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Note by Francis Derrick (see Notes and Queries 4th S. ix 19). Refers to kidleywink.
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Message from jones!eudora on tty09 at 17:05 …
how about a squash game tonight? -o-
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I'm playing tiddlwyinks with Carmeline -o-
Biography of John Kendrick Bangs
Entry for "Pulce".
Pulce
3. Giocco delle p.: si effettua tra due o più giocatori con piccoli gettoni che si fanno saltare su un tavolo coperto da un tappeto premendoli con un gettone più grande. Vince chi riesce a fare entrar prima i suoi gettoni in un piattello al centro del tavolo o riesce a «mangiare» (saltandovi sopra con un suo gettone) i gettoni dell'avversario.
TIDDLYWINKS, a table game for two or more players, consists or snapping, or hopping, plastic disks into a cup. The disks, or winks, are ⅞ inch in diameter and 0.057 inch thick. A larger disk, or tiddly, is used as a shooter. Sets of four winks and a shooter come in different colors. The cup has a diameter of 1½ inches and sides 1½ inches high. Players start with their four winks in line and equidistant from the cup, which is centrally placed. The object of the competition is to be the first player to snap, or hop, four winks into the cup.
Players first draw for order of shooting and choice of color of winks. Then, in turn, each proessses the edge of his shooter, held between thumb and forefinger, against the edge of a wink, causing it to snap into the air. If the wink hops into the cup, the player immediately gets an extra turn. If it lands on the table, he takes his next shot from the new location. A wink leaving the table is replaced where it went off the edge. The game requires a considerable amount of manual skill and dexterity to control the flight of the winks.
Players may use a numbered scoring frame that fits around the cup. Numbers are marked in spcaces on the frame. A wink into the cup counts 25 while those on the frame count 5 to 15 as indicated and they are not moved again. The player with the highest score wins. The game may be played on a rug or carpet as well as on ta table.
Frank K. Perkins
Boston "Herald"
T'an Ch'i
Translation of "tiddlywinks" as "saltodiskoj" ("discgame").
"Wink" used in examples of using the Common Lisp function, defflavor.
T'an Ch'i
A cocoanut shell used to play tiddlywinks.
Entries for:
squidge, v.
squidger, n.
squop, n.
squop, v. including squallop, squapt, squopped, squopping n.,squopping adj., squopper n.
tiddler, n.3
tiddlywink, n. including tidleywink, tiddleywink, Tiddledy-Winks, tiddlywink, tiddlywinkers, tiddlywinking, tiddlywinky
triple, adj. and adv. with reference to tiddlywinks Triple Crown
wink, n.4.
wink, v.3
winker, n.2
winks, n.
Other entries mentioning tiddlywinks or its terms:
God slot, n.
handbag, n.
kiddleywink, n.
lotto | loto, n.
ludo, n.
pig's ear, n.
progressive, adj. and n.
table tennis, n.
zipperhead, n.
Entries for squidge, squidger, squop, squopper, tiddler, tiddlywink, tiddlywinker, tiddlywinks, triple crown, wink, winker, winking, winks.
Listing of 12 French tiddlywinks manufacturers
Entry for "tiddlywinks", referencing wink from winch.
Donations in Clothing, Materials, etc.; December 1915
[...] Friends of Auburn, N. Y.. through Mrs. Mary Robbins, […]
4 games “Peter Gobble,” “Tiddledy Winks,” “Table Croquet,” “Round World,”
Entries for tiddledewinks,tiddlywink, and squap.
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squap (skwop), v. [A dial. var. of swap.] To strike. [Prov. Eng.]
squap (skwop), n. [< squap, v.] A blow. [Prov. Eng.]
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tiddledewinks (tid'l-de-wingks), n. A trivial game in which the players try to make small counters jump into a box, by pressing on their edges with another counter.
tiddlywink, n. 3. pl. See ★tiddledewinks.
Entries: Pages 2216 (squidge), 2390 (tiddledywinks), 2622 (wink); also (chip) .
Includes entries for: tiddledywinks and tiddlywinks.
Mentioned in an article about games.
Tiddleywinks develops skill in eye and muscle co-ordination
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“Well, then! What's this we're up against right here in Fenchester? Are we fighting? Or playing tiddledy-winks?”
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“There's very little tiddledywinks in it, so far as The Guardian is concerned,” confessed Jeremy with a wry face.
C'est un jeu très simple que pratiquent les petits enfants. On y joue avec une timbale, un cornet à dés ou un gobelet quelconque, et des jetons. Chaque jouer reçoit un nombre indéterminé de jetons, généralment trois ou quatre, qu'on appelle les puces. Il dispose en outre d'un jeton plus grand. Le gobelet est placé au milieu de la table. À l'extrême bord, les joueurs disposent leurs puces, qu'ils s'efforcent d'evnoyer dan le gobelet, grâce à une habile pression du grand jeton sur les puces. Quand on met une puce dans le gobelet on a droit à un coup supplémentaire. Le premier qui s'est débarrassé de toutes ses puces a gagné.
Page 441: On some occasions, however, most coaches are compelled to resort to anger and disgust, but only when no other appeal will bring the team out of a lethargy. Such inertia invariably comes when the team goes into the game overconfident. It cannot get going: sluggish passing; careless Page 442: shooting; dull team work; no fight—playing like a bunch of old women at a game of tiddledy-winks. At such times, stinging sarcasm must be employed to stir the men to action. If you will consistently study the temperament of your team, you will soon feel the times when the team needs to be aroused by ironical gibes.
For home entertainment Americans, both young and old, enjoyed a host of parlour games—jackstraws, parchesi, pigs in clover, checkers, dominoes, jigsaw puzzles, and tiddlywinks, to name but a few.
Flandry stared at the scrawl for a long while. Finally, ”Oh, hell and tiddlywinks,” he said, and undressed and went to bed.
Mention of "hypersquidgeronics".
The short story, “The tiddlywink warriors”. Words are used on pages 174, 177 (twice), 179, 180, and 181 (twice).
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and Alex got a close look at it: a small metal disk with sharp edges that glistened with some poison.
He buried his face in his hands. "Oh, no," he groaned. "Oh, no, no, no. Not tiddlywinks!"
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the foe shall tread on tiddlywinks!
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the tiddlywinkers
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and tiddlywinks were already bouncing to meet him
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tiddlywinkers
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Nevertheless, the ground for half a kilometer outside was strewn with tiddlywinks.
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“Damn the tiddlywinks! Full speed ahead!”
The short story, “The tiddlywink warriors”. The Words used on pages 178, 181, 182, 184 (twice), 185, and 186.
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and Alex got a close look at it: a small metal disk with sharp edges that glistened with some poison.
He buried his face in his hands. "Oh, no," he groaned. "Oh, no, no, no. Not tiddlywinks!"
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the foe shall tread on tiddlywinks!
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the tiddlywinkers
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and tiddlywinks were already bouncing to meet him
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tiddlywinkers
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Nevertheless, the ground for half a kilometer outside was strewn with tiddlywinks.
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“Damn the tiddlywinks! Full speed ahead!”
Listing of "Spring Tiddledy-Winks".
E. Angeschaffte Spiele.
1. Komponisten-Quartett. 2. Europa. 3. Alliance-Spiel. 4. Via passare. 5. Samson. 6. Reversi. 7. Zwei Gummibälle. 8. Spring-Tiddledy-Winks."Are you sure you know what you're doing" he asked Colene… he knew they were not playing tiddlywinks.
For example, there are no highly specialized finger plays at all comparable, in delicacy of movement, to piano playing, or even to the simple modern games of "crockonole" or "tiddledywinks," plays in which the result sought is dependent upon the perfect control of the small muscles of the fingers, the rest of the body being comparatively quiescent.
After the first few days out the men are put through a regular amount of health exercise, which consists chiefly of walking and running around the decks. When time hangs heavily, amusement is ready. The army department of the Y. M. C. A. has been officially recognized by the War Department, and men are detailed by the Association to accompany the troops and furnish entertainment which may occupy their minds. A variety of games, from tiddledy-winks to chess, is provided, and the man in charge of this valuable work is active all the day and evening in keeping the men amused. He arranges tournaments and matches, and gives prizes for the winners.
Chapter 3: Button Games
Page 92: Snip Snap or Tiddlywinks
Pages 95-96: Snip Snap or Tiddlywinks
Age 6 or older; drawing of buttons with holes being snapped
A starting line and a finish line are marked, 8 to 10 feet apart.
Each player lines up his buttons at the starting line, next to those of the other player or players. Then each player in turn, using the large button, snaps his hown buttons toward the finish line. If one player manages to snap his button so that it falls on and partially covers an opponent's button in front of the finish line, he captures that button. That player wins who first reaches the finish line with the largest number of his buttons.
Variation: This game can be played using a hole, rather than a finish line, as a target.
“Weeks has been here handing out nice, hot little samples of hell. You'd think, to hear that guy talk, that nobody hadn't done nothing but twiddle their thumbs or play tiddledy winks since you stumbled over Borden's stiff yesterday morning.”
La Puce
Le jeu de la puce ne demande qu'une sébille ou un gobelet quelconque et un certain nombre de jetons de couleurs différentes.
Les joueurs choisissent ou tirent au sort une couler et reçoivent dans cette couleur quatre jetons: un grand qu'ils gardent en main et trois petits qu'ils alignent devant eux, les puces.
Le sébille étant placée au milieu de la table, il s'agit d'y faire sauter les puces d'un bord, en appuyant sur leur bord avec le bord du grand jeton.
Chacun joue à son tour. Le joueur qui fait sauter une puce dan la sébile a droit àun autre coup. Le gagnant est celui qui a placé le premier ses trois jetons.
Page 87: A point about "cheeriac"-ing to a goal is exemplified in President Eisenhower's biography. At West Point, the young Eisenhower Page 88: tried out for and didn't make the college basketball team. In fact, because of an injured knee, his fellow graduates ribbed him on his yearbook page. Jokingly they stated that instead of being on the gym floor playing ball, the young Dwight with a bum knee would have to settle for tea, talk and tiddledy-winks! Now that's below the belt! For anyone curious about tiddledy-winks, it's a game played with small discs or winks and a larger disc, or squidger. The object is to pop your winks on your competitor's winks or in a central cup.
Plays may be classified in a general way according to the type of training for which they are especially well-fitted. A brief outline of some of the forms of play best suited to subnormal children is here presented.
I. Play that develops the physical body.
[...] b. Games that develop coördination of the smaller muscle-groups (especially the hands and arms). This group includes: games requiring muscular control and steadiness, such as jack-straws (plain and magnetic); fish-pond (plain and magnetic); peg-board. Games of manual dexterity coordinated with visual accuracy, such as tiddledy-winks; barber-pole; parlor tennis and football; over the fence. (Block-building and some forms of dissected puzzle-pictures are useful here). Soap-bubble blowing may be included here.
Profusely illustrated with anthropomorphic wink characters
JIMMIEBOY AND THE TIDDLEDYWINKS
SMALL Jimmieboy one soft June night Found out a thing that pleased him quite, Which was in short that Tiddles talked, And sang, and danced, and also walked. His nurse had put him in his bed, And, several moments later, sped To other things,—for she supposed He was asleep: his eyes were closed. Scarce had she gone when near the lamp The youngster heard a tramp, tramp, tramp, And looking toward the table, where The lamp was standing, noticed there The Tiddles climbing all about Engaged in play and noisy rout. There were the red ones and the blue, The black and yellow, green ones too. The white Tids strutted to and from Till Jimmieboy cried out "Hullo!" Whereat they scampered out of sight And then peeped back, to his delight. Then one, less timid than the rest, Came back and told him to get dressed, And come along with them and play Until the sun proclaimed the day. Which he was glad enough to do,— And O! the countries they went through. He saw strange sights and wondrous beasts; He sat down to the strangest feasts; He heard the queerest poetry, And met birds that you rarely see. He heard fine music, and went through The very finest sort of Zoo— In which he saw the Mangatoo, The Nightmare, and the Rooster who Could crow most loud, yet never crew; Met Cinderalla at a ball, In a most gorgeous dancing hall;— And when at last the night was sped He found himself once more in bed. Some things he saw that happy night, As you read on, will greet your sight— And if you have in seeing these The fun he had, they're sure to please, And they by whom this work was done Will not be sorry 'twas begun.
Noah didn't find it out until an hour ago, when he went to feed Ihe elephants, and immediately he made the discovery word came from the Pannikins, who live around the turn there in the woods, that the Parallelopipedon had eaten the roof off their house, and was at the time the letter was written engaged in whittling down the fences with a jackknife, and rolling all the pumpkins down the mountainside into Tiddledywinkland, and ruining the whole country. We have got to capture that animal before breakfast. If we don't, there's no telling what may happen. He might even go so far as to come back, and that would be horrible."
Gerty and Golf
I saw them wanter o'er the links; My scorn I could not veil; I hinted, too, at "tiddley winks Upon a larger scale"; Yet even I remained to play, Who only went to scoff, Upon that memorable day When Gerty taught me golf.
No reference to the game of tiddlywinks other than in the title.
"Hope, are you certain there was no mistake made! You're sure you didn't issue a call for candidates for a tiddledy-winks team?" Dick smiled dismally.
"No, there's no such luck. We've got thirty-four fellows, of which a possible two dozen are rowing material."
Spoof (turf), deception, swindle, sell. Properly a childish kind of game like "tiddlywinks."
Next day I put all my oof
On to Gold (sixteen to one),
And now I hear the cry of spoof,
The race is o'er, and he's not won.
—Bird o' Freedom.
Spoof has been defined by Sir P. Colquhoun as "an unintelligible shibboleth, invented to indicate an idiotic game—a sell. Exactly as 'the loud laugh proclaims the empty mind,' so, to be an adept in the spoof cult, indicates, as the first qualification for that dubious distinction, softening of the brain." This term owes its origin to the game of spoof, played on a draught-board with counters, which have to be whisked on the top of the adversary's own counters by means of a small stick. It has been suggested, however, that "spoof is from provincial English spoffle, to busy oneself overmuch about a matter of small consequence, to rage over a trifle, as a 'great cry and little wool,' i.e., a cheat or.sell. Hence disappointment, deceit."
Love he used to think, I've said before, a riddle;
To-day he says the mot d'énigme is oof,
And that lovers play a very second fiddle
To markers at the noble game oi spoof.
—Sporting Times.
'Tis oh! to be the people's "pug,"
Who is paid at halls to spar, Who's a lovely, unscratched, scarless mug,
Who lives like a La-di-da I Big battles he fights which are always drawn,
But draw much golden oof, He boasts of his biceps and "Boston" brawn—
'Tis oh! for the game of spoof.
—Bird o' Freedom.
Also the confidence-trick swindle.
Also to play spoof.
The alligator and crocodile are just in the prime of life at 100. There are parrots in the gardens who are seventy-five years old, and still cheerful, and the swan begins to think about putting away youthful follies at 200. I hope the keeper who told me all this knows that it is wicked to play spoof on Sunday. I believed all he told me, and kept saying "Really" in such a sweetly innocent way, that he may have been tempted to put the pot on.— Referee.
