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The North American Tiddlywinks Association T i d d l y w i n k s ! |
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The Tiddlywinks Bibliography is a compendium of all substantive and obscure citations to the game of tiddlywinks in all available resources: newspapers, magazines, books, government records, images, audio, video, web sites, etc. In other words, if the game of tiddlywinks was mentioned either briefly or in detail, it should be in the Tiddlywinks Bibliography.
Intro · Newspapers · School · Magazines · Books · Letters etc.· Video/Audio · Visual Art · Tiddlywinks Publications · Equipment · Patents · Trademarks · Copyrights · Misc. · Museums & Collections
Classification Key · Notable · Marginal · Literature · Etymology · Directories · Catalogs/Antiques · Rabelais · T'an Chi · Tw in Title
| [FG] | Rene Alleau, editor. Dictionnaire des jeux. 1964. [Library of Congress number: GV1200.D5] Page 419 | Transcript | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lilla Estelle Appleton. A Comparative study of the play activities of adult savages and civilized children - an investigation of the scientific basis of education. A dissertation submitted to the faculty of the Graduate School of the Arts and Literature in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The University of Chiago, © 1910. The University of Chicago Press. Published June 1910. ("For example, there are no highly specialized finger plays at all comparable, in delicacy of movement, to piano playing, or even to the simple modern games of "crockonole" or "tiddledywinks," plays in which the result sought is dependent upon the perfect control of the small muscles of the fingers, the rest of the body being comparatively quiescent.") | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [G] | Arandas Tequila book of games rules | Source: Barry Rogoff | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [IG] | Arnold Arnold. The world book of children's games. © 1972. [Library of Congress number: GV1203.A74] Pages 92, 95, 96 | Transcript | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MIles Bantock. On many greens: a book of golf and golfers. 1901. Grosset & Dunlap, New York
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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.
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Patten Beard. The complete playcraft book. 1926
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Patten Beard. The jolly book of playcraft.1916.
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| [K] | Beeton's Christmas annual. 1863. Page 39: Note by Francis Derrick (see Notes and Queries 4th S. ix 19) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin. American Prometheus: the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer.(c) 2005. Page 88 ("In 1932, Ralph Fowler, one of Oppie's former teachers from Cambridge, England, visited Berkeley and had a chance to observe his old student. In the evenings, Oppie persuaded Fowler to play his particularly complicated version of tiddlywinks for hours on end.") | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [N] | Richard Bissell. You can always tell a Harvard man. 1962. Pages 116117 (1962 tiddlywinks challenge to Harvard from Oxford) | Photocopy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [G] | Robert M. Boyle. Sportmirror of American life. 1963. Pages 22425 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [G] | Gyles Brandreth. The world's best indoor games (UK title: Everyman's indoor games). © 1981. Pages 23536 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Charles Reynold Brown. The young man's affairs. © 1909. Second Edition. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
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| [>H] | Jan Harold Brunvand. The study of American folklore: an introduction. © 1968. Page 231. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Jan Harold Brunvand. The study of American folklore: an introduction. 2nd edition. © 1978. Page 288 (folk game in India played with glass bangles) | Photocopy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Charlotte Malachowski Bühler, Edeltrud Baar. The child and his family. 1939
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Earnest Elmo Calkins and Ralph Holden. Modern advertising. 1905.
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Cambridge, Ada, At midnight and other stories. 1897.
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| [>G] | John D[enison]. Champlin Jr. & Arthur E[lmore]. Bostwick. The young folks' cyclopędia of games & sports. Henry Holt and Company, New York. 1890 (7 Nov 1890 in Preface). [Library of Congress number: GV11.C43] Pages 72526 | ++Photocopy; Original; Digital copy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mary Ellen Chase. The plum tree. 1949.
