In addition to tiddlywinks games issued in rectangular wooden boxes, several other varieties of tiddlywinks games were produced in wooden containers in other shapes, notably in mushroom containers plus also in cylindrical wooden containers.
German Mushroom • Flohspiel Games
Predominantly in Germany (and also West Germany), tiddlywinks games were produced in wooden mushroom-shaped containers (both tops and bottoms) that traditionally had red mushroom tops that sometimes sported white splotches. While the years this games came out isn’t precisely known, they are believed to have been produced from the 1950s to the the 1970s, at least, and perhaps before and after. The quality of the winks in these mushroom tiddlywinks games is top-notch, since the winks in these games do not exhibit cheap burrs that were typical starting in the 1970s and thereafter.
Here’s DAS GUTE FLOH-SPIEL (The Good Tiddlywinks Game).
And NEUES FLOHSPIEL (New Tiddlywinks).
And here’s another traditional FLOH-SPIEL tiddlywinks mushroom game from Germany. This version not only sports the traditional red painted wooden cover, but also a simple illustration of a yellow wink on a blue background at left plus a blue wink on a yellow background at right.
Oh, and there’s lots more of the German mushroom tiddlywinks games on this front! Let’s continue to explore them.
Here’s one with FLOH Spiel on the top of the mushroom wooden container, with each of the letters of FLOH on a differently colored wink, and Spiel on a squidger. This game came with 6 plastic winks and 1 squidger in each of the 6 colors.
Ah, yes! There are so many more wooden tiddlywinks games. Here you go! Here’s the FLOH SPIEL 4×4.
It is all-too-common for tiddlywinks games to be missing winks and also for nonoriginal winks to be added to them. In this case, this game should have four winks in four colors (hence “4×4” on the cover). The plastic winks and squidgers shown at the bottom of the image below appear to be original, while the winks at top are not original.
