North American Tiddlywinks Association

NATwA founded • 27 February 1966


Rick Tucker collects mostly antique (pre-1940) and occasionally modern tiddlywinks sets.

He’s a member of the Association for Games & Puzzles International (AGPI). He also performs research on all of the tiddlywinks sets that have been produced all over the world.  Check out the Tucker Tiddlywinks Database.  If you have new info to add, or have a tiddlywinks set to sell, contact Rick Tucker and he’ll get right back to you.

The Want List

Tucker’s want list is listed in alphabetical order by publisher.  It is not listed in any priority order.

title • The New Game of Spoof
variety • yellow cover
publisher • Frederick. H. Ayres
date • 

title • Cup Spoof
publisher • Frederick. H. Ayres
date • 1890s

title • Spoof Cricket
publisher • Frederick. H. Ayres
date • 1890s

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Original at: National Archives, Kew, Surrey, England UK
Tucker Tw ID • AYR-02 — publisher • F. H. Ayres (unmarked) — title • THE NEW GAME OF SPOOF
Original at: Richard Ballam collection, Bodleian Library, Oxford, England UK

title • Spoof Croquet
publisher • Frederick. H. Ayres
date • 1890s

Tucker Tw ID • AYR-03 — publisher • F. H. Ayres (unmarked) — title • CROQUET SPOOF
Original at: Richard Ballam collection, Bodleian Library, Oxford, England UK

title • Spoof Quoits
publisher • Frederick. H. Ayres
date • 1890s

title • Tennis Spoof
publisher • Frederick. H. Ayres
date • 

title • The Great Indoor Game Scrum
publisher • Chad Valley Games
date • around 1913

title • Flick-a-Wink
publisher • Makatoy for Cracker Jack
date • 1940

title • Racroc
copyright claimant • Arthur John Edwards
date • 1890

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Original at: National Archives, Kew, Surrey, England UK

title • Flutter
publisher • Feltham & Co.
date • 1890

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Original at: National Archives, Kew, Surrey, England UK

title • Lo Lo The New Parlor Game
inventor: George Leiter
publisher • E. I. Horsman
date • 1891

title • Over the Garden Fence
publisher • E. I. Horsman
date • 1893

title • Pharaoh’s Frogs, The Great Game of Tiddledy Winks
publisher • IB&W: Ives, Blakeslee, & Williams
date • 1891

title • Basket Ball
publisher • McLoughlin Bros.
variety • cover depicts girls and boys playing basketball
date • 1891

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title • Progressive Tiddledy Winks
publisher • McLoughlin Bros.
date • 1891

title • Maro
publisher • W. S. Reynolds Co.
date • 1891

title • Golfette
publisher • George Scott
date • 1889

Original at: National Archives, Kew, Surrey, England UK

title • Four Moon Tiddledy Winks
publisher • Selchow & Righter
date • 

title • Table Golf
publisher • Selchow & Righter
date • 

title • Juno
publisher • Selchow & Righter as jobbers (unmarked)
note: in wooden box with hinge
date • 1891

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title • Tiddledy Winks Pool
publisher • Selchow & Righter
date • 1890s

Tucker Tw ID • SRI-18 — AGPI ID • G-30683 — publisher • Rick Tucker — title • TIDDLEDY WINKS POOL — notes • Selchow & Righter — keywords • Selchow & Righter, billiards, game, game cover and contents, gc-image, pool, publisher, sport, tiddledy winks, tiddley winks, tiddly winks, tiddlywinks, tidleywinks

title • Tiddledy Wink Quoits
publisher • J. H. Singer
date • © 1891

title • Chronowinks
publisher • J. W. Spear & Son
date • 1891

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Original at: National Archives, Kew, Surrey, England UK

title • Jumpkins
publisher • J. W. Spear & Son
date • 1891

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title • The North Pole
publisher • J. W. Spear & Son
note • in a box with a polar bear on the cover
date • 1890

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Original at: National Archives, Kew, Surrey, England UK

title • Over the Garden Wall
publisher • J. W. Spear & Son
date • 1891

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Original at: National Archives, Kew, Surrey, England UK

title • (any)
publisher • Charles Zimmerling

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U.S. patent 477,287 by Charles Zimmerling, patented 21 June 1892

title • Monkey Business
publisher • Zulu Mfg. Co.
date • © 1928

Be sure to check out all known tiddlywinks games documented in the Tucker Tiddlywinks Database.

Are you a game publisher interested in creating a new game based on tiddlywinks?  Contact Rick Tucker.

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