Royal Tiddlywinks Match: the 50th Anniversary!

Prince Philip has designated members of the Savage Club as his royal champions to compete against the Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club (CUTwC) on 1 March 2008 to commemorate the 50th anniverary of the first royal match.

Fifty years ago, on 1 March 1958, Prince Philip selected the famed radio comedy troupe, The Goons, to compete against CUTwC in response to an intriguing report in the influential newspaper, The Spectator, which in a headline posed the question, "Does Prince Philip Cheat at Tiddlywinks?". The rest is history. Read more about the early years of tiddlywinks competitions in On the Mat and Winks Rampant, both by Guy Consterdine of ETwA.

Winks Links

English Tiddlywinks Association (ETwA)
Cambridge Tiddlywinks Club (CUTwC)
Wisconsin Veterans of Foreign Wars
Scottish Tiddlywinks Association (ScotTwA) [archived]
Oxford University Tiddlywinks Society (OUTS) [archived]

Andrew Garrard
Larry Kahn
Charles Relle
Julian Wiseman

Playing Winks

	Check the FAQ
	Strategy & Tactics including Lockwood's rules of thumb and forefinger

The official rules

Winks perversions from Sunshine ▪ strange and interesting ways to play winks

The lexicon of winks ▪ squopping, boondocking, and other words of winkdom ▪ plus "how you say" tiddlywinks in other languages

Start a new club!

History

The history of winks from  prehistoric times ... to the Victorian era ... to collegiate play

Tucker's Tiddlywinks Museum of antique and modern winks games ... an amazing number ... over 2000 varieties

Tiddlywinks patents (with PDFs of all US patents) and trademarks

Further References

The e-x-h-a-u-s-t-i-v-e bibliography of tiddlywinks articles in newspapers, books, magazines, & even living things

The oft-ridiculed game

Random links

Books by Winkers
(Not about winks!)

	Fred Shapiro's Yale Book of Quotations ▪ Amazon.com (ISBN 0300107986)
	Bob Henninge's Spontaneous Generation ▪ Amazon.com (ISBN 1413487319)