"Rough Sport at Oxford"

• A Reuters dispatch from Oxford reports that Cambridge University lowered Oxford's colors in the first tiddlywinks contests between the two seats of learning by seven games to one.

"Antique games"

• TIDDLYWINKS, old maid, Uncle Wiggley. . . . Do these names evoke memories of childhood, a wave of nostalgia? At Ellen Liman's Manhattan home, these are just a few of several hundred antique games a visitor finds, many of them displayed on the bookshelves of her wood-paneled library.

"Squop a wink". About the 100th anniversary of tiddlywinks.

• FEW people realize that this year is the 100th anniversary of tiddlywinks. The game was invented in 1888 by Joseph Assheton Fincher, who apparently has no other claim to fame. And if the game had to be invented, a fellow with a name like Fincher would be the one to do it. [...]

"President Bush Comes Out to Play,  Whether at tennis or tiddlywinks, `Mr. Smooth' is a fierce competitor - a letter from Washington"

• His zeal is wide-ranging, from the country-club staples of golf and tennis to the good-old-boy traditions of fishing and horseshoes to such previously unrecorded presidential pastimes as Wally Ball and tiddlywinks.
  
  Yes, President Bush plays tiddlywinks.

"COIN COMPANY HAS BEEN STAMPING THEM FOR 160 YEARS" by Cliff Radel

• A '90s hybrid of tiddlywinks meets dodge ball, the Pogs and Slammers games involve small discs, which can be made of metal.

"GNS SPORTS", Rick Bozich.

• You remember baseball. It's the game that a year ago surrendered August, September and October to football, golf and tiddlywinks

"AOL Sued Over Networking Bugs in AOL 5.0" by Brian McWilliams.

• Concerns beta testers were rebuffed, however, in a posting by an AOL staff who wrote, "We can neither identify nor eliminate all bugs. In some cases on some folks' machines, I believe installing tiddlywinks would probably be a problem. [...]"

"British Shoppers Return to Traditional Games for Holiday Season".

• but the humble game of tiddlywinks is staging a comeback this Christmas. Department stores group John Lewis says tiddlywinks sales are up 18 percent this year

"Consumers go POG wild; marketers milk latest craze" by Tim Triplett

• POGs? Flat marbles. Round trading cards. New Age tiddlywinks.

"TIDDLYWINKS, THE GLUE THAT BINDS GENERATIONS"

• ON THE LIGHT SIDE Ker-plunk! Into the cup sailed the last Tiddlywink, the sound music to my ears. I love to play that game, just like I love to play Pick Up Sticks and Monopoly. But Tiddlywinks has always been my all-time favorite. Don't laugh - I was once crowned the official Grand Champion during a week-long tournament my friend Betty and I organized back in first grade. [more]

AP "Holiday shoppers boggled by tiddlywinks players" by Joyce A. Venezia. Ocean City NJ exhibition at a department store. Cites Larry Kahn, Jim Marlin, Rick Tucker

• Kahn, 33, of Silver Spring, Md., is the national tiddlywink champion and a former world champion.

"Hard to talk of football while at war"

• At what point does football become tiddlywinks?
  
  Answer: As soon as there's war.
  
  But when it's one's job to write about tiddlywinks, one writes about tiddlywinks, although one may not be entirely comfortable doing it. One tried to make the tiddlywinks sound interesting, while at the same time asking oneself: Who cares about tiddlywinks right now?

"THE PEOPLE'S STORE."/"Our Place a Veritable Beehive of Industry."

• Mammoth Toy Department
  [...]
  Our game booth consists of games from 5c upwards. We have the largest assortment of Tiddledy Winks in Southern California.
  [...]
  A. HAMBURGER & SONS

• FRESH ARRIVAL
  —OF THE—
  Popular Parlor Game
  TIDDLEDY WINKS
  —AND—
  Tiddledy Winks Tennis
  ALL SIZES, 25c, 50c and $1.
  [...]
  DAVIS BROTHERS,
  718 Market st. and 1234 Market st.