There was a chandelier from Tiddlywinks for the look of the thing,
I mention tiddleywinks not because it is old—I don't know if it is—but because I like its French name, la puce, the flea.
Down under neath he's so damned human—and he's never had a chance to show it. You ought to have seen us the other night, squatting on a million-dollar rug, in his house with ten thousand dollars worth of electric light shining on us and fifty thousand dollars worth of servants peeking around the corner—down on the floor playing tiddledy-winks. Cross my heart. And it would have made you cry to see how the old guy enjoyed it.
THE GAME OF BUTTON TIDDLEDY
Material Required to Make the Game of Button Tiddledy: an empty calling-card box, five flat white buttons about a half-inch in diameter, five flat darkcolored buttons about this same size, two larger buttons an inch or more in diameter.
Tools Needed to Make the Game of Button Tiddledy: only a pair of fingers.
Perhaps you have played Tiddledywinks. It is really great fun to try to snap the colored disks into the little glass. Perhaps you do not own a real Tiddledy game and, in this case, you may easily make one yourself with a shallow box cover and some buttons.
If you take a small flat button and press its rim hard with the rim of a larger button, the small button will hop up into the air and travel quite a good distance. If you try this several times, you will find out that small pressure gives small hops and an even heavy pressure on the little button may cause it to go far. This is the principle of Button Tiddledy.
The game is played on the floor or on a table covered with a cloth. Each player must have five buttons and each player's buttons must be different. Two or more may play.
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HOW TO PLAY BUTTON TIDDLEDY
Two players may play the game—or more, if buttons can be found.
Play is made without turn as rapidly as possible.
Each player places his five buttons in a row twelve inches from the open box.
Signal is given to start. The first to get all his five buttons into the box wins.
No player is permitted to touch his button, or that of another, with fingers unless a button falls off a table onto the floor. Then it is to be picked up and placed as nearly as possible where it was before it fell.
Into the little white box they go— Grasshoppers hop in the clover just so!— Hippety-hoppety! Hoppety-hop! Gay little buttons, you never will stop Till Somebody wins in this hoppety game, When jumpety buttons grow quiet and tame!Page 167:
THE GAME OF TRIPLE TIDDLEDY
Material Required to Make the Game of Triple Tiddledy: three shallow box covers that fit within each other; three small flat white buttons, three small flat dark buttons, two large buttons. Other buttons are needed when more than two play.
Tools Needed to Make the game of Triple Tiddledy: a pair of hands.
Triple Tiddledy is a game of Tiddledy in which you have to make a definite count. The player who first reaches the score of fourteen wins.
To make the game, three shallow box covers are needed. The lower half of some deeper little box may make the smallest and inner ring of the game. Find three shallow boxes that fit one within the other. Remove covers and set these as the picture of the game shows you. The outer covers should not be more than an inch high; and the small inner box should not be more than three inches high, if you use this taller than the others.
Place the three box covers in the center of a table upon which there is a cloth. The table should be a large one, to allow plenty of space for play.
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HOW TO PLAY TRIPLE TIDDLEDY
Two players may Play the game. Three may play, or four, if buttons can be found. All buttons must be distinguished easily.
Play is made in turn.
Count out for beginner.
Place three buttons in a row twelve inches from the rim of the largest box.
Press the rim of one smail button with the edge of Your large button so that the small button hops. If it falls outside of the box covers, you gain no count. Start your next: if this fails within the first box cover, the count is 1. If it to within the second, your count is 2. If it falls inside the third, the count is 3.
Three buttons are Played in succession and left where they lie for one round of play.
When all have Played, buttons are picked up and scores are noted on paper with pencil.
Buttons are then Picked up and sorted and the next round is started in proper order.
The first Player to score 14 wins the game.
Play for the sake of the game!
Be kind, and friendly, and fair,
And take your luck when your own turn comes
To do your own bravest share!
And, if another one wins,
Why, give him your hand to shake!—
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For what you are after is happy play
And the good fun it will make!
So no one grows sulky or cross
And says that the turn wasn't right—
You both of you had a chance to win
But two couldn't win the fight!
THE GAME OF BUTTON TIDDLEDY
Material Required to Make the Game of Button Tiddledy: an empty calling-card box, five flat white buttons about a half-inch in diameter, five flat darkcolored buttons about this same size, two larger buttons an inch or more in diameter.
Tools Needed to Make the Game of Button Tiddledy: only a pair of fingers.
Perhaps you have played Tiddledywinks. It is really great fun to try to snap the colored disks into the little glass. Perhaps you do not own a real Tiddledy game and, in this case, you may easily make one yourself with a shallow box cover and some buttons.
If you take a small flat button and press its rim hard with the rim of a larger button, the small button will hop up into the air and travel quite a good distance. If you try this several times, you will find out that small pressure gives small hops and an even heavy pressure on the little button may cause it to go far. This is the principle of Button Tiddledy.
The game is played on the floor or on a table covered with a cloth. Each player must have five buttons and each player's buttons must be different. Two or more may play.
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HOW TO PLAY BUTTON TIDDLEDY
Two players may play the game—or more, if buttons can be found.
Play is made without turn as rapidly as possible.
Each player places his five buttons in a row twelve inches from the open box.
Signal is given to start. The first to get all his five buttons into the box wins.
No player is permitted to touch his button, or that of another, with fingers unless a button falls off a table onto the floor. Then it is to be picked up and placed as nearly as possible where it was before it fell.
Into the little white box they go— Grasshoppers hop in the clover just so!— Hippety-hoppety! Hoppety-hop! Gay little buttons, you never will stop Till Somebody wins in this hoppety game, When jumpety buttons grow quiet and tame!Page 18:
THE GAME OF TRIPLE TIDDLEDY
Material Required to Make the Game of Triple Tiddledy: three shallow box covers that fit within each other; three small flat white buttons, three small flat dark buttons, two large buttons. Other buttons are needed when more than two play.
Tools Needed to Make the game of Triple Tiddledy: a pair of hands.
Triple Tiddledy is a game of Tiddledy in which you have to make a definite count. The player who first reaches the score of fourteen wins.
To make the game, three shallow box covers are needed. The lower half of some deeper little box may make the smallest and inner ring of the game. Find three shallow boxes that fit one within the other. Remove covers and set these as the picture of the game shows you. The outer covers should not be more than an inch high; and the small inner box should not be more than three inches high, if you use this taller than the others.
Place the three box covers in the center of a table upon which there is a cloth. The table should be a large one, to allow plenty of space for play.
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HOW TO PLAY TRIPLE TIDDLEDY
Two players may Play the game. Three may play, or four, if buttons can be found. All buttons must be distinguished easily.
Play is made in turn.
Count out for beginner.
Place three buttons in a row twelve inches from the rim of the largest box.
Press the rim of one smail button with the edge of Your large button so that the small button hops. If it falls outside of the box covers, you gain no count. Start your next: if this fails within the first box cover, the count is 1. If it to within the second, your count is 2. If it falls inside the third, the count is 3.
Three buttons are Played in succession and left where they lie for one round of play.
When all have Played, buttons are picked up and scores are noted on paper with pencil.
Buttons are then Picked up and sorted and the next round is started in proper order.
The first Player to score 14 wins the game.
Play for the sake of the game!
Be kind, and friendly, and fair,
And take your luck when your own turn comes
To do your own bravest share!
And, if another one wins,
Why, give him your hand to shake!—
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For what you are after is happy play
And the good fun it will make!
So no one grows sulky or cross
And says that the turn wasn't right—
You both of you had a chance to win
But two couldn't win the fight!
I have omitted games such as Tiddlywinks and Halma because the rules of play are always supplied with the equipment that is necessary for them.
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"Ye'll ha' to tell me all about it afterwards," Mr. Buckle declared, and when the meal was over and the table cleared, he commandeered the wretched hero, planted him at the roasting fire, and
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ordered the others to play tiddleywinks under further notice.
"She has tried a lot of roles anyhow. I'm thankful she has never lured you into any of her societies. Do you remember the one she had for supplying tramway guards with tiddley-winks to play with when the car was at a terminus?"
From that night forward the seventeen other nincompoops, who ate to repletion at seven, and burnt the gas till one, in their endeavours to raise the "Parlour Game" of "Tiddleywinks," or jerking the cardboard to the level of the sciences, saw rather less than usual of Mr Myer Hyams, though, to do them justice, they filed no objections on that head.
In 1932, Ralph Fowler, one of Oppie's former teachers from Cambridge, England, visited Berkeley and had a chance to observe his old student. In the evenings, Oppie persuaded Fowler to play his particularly complicated version of tiddlywinks for hours on end.
Re 1962 tiddlywinks challenge to Harvard from Oxford.
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TO THE EDITORS OF THE CRIMSON
Four or six members of the Oxford Tiddlywinks Society (all-England champions and holders of the Prince Philip Interuniver- Page 117: sity Trophy) are planning a tour of the States from July to September 1962. We are keen to accept any challenges from your side of the Atlantic and particularly like to play a series against the Ivy League. Any help or publicity you can give us would be much appreciated.
Yours faithfully, Elizabeth Kind (Hon. Sec. O. U. T. S.) St. Hugh's College, Oxford
We understand the Harvard Athletic Association declined this challenge after a sub rosa investigation which disclosed the fact that the Oxford Tiddlywinks Society is noted for its all-out, no-holds-barred, brutal style of play. The report also implied that of a six-man team (none of whom weights less than fifteen stone) at least one is a rank professional. It was felt best to avoid an unpleasant international incident.
Mention of "squalloping".
Zailor, ees fai! ay, and zarve un raight. Her can't kape out o' the watter here, whur a' must goo vor to vaind un zame as a gurt to-ad squalloping, and mux up, till I be wore out, I be, wi' the very saight of's braiches [...]"
Other table games mentioned for Betty are often interesting to Peggy. See Mental Games, Chapter I. In addition, girls of this age play Tiddledy Winks, Jack Straws, Tiddledy Wink Golf (R.R.), Checker Golf.
Listing of Newswink.
The short story, "Tiddlywinks and the train wrecker"
Playing tiddledywinks or crokinole or button is harmless, but you can scarcely call it recreation. Recreation must bring pleasure, real, live, human pleasure, with fire in its eye and red blood in its veins.
Folk game in India played with glass bangles.
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Page 161: While playing tiddlywinks, Alfred points at Susi and says: "So you cheated."
Susi: "That's where you're wrong."
Alfred: "No, I don't want to play any more. You were cheating."
NATwA listing on page 189.
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1301. TO SQUOP
The best strategy in Tiddlywinks is to position your winks fairly close to the pot, so that you can either pot them on your next turn or be in a position to squop an opponents wink. [...]
Les jeux de compétition sont ceux dont le ressort essentiel est la lutte: dans tous les cas, il s'agit de vaincre un ou plusiers joueurs, une ou plusieurs equipes. Tel est le trait commun qui apparent le je d'échecs à la bataille, le bridge au jeu de puces. La conclusion, le bilan, pourrait-on dire, de la partie, est la designation d'un gagnant ou d'un perdant
It is always something which can become a craze, as it were, like ping-pong, tiddledywinks, or the "Bonnie Brier Bush," or the interest in athletics. No one knows why these things sweep over the country, yet every one is more or less affected by them.
Mention of "tiddledy-winks" in the short story, "Two Old Fogies", in chapter 3.
Page 204: After tea, it being still broad daylight, the children sat down to a game of tiddledy-winks, to pass the time until it was dark enough for the fireworks. Tiddledy-winks looks a silly game to those who do not play it, but to those who do it becomes strangely fascinating; so that even after the lamps were lighted it was difficult to make those players leave off.
Page 210: “It's over,” said Eve, jumping up from where she lay on the flat of her back along the sloping leads. “Polly, let's go down and have another game of tiddledy-winks.”
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Donald Duck Tiddley Winks c1950, $6, $10, $15
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Pan Cake Tiddly Winks, Russel Mfg. Co. c1920, $55, $90, $145
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Tiddle Winks, Doremus Schoen & Co. (no year), $15, $25, $40
Tiddley Winks Game, Wilder Mfg . Co. c1920, $40, $65, $104
English Tiddlywinks Association (ETWA) 1958.
'Glenfield', Boars Hill, Oxford OX1 5DG (hsp [honorary secretary's private address])
Sec: A D Shearman
*S; to promote enjoyment of the game of tiddlywinks & to raise money for charity through matches and tournaments, particularly for the National Playing Fields Association.
Conf [conference, annual] - Comp [competitions] - Inf [information service]- Retail provision of standardised equipment
Intl Fedn Tiddlywinks Assns.
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The Winking World - 1; ftm [free to members, 5p nm [nonmembers].
Page 725, column 2: TIDDLEDY WINKS. A game played by any number of persons, singly or as partners, on a table covered with a thick cloth. Each player is provided with a set of six small counters and one large one, all of the same color, the different players having different colored sets. A little basket or cup, generally of ivory of celluloid, is placed in the centre of the table, and each player ranges his small counters in front of him in a line about eight inches from it. The object of the game is to snap each of the smaller counters, by pressing on its edge with the larger one, so as to make it jump into the basket, and he wins who first gets all his counters in. The players take turns, but he who is successful in snapping a counter into the basket has the privilege of playing until he fails. After a player has played out all his counters from the starting line, he can play, when his turn comes, Page 726, column 1: any of his counters wherever it may lie; but he is not allowed to touch any of his adversary's counters, and if any of his own be covered, and no other be available, he must wait until his adversary has uncovered one before he can play. A player may not intentionally cover any of his opponents' counters. If a counter fall [sic correct=falls] off the table, it must be replaced one inch from the edge where it fell off. Partners sit opposite each other, and may play each other's counters after they have left the starting line.
Variations. The game may be played with several variations by marking, around the basket on the cloth with French chalk, a ring about four inches in diameter.
- Any counter falling within this ring is to be considered dead, the winner being he who gets most counters into the basket.
- Any counter falling within the ring must be returned to its place in the starting line, and played out by the player at his next turn.
- If a counter fall [sic] within the ring, the next or any other player during that round, is at liberty, if he choose [sic correct=chooses], to play it (instead of his own) to any part of the table he may consider best for himself. If it be not played thus, the player to whom it belongs can play with it at his next turn in the usual way.
- Mark on the cloth any figure, such as a circle, a square, etc., and divide it into numbered segments or parts. Several games may be played with these, the counters scoring according to the number of the part they fall in.
Tiddledy Winks may be played also as a PROGRESSIVE GAME, on any number of tables.
Tiddledy Winks. Modern game in which small bone disks are made to spring into a basket or receptacle placed in the center of the board, by pressing them forcibly with a slip of bone upon their edge. An analogous game, of flipping small shells into a hole in the ground, is played by children in Siam and the Liu Kiu islands.
Lesson IV
Nervousness and Bad Habits
The "Nervous" Child
"If children are 'nervous' it is often because they don't have enough heavy, hard play for their large muscles. They are cramped for space, they are surrounded by too many things they must not do. They are expected to play tiddledy winks instead of baseball."
Page 94: Don't you remember, Mrs. Christianson, at those games we played last winter—you remember, lotto, tiddledywinks [...]