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| [IG] | Anne Civardi (James Opie, contributor). The know how book of action games. © 1976. Pages 1, 29. "Jumpers" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [F] | Alfons de Cock & Isidoor Teirlinck. Kinderspel & kinderlust in ZuidNederland. 1903. Volume 3. Peuteron. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Israel Cohen. The Ruhleben Prison Camp: A Record of Nineteen Months' Internment. 1917. Dodd, Mead and Company, New York
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| [GI] | Matthew J. Costello. The greatest games of all time. © 1991. Page 50, illustration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [EG] | John A. Cuddon. The international dictionary of sports and games. Schocken Books, New York. © 1979. [Library of Congress number: GV567.C8] Pages xxvii, 798 (history including Cambridge and Oxford; rules) | Photocopy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [GH] | Leslie Daiken. Children's toys throughout the ages. 1953. Page 185 | Transcript | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [N] | James Davidson. An eccentric guide to the United States. 1977Berkley. Acknowledgments and in Massachusetts section | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [G] | Diagram Group. Family Fun & Games. ©1992. Sterling Publishing, New York. Pages 348-351 (illustrations of tiddlywinks, tiddlywinks golf, tiddlywinks tennis) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [^IQG] | Diagram Group. The official world encyclopedia of sports and games. © 1979. Pages 7677 (rules; tiddlywinks tennis & golf; illus). (Abridgment of entry in The way to play.) | Photocopy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [IQG] | Diagram Group. The way to play: the illustrated encyclopedia of the games of the world. © 1975. Pages 122, 13435, 18385. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [U] | William B. Dick ("Trumps"). Modern pocket Hoyle. 1868. Page 307. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [>INH] | Paul Dickson. The mature person's guide to kites, yoyos, Frisbees, and other childlike diversions. 1977NAL. Pages: inside front cover, 15962, 194, back cover | ++Original | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [N] | Paul Dickson. The official rules. 1978. Page 194 ("Proclaim yourself 'World champ' of something-tiddlywinks [...]" | Transcript | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Martin Dixon. Equity & Trusts Q&A.2001. Page 125 ("However, problems arise because, after 30 years, the £10000 capital sum is to be given to the Society for the Promotion of Tiddlywinks" and more) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [FQ] | Dizionario Enciclopedico Italiano. 1958, Roma. Volume 9, page 924 ("pulce 3") | Transcript | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [GQ] | Fleetway House. Encyclopedia of sports, games, & pastimes. ~1935. Page 639 ("TIDDLEY-WINKS"; rules for standard game, croquet, golf) | Photocopy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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.
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William Byron Forbush, Manual of play. 1914
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| [G] | Rev. Philip H. Francis. A study of targets in games. 1951. [Library of Congress number: GV1200.F7] Pages 2089 (hexagonal target) | Transcript | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [^H] | Larry Freeman. Yesterdays games. 1970. Pages 153, 160 (same as in A cavalcade of toys) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [H] | Ruth & Larry Freeman. A cavalcade of toys. ©1942. [Library of Congress number: TS2301.T7F74] Pages 291 (two), 298 (photo of "TIDLEY WINKS" ten pins and glass cup), 366 ("Battle Winks" in 1903) | Photocopy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [G] | Edna Geister. Geister games. © 1930. Page 150 ("Tiddledewinks" including tennis) | Photocopy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [GQ] | Walter B. Gibson. Family games America plays. © 1970. Pages 23739 (including variants) | Photocopy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rufus Smith Green. An all-around boy: The life and letters of Ralph Robinson Green. © 1893. Page 159. ("April 12. [1891] [...] "I have had good success at most of the parties I have been to, where there were prizes. At a progressive Tiddledy-winks about a month ago, I captured the booby prize (I had never tried to play it before); but at the last Tiddledy — it was on the evening Belle arrived here — my skill had improved, and I got the second prize, a sterling silver case for court-plaster.") | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| [>FG] | Louis Harquevaux & L. Pelletier. 200 jeux d'enfants en plein air et ą la maison. 1893. Page 204 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gregg Herken. Brotherhood of the Bomb. 2002. Henry Holt and Co. Page 13. ISBN-13: 978-0805065886 ("the top physicists of their generation, drunk and crouched on all fours, playing a version of tiddlywinks on the geometric patterns of [Jay] Oppenheimer's Navajo rug.) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [HG] | Darwin A. Hindman. Handbook of indoor games and stunts. © 1955. Page 197 ("TIDDLY-WINKS") | Photocopy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (Reprinted in The complete book of games and stunts. © 1956. Page 197.) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [] | Reva Ifferman. Games played in Israel. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [HG] | Brian Jewell. Sports & games: history & origins. 1977. [Library of Congress number: GV571.J48] Pages 1089 ("Tiddlywinks Tower" with bell) | Transcript | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [G] | Bobbie Kalman. Games from long ago. ©1995. Crabtree Publishing. Page 13 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [FI] | Robert E. Lembke. Das grosse haus-und familienbuch der spiele. © 1969. Pages 14748 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [K] | James Henry Lewis. Lectures on the art of writing. 1816 (?). 7th edition. Page 52 ("that great kiddy what now wears the wig, were once a noted speechifyer in a sartain kidliewink what is called the 'House of Commons' [...]") | Photocopy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [IAG] | Brian Love. Play the game: a book you can play. © 1978. Pages: cover, 65 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [>HL] | Lady Emily Lutyens (Lytton). A blessed girl; memoirs of a Victorian childhood chronicled in correspondence 18871896. © 1953. J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia. [Library of Congress number: DA533.L9] Pages 9798 (diary entry from 24 April 1892, playing "Tiddleywinks") | ++ Original |
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Robert Lynd. The money-box. 1926
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| [H] | Inez & Marshall McClintock. Toys in America. 1961. [Library of Congress number: GV1200.M3] Pages 265 (Elderly English ladies asking F.A.O Schwarz for "Tiddley Winks" in 1883 [sic]), 346 (Parker Brothers) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [>N] | Steve McKee. The call of the game. McGrawHill, New York. © 1987. [GV583.M345; ISBN 0-07-045354-3] Inside front jacket cover, pages 5668 (1980 tournaments at MIT: World Singles, Continentals; history; lexicon) | ++Original | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ella MacMahon. A modern man. 1895
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| [>ENP] | Norris & Ross McWhirter. Guinness
book of world records. Varying entries.
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) |
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| [IG] | Ray J. Marran. Table games: how to make & how to play them. 1939. Pages 108119 | |
| Sir Compton Mackenzie. Youth's encounter. Chapter 18, Eighteen Years Old. 1913
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| [I] | John Mebane. What's new that's old. © 1969. Page 78 | |
| [E] | Spike Milligan. More Goon show scripts. 1973 (© 1974). Page 15 (Possibly in earlier book as well.) | |
| Bill Minutaglio, First Son George W. Bush and the Bush family dynasty. © 1999. Three Rivers Press. Page 21 ("'Listen, our family's middle name was games. Oh, we used to have tiddlywinks championships! Oh, wild tiddlywinks championships! We'd play, oh, just about every kind of game you can think of, from Parcheesi to tiddlywinks to Go Fish or Sir Hinkam Funny Duster,' said Dorothy's son Prescott Bush Jr. | ||
| [GQ] | Merilyn Simonds Mohr, The Games Treasury. © 1993. Chapters Publishing Ltd., Shelburne VT. Pages 142-143. Illustrated. (Tiddlywinks, Castle Tiddlywinks, Tiddlywinks Golf, Tiddlywinks Tennis; reference to surrealists playing in Mexico in the 1930s.) | Original |
| [H] | Virginia Musselman. Home play in wartime. ©1942. National Recreation Association Inc. [GV1201.M9] Page 7 ("centuries old"-Chinese played with ivory or jade) | Transcript |
| [E] | Robert Nicholson, ed. Shell weekend guide to London and the south east. 1979. (See Winking World 33) | |
Philip Orbanes. The game makers: the story of Parker Brothers from Tiddledy Winks to Trivial Pursuit. Harvard Business Press. 2004
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| [HG] | Parker Brothers Inc. 75 years of fun. 1958. Page 28 ("Tiddledy Winks", "Hop Scotch Tiddledy Winks", "Tiddledy Winks Tennis") | Photocopy |
| Parker Brothers Inc. 90 years of fun. 1973. Page 17 | Transcript | |
| Parker Brothers Inc. 100 years of fund. 1983. | ||
Lockie Parker, Association for Arts in Childhood. Story parade. Volume 6. 1941
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| [] | Parliamentary papers. 1833. Volume XV | |
Francis Bail Pearson. Reveries of a schoolmaster. 1917.
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| [>] | Jean Piaget. La prise de conscience. © 1974. Pages 101118: chapter "Le jeu dit des 'puces'"; and another. | ++ |
| Jean Piaget. Susan Wedgwood, translator. The grasp of consciousness-action and concept in the young child. © 1976. [BF723.C5P52613]. Pages 123146: chapter "Tiddlywinks"; page 204. | Original | |
| [G] | John B. Pick. 180 games for one player. 1954. Pages 5561 ("TIDDLEY-WINK GAMES": "Counter Battle", "Tiddley-winks", "Tiddley-wink Cricket", "Tiddley-wink Football") | Photocopy |
| [GE] | John B. Pick. Phoenix dictionary of games. 1952UK. Page 254. | Extract |
| John B. Pick. Phoenix dictionary of games. 1952US. Title: Dictionary of games. | ||
| John B. Pick. Phoenix dictionary of games. 1964. | ||
Eleanor Hodgman Porter. The road to understanding. 1917. Houghton Mifflin COmpany, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass.