• FRESH ARRIVAL
  —OF THE—
  Popular Parlor Game
  TIDDLEDY WINKS
  —AND—
  Tiddledy Winks Tennis
  ALL SIZES, 25c, 50c and $1.
  [...]
  DAVIS BROTHERS,
  718 Market st. and 1234 Market st.

"Serious child's play, TIddlywinks champions go for the jugular with a passion". Coverage of the tiddlywinks demonstration event in Ocean City, New Jersey

• OCEAN CITY, N.J. -- Larry Kahn watched his opponent get nurdled almost immediately, so he didn't dare pot his own wink. Instead he shot so he could squop and piddle later.The jargon boggled holiday shoppers passing by the table at a department store where Kahn and two other members of the North American Tiddlywinks Association were exhibiting their skills recently. [more]

"The Fair"/"COLOSSAL COMBINATION SALE OF S. PELTON & BROS.'"

• GAMES, PUZZLES, TOY BLOCKS, ETC.
  
  Games Games Games
  
  [...]
  
  Tiddledy Winks
  The Greatest Game of modern days.
  Just received the Newest and Improved Edition FOR Six Players, only 58c

"SOCIETY"

• TIDDLEDY-WINKS TOURNAMENT.
  
  On Thursday afternoon Miss Eicholtz entertained her friends at the family residence, Champa and Fourteenth streets.
  
  A Tiddledy-Winks tournament was the amusement planned. The players occupied nine tables, and there was great sport.
  
  Miss Coffey and Miss Marion Smith won first prizes—loverly balls of pure white crysanthemums.
  
  [article continues]

UPI "Tiddlywinksers to teach Soviets"

• Six Cambridge University students left England for Russia today to let the Russians into a very serious secret--tiddlywinks.

"Missionaries off"

• Six British students, members of the Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club, left here over the weekend for a 10-week overland trip [...]

"A fun game--for the players"

• Although academic literary criticism combines the triviality of tiddlywinks with the brutality of lacrosse, it suffers from one grave disability as a game: it may be fun to play, but it's hell to watch.

Riding High On Unicycles

• From the friendly university that brought you a tiddledy winks marathon, an international Frisbee champion, and the world's longest yo-yo comes Boston's only unicycling club.

"Letter to the Editor"

• A TV news announcer just reported yet another dangerously high pollution reading. He barely managed to hold back a yawn. His reading of the text was delivered with the same expression but less emotion than the reading of a score in the U.S. tiddlywinks opens.

"Michele Pecora's Musical Shrugs"

• Maybe it all started when Twyla Tharp shrugged her first shrug -- this epidemic of offhand whimsy that has overtaken contemporary dance and threatens to reduce the whole art to the level of tiddlywinks.

• Ben Lockwood,10, consults with his teammate Bob Henninge, 58, who has been competing at tiddlywinks since 1966. Henninge drove in from Athens, Ohio, to compete in the tournament. Henninge says that he still loves the game, but now sees his role as one of keeping the game alive while teaching the younger generation how to play. When given a choice of teammates, Ben chose Bob. (Photo by Lois Raimondo/The Washington Post/Getty Images)

"Philip's Royal Club Loses in Tiddlywinks" (United Press)

• CAMBRIDGE, England, March 1—The Cambridge University tiddlywink team trounced Prince Philip's royal tiddlywink club 16-2 today. The prince claimed he sprained his "winking finger" practicing and could not play.
  
  The match was a tongue-in-cheek contest that drew a sellout crowd of 500 and raised nearly $300 for the National Playing Fields Association, of which Prince Philip is the president.

"Tasters Choice Commercials Need To Heat Up The Brew"

• Coffee Lady and Coffee Guy are at his place for a cup of Tasters Choice and maybe a game of tiddly-winks.

• Tiddledy Winks
  
  better than Pigs in Clover. Large lot just received by John M. Miller, 31 Marietta street

Column 1

• THIS WEEK IN SOCIETY.
  
  Mrs. W. T. Evans will give a tiddledy winks party [on] Wednesday evening, in honor of Miss [... ...] and her guest, Miss Pauline Harris. Mrs. [Evans] is as popular a woman as she is charming and [...]ful as a hostess, and the party will doubtless be most delightful.

