Category: Tiddlywinks Origins & Evolution

16 ❖ Tiddlywinks • In Various Languages

15 ❖ Tiddlywinks • in Round and Cylindrical Containers

20 ❖ Australia & New Zealand • Tiddlywinks Games

19 ❖ Canada • Tiddlywinks Games

As far as we can tell based on available games and research, the Canadian tiddlywinks scene pretty much mirrored the tiddlywinks scenes in England and the United States, mostly (but not always) replicating English and U.S. games to be sold in the Canadian market. William Bryce Book publisher William Bryce in Toronto, Canada produced the NEW […]

25 ❖ Outside North America, Europe, and Australia • Tiddlywinks Games

24 ❖ Elsewhere in Europe • Tiddlywinks Games

Směr • Czechoslovakia The Czechoslovakian company Směr of Prague was founded in 1952 and is still operating as of 2023. The Směr company produced these tiddlywinks games, which, interestingly enough, are marked in English as TIDDLEY-WINKS on a metallic plastic label across the front cover of the round Bakelite container. This metallic label is applied across the top […]

23 ❖ Netherlands • Vlooienspel

The name of the game of tiddlywinks in the Dutch language is vlooienspel, which literally translates to flea game, which is what the game of tiddlywinks also transliterates to in most European languages. However, some of the earliest Dutch tiddlywinks games bear the name of Tiddledy Winks, the original English name of the game. Unknown Dutch Publishers […]

18 ❖ American • Tiddlywinks Continues to Prosper

17 ❖ Great Britain • Tiddlywinks Throughout the 20th Century

22 ❖ Germany • Flohspiel

J. W. Spear & Söhne • Nürnberg, Germany J. W. Spear & Söhne in Nürnberg, Bavaria (and J. W. Spear & Son in England, mostly importing the games from Bavaria) were prolific in issuing basic tiddlywinks games, under a number of names, in what I call the hand series. In the hand series of tiddlywinks games, the cover […]