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| [GQ] | Reader's Digest book of facts. © 1987. The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., Pleasantville NY. {AG105.R32}. Page 352. "SQUOPPING THE WINK". | Original |
Eugene Manlove Rhodes. Copper Streak Trail. © 1917 Curtis Publishing Company, © 1922 Eugene Manlove Rhodes
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Edward Alsworth Ross. Social Psychology.
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| Scholastic Resource Services (Rockville MD). "Education The Tiddleywinks Scholarship" leaflet. 1982 | Original (NATwA) | |
| Charles Dee Sharp. The wonder of American toys 1920-1950. © 2002. Page 37: photograph of "COMBINATION TIDDLEDY WINKS" with two cats on the cover, incorrectly marked as by Parker Brothers | ||
| [G] | Richard Sharp & John Piggott (former Cambridge winker). The book of games. 1977. Page 165 | |
| [I] | James J. Shea & Charles Mercer. It's all in the game. 1960. Page: cover only. (History of Milton Bradley.) | |
| [I] | Ralph Slovenko & James A. Knight, editors. Motivations in play, games and sports. 1967. Page xxix | |
| [M] | Pauline Soudamore. Spike Milligan: a biography. © 1985Granada, London. | |
| Alice Kimball-Smith and Charles Weiner, editors. Robert Oppenheimer. Letters and Recollections. Harvard Press. 1980. ("He invents 'a lethally complicated version' of tiddlywinks") | Review | |
Burt L. Standish. The making of a big leaguer. © 1915
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| [] | Brian SuttonSmith. The folk games of children. © 1972. Pages 26364. (Popularity) | |
| Mrs. Winifred d'Estcourte Sackville Stoner. Natural education. 1914. Page 125 ("'You come over to my house this evening and I'll show you how to have some real fun playing tiddledywinks.' The name tiddledywinks aroused Winifred's 'risibilities' and she was very eager to accept this invitation. [...] The child came home sooner than I had expected and, when I asked her if she had enjoyed the game of tiddledywinks, she replied, 'Oh, mother, it was too silly to be funny!'" and more) | Digital copy (NATwA) | |
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.
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| [] | Lewis M. Terman. Genetic studies of genius. 1925. Volume 1. Pages 388, 392, 402, 406, 408, 409, 418, 419. (Popularity) | Transcript |
United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Treasury decisions under customs and other laws.Volume 30, January-June 1916. Abs. 39312-16.
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| [GP] | Ron van der Meer. The world's first ever popup games book. 198xDelacorte. Page: cover, perhaps others | |
| [K] | Sidney & Beatrice Webb. English local government: the history of liquor licensing. 1903. Page 124 | |
| Mark I. West. Before Oz: juvenile stories from nineteenth-century America. Pages 172, 176, and 178 ("He became certain that the voices came from the Tiddledy winks on the table," ... "It was one of the little Blue Tiddledy winks that was speaking. ...") | ||
| [>IHE] | Gwen White. Antique toys & their background. ©1971. [Library of Congress number: NK9509.W5]. Pages 126 (Emily Lytton; The Goons in 1957), 229 ("TIDDLEDY-WINKS" by Joseph Assheton Fincher, 1889) | Photocopy |
| [^H] | Gwen White. Toys and dolls-marks and labels. ©1975. [Library of Congress number: T257.V4D684]. Page 87 ("TIDDLEDY-WINKS" by Joseph Assheton Fincher) | Transcript |
| Karl L. Wildes, Nilo A. Lindgren. A century of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, 1882-1982. Page 406 (timeline entry under year "1972": "MIT team winks Tiddlywink Championship in England") | ||
| [E] | Roger Wilmut & Jimmy Grafton. The Goon show companion: a history and Goonography. © 1976. Hardcover pages 66 (radio show entitled "Tiddleywinks"; Cambridge University challenging the Duke of Edinburgh), 100, 113, 128. Paperback pages 71, 110, 126, 148. | <ct> |
| [] | (Unknown). Little Mermaid. ~1998. (Cocoanut shell used to play tiddlywinks) | <John Kwosny> |