as those.

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1034
St.Albans, Vermont, United States
St. Albans Daily Messenger (newspaper)
location · 
St.Albans, Vermont, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
275

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published in · 
St. Albans Daily Messenger
date · 
12 September 1890
column title · 
BUSINESS NOTICES.
by · 
Lane's
citation · 
page 4
content

Tiddledy Winks. sep12d3t

TIDDLEDY WINKS.
ANABASIS.
BAILINDA.

At Lane's

To be happy, play Halma.

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published in · 
St. Albans Daily Messenger
date · 
16 September 1890
citation · 
page 3
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published in · 
St. Albans Daily Messenger
date · 
18 September 1890
citation · 
page 1
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published in · 
St. Albans Daily Messenger
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19 September 1890
citation · 
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published in · 
St. Albans Daily Messenger
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20 September 1890
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page 1
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published in · 
St. Albans Daily Messenger
date · 
22 September 1890
citation · 
page 1
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1040
published in · 
St. Albans Daily Messenger
date · 
9 August 1979
title · 
'Tougher than chess'
subtitle · 
Tiddlywinks isn't just kid stuff
citation · 
page 4
summary

About Dave Lockwood.

content source · 
Newspaper Enterprise Association
content
Black and white photograph of Dave Lockwood potting a wink on a mat.

Lockwood says tiddlywinks is a way of bringing "the ridiculous" into his life.

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1041
Virginia • (state)
Alexandria, Virginia, United States
Alexandria Gazette and Virginia Advertiser (newspaper)
location · 
Alexandria, Virginia, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
48

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Alexandria Gazette and Virginia Advertiser
date · 
22 September 1890
citation · 
page 3 • column 2
content

"TIDDLEDY WINKS" and "Tiddledy Winks Tennis," the new table game, are the latest craze. Tennis players are enabled to indulge in their favorite pastime in the parlor as well as upon the lawn. The game is learned in a few minutes and is an inexhaustible source of amusement to all. For sale by GEO E FRENCH'S SONS.

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published in · 
Alexandria Gazette and Virginia Advertiser
date · 
23 September 1890
citation · 
page 3 • column 2
content

"TIDDLEDY WINKS" and "Tiddledy Winks Tennis," the new table game, are the latest craze. Tennis players are enabled to indulge in their favorite pastime in the parlor as well as upon the lawn. The game is learned in a few minutes and is an inexhaustible source of amusement to all. For sale by GEO E FRENCH'S SONS.

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214
published in · 
Alexandria Gazette and Virginia Advertiser
date · 
24 September 1890
citation · 
page 3 • column 3
content

"TIDDLEDY WINKS" and "Tiddledy Winks Tennis," the new table game, are the latest craze. Tennis players are enabled to indulge in their favorite pastime in the parlor as well as upon the lawn. The game is learned in a few minutes and is an inexhaustible source of amusement to all. For sale by GEO E FRENCH'S SONS.

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213
published in · 
Alexandria Gazette and Virginia Advertiser
date · 
14 April 1892
title · 
Woodward & Lothrop, WASHINGTON, D.C.
citation · 
page 2 • column 6
content

EASTER OFFERING IN TOYS AND GAMES

Of special interest to the Boys and Girls now are the following:

  • Toy Guns, 10c.
  • Ching Ching 10c.
  • Tiddledy Winks 7c.
  • Spider and Fly 5c.
  • "Anchor" Stone Puzzle, 15c.
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216
Danville, Virginia, United States
The Bee (newspaper)
location · 
Danville, Virginia, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
278

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published in · 
The Bee
date · 
1 July 1947
by · 
Dorothy Dix
citation · 
page 5 • column 1
content

The principal reason why parents and children are in a perpetual conflict is because they do not belong to the same generation and, to paraphrase Mr. Kiping, East is East and West is West, and so is [...] and age, never the twain shall meet

Fathers and mothers will bitterly [...] this. They live in hallucination that they are still youngsters themselves and that, at any rate, [...] they were boys and girls they [...] have the silly ideas and want [...] the crazy things that their bobby-soxers and pip-squeaks do. They recall their sald days, [...] were good little guys who always minded Mama and Papa, and [...] to spend their evenings at [...] playing tiddledy-winks or reading an Alger book

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1046
McLean, Virginia, United States
USA Today (newspaper)
publisher · 
Gannett Company
location · 
McLean, Virginia, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
3

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published in · 
USA Today
date · 
30 December 1988
citation · 
page A1
summary

About President Bush playing tiddlywinks.

keywords

George H. W. Bush

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published in · 
USA Today
date · 
5 April 2002
title · 
For Kahn, it's far more than a game of Tiddlywinks
citation · 
section Life • page 4
summary

About winker Larry Kahn.

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Larry Kahn knows he's fighting an uphill battle.

"The biggest problem is computer games," he admits. "Kids are just into computers. Board games have their followings, but not as big as they used to be." The board game Kahn is talking about is Tiddlywinks, a game he has loved since 1971, his freshman year at MIT, when he joined the Tiddlywinks Club. "But even MIT doesn't have a team anymore."

From the start, Kahn, now 48, had a knack for the game.

"I could shoot well, I had a feel for the game," he says.

Since then, the systems engineer who lives in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., has traveled the world competing in Tiddlywinks tournaments. He is good. Very good.

Kahn has achieved what's called the Holy Grail of winks -- holding all six major championships at the same time. He is currently either No. 1 or No. 2 in the world, depending upon whom you ask. His player name? "Horsemeat."

This is not the game of childhood. Kahn plays a tactical math-theory game based on probability, reasoning and physics as winks are propelled into pots to score.

He says you have to practice in the beginning, "but after that, experience is what helps with the strategy." With embarrassment, he confesses that his wide palms, strong fingers and strong thumbs don't hurt his chances any.

So who takes up such an eccentric hobby?

"They're an interesting bunch of people," he says of his fellow Tiddlywinks enthusiasts. (His wife, Cathy, doesn't play, but is supportive.) "They're intelligent, typically into some sort of math or science field. Mostly male."

He's off to England soon for the national pairs tournament at Cambridge.

