Tiddlywinks Bibliography

MIles Bantock. On many greens: a book of golf and golfers. 1901. Grosset & Dunlap, New York

• Page 128: Gerty and Golf
  
  I saw them wanter o'er the links;
  My scorn I could not veil;
  I hinted, too, at "tiddley winks
  Upon a larger scale";
  Yet even I remained to play,
  Who only went to scoff,
  Upon that memorable day
  When Gerty taught me golf.

Albert Barrère and Charles G. Leland. A dictionary of slang, jargon & cant: embracing English, American, and Anglo-Indian Slang, Pidgin English, Tinkers' Jargon and other Irregular Phraseology. Volume 2, L-Z.. 1890. The Ballantyne Press.

• Page 285: Spoof (turf), deception, swindle, sell. Properly a childish kind of game like "tiddlywinks."
  
  Next day I put all my oof
  On to Gold (sixteen to one),
  And now I hear the cry of spoof,
  The race is o'er, and he's not won.
  —Bird o' Freedom.
  
  Spoof has been defined by Sir P. Colquhoun as "an unintelligible shibboleth, invented to indicate an idiotic game—a sell. Exactly as 'the loud laugh proclaims the empty mind,' so, to be an adept in the spoof cult, indicates, as the first qualification for that dubious distinction, softening of the brain." This term owes its oririn to the game of spoof, played on a draught-board with counters, which have to be whisked on the top of the adversary's own counters by means of a small stick. It has been suggested, however, that "spoof is from provincial English spoffle, to busy oneself overmuch about a matter of small consequence, to rage over a trifle, as a 'great cry and little wool,', i.e., a cheat or sell. Hence disappointment, deceit."
  
  Love he used to think, I've said before, a riddle;
  To-day he says the mot d'énigmeis oof,
  And that lovers play a very second fiddle
  To markers at the noble game of spoof.
  —Sporting Times.
  
  "Tis oh! to be the people's "pug,"
  Who is paid at halls to spar,
  Who's a lovely, unscratched, scarless mug,
  Who lives like a La-di-da!
  Big battles he fights which are always drawn,
  But draw much golden off,
  He boasts of his biceps and "Boston" brawn—
  "Tis oh! for the game of spoof.
  —Bird o' Freedom

Patten Beard. The complete playcraft book. 1926

• Page 165: "THE GAME OF BUTTON TIDDLEDY"
• Page 167: "THE GAME OF TRIPLE TIDDLEDY"

Patten Beard. The jolly book of playcraft.1916.

• Pages 16-17: "THE GAME OF BUTTON TIDDLEDY"
• Pages 18-20: "THE GAME OF TRIPLE TIDDLEDY"

Charles Reynold Brown. The young man's affairs. © 1909. Second Edition. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.

• Page 93: Playing tiddledywinks or crokinole or button is harmless, but you can scarcely call it recreation. Recreation must bring pleasure, real, live, human pleasure, with fire in its eye and red blood in its veins.

Charlotte Malachowski Bühler, Edeltrud Baar. The child and his family. 1939

• Page 160
• Page 161: "While playing tiddlywinks, Alfred points at Susi and says: 'So you cheated.'
  Susi: 'That's where you're wrong.'
  Alfred: "No, I don't want to play any more. You were cheating.'"

Earnest Elmo Calkins and Ralph Holden. Modern advertising. 1905.

• Page 276: It is always something which can become a crae, as it were, like ping-pong, tiddledywinks, or the "Bonnie Brier Bush," or the interest in athletics. No one knows wy these things sweep over the country, yet every one is more or less affected by them.

Cambridge, Ada, At midnight and other stories. 1897.

• Page 204: "After tea, it being still broad daylight, the children sat down to a game of tiddledy-winks, to pass the time until it was dark enough for the fireworks. Tiddledy-winks looks a silly game to those who do not play it, but to those who do it becomes strangely fascinating; so that even after the lamps were lighted it was difficult to make those players leave off."
• Page 210: "'It's over,' said Eve, jumping up from where she lay on the flat of her back along the sloping leads. 'Polly, let's go down and have another game of tiddledy-winks.'"

Mary Ellen Chase. The plum tree. 1949.

• Page 94 ("Don't you remember, Mrs. Christianson, at those games we played last winter—you remember, lotto, tiddledywinks [...]")
• Page 95 ("It was nothing else than tiddledywinks, those absurd little disks in a row, red, blue, yellow, green, white, on that piece of felt, snapped by [...]")
• Page 96 ("'Those tiddledywinks!" Emma Davis cried.")

Israel Cohen. The Ruhleben Prison Camp: A Record of Nineteen Months' Internment. 1917. Dodd, Mead and Company, New York

• Page 144: Mr. Fred Pentland, the professional footballer, in nominating Mr. Castang as the Woman Suffrage candidate, described him as the All-England champion at tiddley-winks, and was interrupted by frequent cries of "Votes for women!"

William Byron Forbush, American Institute of Child Life, Guide book to childhood: a handbook for members of the American institue of child life. Edition 2. 1913.

• Page 204: "King Ring. [...] Tiddledy Ring Game [...]"
• Page 213: "Ring Over [...]"
• Page 215: "Spinning Plate Game [...]"

William Byron Forbush, Manual of play. 1914

• Page 252: "TIDDLEDY-WINK GOLF" by Mary White
• Page 313: "King Ring [...]"

Robert Lynd. The money-box. 1926

• Page 61: [...] more unseemly behaviour at a Sunday School soirée and more evil passions on the faces of people playing tiddleywinks.

Ella MacMahon. A modern man. 1895

• Page 108-109: But Byng and Miss Vesey cut the reminiscenary digression very short by making everybody sit down forthwith to play "Tiddlywinks."
  
