3 ❖ Tiddlywinks • The Rules
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As it turns out, the core concepts of the rules of tiddlywinks have changed little since its invention in 1889. The game pieces that are flicked in the game of tiddlywinks are the winks, and the shooter, which has been called a variety of things, including a tiddledy, is called a squidger.
2 ❖ On to • The Intrigue
Tiddlywinks presents a paradox. It is unique and it is generic.
1 ❖ Setting the Stage • The Oft-Ridiculed Game
Have we sold our precious heritage in exchange for frivolity and a game of tiddlywinks?”. Lillie Struble, letter in Library Journal, 15 April 1978, page 790. This was the most unkindest cut of all. [William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act III, ii, 188.] “A 15th-century Donatello bronze,The Madonna and Child, served the Fitzwilliam family as a […]
33 ❖ Tiddlywinks • in Literature
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Even in the early 1890s, tiddlywinks was already well on its way to becoming a children’s game. The renowned author of juvenile tales, John Kendrick Bangs, wrote two books with tiddlywinks featured as the main characters. In Tiddledywink Tales (1891): “Perhaps that’s a little too deep for you Jimmieboy,” Blackey added, “but you see we Tiddledywinks have to […]