"We just do it for the glory."

keywords

Larry Kahn

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Norfolk, Virginia, United States
Virginian-Pilot (newspaper)
location · 
Norfolk, Virginia, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
279

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published in · 
Virginian-Pilot
date · 
31 December 1899
column title · 
A Week's Record of Norfolk Society
title · 
A Delightful Dance Given Christmas Night by the Younger Set.
subtitle · 
The Senior German Club Closes the Year With a Brilliant Affair—Home Parties—The Nonesuch Club's German—The Game of "Tiddledy WInks"—Movements of People.
citation · 
volume 4 • issue 235 • page 12 • column 1
content

Little Miss Houtas Henren entertained her friends Friday betwee 4 and 6 o'clock. "Tiddledy Winks" was the game at the several tables and a prize given Miss Rosa Saunders, who made the best score. Refreshments were served on the tables. The children then gathered around a generous open fire, while the old, but ever entertaining story of Cinderella was read aloud.

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Roanoke, Virginia, United States
The Roanoke Times (newspaper)
location · 
Roanoke, Virginia, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
280

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published in · 
The Roanoke Times
date · 
12 December 1890
title · 
They Haven't Learned to Play
citation · 
page 4 • column 2
content source · 
Washington Star
content

The Mugwumps are playing "Tiddledy winks" with Gov. Hill, but so far have not succeeded in flipping him into the Senatorial basket.

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1048
published in · 
The Roanoke Times
date · 
21 December 1890
title · 
About the Y. M. C. A.
citation · 
page 8 • column 2
content

The closing character talk (of the recent series which has proven so interesting) will take place this afternoon at 4 o'clock in the rooms of the association over The Times office. Dr. Flippo will talk about Jezebel, the wife of Ahab. All men are invited.

Come up to the rooms and try a game of "Tiddledy Winks.".

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1049
published in · 
The Roanoke Times
date · 
24 January 1891
title · 
Tiddledy Winks
subtitle · 
Description of the New Game and How It Is Played.
citation · 
volume 9 • issue 110 • page 3 • column 1
content source · 
Detroit Free Press
content

The game of tiddledy winks is the latest fad, says the Detroit Free Press. Tiddledy winks parties are all the go. The game is innocent, if the players do not bet, and subjects the mental system to no heavy strain. It consists of a small paper box, divided into compartments in which can be found a wood tub or glass jar called a wink pot, a number of bone or celluloid chips a little larger in circumference than a quarter of a dollar, called tiddledies, and a large number of smaller chips about the size of a dime, called winks. Each hand, consisting of one tiddledy and six winks, is of a color, and, while there are generally four hands in a box, there may be as many as colors can be had. Each of the parties playing at a table, over which there should be a soft cover, takes one tiddledy and six winks, and, placing them ten to twelve inches from the wink pot, located in the center, endeavors in turn to flip the winks into the wink pot. The flipping process is accomplished by placing the tiddledy firmly upon the wink and then by drawing or sliding it off the edge of the wink is flipped and bounced toward the wink pot, if aimed in that direction. The one who tips his six winks into the wink pot first wins the game. Some very nice points are involved, which experience will teach how to discriminate between. When one person's wink flips upon that of another and remains there the lower wink can not be removed until relieved by the owner of the upper wink, which is an annoying disadvantage to the proprietor of the under wink. It requires not a little skill to give the wink the proper flip; and the sport derived from the awkwardness of the inexperienced and the obstinacy of the chips is hilarious.

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1050
published in · 
The Roanoke Times
date · 
8 February 1891
title · 
Our Gossiper
citation · 
volume 9 • issue 123 • page 4 • column 2
content

Mrs. W. W. Coe entertained the Tuseday Evening Club February 3rd with progressive tiddledywinks. The first prizes were won by Miss Ann T. Hilleary and Mr. E. C. Watts. Second prizes by Miss Allen and Mr. James Shick

Among the strangers present were the Misses Allen, of Woodstock, Miss Harmon, of Staunton, and Miss Green, of Charleston. Mrs. James W. Coxe will entertain the club February 10th with progressive euchre. Members of the club must be present by 9 o'clock.

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1051
Winchester, Virginia, United States
The Winchester Star (newspaper)
location · 
Winchester, Virginia, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
281

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published in · 
The Winchester Star
date · 
27 January 2006
title · 
Father, Sons Revel in Competitive Tiddlywinks
summary

About Lockwood tiddlywinks clan

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1052
Washington • (state)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (newspaper)
location · 
Seattle, Washington, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
282

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published in · 
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
date · 
2 May 1990
title · 
TENNIS, ANYONE? BUSH IS ALWAYS GAME
summary

About President Bush playing sports and "even tiddlywinks".

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Seattle Times (newspaper)
location · 
Seattle, Washington, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
283

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published in · 
Seattle Times
date · 
4 March 1953
title · 
25-Year Men Gain Status in Industry as Elder Statesmen
by · 
Hal Boyle
citation · 
page 12
content

You don't have to worry when your little girl plays with Acme tiddlywinks. Yes, Acme tiddlywinks are completely safe [...]

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published in · 
Seattle Times
date · 
15 December 1954
title · 
Come In For a Cartful of Thrifty Bargains!
by · 
Pay 'n Save Drugs
citation · 
page 12 • column 5
content
Black and white illustration of Milton Bradley Tiddledy-Winks with animals skating on cover.

Tiddledy Winks

An old favorite of all children. The trick's to see who's first to get discs into cup.

29¢

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1055
published in · 
Seattle Times
date · 
18 September 1955
title · 
Mickey Finn
by · 
Lank Leonard
citation · 
section Comics • page 5 • column 3
content

I'LL READ THE QUESTION ONCE AGAIN, MR. MOONEY! "NAME THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE GAME OF TIDDLYWINKS AND STATE WHERE THE FIRST GAME WAS PLAYED!"

?

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1056
published in · 
Seattle Times
date · 
2 March 1958
title · 
Prince Philip's Tiddlywinks Champions Lose
citation · 
page 55 • column 7
content source · 
Associated Press
content

CAMBRIDGE, England, March 1—(Reuters)—Prince Philip's chosen champions for a challenge match of tiddlywinks were defeated today by the Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club.

The royal champions--Britains wackiest comedians, the Goons--played their mightiest, but lost 120½ to 50½.

The royal team was headed by Chief Goon Spike Milligan, who was picked to defend the prince's honor after a weekly magazine, The Spectator, spoofed newspaper reports which pretended to have an "inside knowledge" of royal affairs. The article suggested that Philip cheated at tiddlywinks.