Page 95: It was nothing else than tiddledywinks, those absurd little disks in a row, red, blue, yellow, green, white, on that piece of felt, snapped by [...]
Page 96: 'Those tiddledywinks!" Emma Davis cried.
Games and Diversions for Both Sexes
Chess Parchesi Billiards Shuffleboard Bowling Cards, including solitaire Tiddledy-winks [...]
Reference to "Jumpers".
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‘We could play tiddlywinks,’ said Ramona, ‘I know how to play tiddlywinks.’
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Beezus did not answer. Her mind was on the game as she watched Henry's move very carefully.
‘I said we could play tiddlywinks,’ yelled Ramona. [...]
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When Henry had gone, Ramona gave a hop to make her rabbit ears flop. ‘Now we can play tiddlywinks!‘ she announced, as if she had been waiting for this moment all afternoon.
‘No, we can't,’ snapped Beezus, who could not remember when she had been so annoyed with Ramona. [...]
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‘Tiddlywinks, tiddlywinks, I want to play tiddlywinks,’ chanted Ramona, shaking her head back and forth.
‘Not after the way you spoiled our checker game,’ said Beezus. ‘I wouldn't play tiddlywinks with you for a million dollars.’ [...]
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‘Tiddlywinks, tiddlywinks,’ chanted Ramona, more quietly this time. ‘We’re going to play tiddlywinks.’
‘We are not!’ whispered Beezus furiously.
Mr. Fred Pentland, the professional footballer, in nominating Mr. Castang as the Woman Suffrage candidate, described him as the All-England champion at tiddley-winks, and was interrupted by frequent cries of "Votes for women!"
FATHER. Well, Harlan--how about you? Shall we play some tiddledy-winks? HARLAN edging toward
Winko Baseball, 1945, a "tiddledy-wink"-type game. The plastic disc is flipped by the bat from a felt covered home plate. Where it lands on the board determines the play. Milton Bradley 19"x16". From the Cooper collection.
Value A-B ($50-$300)
Ilustration.
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Counters for Board Games
Counters were most commonly made of bone and broken pottery sherds, though stone, tile and glass counters are also known (MacGregor 1976, 3). Descriptions of the board games popular in the Roman period can be found in Bell 1960, 30-5, 84-7 and are mentioned briefly in MacGregor 1976, 3-4. The possible use of bone counters for a game similar to tiddlywinks is refuted by MacGregor.
Page 176: MacGregor, A.,1976 Finds from a Roman sewer system and an adjacent building in Church Street in The archaeology of York, 17/1
History of tiddlywinks including mentions of Cambridge and Oxford and the rules.
Page 798: tiddlywinks A table game for singles or pairs which involves flicking or shooting small counters into a cup. The term is of unknown origin. In the past it has denoted a beershop and also a game played with dominoes. The slang word tiddly means 'drink'. It is not certain who invented the game or how long it has existed. It is usually regarded as a game for children, but since the Second World War it has achieved a certain status in Britain. In 1955 Cambridge University played tiddlywinks against Oxford, and in 1960 the Guinness Trophy was instituted for an international championship between England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Thus far England has won the trophy each year. Later came the Silver Wink Trophy (presented by the Duke of Edinburgh) for the British Universities championship. Cambridge have won this a record 5 times in succession (1974-8). The outstanding singles player in the national championships has been Alan Dean, winner in 1971-3 and also in 1976.
The surface of the playing area should be covered in thick cloth or a piece of felt. Each player has 4 winks and a shooter. These are usually made of thin bone or plastic. The shooter is about 2.54 cm (1 in) in diameter. The round winks are about 15.875 mm (⅝ in) in diameter. The cup into which they are propelled is between 2.54 and 5.08 cm (1-2 in) high and has a diameter of about 3.81 cm (1½ in).
The cup is put in the middle of the table. The players line up their winks in front of them. Each shoots a wink at a turn, plus one extra shot each time he gets a wink into the cup. The wink is shot by stroking and pressing the edge of the shooter against it so that it jumps into the air. A game is won by the first play to get all his tiddlywinks into the cup.
Mentioned in the Acknowledgments section and described in the Massachusetts section. NATwA is mentioned.
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Parlor Quoits
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Mumbly Peg
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Footnote 12: Nous avons entendu nommer ainsi un jeu dans lequel on fait sauter un jeton sur un autre, à l'aide d'un troisième que l'on appuie dessus.
Rabelais
Rabelais
Contains illustrations of tiddlywinks, and describes tiddlywinks golf and tiddlywinks tennis.
Page 76: Tiddlywinks is a game for any small number of players. In the standard game, each player attempts to put small disks or "winks" into a cup by shooting them with a larger disk called a "shooter". Various tiddlywinks games based on sports such as tennis and golf can be bought or easily improvised. [...]
Playing Area [...]
Equipment [...]
Players [...]
Start of play [...]
Turns [...]
Scoring [...]
Objective [...]
Out of play [...]
Partners [...]
Shooting [...]
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Target Games [...]
Tiddlywinks Tennis [...]
Tiddlywinks Golf [...]
Does not include the game of tiddlywinks but does include games with similar names.
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boondocking
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nurdling
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squidger
squop
Proclaim yourself "World champ" of something—tiddlywinks, rope-jumping, whatever—send this notice to newspapers, radio, TV, and wait for challengers to confront you.
Chapter:
Game names
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boondock
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nurdle
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squidger
squop
However, problems arise because, after 30 years, the £10000 capital sum is to be given to the Society for the Promotion of Tiddlywinks [...]
Mentions "Tiddle de Winks"; two teams advancing with lights flashing.
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Tiddle de Winks
Play this game at night in a large room where lights can be snapped on and off. Divide the group into two teams and station them at opposite ends of the room. If the players do not know each other well, mark one team in some conspicuous way.
On signal the teams advance toward each other attempting to capture opposing players and take them back to their own goal. As the teams near each other the leader turns out the lights and thereafter flashes them on and off about every 10 seconds. The players thus get merely a glimpse of the opponents for a second and must proceed in darkness most of the time.
A captured player may resist as he is being taken to the goal, but once there he becomes a member of the team capturing him. He must remain at theat goal until timre is called. Time is called at the end of each minute of play, and the lights are turned on to allow all to determine who have been captured and how the personnel of the two teams stands. The team having the most players at the end of the game wins.
Christmas tiddlywinks
T'an Ch'i
Peter Sellers practicing tiddlywinks, the Goons in play at the 1958 match against Cambridge University.
Column 1: TIDDLEDY-WINKS. Table game that can be played by any number of players, according to the size of the set. A cheap set provides four colours and three counters of each: enough for four players only; but others will have four to eight counters of each of the six colours, and in that case six may play, each taking all the counters of his colour, or the number of players may be doubled, the countered being divided vbetween them. The two players possessing the same colour act as partners. If ten people wish to play with a set of six colours, one colour should be removed from the set, so that the game is played by five partners. If an odd number play, whoever is without a partner is given two turns to the others' one. If one person only has a partner, they should sit together and take alternate shots.
The Counters. The tiddley-winks are thin coloured disks, a little larger than a three-penny-bit, while of each colour there is also provided a larger disk, about the size of a penny. A large table should be covered by a thick cloth, and in the centre of the table is placed a little wooden cup, 1½-2 in. high and 1½ in. across the mouth.Each player arranges his counters in a line near the edge of the table, and at equal distances from the cup.
How to Play. The object of each player is to jump all his tiddley-winks into the cup. The jumping is done by pressing the edge of the large counter, or flipper, on to the edges of of one of the small counters. Practice will enable the player in some measure to regulate the distance of the jmp. Each person plays in order round the table, anyone succeding in getting his counter in the cup being given another shot. At the start of the game all the counters must be jumped from the starting point befgore any counter can be jumped twice.
A counter that falls off the table is replace at the table's edge at the point where it fell. Although a counter that is covered, or partially covered, by one of another colour is out of the game until the covering one is moved, it is not permitted to cover another player's counter intentionally. It is, however, lawful, and it is good policy, to keep it covered as long as possible. Should a player have all his counters in the cup except for one that is covered, he is out of the game until it is free again. As soon as one player has jumped all his tiddley-winks into the cup, the game is finished.
Scoring can be done by each player counting to himself the number of counters Column 2: he cupped after each game, and adding up the total score, or else a pool can be formed at the beginning of the game, which is subsequently taken by the winner.
Many variants of this game are played. In one, six circles, 2 in. in diameter, are drawn in chalk on the tablecloth, around the cup and at a little distance from it. Any counter being accidentally jumped into any of these circles is forfeited by the player and removed from the table.
Triddley-wink croquet is an amusing game that can be played with a set of tiddley-winks. Six little wooden pill boxes and two matchboxes are all the extra accessories needed. These boxes are arranged on the table as are the hoops on a croquet lawn, the matchboxes, stuck on end, being the poles. Each player has one tiddley-wink, or two players, acting as partners, have one between them. The course laid out on the table is then followed in the same way as at croquet, the counters being jumped in each box in turn, instead of through hoops. Another turn is allowed to the palyer succeeding in getting one in. If one player covers another, he is given an extra shot to get clear. The game is won by the first player to complete the course.
With a little ingenuity and no further accessories than a few more pill-boxes, some books, a box-lid, etc., tiddley-wink golf can be improvised. A larger table is needed for this game, books standing on edge acting as bunkers, rumpled-up paper under the table-cloth as a rough place on the course, and the lid of a cardboard or tin box being water. A match played with the tiddley-winks on such as golf course will cause much amusement.
“Some people oughtn't to possess anything more valuable than 'bus tickets and tiddledy-winks counters, and then somebody should hold their little hands for them when they cross the road.”
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King Ring.
This is one of the many modifications of the Tiddledy Winks idea and also one of the best. The pegs are numbered and large colored rings are snapped at the pegs, the one winning who has the largest score. Price, 25 cents.
Tiddledy Ring Game
This game consists of a playing board with numbered hooks, which stands upright on the table. The winks are in the form of rings and are to be snapped over the numbered hooks, the players scoring according to the numbers on the hooks over which their rings are landed. There are two large square winks to shoot with, and eight ring winks, with felts from which to snap them. Price, 25 cents.
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Ring Over
The principle of Tiddledy-Winks is good enough successfully to stand applications to other games, and in Ring-Over it is introduced with interesting results. Here a large circular disk containing several small numbered disks is placed in the center of the table. The winks are of the ring variety and the object of the game is to jump them over the small disks. This is done by pressing the edge of a large square wink on the edge of a ring wink, causing it to jump forward. A good game to play and easily learned. Price, 25 cents.
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Spinning Plate Game
Spinning Plate Game. In this game a circular cardboard "plate" is set slightly upon a slant and held in this position by a wooden standard on which it revolves rapidly. The surface of the plate is dotted with steel pins, each one having a certain value, over which players try to snap circular Tiddledy Winks while the plate is spinning. A good game of action, simple and interesting. Price, 35 cents.
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TIDDLEDY-WINK GOLF
Each child receives a scorecard in heart shape, with a pencil attached—red for the boys and white for the girls—and all follow the hostess into an adjoining room, where they will find a golf course laid out on the floor. Small glasses form the holes, books the bunkers, and dishes of water hazards. Regular tiddledy-wink chips, a large one for a club and a small one for a ball, are used by each player; and mixed foursomes may be played. The scorecards are numbered at the top, so that the boy with No. 1 on a red heart will play with the girl having the same number on her white one. The pair handing in the best score, is, of course, the winning one.
Page 313: King Ring.—This is one of the many modifications of the Tiddledy Winks idea and also one of the best. The pegs are numbered and large colored rings are snapped at the pegs, the one winning who has the largest score. Price, 25 cents.—Parker.
Mention of "TIDDLEDYWINK GOLF"..
An apparatus having some of the features of the funnel and target apparatus described above is used in a variety of tiddley winks. Tiddley winks is usually played simply by snapping small discs into a cup; and the edge of the cup forms a boundary of a horizontal circular target a little height avove the surface of a table on which the game is played; and this target is hit each time a disc is snapped into the cup. But in another variety, the cup is not circular but is hexagonal in shape, and is placed in the middle of a horizontal rectangular cardboard platform about one inch high with the cup projecting about half an inch from it. Differently colored sectors are marked on the surface of the platform, and are numbered from one to six but not consecutively. A disc snapped onto a sector scores according to the number of that sector, but one into the cup 10 points. The target is formed by the cup and partly by the platform, and is hit when a disc falls on to a sector or into the cup. The cup forms a hexagonal bull's eye for the target.
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While there have been many changes from the almost hopeless printing hyroglyphics [sic] on some 19th century packages, there is still need for improvement according to the well known packaging consultant, Wentworth Weeks, [...]" [...] Back in 1903 "Battle Winks" was a popular game and there may not have been some doubt in the beholder's mind as to which the game was—as represented in the illustration, or the process of unwinding the mazed lettering; this may have lent a certain sporting aspect, combining the puzzle principle with the more physical excitement of tiddlywinks, but I strongly doubt that it coveys its story efficiently. [...]"
Entry for "tiddledy winks"
Entry *13199*. NATwA entry; indexed under Games, North American TwA, Tiddlywinks.
NORTH AMERICAN TIDDLYWINKS ASSOCIATION (Games) (NATwA)
c/o MIT Tiddlywinks Association, Rm. W20-401
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone: (607) 687-6545
Arye Gittelman, Sec.-Gen.
Founded: 1966. Members: 100. Tournament tiddlywinks players. Promotes the growth of the game; provides a framework for all levels of competition and ensures the availability of regularion sets and mats. Sponsors informal and formal matches including Continental and Collegiate Team Championships, pairs and singles matches. Maintains archives of tiddlywinks publications, media reports, tournament records and statistic[s] and historical research notes. Publications: Newswink annual; also publishes Rules of Tournament Tiddlywinks and songbooks. Convention/Meeting: annual congress - 1981 Feb. 14 (location undecided).
Entry *602*
NORTH AMERICAN TIDDLYWINKS ASSOCIATION (Games) (NATwA)
c/o MIT Tiddlywinks Association, Rm. W20-401
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone: (607) 687-6545
Arye Gittelman, Sec.-Gen.
Founded: 1966. Members: 100. Tournament tiddlywinks players. Promotes the growth of the game; provides a framework for all levels of competition and ensures the availability of regulation sets and mats. Sponsors informal and formal matches including Continental and Collegiate Team Championships, pairs and singles matches. Maintains archives of tiddlywinks publications, media reports, tournament records and statistic[s] and historical research notes. Publications: Newswink annual; also publishes Rules of Tournament Tiddlywinks and songbooks. Convention/Meeting: annual congress - 1981 Feb. 14 (location undecided).
Entry *2153*, Newswink.
By the time electric cars, palace buses, and our own automobiles had put an end to the stay-at-home existence, we had lost interest in such gentle diversions as charades, the game of "authors," the leisurely "square dance," and tiddledy-winks. We had been graduated by degrees into livelier pastimes requiring more mental agility, as, for example, the advancing stages of whist, duplicate whist, bridge, duplicate bridge, auction, and now contract.
Tiddledewinks.
- Players take discs of different colours, and at the starting signal snap them down the length of the table and back in a race. If a disc goes off the table it must be started again.
