Check the FAQ, learn the rules, study winks strategy and tactics, and talk the talk with the lexicon of winks.  Buy equipment from NATwA.  Start a new club!

© 1995 Rick Tucker.  All Rights Reserved
Rick Tucker & Helen Andrews at the 1995
American Game Collectors Association
convention, Bloomington IN USA

Collectible Tiddlywinks

A Century of Tiddlywinks games. Click through hundreds of varieties and publishers.  Relive the craze of tiddlywinks as a parlor game in the 1890s.  Discover how innovative winks publishers have had to be.

© 1999 Rick Tucker.  All Rights Reserved
Unknown publisher
1890s

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

Winks perversions from Sunshine. The rules for strange and interesting ways to play winks.

Squopping, boondocking, and other words of winkdom from the winks Lexicon.  Plus "how you say" tiddlywinks in other languages.

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.

The oft-ridiculed game