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1057
published in · 
Seattle Times
date · 
26 March 1958
column title · 
PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
title · 
TIDDLYWINKS
citation · 
page 5 • column 3
content

Prince Philip, recently forced to withdraw from a match with the Cambridge University tiddlywink team because of a "strained muscle" in his tiddly (index) finger, has turned down a challenge to an international match by the American Tiddlywinks Club.

The American team trains once a week in a New York restaurant

Buckingham Palace, in a letter to the Americans, revealed that Prince Philip's team, the Goons, had been disbanded. The Goons had been trounced in their latest match with the Cantabrigians.

Joel M. Reed, a spokesman for the United States team, is skeptical.

"Are they actually disbanded," he asks of the Goons, "or are they afraid of facing a team from the United States?"

As for the digital fitness of the prince, Reed observes: "His tiddly finger must be in pretty poor shape considering how many pretty movie stars he shakes hands with!"

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1058
published in · 
Seattle Times
date · 
9 May 1958
title · 
TIDDLYWINKS TITLE:
subtitle · 
It's Oxford Over Cambridge—But Fight Has Just Begun
by · 
Sterling Slappey
citation · 
page 1 • column 3
content source · 
Associated Press
content

OXFORD, England, May 9.—The Oxonian tiddlers defeated the Cantab winkers at Tiddlywinks (or perhaps you spell it tiddlewinks) Friday and immediately claimed the world championship.

The score was a nip-and-tuck 113-111 favoring the Oxonians from Oxford University over the Cantabs from Cambridge.

The teams represented the cream of the world's winkers—or tiddlers—and the match, which was of varsity rating, was witnessed by several hundred fans. Tea was served at half time, with the Oxonians leading 89-87.

Pat Laugharne, a shapely 19-year-old right-hander from England, was the only girl in the match. She was also the star, winking in the decisive button which gave Oxford the lead it held until the end.

A raging controversy immediately broke out among male members of the two teams over rightful ownership of the world title.

Elliott Langford, Oxford captain, rose from his knees after the tiddling—snapping small buttons into a cup by pressing them with other buttons.—and declared, "We are claiming the world title."

Peter Downes, Cambridge captain, said over his game-end cup of tea:

"it was not a championship match—just an experimental game. Oxford are (Englishmenn often use the plural verb with the singular noun) just being small minded about this.

The controversy about the world championship may put a crimp into ideas of demanding that the game be put on the Olympic Games program—even though all hands are agreed it's strictly an amateur sport.

Referee today was the Reve. E. [sic original="W." correct="A."] Willis, considered a grand master of tiddlywnks. After the 4¼-hour match, he commented:

"Tiddlywinks is an exacting pastime. It take every fiber of the brain and exercises every muscle of the body.

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published in · 
Seattle Times
date · 
26 February 1959
title · 
Cambridge Boys Win Hard Go At Tiddlywinks
citation · 
page 1 • column 8
content

CAMBRIDGE, England, Feb. 26.—(A.P.)—Tiddlywinks today became an official intervarsity sport between Oxford and Cambridge. Cambridge tiddled the winks more skillfully and defeated Oxford, 64 to 48, to take the first official title.

All previous matches were declared illegal and mere practice. Oxford had won the "practice" sessions.

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published in · 
Seattle Times
date · 
25 March 1959
title · 
Duke's Team Loses At Tiddlywinks
citation · 
page 7 • column 3
content

LONDON, March 25.—(Reuters)—The Duke of Edinburgh's champions went down to ignomious defeat at tiddlywinks here last night despite a last-minute appeal from their royal patron.

Before the match with the unbeaten Cambridge University team, the eight-man Empress Club received a telegram from the duke, who is touring the South Seas.

"I expect the contest to be carried through in the usual thoroughly unsporting manner which befits all great tiddlywinks matches," the message said.

"I have chosen the Empress Club as my champions on this occasion because I believe they are capable of an even dirtier game than the Goons (who failed to win for the duke last year).

"They had better win this time, or I shall see to it that their winking license is withdrawn. Get in there and fight!"

The Empress Club was out-tiddlied (or winked) by Cambridge 88½ to 25½.

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published in · 
Seattle Times
date · 
27 March 1959
title · 
HARDLY CRICKET:
citation · 
page 18 • column 2
content source · 
Associated Press
content
Black and white photograph of Gen. Sir Hugh Stockwell at left, leaning down to shoot a wink near the cup on a tiddlywinks mat.
In London—Gen. Sir Hugh Stockwell showed rare form on a tiddlywinks board Tuesday during a world championship match at the Empress Club, played for charity. Sir Hugh played on the Duke of Edinburgh's Empress Club team. It lost to a Cambridge team.—A. P. wirephoto.
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1067
published in · 
Seattle Times
date · 
7 May 1959
column title · 
The Sporting Thing
by · 
Georg N. Meyers
citation · 
page 26 • column 1
content

…The University of Washington and Seattle University, who play each other everything but basketball, have a tiddlywinks match scheduled May 15. (It's a warmup for a challenge of touring tiddlers from Britain's Cambridge University. And let's hear no more about it, please.)

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published in · 
Seattle Times
date · 
31 May 1959
title · 
Well! Anyone for Few Chukkers of Tiddlywinks?
citation · 
section Section 3 • page 25 • column 1
summary

Laurie Fish

content

OUR athletic scout at the University of Washington reports that the Star-Spangled Colonists' Tiddlywink Society team now has uniforms. The members wear black turtleneck sweaters and mortarboard caps.

As everyone knows, the university's S.-S. C. T. S. recently won public acclaim for its stirring, hands-down victory over Seattle University's tiddly team in the nation's first intercollegiate wink.

Tiddling is an ancient sport which may derive its name from the Latin abbreviation, t. i. d., ter in die, which means "three times a day," but it doesn't seem likely.

The revival of this fine old sport came when Cambridge University in England sounded the clarion to all good tiddlers in this country.

A number of red-blooded college teams responded, among them Dartmouth, Harvard and Yale.

Tiddlywinks in England is a pastime that has come down from father to son. There are societies in Wales and Scotland dedicated to the nurture of the skill.

The game, you will recall, is played with coin-size colored disks. Proper pressure exerted on one edge of a wink, or "squidging," to use technical terminology, sends the wink someplace, usually not into the cup.