- The above race may be varied by putting obstacles, like an apple, along each course, and the disc must be snapped over the obstacles.
- Mock tennis. A line is tied to a chair at either side of the table and about four inches above the table. Discs must be snapped into marked courts, like the courts marked off for tennis.
- Three concentric circles are marked on the table. Points are made as they are in Beanbag Quoits (See Small Group Games.)
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TIDDLYWINKS
As a game of skill, tiddlywinks—also known as tiddledywinks—has surprising merit, which can be readily appreciated through the test of actual competition. This accounts for its rise to new popularity, resulting in contest for the intercollegiate world's championship.
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The outfit includes a cup of glass or plastic about 1½ inches in diameter and ½ to 1½ inches in height, though these dimensions are variable. The cup is placed in the center of a felt-covered table and the players set their "winks" in a row, at opposite sides of the table and at equal distance from the cup.
Each player, in turn, presses the edge of his shooter against the edge of a wink, giving it a sharp snap that sends the wink flying toward the cup. The first person landing all three winks in the cup is the winner, but this is seldom accomplished at the outset. Each time a wink is popped in the cup, the player gets another shot.
When a player misses the cup, his turn ends. He can shoot the same wink on a later turn from wherever it happens to lie; hence some players prefer to approach the cup with a short hop followed by another within easy range. A long shot that misses and carries to the far side of the table must be played from there; while if a wink goes completely off the table, it is replaced back at the starting position.
Approach shots have their disadvantages, too. If a wink lands quite close to the cup, it is often difficult to pop it in. The alternative is to shoot it against the side of the cup so that it rebounds to a convenient distance for the next shot. That, however, means a wasted turn.
If a wink is actually tilted against the outside of the cup, it cannot be played until it is knocked from its propped position. The player manages that by shooting another wink against it. If his first two winks are already in the cup when the third becomes propped outside, the player is really in trouble, as he is sure to lose the game unless his opponent knocks it away. Naturally, the opponent will avoid that, by working strictly from the other side of the cup, with a series of unlimited turns.
Another impasse occurs when one wink lands upon another of the opposing color. Only the upper wink can be played, so assuming that a red wink is partly covered by a blue, the Red player has two alternatives. He can shoot a red wink at the covering blue wink in an effort to knock it away and free the red wink beneath; or he can wait until the Blue player is forced to play the upper wink, thus releasing the captive red automatically.
The three-player game follows the same pattern, with each player on his own. The same applies to four players, unless the players opposite each other are teams as partners, as Red and Blue vs. Yellow and White. This makes an excellent game, as one player can often help his partner. The game can be simplified by allowing each player to Page 239: shoot either his own winks or those of his partner. The team that first lands all its winks in the cup winks the game.
If desired, each player may be given four or more winks to start, thus lengthening the game. If a table with the proper shooting surface is not available, the players can use small squares of felt, which are provided with most tiddlywinks sets. A wink is lifted so the felt can be put in position; then the wink is replaced for the coming shot. With a partly covered wink, it is lifted with the one above, then both are replaced on the felt together, so the upper wink can be shot away.
Tiddlywinks can be played with a cup set in the center of a raised cardboard divided into squares bearing the numbers 5, 10, and 20, with the cup counting 25. After one player has landed all his winks on the squares or in the cup, scores are counted and the highest is the winner. During play, a wink may be knocked to another square; wherever it is at the finish, that square counts, and the saem applies if a wink is knocked into the cup. Any wink on a dividing line is counted as belonging to the lower square.
Another excellent variant is played with a layout resembling a target, with its concentric circles numbered 5, 10, 15, 39, toward the center, which counts 50. After all winks have been landed by a player or a team, scores are counted to determine the winner. Here, again, a wink touching two circles is scored according to the lower value.
Special layouts and boards have been designed so that such games as bowling, basketball, and tennis can be played with tiddlywinks. With bowling, the player shoots winks to knock down miniature tenpins provided with the set. With basketball, players shoot goals through nets. With tennis, play goes back and forth within lines marked in the conventional pattern of a tennis court. All these add new and intriguing elements to tiddlywink play.
T'an Ch'i
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October 18. — We have had such a surprise! To-day at luncheon I noted that father seemed to have something on his mind. Twice, I know, he started to speak of it, but changed his mind, so that I kept wondering what it could be, but refrained from asking. Well, this evening at dinner he was most agiPage 156: tated. His eyes kept dancing and three or four times he laughed out loud when nothing had been said. I asked him if he were well. He replied "Yes, why do you ask?" "You seem so excited," said I. "I was only thinking," was his vague answer, so I said no more. Well, after dinner I went as usual for the cribbage board. "Oh, never mind," said he, and laughed boisterously. "I guess we won't play cribbage to-night," he remarked, still laughing as before. "Not play cribbage!" I cried aghast, for we always play cribbage after dinner except on Sunday. "I've got a new game for you," he managed to articulate, and thus the domestic scene went on, for all the world like one from Jane Austin's ready pen, — he in his easy chair before the ruddy fire and the autumn wind roaring in the chimney, and alas! poor me standing speechless with the cribbage board. Whereupon he took from his pocket a little box. "We'll play a new game," he remarked, his eyes glistening. "And what, pray, is that?" I inquired respectfully. "They call it," said he — pausing to examine the name upon the box — "Tiddle-dy-winks," and it proved a span class="tw-note">Page 157: most ingenious game, indeed, consisting of a receptacle into which one snaps little colored disks with varying success. We were very merry over our new pastime, and thus the hours sped with much felicity till the clock warned us that dawn drew nigh.
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October 31.— We only play one game of Tiddle-dy-winks now after dinner. Father finds cribbage, he says, more lasting in its effects
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November 14.— We have given up on Tiddle-dy-winks entirely. Father says it does not stand the test of time.
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"That human circle" to which Katrina had Page 186: referred so tenderly in her diary was not only still unbroken, as she had said, but was larger now since Mr. Larry had become a segment; and with his frequent presence, evenings and Sundays, some of the household's older customs passed away. That harmless after-dinner pastime, for example, which even the joys of Tiddle-dy-winks could not displace, had now been relegated to those other days when father and daughter had passed their evenings together; that magic lantern no longer tutored her in antique art; she and her father no longer went hand in hand to see Mr. Joffett and his mummies.
In the section, "Industrial Age: Recreational Life".
Croquet
By far the most popular lawn sport of the Industrial Age was croquet. [...]
By the 1880s the game's faddish nature began to be diluted by the emergence of lawn tennis, but the game continued to be popular. Former slave Frederick Douglass loved the game and built a croquet court at his Anacosta, Virginia, home in 1894. Croquet served as an inspiration for table games as well. McLoughlin Brothers copyrighted the rules for Tiddledy Wink Croquet, and E.I. Horsman came out with Lo Lo the New Parlor Croquet Game, which used colored disks to represent the croquet balls and mallet disks to snap them into positions or through the arches (Shrock, 2004, 118).
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MOST TIDDLY-WINKS TITLES
Larry Khan [sic correct=Kahn] (U.S.A.) won 19 singles titles at the Tiddlywinks World Championships between 1983 and 2003. He also won 10 pairs titles between 1978 and 1998.
TRIVIA
In tiddlywinks, the large disk, which is used to flip the smaller disks into the air, is called a "squidger."
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Chapter Nine
Alaska
1929-1930
Sunday, July 28.
Dear X., Stockton, California: [...]
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P. S.—I intended to put off begging till another time, but since mail is so slow I decided to "do it now." If any of the Y. L. I. or their little brothers have any extra games, or toys, "Lotto," "Nelly Bly," " Tiddledy Winks," etc., etc., I would appreciate the same. Remember: Toys or games are not to be bought. If such extras are not on hand, I appreciate the intention. [...] W. F. W.
Mention of "crapault".
Rabelais
Older School Age 9, 10, 11, and 12 Years
Physical
enjoys dexterity games pick-up sticks, marbles, jacks, darts, ring toss, tiddlywinks
The uninitiated will imagine that an entry under this heading must be a flippant irrelevance. It can have no place among accounts of such serious activities as cricket and rugby. This, however, would be a serious mistake. Indeed, the School's greatest contribution to England's sporting heritage lies in the realm of Tiddlywinks. M.G.S. is justly known as a not-bed of winking, for it has produced a Secretary-General of the English Tiddlywinks Association, several international players, many Quarter-blues and captains of University teams, Northern Junior Champions on three occasions, and various players who have at some time been holders of English records. This is a total achievement which cannot be equalled by any other school, and the whole nation ought to be grateful to M.G.S. for its unique contribution to the progress of sport.
Afterwards we tried "Tiddleywinks"and "Squails," and I beat him so persistently that both sides of the House were mine and my geniality entirely returned.
Returning to his paper Papa found Eleanor and Mary playing Tiddledy Winks while Mamma and Charles pored over maps.
April 12. [1891] [...] I have had good success at most of the parties I have been to, where there were prizes. At a progressive Tiddledy-winks about a month ago, I captured the booby prize (I had never tried to play it before); but at the last Tiddledy — it was on the evening Belle arrived here — my skill had improved, and I got the second prize, a sterling silver case for court-plaster.
Bobby. No, I aint learned how yet, but I thought you might teach me. This cunning little table is a card table. And these pretty round things are the chips.
Betty. They look more like Tiddledy Winks. They use 'em instead of money, 'cause Mamma won't let 'em play for money. That's gambling.
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Celia rose from her knees, and came forward smoothing her skirt.
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David expressed a wish to be initiated into the game of Page 58: tiddley-winks. It was a simple game, and required but little teaching, but he pretended to be very denise, and was a slow pupil. He was clumsy too, and his hand frequently came into contact with Celia’s, as he endeavoured to make his yellow counters spring into the cup.
Trix cereal premium from General Mills. Prices listed are for good, fine, and near mint copies.
Entries for "tidliwink" and "squap".
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SQUAP: To sit down idly. Somerset
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SQUIDGE: To squeeze. I. Wight.
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TIDLIWINK. A beer-shop. West. It is called in some places kidliwink.
Entries for "tidliwink" and "squap".
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SQUAP: To sit down idly. Somerset
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SQUIDGE: To squeeze. I. Wight.
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TIDLIWINK. A beer-shop. West. It is called in some places kidliwink.
Page 236: "How does he get through the days?" asked Pat.
"Well, lately we have taken to playing tiddledy-winks with him. Yesterday he and I had a match. Page 237: The winner was to have five hundred thousand francs. I lost, and so monsieur made a note to tell Monsieur Hyspase to write me a cheque for it. That is his way."
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The Halle Play Plan [footnote 1]
footnote 1: Copyright 1932, by The Halle Bros. Co. Fifth edition, June, 1938.
Page 398: Five to Six Years
Page 400: Games: Ring-toss, tennis, croquet, fish pond, card games, tiddledy winks, picture lotto, games that supplement school work, cut-outs, puzzles
In 1859 the English game company Jaques and Son bought the rights to manufacture and market "Icosian Game."
Footnote 8: Jaques & Son managed to get over this particular setback. The company, still in business today, had much better success in popularizing Tiddledy Winks (now Tiddly Winks), Snake and Ladders (now Chutes and Ladders), and Whiff Whaff (Table Tennis).
Page 50: Here are recreational groups, in bewildering variety: college and high school athletic inPage 51: terests; playground groups, in all parts of the city; and all sorts of "clubs" for all sorts of recreational purposes from the playing of chess and bridge to badminton and tiddledy winks.
Kanga Winks. 1971-72. 7" high yellow & orange plastic bottle with pink hat, holds 8 oz. of bubble bath. Box also holds black plastic target and package of 16 plastic chips for tiddlywinks. OSP $4 CMV $4 complete set $1 Kangaroo only, $6, set MB
True enough. Why answer it? But what difference did it make if paper burned? Was man after all a creature consecrated to institutions, doomed to expend himself upon institutions? A hundred million nervous systems, each capable of ecstasies and torments, devoting themselves to the business of political brick-laying. Always yowling about new bricks. Politics—a deformity of the imagination; a game of tiddledy-winks played with guns and souls.
Was man after all a creature consecrated to institutions, doomed to expend himself upon institutions? A hundred million nervous systems, each capable of ecstasies and torments, devoting themselves to the business of political brick-laying. Politics—a defomity of the imagination; a game of tiddledy-winks played with guns and souls.
the top physicists of their generation, drunk and crouched on all fours, playing a version of tiddlywinks on the geometric patterns of [Jay] Oppenheimer's Navajo rug.
"Gee! Elsie if you come back and live, I'll stay in every evening, and play tiddleywinks with you!" declared Jack.
36. TIDDLY-WINKS
Tiddly-winks is a trade name that, like many others, has come into general use. In the game, a player has a number of small disks made of plastic, one disk larger than the others. He sets a small disk down on the table, preferably on some surface not completely rigid; then he presses the larger disk down on the smaller one, and by sliding the large one off the edge of the other causes it to fly into the air. This method of projection can be used in several games, but the most important one, and the one referred to here, is a simple contest in which each player tries to snap a number of the disks into a cup. All players take the same number of shots from the same distance and score one for each disk that goes into the cup.
Mentions "TIDDLY-WINKS".
36. TIDDLY-WINKS
Tiddly-winks is a trade name that, like many others, has come into general use. In the game, a player has a number of small disks made of plastic, one disk larger than the others. He sets a small disk down on the table, preferably on some surface not completely rigid; then he presses the larger disk down on the smaller one, and by sliding the large one off the edge of the other causes it to fly into the air. This method of projection can be used in several games, but the most important one, and the one referred to here, is a simple contest in which each player tries to snap a number of the disks into a cup. All players take the same number of shots from the same distance and score one for each disk that goes into the cup.
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The Popular Game of TIDDLEDY WINKS, Parker Brothers" (New Edition 1897)
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Improved Game of TIDDLEDY WINKS, McLoughlin Brothers
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"COMBINATION TIDDLEDY WINKS - McLoughlin Brothers"
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The New Game of King's Quoits is a variation of Tiddledy Winks in which players try to ring pegs by jumping donut-shaped bone disks off a mat.
You hear the jingle of keys, the flick of the whip, and the rattle of lawn mower; and a cold, secret fear takes possession of you—a sort of half-frenzied impulse to flee before smug modernity takes you captive and whisks you off to play tiddledy-winks or to dance the racquet.
A modicum of prosperity, and the owner of the female mind quits work, and her life is devoted to vacuity, tiddledy-winks, bridge whist, church fairs, the latest play and other society piffle. But she is a woman and sex is strong in her head, at least.
Rabelais
Listing of Parker Brothers' Tiddledy Winks
T'an Ch'i
Page 457: Growing Old Gracefully, and Presbyterianism
Page 460: I am not at all surprised that the General Assembly took up this progressive euchre matter. The word "progressive" is always obnoxious to the ministers. Euchre under another name might go. Of course, progressive euchre is a kind of gambling. 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 young man's brain. He became infatuated with euchre, then with cards in general, then with draw-poker in particular, then into Wall Street. He is now a total wreck, and has the impudence to say that it was all "pre-ordained." 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, tiddledy winks and pigs in clover. In all these miserable games, is the infamous element of chance—the raw material of gambling. Probably none of these games could be played exclusively for the glory of God. I agree with the Presbyterian General Assembly, if the creed is true, why should anyone try to amuse himself? If there is a hell, and all of us are going there, there should never be another smile on the human face. We should spend our days in sighs, our nights in tears. The world should go insane. We find strange combinations good men with bad creeds, and bad men with good ones and so the great world stumbles along.—The Blade, Toledo, Ohio, June 4, 1891.