Column 2

• The New Popular Game
  
  of Tiddledy Winks at John M. Miller's at 31 Marietta street

Column 3

• Tiddledy Winks
  
  At Millers, 31 Marietta street

• A very enjoyable and delightful tiddledywinks [party] was given last evening by Mrs. W. I. Evans, [in her] charming home in Park place, in honor of [Miss] Fedora Raine and her guest, Miss Pauline Harris, of Athens. The home of Mrs. Evans [was] very dainty and pleasant.
  
  The prizes offered were very handsome, and those who won were particularly fortunate. They were as follows: First prize for the ladies, a fairy [cap?] of exquisite design; booby prize, a hand-[paint]ed memorandum. First prize for gentlemen, [a ha]nd-painted calendar; booby prize, a hideous [...]rab of queer device. Delightful refreshments were served, and all present spent a most enjoyable evening.
  
  [...]

"THE MARRIED PEOPLE
GATHERED UNDER THE ROOF OF MRS. E. C. PETERS. The Novel Amusement of Progressive Tiddledy-Winks--The North Side Club."

• A very congenial company of married society people gathered in the artistic drawing rooms of Mrs. Edward C. Peters last evening to enjoy the novel amusement of progressive Tiddledy Winks. Mrs. Peters made her exquisite home more charming than ever on this occasion when she adorned every nook, alcove and window with growing tropical palms and dowers from her...

AP "It's official!"/"Tiddlywinks recognized as intervarsity sport"

• Tiddlywinks Thursday became an official intervarsity sport between Oxford and Cambridge.
• Cambridge tiddled the winks more skillfully and defeated Oxford 64-48 to take the first official title.
• Now Cambridge has an American challenge to take up--from the University of Pennsylvania. The American students issued their challenge last year. It's still on the table.

AP "To Old Oxford's glory"/"New winker winkle surprises Cambridge"

• Oxford winkers, flouting tradition, slipped three girl winkers into the varsity tiddlywinks team Saturday and toppled flabbergasted Cambridge, 59½-52½.

"Tiddledy Winks."

• Is a new game recently originated. Wherever it happens to strike, it is epidemic. It is much worse than "Pigs in Clover" "Pigs in the Pen," "The Fifteen Puzzle," etc. The game is an effort to apply the pressure of a big ivory chip called a "tiddledy" to six small ivory chips called "winks" so as to cause them to hop, skip, jump or fly into a cup, placed at the supposed center of a circle whose circumference would pass through the middle "winks" of each player's group as originally placed.There have been rages before, of one sort or another, but Tiddledy Winks outdoeth them all.It has invaded the family circle, capturing all members from the aged grandmoster to the tender toddler; it has usurped conversation; it has driven out cards; it has scattered over the library shelves; its has, almost driven the calamity editor into the background.

"What is to 'Tiddly-Wink'?"

• We do not know, but whatever it is, at any rate the Supreme Court of Victoria has decided that it is not libelous.

"FROM OUTLYING WARDS"

• A progressive tiddledy winks party was given by Miss H. C. Rogers and Miss Mary Kimball, at the residence of Mrs. B. H. Rogers, Friday evening. About twenty-five young people were present. The first prizes were won by Miss Hattie Lloyd annd Mr. Carl Rogers, and the consolation prizes by Mrs. Arthur Bennett and Mr. Brayton Shedd.

"IN THE SOCIAL WORLD."/"ANOTHER CRAZE THREATENED."

• "Tiddledy-wink."
  
  "A Tiddledy-wink social."
  
  There is no joke about it. It is a serious, soul-absorbing topic, and if ever you run up againsta a lay-out you'll think so.
  
  "Lay-out" sounds queer in connection with a social, but "Tiddledy-wink" socials look, at first sight, very much like a "lay-out." Chips—red, green, blue, and white—are used in this new game with such a queer name. They are not placed as in a "game," but they are all important just the same in "Tiddledy-wink."
  
  [and more]

"RATHER A GAY WEEK."/"Receptions and DInners Have Been More Plentiful Than Weddings Lately."/"Society Has Had Its Share of Royal Entertainment in Various Ways."