A merry time is had by all as players crawl around under chairs to recover the pieces.

We suppose the flabby new generation plays the game on a table, but in the days when I tiddled a mean wink, it was much rougher. Crouching on the floor was hard on the knees.

As we grow older, just winking became more popular, so we gave up the cup game for "postoffice."

We are happy that the tradition is not dead—although of course, when we were at the university we did nothing but work, work, work.

It took many of my generation almost ten years to get sprung from college. Several other issues interfered, such as the Second World War. Half the student body and many of our professors were in military service or working in war plants.

Black and white cartoon of men playing tiddlywinks. One is kneeling on the floor with a beany cap, having shot a wink near a cup; he says, "OOP—BAD TIDDLE!. To right is a man with a beany cap standing and talking to an older man with a long white beard. The man says, "A GRAND OLD GAME, EH, GRANDPOP?" and the older man says, "I JUST KNEW THE SPORT WOULD NEVER DIE". At left are four men looking at a coach who says, "ALL RIGHT MEN—I WANT YOU TO GO OUT THERE AN' WIN THIS ONE FOR DEAR OL' SIWASH!

[...]

If we had no time for beards and tiddlywinks, it was not so much lack of interest as poor scheduling in the rest of the world. Too many other things intervened.

Sitting on flagpoles, packing into telephone booths or dyeing the hair green keeps youth healthy.

If ever there comes a generation in which nonsense has no part, our cause will be lost. Young persons who can play international tiddlywinks have a bright future.

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1069
published in · 
Seattle Times
date · 
15 September 1959
column title · 
Tempus Puget
title · 
Tales of One City
subtitle · 
VIZ. & TO WIT
by · 
Lenny Anderson
citation · 
page 27 • column 1
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Ever since Stanford challenged Washington at tiddlywinks and Washington asked Seattle U. for a set of rules, Rip Collins, toy man, reports tiddlywinks has been on the the hottest items in the trade…

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19 February 1961
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IS IT CRICKET?
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Girl Winkers Help Oxford Beat Cambridge Squidgers
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CAMBRIDGE, England, Feb. 18.—(A.P.)—Oxford winkers, flouting tradition, slipped three girl winkers into the varsity tiddlywinks team Saturday and toppled flabbergasted Cambridge, 59½-52½.

Catching their male opponents completely off guard the winsome Oxford winkers quickly overcame the almost two-squops to one-squop advantage the Cambridge squidgers had built up.

"Magnificent," murmured Peter Downes, the referee and former Cambridge tiddlywinks great who knows a great winker when he sees one. "A performance worthy of the great traditions of our game.

"What next?" muttered a disapproving fan.

Oxford's strategy broke a Cambridge string of victories and carried off the Prince Philip Cup.

In tiddlywinks, the squidgers (or winkers) squeeze a plastic counter against the edge of a little colored button so as to make the button hop. A squop is scored when the button hops into a centrally placed cup. [sic note=The sentence describes a pot, not a squop.]

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Seattle Times
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22 August 1962
title · 
International Match
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Oxford Tiddlywinks Team To Play Fair 'All-Stars'
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Having failed to land the Patterson-Liston boxing bout, the World's Fair today reported it has come up with a championship match of another sort.

A touring team from Oxford University, champions, will pit its skill against a World's Fair "All-Stars" team Saturday at the fairgrounds.

The game: Tiddlywinks.

Cries of "Oh, Blast!" and "Wasn't that a marvelous squidge?" will ring out over a felt-topped table.

Oxford recently has squopped and squidged its winks with amazing dexterity against challengers in New York, Philadelphia and New England. Today the team met an all-star aggregation of San Francisco tiddlers.

The champions represent the Oxford University Tiddlywinks Society. They are captained by Peter Freeman, who is backed up by Miss Elizabeth King, Philip Moor and David Willis, all Oxfordits.

Names of the "All-Star" performers are being kept secret. Included will be tiddlywinks titans from the Seattle area and Vancouver, B.C., the fair announced.

The Oxford team will arrive early Saturday to unlimer its wrists and fingers. The match will be in the afternoon at a place to be announced.

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24 August 1962
title · 
Fair Will Honor Little League And Babe Ruth Players
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section Section A • page 2 • column 5
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[...]

AND DON'T FORGET the tiddlywinks tournament.

The world's championship of tiddlywinks will be decided tomorrow at 3 o'clock tomorrow in the Plaza of the States. The undefeated Oxford University in England will be challenged by a World's Fair team.

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Seattle Times
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24 August 1962
title · 
KHAN DO!
subtitle · 
Tiddly Titans Gird to Wink
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section Section C • page 18 • column 1
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Black and white photograph with two men in suits shooting winks at a cup and a square target.

JOSEPH E. GANDY, left, and SAEED KHAN

'A little more loft… I'm getting the range'

A secretary whispered a message to Joseph E. Grady, World's Fair president, late yesterday afternoon at fair headquarters.

Gandy scowled and asked in a thunderous voice:

"Khan is doing WHAT?"

"He is playing tiddlywinks, sir," the secretary replied.

Gandy sped out of his office to see for himself.

There, sure enough, was Saeed Khan, Century 21's ultra-dignified protocol officer, snapping little tiddlywinks through the air.

"Hello, Mr. Gandy," Khan said nonchalantly—and went back to his tiddlywinks

Gandy calmed down when it was explained that Khan is one of the team members who will represent the fair tomorrow in the World Championship Tiddlywinks Tournament on the fairgrounds.

Unbeaten Oxford University—from England—will be the opponent.

Tiddlywinking will begin at 3 o'clock in the Plaza of the States with playing of the American and British national anthems and a flag-raising ceremony.

Khan invited Gandy to try his hand at flipping the winks at a white cup with a poker-chip-sized tiddly.

Gandy scored several near misses.

"I'm getting the range now," he said enthusiastically.

"A little more loft… What yo uneed for this game is a mashie shot… Nothing to it… All right, Saeed, let's get you in shape."

Soon the winks were flashing like bullets.

Secretaries rooted:

"Come on, Captain Khan!" (He used to be a Bengal Lancer.)

"Come on, Mr. Gandy!"

Joining Khan on the fair team will be Evelyn von Munchhausen, special-events department secretary, Georgia McVey, publicity-department receptionist, and Jack Wasserman, Vancounver, N. C., columnist.