Page 16: From New Bedford: "You may put down our Page 17: circle here, 'as agreeing with you about the high-spade bids. We have used four of them constantly and while they averaged fairly well, not sufficiently well to tack on to a game that is sufficient unto itself. If Auction keeps advancing (?) I, for one, am going back to tiddledy-winks. . . . The more there is of it, the less there is to it."
Whether the old pin-on games that were a staple of children's parties, and the wherewithal for tiddlywinks, fish pond, old maid, and snap, which adults played with gusto between 1890 and 1914 are to be turned over to youngsters, sold, or thrown away is a decision for the finder.
The children's game of tiddlywinks falls into this class of activity as the missile is projected from a stationary position. One cannot start to speculate on the origin of Tiddlywinks but there are many surviving bone discs of considerable antiquity. Worth of mention is the charming accessory of the game made in Victorian times: the Tiddlywinks Tower. This was a miniature bell tower made from either tin plate or wood. The object was to flick the tiddlywink into one of the window openings and so ring the bell.
"In the corner for the Gutter Pup, Mr. William Condit, the tiddledy-winks champion, and the only Triumphant Egghead in captivity.
"In the corner for Lovely, Mr. Turkey Reiter, the Dickinson Mud Lark, and Mr. Charles De Soto, the famous crochet expert [... "]
Cherry-Stone Game (Save and dry a dozen or more cherry-stones)
Scatter the stones lightly on the table. They will fall so that some lie closely together, others far apart. The first player selects any two stones and draws his finger between them so that he touches neither. If he succeeds thus far he must then try to snap one (with thumb and middle finger) so that it strikes the other. If this succeeds also the two stones belong to him and he has another turn, continuing until he either touches a stone in trying to draw a finger between two or fails to make one of the two hit the other. The second player will not fare so well, because the remaining pairs will lie closer together than those first chosen, so that great care will be needed in drawing the finger between two. Sometimes it is necessary to use the little finger. At the end the player having most stones wins the game. The stones may be dyed or painted if desired. The game suggests tiddledy-winks and crokinole.
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how biff for her tiddywink of a windfall [...]
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And her duffed coverpoint of a wickedy batter, whenever she druv behind her stumps for a tyddlesly wink through his tunnilclefft bagslops after the rising bounder's yorkers
Which domestic problem, as much as, if not more than, any other frequently engaged his mind?
What to do with wives.
What had been his hypothetical singular solution? Parlour games (dominos, halma, tiddledywinks, spilikins, cup and ball, nap, spoil five, bezique, twentyfive, beggar my neighbour, draughts, chess or backgammon): embroidery, darning or knitting for the policeaided clothing society: musical duets, mandoline and guitar, piano and flute, guitar and piano: legal scrivenery or envelope addressing: biweekly visits to variety entertainments: commercial activity as pleasantly commanding and pleasingly obeyed mistress proprietress in a cool dairy shop or warm cigar divan: the clandestine satisfaction of erotic irritation in masculine brothels, state inspected and medically controlled: social visits, at regular infrequent prevented intervals and with regular frequent preventive superintendence, to and from femal acquaintances of recognised respectability in the vicinity: courses of evening instruction specially designed to render liberal instruction agreeable.
"There wasn't any amusements on that boat. Not even a checker-board or a game of tiddledy-de-winks.
He invents “a lethally complicated version” of tiddlywinks
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The coins falling on the plastic made a sound that reminded Harold absurdly of tiddledywinks.
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A manhole cover exploded into the air at Broadway-and-Walnut intersection, went nearly fifty feet, and came down on the roof of the Oz Toyshop like a great rusty tiddledywink.
Reference to tiddlywinks in association with buttons.
The club system is certainly the best way to get hold of these boys. You all meet as friends, and amuse yourselves together at innocuous pastimes like Tiddleywinks and Halma. It is quite a study to watch some rising young pug engaged at a game of Tiddleywinks.
Archery is not tiddledy-winks! It is a physical sport that requires excellence in many departments for best results. The strong man naturally has the advantage, and to seek to nullify this fact of nature tends to lower a sport of national scope to the level of a handicap affair in the worst possible manner.
Aside from the challenging complications of the game, much of the appeal may come from the use of ridiculous words such as squidging, double wink bristol, squop, nerdle, and winkers.
Said Rosamond Gilder TAM of Kaufman, "The hand of the master can be discerned keeping the bright colored tiddledy-winks hopping about in agile parabolas, but always landing centre stage. [...]"
But, howomever, that great kiddy what now wears the wig, were once a noted speechifyer in a sartain kidliewink what is called the "House of Commons" [...]
But, to proceed;—the MAN what now wears the big wig, sed in the aforesaid kidliewink, as how the "schoolmaister is abroad;"—meaning, you know, that I wor not like Mr. Matthews—"at home!" but that the "celebrated teacher"—as I now> calls myself—the MAN what is speechifying toyou, wor travelling about the country for the purpose of heddicating the ignorant!!!
And always Gertie Cowles, gently hesitant toward Ben Rusk's affection, kept asking Carl why he didn't come to see her oftener, and play tiddledywinks.
Listing of Newswink as ISSN 1063-2336
Entry for Newswink at National Library of Canada (CaOONL).
793
Newswink (North American Tiddlywinks Association) Ottawa. 1, 1969-
Semiannual. 155 Parkdale Ave., Ottawa K1Y1E7.
CaOONL [1-2]-
Illustration on page 65.
(AP) The National Tiddlywinks Shrine, costing $200000, was dedicated her yesterday, in the presence of 10000 members of the American Tiddlywinks Association.
“Marci, you’d better step into the salon,” Miss Nash said after at least three hours had passed. “All the other girls and I have been playing tiddledywinks and you’ve missed it. Anyway, aren’t you cold sitting out here?”
Lee got to his feet. "Sure I'm coming," he said impatiently, almost angrily. "Sure I'm coming. I didn't get these ideas to play tiddledy-winks with them."
Correspondence of Emily Lytton with Reverend Whitwell Elwin, in chapter "Seventeen".
Page 97: Terling Place, April 24 [1892]
I notice that whenever I expect to be happy and at my ease I am always miserable, and when I expect to die of shyness and misery I am quite happy. Last night I went to dinner with Mr. Crawley ([ootnote: Ernest Crawley, a well-known amateur cricketer.] and he actually talked to me about Paris and things which I understood. I shall feel grateful to him for ever after. I do not know what I said about Paris, but I talked and made long sentences when I might have said what I wanted in two words. Doll Liddell sat on my other side and he even deigned to say a few words to me. I like him, but he always nods when you are talking, and looks as if he had heard quite enough before you have begun to talk. After dinner we all played the most exciting game that ever was invented, called Tiddleywinks. It consists in flipping counters into a bowl, and being a good number we played at two tables, one table against another, and the excitment was tremendous. I assure you everyone's character changes at Tiddleywinks in the most marvelous way. To begin with, everyone begins to scream at the top of their voices and to accuse everyone else of cheating. Even I forgot my shyness and howled with excitement. Con darted about the room snatching at counters, screaming and trembling with excitement. Lord Wolmer flicked all the counters off the table and cheated in every possible way. George Talbot was very Page 98: distressed at this and conscientiously picked every counter up again. Even Gerald got fearfully excited and was quite furious because someone at his table knocked over the bowl just as all the counters were in. Sidney Colvin, whom they nicknamed the Bard because he wrote a prize poem at Cambridge, also got excited and thought he played beautifully. He was at Gerald's table and whenever a counter dropped on the floor G. turned to him and said, "Oh, now you can pick that up," and coolly went on playing. Even he began to scream. I assure you no words can picture either the intense excitement or the noise. I almost scream in describing it.
more unseemly behaviour at a Sunday School soirée and more evil passions on the faces of people playing tiddleywinks.
Gone, or nearly so among the business class, though to a far less extent among the working class, are such "jolly affairs" as "trolley parties," "progressive tiddledy-winks," "shoe socials" where one secured one's partner by seeing her shoes under a sheet pinned up at the end of the room, "lemon squeezes," "going to Jerusalem," "cobweb parties," "pin the tale [sic] on a mule," conundrums, charades, eveings of "euchre, whist, pedtro, and crocono" or "parchesi, authors and checkers," or evenings when "all had a sing."
Even in the matter of nursery game the Victorian child took things very seriously. There were some board games, however, which provided little or no intellectual stimulus. Chief among these was bagatelle [...] and tiddlywinks, whose apparent inanity (to the uninitiated) is often regarded as the ultimate in useless activities.
There were the mutilated games that commemorated Christmas after Christmas of the past. Here was the pack of Happy Families with Mrs. Chip now a widow, Mr. Block the Barber a widower, and the two young Grits grotesque orphans of the grocery. There were Ludo and Lotto and Tiddled Winks whose counters, though terribly depleted, were still eloquent with the undetermined squabbles and favourite colours of childhood.
There were the mutilated games that commemorated Christmas after Christmas of the past. Here was the pack of Happy Families with Mrs. Chip now a widow, Mr. Block the Barber a widower, and the two young Grits grotesque orphans of the grocery. There were Ludo and Lotto and Tiddled Winks whose counters, though terribly depleted, were still eloquent with the undetermined squabbles and favourite colours of childhood.
In Chapter 18, Eighteen Years Old.
There were the mutilated games that commemorated Christmas after Christmas of the past. Here was the pack of Happy Families, with Mrs. Chip now a widow, Mr. Block the Barber a widower, and the two young Grits grotesque orphans of the grocery. There were Ludo and Lotto and Tiddledy-winks, whose counters, though terribly depleted, were still eloquent with the undetermined squabbles and favorite colors of childhood.
Page 108: Accordingly they arrived, damp perhaps, but delighted, and they sat round a big table and drank tea and ate bread and jam, and hot cakes and cold sandwiches, and fruit and sweeties, like so many children.
And when all that was finished somebody suggested some game. And when everybody in turn had suggested a game in particular, only to have the suggestion rejected, Byng produced a box of “Tiddlywinks" which he said he had found in the “chiffonnier.”
This started one or two men off on elaborate accounts of the extraordinary articles to be found in the chiffonniers of lodginghouses. But Byng and Miss Vesey cut the reminiscenary digression very short by Page 109: making everybody sit down forthwith to play “Tiddlywinks.”
“Tiddlywinks,” as everybody knows, is a charming game. It has, indeed, two prominently delightful advantages, namely, any number of persons can take part in the game, and “no previous knowledge,” as the advertisements say, “is necessary.”
So once more the whole party ranged themselves at the round table, and the game began.
Byng's behaviour was beyond praise. He thought of everybody and looked after everybody, and found chairs and settled them: and only reserved a rickety piano-stool, with a screw that had gone loose in it, for himself.
Whereupon Miss Vesey thought fit to make a great number of exceedingly intelligent jokes, embracing a somewhat hackneyed witticism about the “stool of repentance,” and an equally familiar bon-mot relative to having “a screw loose.”
Byng felt, as he got himself seated bePage 110: tween her and Sibyl, that he could with willingness have strangled the young lady with the red hair, wherefore, thinking thus, he, of course, paid her particular attention. She declared afterwards that she had never enjoyed anything so much in her life as this game of “Tiddlywinks,” with Merton Byng close beside her.
As to Byng — Byng had Sibyl close to him on the other side. Her soft shoulder was brushing against his every other minute. Once Sibyl leaned quite up against him. It had come to her turn to play, and the especial counter to which she was directing her attention had rolled itself right in front of Byng.
“Go for it,” cried Augusta Vesey, who was finding, apparently, Byng's attention most inspiriting, “go for it, nothing venture, nothing win. Don't jog her elbow, Mr. Byng, that's cheating, you know; hurry up, Sibyl.”
The child at Byng's left hand looked up at him.
Page 111: “Shall I try it?” she asked him with a smile of pure light-heartedness, “shall I?"
She paused, with her little hand crumpled up on the hideous magenta-coloured tablecloth, she paused, waiting for his reply, and the soft strands of her bonnie brown hair touched his cheek.
He was speechless for the moment. The touch of her hair on his cheek, the glance of her eyes overpowered him. His eyes fastened on the dear little hand lying crumpled up close to his own. He was speechless, and the blood in his pulses leaped frantically.
Fortunately for him a sudden and positive roar of laughter rang round the table. Sibyl had gone for the green counter and had failed ignominiously.
“I knew it would,” she exclaimed with a little pout. “You might have advised me,” she added, with another pout, to Byng.
Byng felt all the blood in his body up in Page 112: his face. But everybody laughed again as loudly as if something really funny had taken place. Sibyl's sweet laughter rang out like a bell. Even Byng managed to get up some sort of cachinnation to swell the chorus.
In fact it all became more amusing than ever: so amusing, that the whole party were late for dinner by the time they found themselves back at Llanbettws once more.
The entry for "tiddlywink" has "the name of a game"
The old woman had hobbled back behind the desk, and Slythe gave her two thousand francs. In return she gave him four large tiddly-winks, two of which he handed to Sheldon.
Tiddle-de-Wink Snap
Party, Home ... Juniors to Adult
Draw a one-foot circle on a table and place a tumbler in its center. Mark four points on the table one inch outside the circle in four different directions. The players take turns in attempting to snap tiddle-de-winks into the tumbleer, snapping four each turn, one from each of the four points outside the circle. Each successful snap scores one point.
Page 265: F.A.O. Schwarz later remembered that, in 1883 [sic; date is incorrect], several elderly English ladies came into his store and asked for the game of "Tiddley Winks". None could be found in America, so Schwarz undertook to have some rather crude sets made for them. These caught on, and when American manufacturers began making the old English game, Schwarz stopped.
Page 346: Parker [Brothers] has sold [...] tiddledy winks
Page 230: Dollars and Cents from Milton Bradley catalog 1900–1901); page 239: listing.
Reprint of article by Philip Michael Cohen, "Winking Words", from Verbatim magazine.
Lists tiddlywinks terms with definitions. Illustration on page 150 of two boys playing tiddlywinks.
Twenty years ago, a group of Cambridge students decided to establish a sport where they could excel, the traditional ones being tiresomely full of experts. When they chose tiddlywinks, and began standardising rules and equipment, they surely had no idea that it would become nationally prominent (with the aid of Goon Show players and Prince Phillip) and even take root across the Atlantic. [...]
Reporting on 1980 tournaments at MIT including a World Singles and the Continentals; also describes tiddlywinks history and lexicon.
Page 56: Room 407 in the MIT Student Center was old and tired and overworked, an empty space surrounded by walls that should have been painted years ago. A couple of folding chairs and one table sat in the middle of the room. This was the setting for the World Singles Tiddlywinks Championships.[...]
Includes photo of Alan Dean or Silver Wink trophy.