• Miss Edna Murphy, of Washington boulevard, gave a charming luncheon and tiddledy winks party Friday afternoon. The parlors were decorated with pink and white roses and carnations and the favors were pink roses. Sixteen young ladies were present.

"TIDDLEDY WINKS."/"The New Game Now the Thing for Amusement." 2 illustrations.

• Tiddledy Winks is now the great game for social amusement. From two to six persons may make a set in this craze—the more the merrier. The game is English in origin, but the Americans have made enough changes in it to claim it. The blessed thing about this game is that it isn't "scientific." Any "jay" can play it as well as the most accomplished swell—that is, if he can once get the hang of the thing. Small ivory chips are jumped by striking them on the edge with a larger chip, and the object of the game is to make them fall into a small "wink" pot in the center of the table. Every girl winks when her chip jumps. The small chips are called "winks;" the larger chips are jumpers. The wink pot is placed in the center of the table. It is a small cup, barely two inches in diameter. [and much more]

"Worse Than Tiddledy Winks"

• Indianapolis News: The Illinois Legislature continues its daily ballot, starting in to-day on the 109th round. Compared to the proceedings of this body the new game of "tiddledy winks" seems a highly intellectual pastime

"MANY ENTERTAINMENTS GIVEN DURING THE LAST SIX DAYS."

• The Henrietta Club of Hyde Park gave its first ... 4807 Madi- son avenue, gave a *- Tiddledy Winks " party to thirty-six Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. A. WN. Patterson, No. ...

"TIDDLYWINKS."/"A Children's Story."

• Tiddlywinks was a Partridge Cochin, a tall, fine-looking fellow, with beautiful red and gold plumage, which glistened brightly in the spring sunshine.

Miller & Chamberlin advertisement

Column 1

• New Advertisements.
  
  TIDDLEDY WINKS - Chamberlin & Walzer.

Column 6, large text advertisement

• SEE IT! BUY IT
  
  TIDDLEDY WINKS
  THE POPULAR NEW GAME
  
  ALSO
  
  REMEMBER Our Store is Full of CHOICE GOODS
  FOR THE
  HOLIDAYS!
  
  MILLER & CHAMBERLIN
  
  JUDD DECKER, Manager

"DAILY JOURNAL"

• Newest game out. Tiddledy Wink's to be had only at the Bazaar.

Advertisement by Grand Bazaar

• THE POPULAR GAME
  HALMA
  NEW, NOVEL
  And Nice
  
  We Lead Them All.
  Halma, the newest game out, only to be had at
  GRAND BAZAAR
  
  Also Tiddledy Wink, Tideledy Wink Tennis, Crokinole and Progressive Halm. Call and examine.

Advertisement by Grand Bazaar

• THE POPULAR GAME
  HALMA
  NEW, NOVEL
  And Nice
  
  We Lead Them All.
  Halma, the newest game out, only to be had at
  GRAND BAZAAR
  
  Also Tiddledy Wink, Tideledy Wink Tennis, Crokinole and Progressive Halm. Call and examine.

Advertisement by Grand Bazaar, with illustration of tiddledy winks being played at a round table by four adults and a boy

• TIDDLEDY WINKS
  
  The Newest Game Out
  TO BE HAD
  Only at the Bazaar
  
  Also Halma. Crokinole. Tiddledywinks. Tennis. Call and examine
  
  GRAND BAZAAR, 4th. Street.

"Tlddledy Winks'"

• As the "Tiddledy Winks" is a new and novel game, a brief description apropos: A flat,.wide glass is placed in the center of a cloth covered table aud the players surround the table Each playor is sup- plied with six small cbecks and one larger one. The object is to flip the small checks into the glass. The cover on the table being flexible the act of flipping throws the check into the air. It requires considerable practice to become expert, and the mishaps and miscalculations of the novice are very amusing.

"City Briefs", column 2

• "Tiddledy Winks," the latest craze, at Gnahn's book store.
• The latest craze, "Tiddledy Winks," at Gnahn's book store.
• Have you seen the "Tiddledy Winks" at Gnahn's.

Column 3

• "Tiddledy Winks" at Gnahn's

Column 6

• "Tiddledy Winks" and other new games at Gnahn's.