Designated as "keeper of the mascot" for the team is Bob Williams, comedian appearing at Gracie Hansen's Paradise International. William's Spaniel, Louie, is the team mascot.

The match against Oxford will have a special meaning for Khan. He is a Cambridge man.

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Seattle Times
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24 August 1962
title · 
Your Nineteenth Week at the World's Fair
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Special Events
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TOMORROW

(OKLAHOMA DAY AND BABE RUTH LITTLE LEAGUE DAY)

3:00 p. m.—Plaza of the States—World's Fair Championship Tiddlywinks Tournament.

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Seattle Times
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26 August 1962
title · 
FAIR TIDDLY:
subtitle · 
Squidge! Squop! Oxford Pots Winks
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(See Page B for Photograph)

The World's Fair has finally squidged its winks.

The world championship of tiddlywinks was played at the fairgrounds yetserday by the Oxford University team and the World's Fair All Stars.

It was all very proper and according to form.

Well, almost all…

A fanfare was sounded by the World's Fair band.

Peter Freeman was the Oxford caption.

Mr. Jack Wasserman, Vancouver, B. C., newsman, who captained the All Stars, muttered something that sounded like, "How did I ever get trapped into this, anyhow?"

Mr. Saeed Khan, the fair's protocol officer and No. 2 for the All Stars, brought his own protocol officer for the match.

MR. KHAN is a Cambridge man.

The national anthems were played. Team members were introduced.

Then the chief justice entered in a pedicab and wearing formal robes and a fetching wig. Someone identified him as Cy Noe of the fair's publicity staff.

An improbably name.

"I call now for the squidging of the first wink," the chief justice announced.

Mrs. Joseph E. Gandy, wife of the fair's president, gave it a bully good try. But the wink soared over the pot.

THE PLAYERS vied for the first play. The chief justice trained his binoculars on the mat to be certain the rules were being observed.

"Squop," the Britishers cried as a rival wink covered their winks.

"Squop denied," the chief justice said.

Miss Evelyn von Munchhausen of the All Stars potted a wink neatly. Miss Elizabeth King of Oxford promptly potted one of her winks.

Mr. David Willis of Oxford was the first to pot all four of his winks. Polite applause followed.

The Oxonians soon were potting winks all over the place.

"I felt it was a losing cause from the start," Mr. Wasserman grumbled.

The match was declared won by Oxford by a score of 6 to 1.

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Seattle Times
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26 August 1962
title · 
Tense Moment for Tiddlers
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Black and white photograph of 6 winkers and the chief justice (Cy Noe, wearing a white wig). Elizabeth King is second from left, leaning on table. Peter Freeman is third from right.
TIDDLING AROUND: This was a tense moment in a tiddlywinks match between the Oxford team and World's Fair All Stars yesterday. Cye Noe, in wig, chief justice for the match, measured a wink that didn't tiddle into the cup. The Oxford team won. From left—Saeed Khan, fair protocol officer and All-Star player; Elizabeth King, Oxford star; Anthony Jackson, Cambridge student, a field judge' Noe; Peter Freeman, Oxford Captain; Jack Wasserman, Vancounver, B. C., captain of the All-Stars, and Ken Prichard, fair official and field judge.—Times photo by Johnny Closs. (Details, Page A.)
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Seattle Times
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14 October 1962
title · 
It May Be Nearly Over
subtitle · 
But Memories Linger On
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Saeed Khan, Century 21's proper protocol officer squidged with diplomacy and dignity but failed to lead his World's Fair All Stars to victory over a touring Oxford tiddlywinks team.

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18 November 1979
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J. C. Penney
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Black and white illustration of a catapult game with a mouth that opens and closes at center.

Now 8.99

Mr. Mouth Zany new 'flip' to tiddlywinks for 4 players, ages 5 and up.

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14 April 2002
title · 
It's a Fair question: What do you know?
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16) On a felt-topped table, the "World's Fair All-Stars" were defeated by a traveling Oxford University team in a riveting contest of:

  • a) Seven-card stud.
  • b) Cribbage.
  • c) Tiddlywinks.
  • d) Billiards.
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25 January 2005
title · 
Winking on the wane
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A whole lot of squidging, squopping and potting is happening this year in celebration of the 50th anniversary of tournament tiddlywinks…
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A whole lot of squidging, squopping and potting is happening this year in celebration of the 50th anniversary of tournament tiddlywinks.

Yes, tournament tiddlywinks. No, not just that silly kids’ game. Well, sort of.

There’s more to tiddlywinks than flipping small discs into a little pot. There’s a complex lexicon (to “nurdle” is to “shoot a wink too close to the pot to be pottable or otherwise useful”), 31 categories of official rules, a journal (“Winking World”) and newsletter (“Newswink”) and lively trans-Atlantic competition between the Brits and the Yanks, their two countries the last still containing avid winkers.

One of those is Larry Kahn, widely regarded as one of the best in the world. The mantelpiece in the rec room of his Vienna, Va., home holds 44 tiddlywinks trophies. He was world champion in 2001, and featured in Sports Illustrated in 1995.

“It involves physical skill plus strategy as well as a luck factor,” Kahn said while potting winks — fpt-dink! fpt-dink! — on his practice table. “If you only have one of those, you’re going to stink.”

The object is to use a squidger (a larger piece) to flip 24 winks, or smaller, colored discs, into a pot in the middle of a felt mat — or to keep your opponent from doing so.

Serious tournaments began at Cambridge University in England in 1955. The U.S. game coalesced at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the 1960s and ’70s.

Most of today’s active players are MIT graduates of the 1970s, including Kahn, Rick Tucker and Dave Lockwood. They were among 25 Americans who flew to Cambridge for the jubilee and six days of competition in mid-January.

“It’s a small community,” said Tucker, of Alexandria, Va., who runs the official Web site of the North American Tiddlywinks Association, www.tiddlywinks.org.

Lockwood vs. Kahn is one of the great competitive matchups of modern winking. Sports Illustrated described it: “Forget Ali and Frazier, Chamberlain and Russell, Evert and Navratilova. Kahn and Lockwood have been dueling one another since the early 1970s.”

This time around, during World Masters jubilee play, Lockwood, of Silver Spring, Md., squared off for the championship with Briton Andy Purvis. Purvis defeated Lockwood 12-9.

England also defeated the United States in the long-awaited International Match, further securing the British hold on the sport.

