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Tiddlywinks Bibliography

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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, websites, etc.  In other words, if the game of tiddlywinks was mentioned either briefly or in detail, it should be in the Tiddlywinks Bibliography.

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Newspapers—Other Countries

Australia

The Age (Melbourne, Australia)

14 June 1958 page 4, column 8

"Tiddly Winks Gets Stablised"

  • The first Tiddly Winks Congress ended yesterday at Cambridge University. Delegates from the major universities agreed on a set of rules for all future tournaments. The first English tiddly winks association was also set up.
 digital copy

(Western Australian paper)

__ ~Mar 1959 Empress match (WW4 page 7)

Bahrain

Gulf Daily News (Bahrain)

15 Dec 1984 82 ("Tribute to Bahrain 1984") "Sport"/"A year of change" photocopy (NATwA)

Canada

See Canadian Newspapers

New Zealand

Feilding Star (New Zealand)

29 Oct 1892

Page 2 Volume 14 Issue 56

"Local and General News"

  • Mr. Waugh is making a nice display of new novels, children's birthday and presentation books, parlour games, tiddledy winks, albums, birthday cards, toys etc, and invited a visit of inspection.
 To be retrieved

Grey River Argus (New Zealand)

12 Jun 1902 (and other dates in 1902)

Page 4

Volume 57 Issue 10520

"JUST LANDED"

  • Ladies Bicycle fitted with the patent emergency tube, which is admitted as the greatest and most userful invention ever introduced in connection with the Bicycles; also the popular indoor games—Ping Pong, Ludo, Tiddledy Winks, Dargai, Klondike; also agent for F. Howell and Co's celebrated English pianos. Terms easy. Inspection invited. G. INGALL, Red House—ADVT.
 Digital copy (NATwA)

Marlborough Express (New Zealand)

17 Jun 1892 Page 2 Volume 28 Issue 142

Advertisement

  • MISS CARD
    HAS received a New Supply of Fancy Goods and Toys, new Games, including Renersi [sic, should be Reversi], Naval Manœvres, TIddledy-Winks, &c. [...]
    MARKET STREET, NORTH.
To be retrieved

Nelson Evening Mail (New Zealand)

5 Jul 1894 (also 4 Jul 1894 and others) Page 3 Volume 28 Issue 155

Advertisement

  • NEW GAMES.—Immense variety, including Palmistry, Fortune Telling, Flirting, Tennis, Cricket, Football, Bogie Man, Chess, Halma, and Tiddledy Winks.

    OAKEY'S BAZAAR.
To be retrieved

Observer (New Zealand)

20 Jul 1907 Page 14 Column 3 Volume 27 Issue 44

Advertisement

  • WINTER FIRESIDE GAMES
    All at 1/6, and played with a board.
    Snakes and Ladders, Steeplechase, Hare and Tortoise, Hunt Cup, Lotto and Bowlette (Table Bowls).

    VARIOUS GAMES.
    Tiddledy Winks, 1/6; Word Making, 1/-; [...]

    WILDMAN AND AREY,
    BOOKSELLERS, STATIONERS, AND PROPRIETORS AUCKLAND PICTURE POST CARD SHOP, VICTORIA ARCADE, SHORTLAND ST., AUCKLAND.
To be retrieved

Otago Witness (New Zealand)

13 Jul 1893 Page 3 Column 1

Advertisement

  • JAQUES' GAMES.
    FOR WINTER EVENINGS
    AN Immense Variety—Halma, Snap, Tiddledywinks, Reversi, Kono, Pirouette. Of all the
    Leading Fancy Dealers Throughout the Colonies.
    Published by JAQUES and SON, LONDON.
    See that Goods Bear the Name or they are not Genuine.
Digital copy (NATwA)
7 May 1902 Page 50 Issue 2512

"A YEAR IN THE ORANGE FREE STATE BEFORE THE WAR."

  • To pass long evenings we used to play tiddlywinks together.
 To be retrieved

The Star (Christchurch, New Zealand)

25 Jul 1893 Page 4

Advertisement

  • Miscellaneous

    ANNUAL Sale.—Flipperty Flop, new popular game, same as Tiddledywinks; Six-Handed Game for 1s, at Oakey's Variety Bazaar.
 Digital copy (NATwA)

Timaru Herald (New Zealand)

12 May 1894 Page 1 Column 8 Volume 57 Issue 5963

Advertisement

  • WINTER GAMES.

    [...]
    Tiddledy Winks. ... ... 1s
    [...]
    T. WAGSTAFF,
    BOOKSELLER & STATIONER, TIMARU.
To be retrieved

Wanganui Herald (New Zealand)

2 Nov 1894 Page 4

Advertisement

  • GAMES. GAMES. GAMES.
    Tiddledywinks, Halma, Flirting Cricket, Flirting Football, Stanley's March, Reversi, Pagodah [,] Endless Chain Puzzle, etc.

    H. I. JONES AND SON,
    BOOKSELLERS AND STATIONERS, PRINTERS & BOOKBINDERS, WANGANUI.
 To be retrieved

Evening Post (Wellington, New Zealand)

3 Oct 1891 Supplement, Page 2 Column 2

Wit and Humor

  • "Bertie," said the Queen to the Prince, "you do gamble. I have proof. Here, sir, is a poker chip I found in your pocket." "Nonsense, ma," said the Prince. "I've been playing tiddledywinks with Battenberg's babies."
 To be retrieved

Rhodesia

Salisbury (Rhodesia) Sunday Mail

9 Nov 1960 About game Kusiko (in women's column)

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Pravda (USSR)

~1950 Article referenced by magazine L’Officiel des Jeux et Jouets, 13 Apr 1950, No. 13, page 24.

United Kingdom

See UK Newspapers

United States

See US Newspapers

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