March 1998

Tiddlywinks is a game of skill, strategy, and luck played with verve and fervor by winkers world-wide (predominantly in the USA and England and Scotland). The hot-beds of winking have been at universities such as Cambridge, Oxford, and St. Andrews in the UK, and MIT, Cornell, and Harvard in the USA.
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The official rules, and those of ages past.   Plus the proverbial perversions from Sunshine
Equipment
What you need to play and where you can get it
Strategy & Tactics
Lockwood's rules of thumb and forefinger, and other digitalia
Lexicon
Squopping, boondocking, and other words of winkdom.  Let it be.
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History
Patents, trademarks, collegiate play in the UK & US, and all the heritage of ages past
Bibliography
E-x-h-a-u-s-t-i-v-e compendium of tiddlywinks articles in newspapers, books, magazines, & even living things.
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Ttournaments worldwide + the rankings
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Winkers far and wide

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Collectible Games
The Tucker collection: antique TIDDLEDY WINKS & Tiddlywinks games, 1890 to now

Latest NATwA News

26 February 1998.   Radio station 97X (WOXY, 97.7 FM) in Cincinnati explores the world of tiddlywinks with Rick Tucker.

5 February 1998.   Microsoft Bookshelf 99, appearing in the Fall of 1998, will include a link to tiddlywinks.org.

17 December 1997.   The  Britannica Internet Guide from Encyclopędia Britannica selects tiddlywinks.org as a Recommended site, placing it in the top 15% of the 65,000 sites reviewed by EB's experts at www.ebig.com.

8 December 1997.   Tattered and battered, Newswink 29, NATwA's premier publication, emerges from destitution after three four five years in the gutter.  Buddy, can you spare a dime?

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Tiddlywinks Associations

North American Tiddlywinks Association (NATwA)
Well, er, yes, this web site by Rick Tucker

English Tiddlywinks Association (ETwA)
As if in caricature, with playing cards plastered to their foreheads in the pub.

Scottish Tiddlywinks Association (ScotTwA)

International Federation of Tiddlywinks Associations (IFTwA)
The authority for arbitration across the national tiddlywinks associations.

Winks Clubs

Harvard Tiddlywinks Society (HTwS)
Revived in 1997 by Frank Pacheco, after three decades of hibernatory restitude

Cambridge Tiddlywinks Club (CUTwC)
The original club, from 1954... or was it 1947?

St. Andrews Tiddlywinks Society (StATS)

MIT Tiddlywinks Association (MITTwA)
Awaiting a pre-Year 2000 revival.

Winkers

Profiles of winkers and the random winker web page... for those daring the derring-do.

Featured Tiddlywinks Set from the Tucker Collection

(1890) McLoughlin Bros. TIDDLEDY WINKS Patent Pending
McLoughlin Bros., 1890
See Collectible Games

McLoughlin Brothers manufactured this set in 1890. McLoughlin Brothers games are highly prized by games collectors for the high quality lithographic art on the covers. McLoughlin Brothers was bought out by Milton Bradley in 1920.

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Last updated: 17 Sep 2006