Potting winks is the goal of the game. Strategies including squopping, or flipping a wink atop an opponent’s to keep that piece out of play.

Intricacies of the official rules become as specific as section D.2, subheading Examples of Legal Shots: “A player’s squidger is allowed to hit more than one wink during the act of playing a shot on a pile. However, the first wink played must be unsquopped, and the player’s squidger may then make contact only with those winks that were, at the start of the shot, unsquopped by the first wink played.”

Then there are the winks themselves. Serious players order them from Italy, or handcraft their own. Kahn creates squidgers by using a band saw to slice thin pieces from long rods of plastic or nylon, then sanding the discs by hand.

Kahn frets over the outlook for the sport. MIT, once the American bastion of tiddlywinks, no longer has a club. Several dozen Americans participate in tournaments, instead of several hundred decades ago.

“I blame (President) Reagan,” Kahn said. “The kids then got worried about getting jobs and stopped being frivolous. Then they got into computer games.”

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22 January 2006
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This game is serious stuff, Maryland's family's fame gives tiddlywinks a nudge
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About Lockwood tiddlywinks clan

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West Virginia • (state)
Parkersburg, West Virginia, United States
Parkerburg News (newspaper)
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Parkerburg News
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7 or 14 May 1978
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Skydiver Makes Jump To Tiddlywinks
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About Dave Lockwood

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Wheeling Register
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28 September 1890
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SOCIETY'S MAZE.
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MERRY MOVEMENTS THE PAST WEEK IN CITY AND SUBURBS
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Miss Sue Caldwell entertained a party of friends Friday evening, at her home on Sixteenth street, in honor of Miss Lan Hubbard, who leaves in a few days to attend school, and Miss Lizzie Mendel, who has just returned from a summery stay at Lake Minnetonkia. The affair was in the nature of a Tiddly-Winks party, and was thoroughly enjoyable.

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Wheeling Register
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25 January 1891
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page 4 • column 1
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HADN'T Congress better while away the time with a game of Tiddlywinks?

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Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
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Business Journal
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4 February 1995
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Pumped by the passion for pogs
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volume 12 • page 1
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the World Pog Federation touts its authorized game pieces as the real deal—the tiddlywinks of the 1990s, heir to marbles, comic books, baseball cards and jacks.

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Milwaukee Journal
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20 October 1890
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WHAT IS TIDDLEDY WINKS?

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Milwaukee Journal
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8 January 1891
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Disgraceful
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Proctor (determined to be severe—What? Do you mean to deny that you have been playing poker? Here are the chips, three colors, and thre is the basket to hold them. What do you claim to be playing?

'94 (in chorus)—Tiddledy Winks.

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Milwaukee Journal
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30 January 1891
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TIDDLEDY WINKS.
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The New Game Now the Thing for Amusement.
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Tiddledy Winks is now the great game for social amusement. From two to six persons may make a set in this craze—the more the merrier. The game is English in origin, but the Americans have made enough changes in it to claim it. The blessed thing about this game is that it isn't "scientific." Any "jay" can play it as well as the most accomplished swell—that is, if he can once get the hang of the thing. Small ivory chips are jumped by striking them on the edge with a larger chip, and the object of the game is to make them fall into a small "wink" pot in the center of the table. Every girl winks when her chip jumps. The small chips are called "winks;" the larger chips are jumpers. The wink pot is placed in the center of the table. It is a small cup, barely two inches in diameter. If a mat or heavy tablecloth is used the only other "implements" are the winks, the tiddledys

Black and white illustration of an oval table viewed from above with a cup at center and six sets of winks around the periphery, each with a pad, a squidger, and six winks of equal size.
TABLE SET FOR PLAY.
and a number of pasteboard counters. If not, each player is provided with a small pad or mat about 3x4 inches, from which to jump the winks.

Each player has six winks. The mats are placed at an equal distance from the wink-pot. A wink is put on the mat and the player holding one of the tiddledys hits or presses with its edge upon the wink, causing it to jump. The best result is secured by resting the tiddledy on the wink and drawing it backward. The wink may be made to jump several feet in this way. The skill attainable comes in so gauging the pressure that the wink will fall in the pot. If it goes beyond, the player must jump it back.

One plays until he fails to put a wink in, and then the turn passes. Partners may help each other. The object in the English game is to get all the winks in, and the one who is through first tallies one for every wink left on the table when they are through. It often happens that a wink falls on that of another player. The under one can not be touched, and the owner of the upper one may play all the rest in before trying that and setting the under one free.

In the American game each wink jumped in the pot counts one. At the start a pool is formed, each playing anteing seven counters. Each plays his own six winks the first round. After that he plays any wink he chooses, and as long as he can put winks in the pot. If he fails to put a wink in six trials he forfeits two counters to the pool. If he clears the table he can take out of the pot as many as he can put back.

Four wins in succession form a run, and for every wink in a run over three the player receives an extra counter from the pool. When the winks are all in the player who has made the largest run and the one putting in the largest number of winks divide the pool equally.

Both the English and American games are played so as to give variety, and the

Black and white illustration of hand holding squidger against wink on pad, with dotted lines heading into a pot.
THE WINK POT.
game is also made more interesting by varying the distances at which the mats are placed from the wink-pot at the start-out. Sometimes a line ten inches in diameter is drawn aound the wink-pot, and all winks falling in it have to be left until all others are in. This ring is called the dead line.

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Milwaukee Journal
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15 May 1978
title · 
He's No. 1 - in tiddlywinks
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section Green Sheet • page 1
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About Dave Lockwood

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (newspaper)
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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15 February 1996
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IT'S A SNAP Tiddlywinks teams converge on Sussex for old-fashioned competition
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Luke Klink
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Coverage of the VFW Post's 20th annual tiddlywinks competition

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Whooooaaahh, Nellie! The VFW Post's 20th annual Tiddlywinks Tournament was a real barn-burner, and tiddlywinkers from throughout the state rode into Sussex recently to shoot their winks.

Thirty-six teams, with players from Milwaukee, Muskego, Madison, Hartford, West Bend, Colgate and other tiddlywink meccas across Wisconsin made Sussex their hub during the recent two-day event.

The tournament was at the Horne Mudlitz VFW Post 6377 building, also home to Hella's Restaurant , N63-W24375 Main St.