TIDDLYWINKS
Origins
This game was only espoused by adults in 1955 when Cambridge University issued a challenge to Oxford.
National Championships
Alan Dean (Southampton) has won the singles title a record five times, 1971–3, 1976, 1978. He has also won the pairs title three times, as have Jon Mapley and Keith Seaman.
Guinness Trophy
England has remained unbeaten against Scotland, Ireland and Wales since the Trophy's inception on 7 May 1960. The closest result has been their 59½–52½ win over Wales at Warwick on 7 Apr. 1968.
Silver Wink Trophy
The Silver Wink, presented by H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh, for the British University championship has been won a record six times by Cambridge University to 1979.
Speed records
The record for potting 24 winks from 18 in 45 cm is 21.8 sec by Stephen Williams (Altrincham Grammar School) in May 1966. Allen R. Astles (University of Wales) potted 10,000 winks in 3 hours 51 min 46 sec at Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire in February 1966.
Four Pot Relay
The greatest number of winks potted in 3 min by a relay of four is 29 by Paul Light, Paul Hoffman, Andrew James and Geoff Thorpe at “The Castle”, Cambridge on 6 Dec. 1974.
Marathon
The most protracted game on record is one of 240 hrs by six players from St. Anselm's College, Birkenhead, Merseyside on 2–12 Aug. 1977.
As they scattered over the first floor they found a number of tables supplied with cards for the game of "Authors," parcheesi boards, tiddledy-winks, and picture puzzles. In Street's office the operating table had been prepared for a ping-pong game. Not a poker deck, chip, or bridge-score card in sight.
Chapter: Journal Entry Nineteen—Winning the Bet—1958]
Emmett spent a few minutes looking at the coin before he finally raised his foot over the coin and began attempting to pick it up with his toes. We all watched as he endeavored numerous times to retrieve the coin, but most of the time, just as he would begin to curl his toes to grab it, it would jump away from him, as if he were trying too hard. I noted the dime would jump much as a tiddledy wink would when you snapped it. Emmett had bought the game since he said it had looked interesting, but we soon discovered that in snapping the winks with the large tiddledy, we broke them. We just used too much force, and we quickly disposed of the game.
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Page 41: Let us consider the ideal Christmas game. In the first place, it must be a round game; that is to say, at least six people must be able to play it simultaneously. No game for two only is permissible at Christmas—unless, of course, it be under the mistletoe. Secondly, it must be a game into which skill does not enter, or, if it does, it must be a skill which is as likely to be shown by a child of eight or an old gentleman of eighty as by a 'Varsity blue. Such skill, for instance, as manifests itself at Tiddleywinks, that noble game. Yet, even so, Tiddleywinks is too skilful a pursuit. One cannot say what it is that makes a good Tiddleywinker, whether eye or wrist or supple finger-work, but it is obvious that one who Page 42: is "winking" badly must be depressed by the thought that he is appearing stupid and clumsy to his neighbours, and that this feeling is not conducive to that happiness which his many Christmas cards have called down upon him.
It is better, therefore, that the element of skill should be absent. Let it be a game of luck only; and, since it is impossible to play a Christmas game for money, you will not be depressed if you lose.
The third and last essential of the ideal game is that it must provoke laughter. You cannot laugh at Tiddleywinks, nor at Ludo (as I hear, but I have never yet discovered what Ludo is), nor at Happy Families. But the ideal game is provocative of that best kind of laughter—laughter at the undeserved misfortunes of others, seasoned by the knowledge that at any moment a similar misfortune may happen to oneself.
Page 21: "Listen, our family's middle name was games. Oh, we used to have tiddlywinks championships! Oh, wild tiddlywinks championships! We'd play, oh, just about every kind of game you can think of, from Parcheesi to tiddlywinks to Go Fish or Sir Hinkam Funny Duster," said Dorothy's son Prescott Bush Jr.
Page 317: As always, George W.'s and Jeb's campaign teams were exchanging polling data and strategies. Any of those rivalries, those things that traced back to the impromptu races around the grounds of Walker's Point, the pick-up basketball games, the endless lists of who-was-better-at-golf-tennis-horseshoes were absent.
With divine friendship as a foundation, he begins his picture — his soul portrait. And to divine friendship he adds domestic love. He speaks of the two in the one breath. "When the Almighty was with me and my children were about me." Human love is the twin of divine; and the institution that stands for its highest expression is not my lodge nor your golf club, not your social set where you go through the tiddledy -wink stunts of society, but the biggest and divinest institution this side of the love-lit throne is home,—be it ever so humble, there is no place like home. If we had more home, we would need less a lot of other clap-trap devices.
Illustrated. Refers to Tiddlywinks, Castle Tiddlywinks, Tiddlywinks Golf, and Tiddlywinks Tennis. Refers to surrealists playing in Mexico in the 1930s.
FROM MAUDE ADAMS (n. d., 1902)
Cheer up! Im reduced to Tiddledy-winks! -- and Lotto and Halma,
Many adults today have fond memories of having been met at the school bus stop by their dog, who was delighted to have a playmate for the rest of the day! From the style of clothing and the hoop being rolled along by the children, this game appears to be from the 1920s. Parker Brothers has been making children's games for over a century and offered Tiddledy Winks® from 1891–1968. Tiddledy Winks® is a game of skill in which small disks are flipped onto a scorecard or into a cup or compartments by pressing them on the edge with a larger disk.
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Just about every youngster has played tiddledywinks at one time or another nut, in 1892, some lucky children received the game box shown at right—a most outstanding version of the game. It was made by McLoughlin Brothers of New York. The cats on the box lid also stand watch inside and players must flip tiny plastic disks through their open mouths to score points.
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Little Kittens Tidley Winks was produced around 1930 by J. W. Spear & Son Ltd., a British game manufacturer. The small, flat counters were flipped toward the stand-up cats, and a player scored if the disk landed in a cat's mouth and fell from a numbered chute. Spear's games have been made for 106 years, and the grandson of the founder directs the company today.
Entry for "tiddl(e)ywink(s)".
Mumbly Peg is listed on page 446.
Page 457: Lotto, loto [...]
1894 Contemp. Rev. Aug. 24. The children played draughts, bagatelle, lotto, or tiddlywinks.
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1898 Westm. Gaz. 4 Jan 2/1 Cards, tiddley-winks, and ludo are played, but gambling is strictly forbidden.
Remember Tiddledy Winks? How exciting it was to get out the green felt cloth, put the little cup in the center, and pick out which color you would play with! It's centuries old. The Chinese played it with beautifully carved counters and cups of ivory or jade, and it was a very thoughtful game of skill. Your family will love it, too.
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This is all very interesting, and I daresay you see me already frothing at the mouth in a fit; but no, I am not; I am just winking happy thoughts into a little tiddle cup.
My little cup brims with tiddles.
T'an Ch'i
‘Like the sound of a thousand tolling bells at dwan the clatter of counters in faraway pots—swells to a climactic din that heralds the beginning of another winker season. A gleaming golden squidger rises slowly in the sky. Sunshine is everywhere.’
This euphoric description of an activity that has its roots in low 19th century drinking houses is typical of the pixilated attitude that modern tiddly winkers bring to their sport.
The game is basically the same as that played in nurseries throughout the land, but since the 1950s when Cambridge University undergraduates adopted the activity for an unofficial sporting Blue, 20 pages of rules have taken Tiddly Winks far beyond the mere flipping of counters into a bowl.
With squidger poised ready to squop an enemy wink, the modern devotee will insist the game now combines the accuracy of golf with the tactical skill of bridge—and there are national and international tournaments to prove it. There are now English and American Tiddly Winks Associations which keep members [...]
ORGANISATIONS
English Tiddly Winks Association
Sec. 34 Jeffrey Rd Brockley SE4. 01-692 3937. Keeps members informed by means of Winking World newsletters. Dedicated to promoting Tiddly Winks in it s modern form as a subtle, tactical game. The London club is open to all [...]Rabelais
There is also cap and ball, Diabolo and tiddlywinks to while away the idle hours.
Page x: George led the firm to bring American everything from Tiddledy Winks and Rook, to Mah-Jongg and Ping-Pong
Page 24-25: Winks and Balloons
When word reached him of a funny little flicking game being played everywhere in Queen Victoria's country, he grabbed the U.S. rights. [...] Parker Brothers immediately applied for a U.S. trademark for the name Tiddledy Winks. [...]
Page 30-31: Ping-Pong
He first learned this principle by watching the way his competitors capitalized on the Tiddledy Winks fad after he was unable to secure its trademark.
Page 48: In 1910, for example, Tiddledy Winks, Pillow-Dex, and especially Ping-Pong were still available in multiple editions.
In the end his mother said, ‘Now be good, and I’Il buy you a toy. A lovely toy — you'll love it’; and then she had gone out in the rain, to a little general shop which was still sporadically open nearby, and came back with a cardboard box containing an outfit of Snakes and Ladders. He could still remember the smell of the damp cardboard. It was a miserable outfit. The board was cracked and the tiny wooden dice were so ill-cut that they would hardly lie on their sides. Winston looked at the thing sulkily and without interest. But then his mother lit a piece of candle and they sat down on the floor to play. Soon he was wildly excited and shouting with laughter as the tiddly-winks climbed hopefully up the ladders and then came slithering down the snakes again, almost to the starting-point. They played eight games, winning four each. His tiny sister, too young to understand what the game was about, had sat propped up against a bolster, laughing because the others were laughing. For a whole afternoon they had all been happy together, as in his earlier childhood.
Mention of "Tiddlycroquet" with an illustration.
Page 23: Frankly and privately the same professor will believe Jesus to have been an impostor and the illegitimate son of a fallen woman, and then Page 24: refer to that of no more consequence than tiddledy-winks.
The 1890s saw several fads sweep the entertainment world. One of the earliest was Tiddledy Winks, which became the rage among grownups and children alike. Parker Brothers was quick to satisfy the big demand, bringing out not only many different sets of Tiddledy Winks but variations on the game, such as Hop Scotch Tiddledy Winks and Tiddledy Winks Tennis.
The 1890s saw several fads sweep the entertainment world. One of the earliest was Tiddledy Winks, which became the rage among grownups and children alike. Parker Brothers was quick to satisfy the big demand, bringing out not only many different sets of Tiddledy Winks but variations on the game, such as Hop Scotch Tiddledy Winks and Tiddledy Winks Tennis.
Page 50: If you are feeling a little lazy and don't want to build a whole new game, here are some new ways to use your old game materials. By making a very simple board you can play a table game of SHUFFLEBOARD with your old Tiddledy-Winks. Draw this shuffleboard diagram
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Page 103: The influx of knowledge as it entered the brain of the doctor was somewhat scrambled. The words that he was absorbing with his eyes were hopelessly intermingled with the persiflage that came in through his ears. The result was not unlike a portion of hash—mental hash of course—topped by a poached egg that had been slightly beaten before poaching, the egg being strictly fresh and strictly mental. The troublesome paragraph in its final form ran something like this:
The glaciations help in giving us certain time-markers for dating our tiddledywinks. You sort them out by colors and put the little ones along in a row. Rivers were swollen and became active agents of erosion by which great accumulations of sand and gravel were deposited in the little basket in the middle of the table. With the coming of an interglacial stage the red ones are separated from the blue and green ones and only terraces of the former filling would be placed along in a row before each player, the oldest in the higher level, the youngest in the lower.The doctor got up and shut the door leading on to the porch. He had just resumed his chair and finished filling his pipe when four of the young people moved into the parlor to play the new game of Tiddledy-Page 104: winks which Cousin Lettie had brought with her and which, she assured them, was all the rage in Washington and New York.
Pages 818 (squab), 88384 (tiddlywink), 890 (titley), 1334 (play tiddlywinks), 1468 (tiddly wink), 1513 (wink), 454 and 123536 (kidlywink). Refers to a relevant letter from Moe to Partridge .
Pages ix ("Tiddlywinks" in list), 1397 (appendix devoted to tiddlywinks jargon, by Cyril Edwards); also throughout.
Page 186: A young man who had been spending the evening in the home of a neighbor complained that they did not play any games, and did nothing but talk. I could not ask what games he meant, fearing that I might smile in his face if he should say crokinole, tiddledy-winks, or button-button. Later on I learned that much of the talking was done that evening by a very cultivated man who has travelled widely and intelligently, and has a most engaging manner in his fluent discussions of art, literature, archaeology, architecture, places, and peoples.I was sorry to miss such an evening, and think I could forego tiddledywinks with a fair degree of amiability if, instead, I could hear such a man talk. I have seen people yawn in an art gallery. I fear to play tiddledywinks lest my hour may resume the guise of a hag. But that makes me think of Atropos again, and the joke I am planning to play on her. Still, I see that I shall not soon get around to that joke if I persist in these dim generalities, as a schoolmaster is so apt to do.
Page 188: If those chaps back yonder could recite the Koran word for word I shall certainly be able to learn equally well some of these plays. It would be worth while to recite "King Lear," "Macbeth," "Othello," "Hamlet," "The Tempest," and "As You Like It," the last week of the year just before I take my vacation of two weeks. If I can recite even these six plays in those six evenings I shall feel that I did well in deciding ror Shakespeare instead of tiddledywinks.
Page 190: And I shall have quite enough to do, for mathematics, the sciences, and the arts and crafts all lie ahead of me in my programme. I plainly see that I have played my last game of tiddledywinks and solitaire.
We may truthfully say, with Dr. James Conant, sometime President of Harvard, that "every honest calling has its own elite, its own aristocracy. Nevertheless, the ability or knack to produce a perfect tiddlywink is not of a high order of social importance. A machine can do it better—which fact, in certain contexts, humiliates the claims of fine mathematicians.
Is the Montessori Method a Fad?
By Frank Pierrepont Graves
After all the popular excitement, spectacular magazine articles and more or less interesting books on the subject, the busy man— even the educator—is still asking, "What is the Montessori Method?" Is it a wonderful discovery of educational principles, an ingenious invention of material and devices or merely a new fad that has been exalted by manufacturers of educational apparatus and enterprising journalists into a profitable cult and propaganda? Will the inventor of the ''didactic apparatus'' be eventually enshrined a little above Pestalozzi and Froebel, Mann and Barnard, in the educational pantheon, or will she be relegated to the limbo of the exponents of tiddledy-winks and ping-pong, of Belgian hares and Teddy bears? While "neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet," it is in the hope of answering such questions and of satisfying such a mild curiosity, that this sketch is added to the pyramid of Montessorian literature.
Tiddlywinks included in lists.
Entire chapter, entitled "Tiddlywinks" devoted to analysis of children playing tiddlywinks, plus additional descriptions.
Entire chapter, entitled "Le jeu dit des 'puces'" devoted to analysis of children playing tiddlywinks, plus additional descriptions.
Describes "TIDDLEY-WINK GAMES": "Counter Battle", "Tiddley-winks", "Tiddley-wink Cricket", and "Tiddley-wink Football".