"CITY BRIEFS"

• Tiddledy Winks! Tiddledy Winks!
  At Gnahn's Book Store

Repeated 3 times in column 3 and 2 times in column 4:

• TiddledyWinks at Hall's

"Social Gatherings"

• A pleasant party given by Miss Flo. Argo, Saturday, was enjoyed by a large party of young guests. Tiddledy winks was the game of the evening.

"A Pleasing Change"

• Jack Wylie—Have you been playing any poker lately?
  
  Mr. B. T. Flush—No: I've quit. My luck was too bad. But I've got a cinch on that new game, "Tiddledy Winks." Ever hear of it?
  
  Jack Wylie—Oh, yes; they call it "Idiot's Delight." But why do you do better at that?
  
  Mr. B. T. Flush—Because the man who puts in the most chips wins.—Judge.

"The Latest Popular Game."

• It need not surprise any one to drop into an evening gathering or a quiet home circle and find people who wear spectacles across their noses and carry dignity by the ton trying to snap a row of ivory chips into a little wooden cup. That is the new game, christened tiddledy winks. It requires a small wooden cup called a wink pot and two dozen bone or ivory chips called winks, also four larger ones about the size of an old fashioned pants button, known as tiddledies. There is a cushion to snap the chips upon, or you can spread a small square of Brussels carpeting under the tablecloth, which answers just as well if not better. The trick is to snap the winks into the wink pot by means of the tiddledies held between the thumb and finger, the winks lying flat on the cushion or table. This is the game of the season—the great social snap, so to speak. There are two or three ways of playing and keeping tally of the game. Ever tried it?—Springfield (Mass.) Homestead

"THE GAME OF WINKS."/"It is Now the Popular Parlor Pastime."

• Tiddledy Winks is now the great game for social amusement. Progressive euchre is played out. "Pigs in clover" is ancient history—whist, checkers, chess—all the games which have outlasted a season have, for the time being, gone into eclipse under the bright but doubtless fleeting light, of "tiddledy winks." It's as necessary "in society" to know how to play tiddledy winks as it is to know how to dance. You will not be outlawed if you can't do either, but if one's in the swim he likes to be on the crest of the wave.
  
  From two to six persons may make a set in this craze—the more the merrier. The game is English in origin, but the Americans have made enough changes in it to claim it. [and much more]

"West Atchison notes"

• The latest rage in the east is a game called "Tiddledy Winks." There are so many games in the east that the western man comes honestly by his idea that the people back there do nothing else but take afternoon naps and play games.

Advertisement

• The New Game
  "Tiddledy Winks,"
  10, 25, and 50 cents.
  THE FAIR.
  Headquarters for Holiday Goods.

"An Exception"

• "Johnny, let Willie have the tiddly-winks, and you keep the bagatelle board. You can't play two things at once."
  
  "Yes, you can. I know a boy that played hookey and baseball at the same time."— Harper's Young People

• "Tiddledy Winks" has struck Lawrence. It is a much more intellectual and ennobling divertisment than pigs in the clover.—Kansas City Star.

• The latest way of reporting the South Carolina senatorial election is that Hampton got the "dinky-dink," while Irby made the "tiddledy-winks."--Lawrence Record

"FLIPBALL IS GOOD GAME FOR INDOORS" by Harold Jay

• Do you want something different to do to pass away the hours when it's chilly and miserable outdoors? Of course you do, so why not make a game of flipball?
  
  The materials you need are few and easy to get:
  
  Nine small round discs such as are used in playing tiddlywinks.

"British View"/"Back President's 'Firm Answer'" by Ernie Hill

• The Russian bid for a 20-year friendship treaty with the United States is regarded with suspicion by the British.
• Cassandra in the Labor party London Daily Mirror says that the Soviets are the best chess players in the world and often anticipate the moves of other countries well ahead of time.
  
  "This is not chess," he declares. It is tiddlywinks played for morons and neutralists["]

"NAMES MAKE NEWS" with photograph of Prince Philip captioned "No tiddlywinks".