It lacked pricey free-agents, teams that relocate every other year on owners' whims, and players who play both offense and defense but the tournament did have a roaring crowd.

With more than 250 people attending the first day, vehicles overflowed from the parking lot onto the shoulder of Main St. in front of the restaurant.

After the singing of the "Star Spangled Banner," play commenced Saturday and Sunday at 1 p.m.

Teams with names like 5 Guys Named Dick, The Magnificent Five and We're Here for the Beer stood poised and ready to shoot.

"We're the team of the '90s and we were the team of the '80s," said Dave Bullock, a member of the team 5 Guys Named Dick, which took first place in the tournament and took home the championship trophy and $150 cash prize. "We win it every even-numbered year 1990, 1992 and now 1996.

"We used to be a little more wild in our younger days, but we're aging more gracefully now," he stated.

His teammates were Duane Downing, West Bend; Jeff Kluender, Adell; John Sadowski, Muskego; and Kevin Schein, Milwaukee.

The 5 Guys Named Dick team has been competing in the tournament since 1986 and has developed some fierce rivalries during this time.

"Five Guys Named Dick are our arch-rivals," said Greg Rintelman, Colgate resident and a member of The Magnificent Five team. "We do this every year because we're the best."

Rounding out The Magnificent Five are Steve Brahm, Colgate; Dave Herbert, Sussex ; Scott Kloss, Town of Pewaukee; and Greg Zyla, Sussex.

"It's a riot," said Zyla. "This is plain, old-fashioned, clean fun. I've got a trophy room filled with trophies from this thing. We win very often.

"We meet all the people on these teams right here, about once each year," he stated.

The Magnificent Five has had a number of different lineups in previous tournaments and now averages about 12 years of experience among current shooters, Zyla said.

He said that, in previous tiddlywinks competitions, teams have come from Minnesota, California, New York and Canada.

The Magnificent Five and 5 Guys Named Dick were among a number of teams sporting team shirts reminiscent of ones seen at area bowling alleys.

Zyla stated that shooters on his team sport personalized tiddlywink shirts to show team spirit; Rintelman said the shirts help intimidate opponents.

This tiddlywinks tournament officially began in 1977 when Archie Johnson, the bar manager for the VFW post, wanted something that might help members shake the winter doldrums.

Johnson decided to develop a tournament for players of tiddlywinks, a game he used to pass time while stationed in the South Pacific during World War II.

The tournament this year was held in honor of Johnson, who died in December at 77.

The tiddlywink playing field is a 3-foot-by-3-foot carpet, and a 3-inch high tumbler-style glass, placed in the center of the carpet, is the target for shooters.

Each team has five shooters and through five rounds, shooters from each team alternate turns using a plastic disc or wink to chip four smaller winks, one at a time, into the glass.

Shooters have three opportunities to hit their mark as long as the wink does not land somewhere off of the play field with play beginning from one of four corner pads that are 15 inches from the glass.

A wink in the glass on the first shot is worth 10 points, on the second is worth five points and on the third is worth one point. A perfect score for a frame is 40 points and for a game is 200 points.

In round play, a good individual score is about 100 points and a good team score usually runs from 300 to 400 points.

At the end of five rounds, the team with the higher total score wins.

The tiddlywink teams each paid a $25 entrance fee to play. Teams remain in the tournament's championship round until the first loss, which drops the team into the consolation round. A second loss knocks the team out of the tournament.

First-place tiddlywink teams in the championship and consolation rounds win trophies and prize money. Teams finishing second in either round win prize money.

Prizes are based on the number of teams that participate.

Post Service Commander LeRoy Eichorst said the tournament has evolved from a money-making event for the post into a charity fund-raiser.

He said the several hundred dollars raised from each tournament are donated to the VA Hospital, in Milwaukee, and to several local organizations.

"Everyone seems to enjoy it," he said. "Some of these people haven't seen each other since last year and it gives them a chance to get together."

A few of the youngest and first-time shooters were on a team called We're Here for the Beer.

"I've never played this game in my life ever before," said Michael Parker, a Milwaukee resident. "It's a game everyone else played as a kid and now, after 20 years, it's a tradition here."

Other members of We're Here for the Beer were Paal Lonnebotn, Madison; Craig Podlesnik, Milwaukee; Linda Wielgus, Hartford; and Scott Witlacil, Hartford.

Anne Gibert, a Town of Richfield resident, knew some of the competitors and came to the tournament as a spectator. "I've never been to a tiddlywinks competition before," she stated. "It's really exciting and it looks like a lot of fun."

"It's a riot. This is plain, old-fashioned, clean fun. I've got a trophy room filled with trophies from this thing."

SARAH B. TEWS; STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Jamie Plumb took her turn as a member of "Knuckleheads II" during the 20th annual tiddlywinks competition Saturday at Hella's Restaurant in Sussex . Watching intently are teammates JeriAnn and Tony Olivo, of Colgate.

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digital text (NATwA)
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1087
Milwaukee Sentinel (newspaper)
location · 
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
289

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published in · 
Milwaukee Sentinel
date · 
19 October 1890
citation · 
page 3 • column 3
content

LOOK OUT FOR TIDDLEDY WINKS.

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published in · 
Milwaukee Sentinel
date · 
19 October 1890
citation · 
page 4 • column 7
content

WHAT IS TIDDLEDY WINKS?

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published in · 
Milwaukee Sentinel
date · 
20 October 1890
citation · 
page 4 • column 7
content

WHAT IS TIDDLEDY WINKS?

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1090
published in · 
Milwaukee Sentinel
date · 
20 October 1890
citation · 
page 5 • column 2
content

LOOK OUT FOR TIDDLEDY WINKS.

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published in · 
Milwaukee Sentinel
date · 
21 October 1890
citation · 
page 1 • column 3
content

What is Tiddledy Winks?

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published in · 
Milwaukee Sentinel
date · 
21 October 1890
citation · 
page 2 • column 3
content

What is Tiddledy Winks?

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published in · 
Milwaukee Sentinel
date · 
21 October 1890
citation · 
page 3 • column 1
content

What is Tiddledy Winks?

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published in · 
Milwaukee Sentinel
date · 
21 October 1890
citation · 
page 4 • column 5
content

Look Out for Tiddledy Winks.

