April 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.

Latest NATwA News

Upcoming: 14-15 July 1998.  The NATwA Singles (or Pairs, or both!) as Brits invade the USA for yet another time!  In Vienna VA.

4 April 1998.  Larry Kahn takes 1st in the NATwA Individual Pairs with 37 points in 7 games.  Then there's Bob in 2nd with 33½, Sunsch with 27½, Ferd with 26½, Rick Tucker with 18½, Mac McAvoy with 18, and Marg Henninge with 12.

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.

More news

Tiddlywinks Associations

North American Tiddlywinks Association (NATwA)
English Tiddlywinks Association (ETwA)
Scottish Tiddlywinks Association (ScotTwA)

Winks Clubs

Harvard Tiddlywinks Society (HTwS)
Cambridge Tiddlywinks Club (CUTwC) ... the original club, from 1954... or was it 1947?
St. Andrews Tiddlywinks Society (StATS)

Winkers and Winkdom

Profiles of winkers and the random winker web page...

The gallery of winking photos, including the strobe gallery and the Fluppet showcase.

And ...

alt.games.tiddlywinks, for what it's worth

Want to Play Winks?

Check the FAQ, learn the rules, study winks strategy, and talk the talk with the lexicon of winks.  Buy equipment from NATwA or from other winks publishers (if you dare).  Start a new club!

Collectible Tiddlywinks

Milton Bradley, Combination TIDDLEDY WINKS, late 1910s
© 1998 Rick Tucker.  All Rights Reserved

Milton Bradley, 1910s
From the Tucker Tiddlywinks Collection

The Tiddlywinks Game Catalog, compiled by Rick Tucker, includes a list of all known tiddlywinks publishers and games.  Rick's AGCA article on collectible tiddlywinks games takes you on a whirlwind historical tour of tiddledy winks (the original trademark for the game in England) and tiddlywinks games from the Victorian era to the present day.   The American Game Collectors Association (AGCA) is the foremost organization dedicated to the history and preservation of board games, card games, and puzzles (jigsaw and dexterity).

And contact Rick Tucker if you have antique tiddlywinks sets to sell or to add to the catalog.

Featured on tiddlywinks.org

Strategy & Tactics, including Lockwood's rules of thumb and forefinger

Winks perversions from Sunshine

Squopping, boondocking, and other words of winkdom from the winks Lexicon

Rankings of winkers worldwide, from Tim Hedger in the UK

NATwA's Newswink, ETwA's Winking World, ScotTwA's The Squopsman and other publications

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

The history of winks from  prehistoric eons ... to the Victorian era ... to collegiate play.  Plus patents, trademarks, and Tuckers' Tiddlywinks Game Catalog.

 

Last updated: 17 Sep 2006