• PRINCE PHILIP bowed out of a tiddlywinks match Saturday, explaining with tongue in cheek:
  
  "While practicing secretly I pulled an important muscle in the second or tiddly joint of my winking finger."
  
  The prince had been recruited by a team of entertainers known as the Goons to meet the Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club

AP "Oxford Tiddlywink Team Claims World Title After Cambridge Win" by Sterling Slappey

• The Oxonian Tiddlers defeated the Cantab Winkers at Tiddlywinks (or perhaps you spell it tiddlewinks) today and immediately claimed the world championship.
  
  The score was a nip-and-tuck 113-111 favoring the Oxonians from Oxford University over the Cantabs from Cambridge. [...]

INS "BRITISH GO ALL OUT FOR TIDDLYWINKS"

• Tiddlywinks, that inane-sounding game in which the object is to snap small discs into a small cup, is all the rage in Britain today. Thanks to the Duke of Edinburgh, who actually sponsors a tiddlywinks team of comedians, the nation's oldest universities, members of the August House of Commons and other intellectuals are taking up the game.

"Off Balance"

• The chief cashier of the Washington, D.C., treasury (not to be confused entirely with Uncle Sam's) states that yearly the District gains about $1500 and loses about $95 from the deposit in parking meters of dimes, pennies, mutilated nickles [sic], foreign coins, slugs, buttons and tiddlywinks.

Advertisement. "Godchaux's"/"fashion leadership for 122 years". Illustration of show with three tiddlywinks on it.

• TIDDLYWINKS... gold mylar scuff on wedge heel, compo sole. Embroidery and multicolor tiddlywinks span the vamp.

UPI. "Get your squidger ready for a tiddlywink squop" by Robert Doherty. Interview with Larry Kahn.

• The net time you get in the dumps and need some perspective, just think of tiddlywinks, the Rodney Dangerfield of games.

"BREWER LOCALS"

• Several of the young ladies were busy yesterday making preparations to have a progressive tiddly winks party in City Hall on New Year's evening. Owing to some reason, however, they decided not to give it and something else will have to be arranged for if the young people expect to have any fun that evening.

"The Latest Popular Game."

• It need not surprise any one to drop into an evening gathering or a quiet home circle and find people who wear spectacles across their noses and carry dignity by the ton trying to snap a row of ivory chips into a little wooden cup. That is the new game, christened tiddledy winks. It requires a small wooden cup called a wink pot and two dozen bone or ivory chips called winks, also four larger ones about the size of an old fashioned pants button, known as tiddledies. There is a cushion to snap the chips upon, or you can spread a small square of Brussels carpeting under the tablecloth, which answers just as well if not better. The trick is to snap the winks into the wink pot by means of the tiddledies held between the thumb and finger, the winks lying flat on the cushion or table. This is the game of the season—the great social snap, so to speak. There are two or three ways of playing and keeping tally of the game. Ever tried it?—Springfield (Mass.) Homestead

Advertisement

• The New Game
  "Tiddledy Winks,"
  10, 25, and 50 cents.
  THE FAIR.
  Headquarters for Holiday Goods.

"Lincoln Letter."

• Mrs. E. C. Clark gave a small company, Tuesday evening, for Lou and Katie Fuller. "Tiddledy Winks" was the game.

"One man's quest for tiddlywinks"

• I once heard my grandmother complain that children don't know how to play anymore. At the time, I didn't know what she meant.That is, until I tried to buy a set of tiddlywinks.

Advertisement

• GAMES.--TIDDLEDY WINKS, 25 CTS. Fish Pond, Snake Game, Donkey Party, Parcheesi, Halma, Logomachy, Anagrams, Messenger Boy, Steeple Chase, Yacht Race, &c.

[similar to 8 Oct 1890]

"'Winker' playes for U.S. honor". About Ferd Wulkan

• At 56, Ferd Wulkan is still at the top of his game. But for Wulkan, it's not about the fame or the money. He has no entourage or corporate sponsorship. It's all for the love of - tiddlywinks. It's "the perfect game, combining intricate strategy with manual dexterity,"said Wulkan, a union organizer at the University of Massachusetts who lives in Montague.