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published in · 
Milwaukee Sentinel
date · 
17 January 1891
citation · 
column 2
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1096
published in · 
Milwaukee Sentinel
date · 
13 June 1891
title · 
Sense and Nonsense
citation · 
page 4 • column 3
content

Indianapolis Ram's Horn: "Is the professor at home?" asked the doctor, addressing the wife of the sage and philosopher. "He is," was the reply. "I wish to consult him in regard to a new discovery in spectrum analysis. Is he in the library?" "No, he is in the parlor playing tiddly-winks."

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1097
published in · 
Milwaukee Sentinel
date · 
11 February 1980
title · 
Fame opens the eyes of those who tiddlywink
summary

Coverage of VFW branch playing tiddlywinks

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photocopy (NATwA)
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1098
Yenowine's News (newspaper)
location · 
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
290

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for Yenowine's News.
published in · 
Yenowine's News
date · 
26 October 1890
citation · 
issue 292 • page 2 • column 6
summary

Delorme Quentin

content

TIDDLEDY-WINKS
IS A
NEW GAME.
THE
Great London Rage.
For Sale for Only 10 cts.
AT
DELORME & QUENTIN.

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digital image (NATwA)
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Gale Cengage – digitized image (subscription) (tw-ref-link-id 693)
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1099
Portage, Wisconsin, United States
The Wisconsin State Register (newspaper)
location · 
Portage, Wisconsin, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
291

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published in · 
The Wisconsin State Register
date · 
13 December 1890
title · 
Another Craze Threatened.
citation · 
issue 44 • page 4 • column 2
content

"Tiddledy-wink."

"A Tiddledy-wink social."

There is no joke about it. It is a serious, soul-absorbing topic, and if ever you run up againsta a lay-out you'll think so.

"Lay-out" sounds queer in connection with a social, but "Tiddledy-wink" socials look, at first sight, very much like a "lay-out."Chips—red, green, blue, and white—are used in this new game with such a queer name. They are not placed as in a "game," but they are all important just the same in "Tiddledy-wink."

A "Tiddledy-wink" social is like this: You invite a crowd, having previously secured a "lay-out." You clear the room of chairs, and on the big center-table you place a heavy woolen cover. In the center you place a small glass—one that they use in saloons for whisky-straight is just the thing. Then you deal out the chips. These are twenty-four in number, and about the size of a nickel. For presons play. They get six chips apiece. In the hand of each person is another and larger chip. The six chips are placed in a row in front of each player, and then No. 1 presses down hard on the edge of one of his small chips with the large one and tries to "flip" it into the small whisky glass in the center of the table.

It looks easy.

But it isn't.

Well, you go on pressing down on these small chips until somebody has all he had in the glass. Then it's his game. Then everybody else laughs, and they all try it over again.

There are several tricks in "Tiddledy-wink." For instance, if you and somebody else are in the game, and you get one of your chips out near the glass and the other fellow gets one on top of your chip, then yours is a prisoner and you can't "flip" it without first moving his, and the only move you can make with another man's chip is to place it in the glass, thereby pushing him ahead one notch. So when you play "Tiddledy-wink"—for you will play it before long—the great idea is to make some other fellow's chip prisoner, and then before he can get his own chip in the glass he must gently lift yours in first.

"Tiddledy-wink" is a great game. It is fully as absorbing as "pigs in clover," and it is threatened that the country will have to stand a siege of it.

How on earth the name "Tiddledy-wink" got mixed with the game is still a mystery, and just about the only mystery in it.

The Presbyterian young people game a "Tiddledy-wink" social at the church Tuesday evening.

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Gale Cengage – digitized image (subscription) (tw-ref-link-id 694)
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1100
published in · 
The Wisconsin State Register
date · 
28 February 1891
citation · 
issue 3 • column 2
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to be retrieved
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1101
Stevens Point, Wisconsin, United States
Stevens Point Daily Journal (newspaper)
location · 
Stevens Point, Wisconsin, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
292

Toggle showing 1 tiddlywinks reference for Stevens Point Daily Journal.
published in · 
Stevens Point Daily Journal
date · 
4 January 1891
title · 
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS
citation · 
page 5 • column 7
content source · 
Buffalo Commercial
content

Mr. Quilp says that the popular game known as "Tiddledywinks" must have been invented as a safe alternative for persons unable to stand the mental strain of prolonged indulgence in the "Idiot's Delight." Reprinted from the Buffalo Commercial.

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digital image (NATwA)
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1102
Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States
Waukesha Freeman (newspaper)
location · 
Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA
tw-pub-ID · 
293

Toggle showing 2 tiddlywinks references for Waukesha Freeman.
published in · 
Waukesha Freeman
date · 
13 February 2006
title · 
Tiddlywinks tourney brings 'em back
subtitle · 
Sussex competition donates to food pantry, VA hospital
summary

Coverage of VFW Post winkers.

content

SUSSEX —The disk-flicking skills of Mark Kopczynski and the other four members of Ralph's Team had brought the group to the final rounds of the 30th annual Sussex tiddlywinks tournament. After taking a few token practice shots on the corkboard playing surface duct taped to one of the dozen folding tables set up at Sussex Bowl on Sunday, Kopczynski showed that another important component in tiddlywinks —a sense of humor —was also [...]

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original (NATwA)
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1103
published in · 
Waukesha Freeman
date · 
6 February 2008
title · 
TIDDLYWINKS TIME AGAIN IN SUSSEX
content

Horne Mudlitz VFW Post 6377 will host the 32nd annual Tiddlywinks Tournament

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1104
title · 
Tiddlywinks tourney brings 'em back
subtitle · 
Sussex competition donates to food pantry, VA hospital
date · 
13 February 2006
summary

Coverage of VFW Post winkers.

content

SUSSEX —The disk-flicking skills of Mark Kopczynski and the other four members of Ralph's Team had brought the group to the final rounds of the 30th annual Sussex tiddlywinks tournament. After taking a few token practice shots on the corkboard playing surface duct taped to one of the dozen folding tables set up at Sussex Bowl on Sunday, Kopczynski showed that another important component in tiddlywinks —a sense of humor —was also [...]

collection · 
original (NATwA)
tw-ref-ID · 
1103
title · 
TIDDLYWINKS TIME AGAIN IN SUSSEX
date · 
6 February 2008
content

Horne Mudlitz VFW Post 6377 will host the 32nd annual Tiddlywinks Tournament

tw-ref-ID · 
1104

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