  "Tiddlywinks," as everybody konws, is a charming game. It has, indeed, two prominently delightful advantages, namely, any number of persons can take part in the game, and "no previous konwledge," as the advertisements say, "is necessary."
  
  So once more the whole party ranged themselves at the round table, and the game began.
• Page 110: She declared afterwards that she had never enjoyed anything so much in her life as this game of "Tiddlywinks," with Merton Byng close beside her.

US editions:

Guinness sports records book

Guinness book of sports records/winners & champions

Guinness book of records (UK editions)

Winners (see WW35)

(Other Guinness publications, exhibits, artifacts)

Sir Compton Mackenzie. Youth's encounter. Chapter 18, Eighteen Years Old. 1913

• Page 455: There were the mutilated games that commemorated Christmas after Christmas of the past. Here was the pack of Happy Families, with Mrs. Chip now a widow, Mr. Block the Barber a widower, and the two young Grits grotesque orphans of the grocery. There were Ludo and Lotto and Tiddledy-winks, whose counters, though terribly depleted, were still eloquent with the undetermined squabbles and favorite colors of childhood.

Philip Orbanes. The game makers: the story of Parker Brothers from Tiddledy Winks to Trivial Pursuit. Harvard Business Press. 2004

• Page x: "George led the firm to bring American everything from Tiddledy Winksand Rook, to Mah-Jongg and Ping-Pong"
• Page 24-25: "Winks and Balloons" section: "When word reached him of a funny little flicking game being played everywhere in Queen Victoria's country, he grabbed the U.S. rights." ... "Parker Brothers immediately applied for a U.S. trademark for the name Tiddledy Winks." and more. Image of a Parker Brothers "TIDDLEDY WINKS" game
• Page 30-31: "Ping-Pong" section: "He first learned this principle by watching the way his competitors capitalized on the Tiddledy Winks fad after he was unable to secure its trademark."
• Page 48: "In 1910, for example, Tiddledy Winks, Pillow-Dex, and especially Ping-Pong were still available in multiple editions."
  

Lockie Parker, Association for Arts in Childhood. Story parade. Volume 6. 1941

• Page 50: "here are new ways to use your old game materials. By making a very simple board you can play a table game of SHUFFLEBOARD with your old Tiddledy-Winks"
• Page 56: "Fun With Tiddledy Winks"

Francis Bail Pearson. Reveries of a schoolmaster. 1917.

• Page 186 ("A young man who had been spending the evening in the home of a neighbor complained that they did not play any games, and did nothing but talk. I could not ask what games he meant, fearing that I might smile in his face if he should say crokinole, tiddledy-winks, or button-button. [...] I was sorry to miss such an evening, and think I could forego tiddledywinks with a fair degree of amiability if, instead, I could hear such a man talk. I have seen people yawn in an art gallery. I fear to play tiddledywinks lest my hour may resume the guise of a hag." ).
• Page 188 ("If I can recite even these six plays in those six evenings I shall feel that I did well in deciding ror Shakespeare instead of tiddledywinks.").
• Page 190 ("I plainly see that I have played my last game of tiddledywinks and solitaire.")

Eleanor Hodgman Porter. The road to understanding. 1917. Houghton Mifflin COmpany, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass.

• Page 2: From the first they were comrades, even when comradeship meant the poring over a Mother Goose story-book, or mastering the intricacies of a game of tiddledywinks.
• Page 266: Things that his father had done and said, his little ways, his likes and dislikes, the hours of delight they had passed together, the trips they had taken, even the tiddledywinks and Mother Goose of childhood came in for their share.

Eugene Manlove Rhodes. Copper Streak Trail. © 1917 Curtis Publishing Company, © 1922 Eugene Manlove Rhodes

• Page 173: " — old oaken schoolhouse that stood in a swamp. It is a shame, of the burning variety that a State as wealthy as New York does n't and won't provide country schools with playgrounds big enough for anything but tiddledy-winks!" declared Miss Selden.

Edward Alsworth Ross. Social Psychology.

• Page 80: Theory of the fad. The fad originates in the surprise or interest excited by novelty. Roller skating, blue glass, the planchette, a forty days' fast, tiddledy-winks, faith healing, the "13-14-15" puzzle, baseball, telepathy, or the sexual novel attract those restless folk who are always running hither and thither after some new thing.

Burt L. Standish. The making of a big leaguer. © 1915

• Page 64: "What gives you that notion?" he snarled. "I'm after a star tiddleywinks player. Know the game?"
  
  "Tiddleywinks? Well, not; but I can play better baseball than some of those fellows that adorn your infield," was the reply.

William Howard Taft. Service with fighting men: an account of the work of the American Young Men's Christian Associations in The World War, Volume 1. 1922. Association Press, New York.

• Pages 324-325: So simple were some of the "stunts" that at first some of the officers wanted to know why they were not asked to teach the men "Tiddly-winks" or "Drop the handkerchief."

United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Treasury decisions under customs and other laws.Volume 30, January-June 1916. Abs. 39312-16.

• Pages 365-366: Before Board 1, March 1, 1916.
  
  No. 39311.—Protests 789063, etc., of Geo. Borgfeldt & Co. (New York).
  BONE COUNTERS—TOYS.—Small, flat, circular pieces of bone used as counters by children in the game of tiddlywinks, classified as parts of toys at 35 per cent ad valorem under paragraph 342, tariff act of 1913, are claimed dutiable as manufactures of bone at 20 per cent under paragraph 368.
  
  Opinion by SULLIVAN, G. A. The evidence was held not sufficient to warrant reversing the collector's action.