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Counter Battle
This game was invented as a contest between two players, but a single player can enjoy it, Yorkshire against Lancashire, Shropshire against the Isle of Wight, Architects against Sanitary Inspectors, Vikings against Picto-Scots, Angles against Curves, Alfred against the Cakes. . . . Arrange ten or twelve counters of one colour in line at one end of a blanketed table, ten or twelve of another colour at the other end, both lines equidistant from a halfpenny-sized chalk circle in the centre. The aim is to sweep the enemy from the field. If one counter lands on another so as to overlap it, the counter underneath is dead and removed forthwith from the board. If a counter touches an enemy counter but fails to overlap it, that counter may move again but not to continue the attack, only to escape the inevitable counter's counter-attack. [footnote 1] If a counter overlaps an enemy it may move again to attack another and so on as long as it remains successful. If a counter lodges cleanly in [...]
Page 55 footnote 1: This game, of the Spring Sales in Manchester, is of course the origin of the epxression 'counter-attack'. See P. E. Crutchley-Fairburn: My Investigations in Heraldic Philology (1921).
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THE LATEST CRAZE
By the introduction of this game Tennis players are enabled to indulge in their favorite pastim in the Parlor as well as upon the lawn. Singles and doubles as well as three-handed games may be played. Ech player is provided with a large bone counter, which is termed a "racket." A number of small bone counters represent tennis balls. A miniature tennis court of heavy green felt, accurately marked out with tennis net, accompanies the game. A cup and the full number of counters is also provided for the regular Game of Tiddledy Winks.
Packed complete in box. Will be sent free on receipt of One Dollar.
E. I. Horsman, Publisher, 80 & 82 William St., New York
Page 2: From the first they were comrades, even when comradeship meant the poring over a Mother Goose story-book, or mastering the intricacies of a game of tiddledywinks.
Page 266: Things that his father had done and said, his little ways, his likes and dislikes, the hours of delight they had passed together, the trips they had taken, even the tiddledywinks and Mother Goose of childhood came in for their share.
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Primus Secundus, which resembled Tiddlywinks
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The boat stopped at a landing, and it was as if it had died. There was no sound of running about or of yelling; there was simply deathlike stillness. There was a desk and a student-lamp in the great cabin, and, alas for the unities! on the desk lay a pad of telegraph blanks—" the mark of the beast!" But they evidently were only a bit of accidental drift from wide-awake St. Louis, and not intended for the passengers, because the clerk came out of his office, swept them into a drawer, and invited me to join him in a game of tiddledywinks. He added to the calm pleasures of the game by telling of a Kentucky girl eleven feet high, who stood at one end of a very wide table and shot the disks into the cup from both sides of the table without changing her position. I judged from his remarks that she was simply a tall girl who played well at tiddledy winks. No man likes to be beaten at his own game, the tools for which he carried about with him. Even princes of the blood royal show annoyance when it happens.
Listings in a dictionary of dictionary of 30,000 words.
SQUOPPING THE WINK
" — old oaken schoolhouse that stood in a swamp. It is a shame, of the burning variety that a State as wealthy as New York doesn't and won't provide country schools with playgrounds big enough for anything but tiddledy-winks!" declared Miss Selden.
“It is a shame, of the burning variety that a State as wealthy as New York does n't and won't provide country schools with playgrounds big enough for anything but tiddledywinks!” declared Miss Selden.
And later, no dates given: Cheer up! I'm reduced to Tiddledy-winks! -- and Lotto and Halma
Entry for "puce".
Once, Father started to offer him a cigar, and Max laughed merrily at having been thought of as a man, even for an instant. As if to dispel the illusion, he at once became the most youthful of us all, and we played crokinole and tiddley-winks with wild shrieks of laughter.
Theory of the fad.
The fad originates in the surprise or interest excited by novelty. Roller skating, blue glass, the planchette, a forty days' fast, tiddledy-winks, faith healing, the "13-14-15" puzzle, baseball, telepathy, or the sexual novel attract those restless folk who are always running hither and thither after some new thing. This creates a swirl which rapidly sucks into its vortex the soft-headed and weak-minded, and at last, grown bigger, involves even the saner kind.
Describes "TIDDLY-WINK".
No encyclopedia of games would be complete wihtout mention of several children's favorites that require special equipment. One of the most popular child's game is Tiddly-Wink.
Requirement
- Any number of players.
- Small plastic discs. Each player has the same number.
- Cup of container to catch small discs.
The Play.
After determining the rotation of play by tossing a coin, each player tries to get the small discs into a cup by snapping them with the pressure of the larger disc against their edges. The player scores one for each disc snapped into the container and the player who receives the agreed score first is the winner.
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Page 214: Companionship and Play
Page 217: Toys have been made the subject of a number of serious studies with a view to their value for physical development and education of the various age groups of children. One of the best of these studies was that made by Edith London Boehm of the Child Study Association of America. The following list of toys is taken from her article, Fitting the Toy to the Child (Child Study Magazine):
Page 220: Four to Six Years
Page 221: Games for Socialization
[...] Tiddledy winks
Page 99, a reprint from a Butler Brothers (now City Products Corp.) catalog
Column 1:
strong>Tiddledy Winks: A standard well known game, as well as a quick seller. Pieces are made of wood and will accommodate 4 players. 1 doz. in pkg… 70 (6 doz. or more, 68¢)
Tiddledy Winks: Same size as above, only pieces are made of bone. ½ doz. in pkg… 1.00
No. 14. Hop Scotch Tiddledy Winks: Suitable for 6 players and also an excellent solitaire game. Has thick felt mat, marked to represent Hop Scotch court and cup to take the place of “Pudding.” Players pop their pieces from space to space, finally getting them into the cup… 3.00
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Page 230, column 1, a reprint from a Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalog
This set consists of popular Donkey Party and two other good games of our selection—discontinued games and extra good values. Average shipping weight, 2¾ pounds.
49T239—Price, 3 games, special value… 39¢
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Tiddledy Winks.
Cup and felt shooting pads; about twenty colored bone discs and four bone shooting discs. Shipping weight, 12 oz.
49T147
Price complete… 25¢
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Grasshopper Tennis.
A Very Exciting Game.
Played on principle of “Tiddledy Winks.” Miniature size tennis court, measuring 12x26 inches. Made of heavy cardboard. Made to close same as box, size, 12x13 inches. Bottom of court covered with heavy cloth. Netting measures 11x2 inches. Rackets made of wood, about 3 inches long. In place of balls, little round bone discs, about ⅝ inch in diameter, are furnished. Complete with four rackets and four discs. Shipping weight, 1¾ pounds.
49T101—Price…97¢
Photograph of "COMBINATION TIDDLEDY WINKS" with two cats on the cover, incorrectly marked as by Parker Brothers.
An old English game first marketed in the United States at the end of the nineteenth century. Tiddledy Winks was a game one could play alone, with others, or with the family cat.
PARKER BROTHERS LATE 1920s Note: this game is not by Parker Brothers. It is either by McLoughlin Brothers (before 1920) or Milton Bradley (during or after 1920).
Stamped on Page 1: Library of Congress Copyright Apr 3 1891 Washington
Page 52: Once I said : — " Bill — a moment stay ;
How do you spend the Sabbath day ? "
'' Lay abed — smoke — and sometimes play
Tiddledy Winks with sister May." —
" Church? " " No I'm not onto that lay,"
Wasn't Newsboy Bill ?
History of Milton Bradley.
Page 252: " [...] not like letting its camels out for this sort of thing. Then like a thunderbolt both Martin and I realised it must be tiddlywinks, a game we had both enjoyed greatly in our early life."
The game crossed the pond in the early sixties. In 1962, Oxford defeated Harvard in a challenge match. The game became more popular in the United States when NATwA (the North American Tiddlywinks Association) was founded in 1966, and teams were started at MIT, Harvard, and Cornell, and other colleges During Kahn's years at MIT—he received a bachelor of science degree in ocean engineering in 1975 and an M.S. in ocean engineering in 1976—the game of winks was near its peak of popularity in the United States, with Cambridge, Massachusetts, one of the centers. The center did not hold. The best MIT players moved away—Larry Kahn; Dave Lockwood, '75; and Rick Tucker, '76, to Washington, and "Sunshine" (a pony-tailed man who chooses to go by one name), '69, to Philadelphia. The two places in the United States where the winking is alive, if not as well as Kahn wishes, are Washington, D.C., and Ithaca, New York. Severin Drix, Cornelly ’69, teaches an advanced placement class in mathematics at Ithaca High School and tries to recruit his students as players. “We’ve been called tiddly wonks,” Kahn says. “Most people who play the game well are into math or science.”
A few aspects of the tournament game are easy for liberal arts types to understand. Each player has six winks—four slightly smaller than a dime, two slightly larger—in either blue, green, red, or yellow. Touranment-quality winks are imported from Italy. “The commercial sets made here are cruddy,” Kahn says. In a pairs game, which Kahn considers much more fun than a singles game (“It's neat to play with people, help each other, have your games mesh—singles is something of a grind”), blue and red oppose green and yellow. Players shoot in the alphabetical order of the colors. In a singles game, one player shoots both blue and red, the other green and yellow. The game is played on a soft felt mat that measures six feet by three feet. The mat in the basement rec room of Kahn's house in Vienna, Virginia, is white and spotless. “You’ll see beer stains on the mats we play on when we go over for tournament held in college gyms or pubs in England,” Kahn
Page 253: sometimes refers to that area as “the war zone,” when he isn't calling the whole game of winks “a war game which happens to be played on a three-foot-by-six-foot felt mat.”
Each game of winks is worth 7 tournament points, with certain points awarded for potted winks and for winks that are free at the end of the game, and none for squopped winks. The tournament points from each game are added together. In world championship matches, the first player or players accumulate more than 24½ points wins. Matches are usually decided after six games have been played. “I’m the only person so far who has ever won a world singles championship in four games,” Kahn says. “I seem to get more good luck than most players.”
Larry Kahn's account of how he won the six major winks championships in the world, and the antecedents to his victory, gives an idea of his passion for high-level competition.
“In 1995 I finally achieved the Holy Grail of winks—holding all six major championships at the same time,” he says. “These ‘Big Six’ are the NATwA pairs and singles, the ETwA pairs and singles, and the world pairs and singles. It’s hard enough to hold more than three or four of these at once, mostly because it involves traveling to the other country to play in their championships while having won your own that year. Each year the two organizations, NATwA and ETwA, hold weekend-long national championships in pairs and singles that anyone can enter. Then the winners of those tournament have a year to challenge the current world-title holders in head-to-head seven-game matches.
“I actually got close in 1985, maybe my best winks season ever. I started by winning the U.S. singles and pairs championships that year, and then in the fall eight of us set off on a brief tour of England. In the span or two weeks, I first won ETwA singles. Next, I won the world pairs title with my partner, Arye Gittelman, then the U.S. all-star team beat the Brits; and then I capped off the whole tour by winning the world singles title by a record margin. At that point I held five of the Big Six, with the only remaining title being the ETwA pairs the following spring. But I never went over for it. THere were a number of reasons. I had just started going to England to play in their singles every year and hadn't realized it was about to become a habit with me instead of an occasional every-few-years event. Also, nobody had come close to winning all six before this, so it didn't seem to be overly important at the time. Plus, I was dominating the winks world and figured I'd be in a similar position—holding five out of the six—over the next few years. I didn't feel any urgency.
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Page 255: He also led an active social life. “Over a fifteen-year period, I must have met and dated close to a thousand women via the personal ads,” he says. “Of course, most of these were just one-time dinner dates, but a few turned into long-term relationships. None permanent, though.” In June 1994 he placed a personal ad in Washingtonian magazine. It read: “Enthusiastic, eclectic engineer, 40, athletic, irreverent, dependable, affectionate SWM seeks fit, witty nonsmoking SWF unswayed by typical Washington yuppiness. Happiness is marrying your best friend and sharing a spontaneous, childfree, lifelong romance. Failing that, free chocolate.”
Perhaps because he hopes to play winks for the rest of his life, Kahn is worried about the future of the tournament game. “The game is in trouble here,” he says. “England went through a time when they had fewer players than we did, but they've rebuilt. They got Cambridge going again. Their eight top players can now beat our top eight players. Our numbers have dwindled since the seventies and so far we haven't been able to get them back up. We've tried recruiting at schools in the Washington area. Winks didn't go over well at the University of Maryland because it's a jock school. We had no success recruiting at a regional meeting of Mensa or at the Billiards Café in Greenbelt, Maryland, where we play on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month. There are three other top-notch-winkers in Page 257: the Washington area—Dave, Rick, and a Brit who goes by the nickname of Sly. People seem to be more into computer games now. We'd like to get the Boston area going again. We're hoping that some of the students of my math-teacher friend at Ithaca High School, Severin Drix, go to Harvard and MIT and stick with the game. Bostong is a city in which winks is likely to thrive.
“The game won't die off because we have a core of people who love it. They guys who movbed from here to the West Coast would gladly play if they mobved back east. We've played for thirty years and we still play. We enjoy winks and we enjoy each other's company. I'd like to see winks get bigger, so I could see if I'm as good as I think I am. I'd like to see if I could beat a thousand players rather than just the twenty or thirty I play in tournaments because they're the only ones able to qualify. It's cool to think that I've picked up this game and I've become the world champion and I've been able to keep up with the younger guys. It's cool to have won the most championships of anyone who has played the game.
“I can identify with Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods, because sometimes when I'm playing really well and really lucky it's like I'm in the zone. I don't mind admitting winks is sort of a silly game. Some of us play it to be good at something. I know that's one of the reasons that make me like it. It's nice being in the Guinness Book of Records. It's nice to be the best at something.”
Page 194: New York, September 22, 1890.
Being interrupted in Paris, I found I could finish this letter in New York and get it to Buffalo as soon as if sent from there. [...]
Page 197: And now, before I say hail and farewell, let me tell you that “Tiddledy Winks” is the hero of the hour in New York, and I hear a rumor that “Halma,” the former favorite, is already black and yellow with rage, and trembling in his boots for fear of dethronement. Has Buffalo yet become a victim to his charms ! If not, it should, and I shall take pains to inquire upon my arrival not many days hence.
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Movements of Gross Bodily Control: Throwing, Rolling, and Spinning Plays [...]
Page 292. Record of Throwing, Rolling, and Spinning Plays [...]
Page 294. 3. Throwing at a Mark [...]
Page 297: 16. The following games proved popular in the indoor playrooms. Nearly all illustrate the principle of rolling or throwing objects through holes: [...]
Page 298: Tiddledy Winks: a dish serves as a mark for shots.
The Goon Show's eighth series had been running since September 1957. In March 1958, an episode called "Tiddlywinks" aired. It was based on the real-life match that had occurred on March 2 between the Cambridge University tiddlywinks team on one side and the three Goons and Graham Stark on the other. The college boys had originally thrown their challenge to the Duke of Edinburgh, but the Duke, knowing of his son's admiration for Sellers, Milligan, and Secombe, gallantly nominated them as his stand-ins. Although they did have the last laugh with their broadcast, the Goons lost the match itself by a lopsided score of 120 to 50.
But Peter Sellers had other winks to tiddle. He was making movies, superindustriously [...]
Page 101: With the coming of spring my second eldest sister began acting very strangely, or so it seemed to me. Mooning about, absent minded, refusing to play tiddledy-winks and lotto with me as she had always done—living apparently in a trance.
I knew she had a beau, an agreeable friendly chap who had contributed many a nickel to my bank.
Page 107: In white nun's Page 108: veiling with a Queen Anne collar of white lace, pendants of pearl passementerie quivering in the light from throat to hem, white roses in her hair and in her hands, this vision with shining eyes and strangely exalted look could not be the sister with whom I played tiddledy-winks.
Page 110: Suddenly I felt very sad and lonely. There would be no one to play tiddledy-winks and Iotto with me now. My eldest sister was far too busy.
Many illustrations
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Most of the cabin were congregated in the cabin of the yacht, playing Tiddledy Winks for nickels.
Rules for playing tiddlywinks.
TIDDLYWINKS
You can't learn Tiddlywinks without learning a whole new vocabulary—words like "squidge" and "squop" ... not to mention "tiddly"
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TIDLIWINK
"What gives you that notion?" he snarled. "I'm after a star tiddleywinks player. Know the game?"
"Tiddleywinks? Well, not; but I can play better baseball than some of those fellows that adorn your infield," was the reply.
Page 13: And now a light truck approached, and as it came near, the driver saw the turtle and swerved to hit it. His front wheel struck the edge of the shell, flipped the turtle like a tiddlywink, spun it like a coin, and rolled it off the highway.
Page 87: the children squidged their toes in the red dust.
Entry with "1956
squop (v.)"
Page 125: An old lady who is a fierce “Anti,” having watched Chérie and her friends play “At the polls,” said to her, “You poor child, I know your mother will just kill you with the learned games she makes you play. You come over to my house this evening and I'll show you how to have some real fun playing tiddledywinks.” The name tiddledywinks aroused Winifred's “risibilities” and she was very eager to accept this invitation. I gladly gave my consent, but waited with impatience for her return, as I wished to see how a silly game with no real goal in view would affect Winifred.
The child came home sooner than I had expected and, when I asked her if she had enjoyed the game of tiddledywinks, she replied, “Oh, mother, it was too silly to be funny!”
“Did you tell Mrs. X that you thought her game silly?” I asked, fearing that Winifred in her outspoken way might have hurt the poor old lady's feelings.
“Oh, no,” she replied, “I tried to be polite and say that I had spent a happy evening, but when she talked about our games I told her how very interesting they were and invited her to play with us some day in a pageant or to go to the woods and see how many things she could get for a nature book like mine, and I added, ‘Mother’s games are so interesting and exciting because they are about real things.’ ”
Page 126: The next time that I saw Mrs. X she shook her head and said: “That child of yours is ruined completely. She’s queer. Poor little girl, she will never know the joy of playing tiddledywinks.”
Fortunately, the child's play life must and should begin in the home, but unfortunately, many parents are unskilled in the matter of directing their children's play. There was a time when almost the entire play life of the child centered about the home; when, in addition to the outdoor games, dominoes, checkers, tiddledy winks, parcheesi, jack straws, and a host of other fireside games and activities made the home the center of ever-fascinating interest. The very fact that many of these games were home-made added unmistakably to their value.
Description of the popularity of tidddlywinks
Page 325: why they were not asked to teach the men "Tiddly-winks" or "Drop the handkerchief." Later when they found themselves gasping for breath and their tongues hanging out from fatigue, they were willing to admit that the games were more than child's play. Still alter, when it was discovered that more than 75 per cent of the recruits did not know how to play, many of the officers began to realize that the inculcation of the spirit of spontaneous play was one of the things most needed in order to develop the alertness and initiative with which the American solider was already, in the popular view, sufficiently endowed by nature.
Section 2: Toys & Games
Tiddlywinks featured small coloured plastic discs, which had to be flipped, using another disc, into a pot. It is considered a child's game, but in 1955, the University of Cambridge introduced an adult game using tiddlywinks with more complex rules, strategy, and competition. However, no family playing the game in their house in the 1950s would have been concerned by that! It was just a bit of fun.
Title and Subtitle
A title can be helpful in giving an immediate impression of the topic of a document, but a title can also be misleading. Occasionally, more than one form of title or subtitle may be found on an information resource. The title Introduction to Cataloging and Classification is quite straightforward. On the other hand, the title A Compendium of Tiddlywinks Perversions is not so clear, and is not assisted by its other title information, Alleghany Airlines Book Club Presents.
Indications of the popularity of the game of tiddlywinks.
Dann sind da 212 weitere Societies, von denen es einige sonst nirgendwo auf der Welt gibt: Etwa die Cambridge University Real Ale Society (gibt's da etwa Bier?) , den Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club (richtig! Das sind die Flohhüpfer) oder den Amoral Sciences Club (als Studienfach kennt man eigentlich nur die Moral Sciences).
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Row: Middle childhood (6-10 years) … Column: Social development
Cell: Marbles
Dominoes
Checkers
Beanbags
Tiddledy winks
Card games
Costume dolls
Games (Parcheesee)
Page 365: Before Board 1, March 1, 1916.
No. 39311.—Protests 789063, etc., of Geo. Borgfeldt & Co. (New York).
BONE COUNTERS—TOYS.—Small, flat, circular pieces of bone used as counters by children in the game of tiddlywinks, classified as parts of toys at 35 per cent ad valorem Page 366: under paragraph 342, tariff act of 1913, are claimed dutiable as manufactures of bone at 20 per cent under paragraph 368.
Opinion by SULLIVAN, G. A. The evidence was held not sufficient to warrant reversing the collector's action.
Page 349: The Chairman. We will now hear Mr. Chappie.
STATEMENT OF MR. WILLIAM D. CHAPPLE, OF SALEM. MASS., ATTORNEY FOR PARKER BROS.
Mr. Chapple. Mr. Chairman, section G is commonly known as the sporting-goods section. I think it is intended to apply to sporting goods and games of skill, because it puts a tax upon baseballs, billiards, and so forth, and then comes on and puts in the general clause, "games and parts of games.'" That hits a number of children's games manufactured by Parker Bros., and you will understand that there is no tax upon toys in this bill, and these things are merely children's playthings, and we feel that you do not intend to tax this class of children's playthings any more than you do to Page 350: tax toys, because there is no tax upon toys. I will not go into further detail, but will submit iny argument in a brief.
The Chairman. Your brief will be printed.
(The brief referred to by Mr. Chappie, was subsequently submitted and is here printed in full, as follows:)
BRIEF IN BEHALF OF PARKER BROS. (INC.). MANUFACTURERS OF GAMES, TOYS. AND SPORTING GOODS, SALEM, MASS.. AND NEW YORK CITY.
In reference to the words "games and parts of games," section 600, paragraph G. line 9, page 27, of the new war-tax bill, from the context of paragraph G and allusions to this paragraph in debate, it undoubtedly is intended to tax sporting and athletic goods and adult games of skill and not playthings and games for little children, but this simple expression "games and parts of games" is so broadly comprehensive that it goes beyond what we believe to be the intention of the bill and would tax children's games, such as "jackstraws," "old maid," "snap," "marbles," "tiddledy winks," and numerous other simple childhood games which circulate In large quantities and at low prices.
The bill does not tax toys at all, neither the luxurious nor the cheap kind. It does not tax even the most expensive dolls, rocking horses, steel toys, express wagons, air guns, drums, etc., which is evidence that childhood toys anil games were not intended to be taxed by this bill, and that the only intent of inserting the words "games'' was to tax other athletic and sporting games, such as croquet, quoits, ping-pong, cricket, and similar games which were not itemized In paragraph G.
If toys are not to be taxed, then certainly children's games should not be. We therefore ask that the five words "games and parts of'games," line 9, paragraph G, section 600, be stricken out and the words "sporting and athletic games and parts of such games" be substituted, so that the section us amended shall read as follows:
"(g) Upon all tennis rackets, golf clubs, baseball bats, lacrosse sticks, balls of all kinds, including baseballs, footballs, tennis, golf, lacrosse, billiard and pool balls, fishing rods, reels and lines, billiard and pool tables, chess and checker boards and pieces, dice, sporting and athletic games and parts of such games, except playing cards, sold by the manufacturer, producer, or importer, a tax equivalent to five per centum of the price for which so sold."
All of the articles mentioned in paragraph G are sold by sporting goods stores, whereas children's games sell in juvenile sections, such as in toy and game departments and toy and game shops. We are makers of a large amount of sporting and athletic games and adult games of skill and are entirely willing to pay the tax imposed in this bill on such games, but it is evidently accidental and plainly unfair discrimination that children's games should receive other treatment than children's toys.
We request most earnestly that this error In the bill be corrected by t)ie adoption of the amendment above submitted.
Respectfully submitted.
Parker Bros. (Inc.),
George S. Parker,
President.
Wm. D. Chapple
Salem. Mass., Attorney
BELOW IS SUGGESTED ANOTHER WAY OF MAKING THE CORRECTION.
"(g) Upon all tennis rackets, golf clubs, baseball hats, lacrosse sticks, halls of all kinds, including baseballs, footballs, tennis, lacrosse, billiard and pool balls, fishing rods, reels and lines, billiard and pool tables, chess and checker boards and pieces, dice, games and parts of games, except playing cards and children's games, sold by the manufacturer, producer, or importer, a tax equivalent to five per centum of the price for which so sold."
Mr. Chapple. I will introduce Mr. George S. Parker, of Salem. Mass., president of Parker Bros., who will explain to you in more detail the effect of this wording. I think it is unintentional on the part of the committee. I do not believe you intend to tax anything Page 351: there except games that are similar to golf, baseball, or other skillful games.
The Chairman. Now we will hear Mr. Parker.
STATEMENT OF MR. GEORGE S. PARKER. OF SALEM, MASS., PRESIDENT OF PARKER BROS.
Mr. Parker. Mr. Chairman, there is no tax on toys, as Mr. Chappie said, no tax on dolls, no tax on children's goods of any description, no attempt to hit the children. This paragraph has been alluded ro in the press as the sporting-goods clause. It has been spoken of by Mr. Chappie as the sporting-goods clause, and such must be its intention.
I would like to suggest that in place of "games and parts of games" you insert "sport and athletic games and parts of such games." which removes some toys and games for little children what now bears down upon that class of articles. I am sure what they intended to say was croquet and dominoes and games of skill which are used by adults, and not games for little children.
We are entirely ready to pay our tax upon any of these things here which are mentioned, upon any of the sporting-goods items that we make, entirely ready, and in that class are named a good many games or subjects which we do manufacture. But we are sure, from the omission to tax toys, that there was no intention to tax little children's games, like authors, tiddle-de-winks, old maid, snap, and such articles; and really if they were taxed, they being highly competitive goods, there would really be no profit left upon that large portion of the business. We are quite willing to pay on pingpong, diabolo, checkers, backgammon, and croquet, and all the other articles which are named there.
That is all. I thank you, gentlemen.
The Chairman. That completes the schedule on playing cards.
Page 253: He had been persuaded to spend one afternoon at the Country Club. Is there a golfer in all the world who needs to be told what happened to Mr. RObert Coyne? He had hit one long, straight tee shot; he had holed one difficult putt; and the whole course of his serious, methodical existence had been changed. The man who does not learn to play any game until he is thirty years of age is quite capable of going daft over tiddledy winks or dominoes. If he takes up the best and most interesting of Page 254: all outdoor sports his family may count itself fortunate if he does not become violent.
Chapter 6: We concluded there must have been days of light gravity in olden times, when people could play tiddledy winks with huge chunks of stone.
Cites kidleywinks.
Entry for "saltodiskoj".
Excerpt from John Kendrick Bangs' Tiddledywink Tales
He became certain that the voices came from the Tiddledy winks on the table," ... "It was one of the little Blue Tiddledy winks that was speaking
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Tiddly-winks was a popular game of the nineteenth century. Counteres were flipped into a cup placed in the centre of a table. Early counters were of bone or ivory, later ones of plastic, usually coloured. They were of two sizes, the larger ones about the size of a penny being used as flippers. They were unknown in the U.S.A. about 1883, and were a fairly new thing in England in 1892.
Lady Emily Lytton in her book A Blessed Girl gives a long description of the game as it was played at Terling Place in 1892, calling it the most exciting game that was ever invented.
In 1957 the Goons, with permission, called themselves ‘Prince Philip's Royal Tiddly-winks Champions’ and played against the Cambridge University Tiddly-winks Club (four years old) in aid of the National Playing Fields Association.
A writer in The Times says: ‘the subtle art of TIddleywinks… here all depends upon the steady hand, the strong nerve, the experienced eye… etc., etc.’ It reminds one of the saying
Do not make tragedies of trifles,
Do not shoot butterflies with rifles.
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Joseph Assheton Fincher
(gentleman)
114 Oxford Street, London
1889
TIDDLEDY-WINKS
Joseph Assheton Fincher
(gentleman)
114 Oxford Street, London
1889
A Hurdle Race
Materials Required: A box of tiddledywinks, A sheet of white cardboard, A box of watercolour paints, A pencil, Scissors, A ball of white string, Some pins
The next time you are kept indoors by the weather, you and a brother or sister may enjoy a hurdle race. It is played with tiddledywink chips and pasteboard hurdles on a large table or on the floor. You can make the hurdles yourself. They should be cut from cardboard eight inches wide and four inches high. Paint some of them with wooden bars and others green—like high hedges. In making the hurdles, cut the cardboard so that a strip two inches deep by an inch across will extend below each lower corner (see Fig. 104). One of these is bent sharply forward at the place marked by the dotted lines, the other is turned back, forming stands to keep the hurdles upright.
The racecourse will have to be laid out on a covered table or carpeted floor, as the tiddledywinks can only be used on a soft, cushiony surface. You can make the boundaries with white string great care not to send it out of the course, for if it goes outside the lines you must set it back three inches. The umpire follows the race, of course, and settles all disputed questions.
Timeline entry under the year "1972".
MIT team winks Tiddlywink Championship in England
Page 66: The twenty-fourth show, ‘Tiddleywinks’, was inspired by a real-life tiddleywinks match in which the Goons had been involved. The Cambridge University tiddleywinks team had challenged the Duke of Edinburgh to a match; he nominated the Goons has [sic correct=as] his champions. Nothing loth [sic], the Goons entered the fray. They lost. In ‘Tiddleywinks’, Seagoon, having been cheating, is hauled up before John Snagge (‘You've been a cad, Seagoon, Your conduct as a Royal Champion has been disgraceful. I must ask you, formally, to hand back your tiddleys‘).
Aunt Dahlia: “Do you remember when you had measles and I gave up hours of my valuable time to playing tiddlywinks with you and letting you beat me without a murmur?'”.
Bertie Wooster: “I could have disputed this. My victories had been due entirely to skill. I haven't played much tiddlywinks lately, but in those boyhood days I was pretty hot stuff at the pastime.”
Mention of "TIDDLY-WINK".
Entry for "tiddlywinks".
Volume 5, page 704:
squap
Volume 5, page 709:
squidge
Volume 6, page 137:
TIDDLEDYWINKS, TIDDLE(E
TIDDLYWINK
Volume 6, page 173 of supplement:
squallop
)Entry for "squap".
Mention in the MIT section.
The short story, "Tiddlywinks and the train wrecker"