"TWINKLES" (short notes)

• "Tiddledy-winks" parties are now fashionable.
• The latest fad in the social world of the ladies is the forenoon tiddledy winks party, with a "breakfast" served by hostess just before the departure of guests.

• Complete stock of English, French and German Chessmen, in all the sizes and all the desirable patterns; also Folding and Pocket Chess Boards, with and without Men, from 75c. to $25; Backgammon Boards, Checkers, Cribbage Boards, Poker Sets, Connters, Playing Cards, Dominoes, New Social Games, Tiddledy Winks, etc., etc.

Houghton & Dutton advertisement

• Toys - Games - Dolls
  
  GAMES
  
  Halma .... 56c
  Basalinda .... 58c
  Anabasis .... 56c
  Tiddledy Winks .... 19c
  Bagatelle and Base Ball Combination Boards .... 49c
  We have the largest line of Games in Boston.
  All the popular Games at manufacturer prices.

"TABLE GOSSIP"

• A large party of ladles and gentlemen playing that jolly little game, "Tiddledy Winks," at the Algonquin Club Tuesday night, made the luxuriously appointed ladles' reception room assume a very home­like and attractive appearance.

"UNDER THE ROSE"

• The days were spent In tramping marshes and sprinkling salt on birds' tails, and the evening amusements were sometimes so innocent as a game of tiddledy winks with the folks at the inn, for John T. Wheelwright had the happy thought of introducing that restful pastime.

"Disgraceful."

• [Harvard Lampoon]
  
  Procter (determined to be severe)--What? do you mean to deny that you have been playing poker! Here are the chips, three colors, and there is the basket to hold them. What do you claim to be playing?
  
  '94 (in chorus) Tiddledy Winks.

• Tiddledy Winks, 17c

"HOP SCOTCH TIDDLEDY WINKS."

• The latest and best thing in the way of a home game. It is becoming a perfect rage in New York, both as a home game and for progressive parties.
  
  Hop Scotch is played
upon a felt matting, marked in the plan of a Hop Scotch court. The cup, or as the English say, "the pudding," is placed at the curved end of the court. The game is very simple and very fascinating. Price $1.

"What's Wrong with Sports-IV" by Vannevar Bush.

• [baseball photo caption] WHO'S FOR TIDDLYWINKS? This glum scene in a major league dugout would seem to beat out Dr. Bush's contention that to the spectator baseball can be as boring as golf.

"Preserve Us from Squops!/Many's the Kink Twixt Pot, Wink" by Red Smith

• It all began with a headline in a London paper reading: "Does Prince Philip cheat at tiddlywinks?" [...]

"Harvard Humbles Holy Cross In 1st U.S. Tiddly Winks Match" by Charles E. Claffey. Photo

• Displaying digital dexterity that would evoke envious expletives from a prosperous pick-pocket, Harvard University humbled Holy Cross, Saturday, in the nation's first inter-collegiate tiddly winks match. [...]

"New England Newsmakers". Photo of Tim Schiller

• MIT's eight-man North American championship tiddlywinks team, boasting 26 collective years of practice at squidging, squopping, and potting, is flying to England tonight in hopes of out-potting Southhampton University for the World Championship. [...]

"MIT group aims to reclaim tiddlywinks glory". Photo of MIT team in 1972.

• In the 1970s and '80s, MIT dominated the sport of tiddlywinks. But over the last two decades, its popularity waned. Until Yan Wang came to town.Seeking to rekindle the glory days of tiddlywinks on campus, the MIT sophomore has petitioned the university's student activities office to recognize it as a club sport. He has even heard from an alumnus who promised to channel them travel funds for tournaments [more]

"Things We Meet With"

• What is the matter with Rev. Tiddledy-Winks Talmage?

"THIS AND THAT."

• A little girl in this vicinity is so fond of the game of tiddledy-winks, which is popular just now with children and grown people, that she began to play it by herself one Sunday morning. Her mother naturally objected, but the little maiden replied gravely that her conscience did not trouble her at all in the matter. "Don't you see, mamma," she explained, "that this is the church," pointing to the little dish in the center of the table, toward which the tiddledies are snapped, "and these are the heathen, and this is the missionary trying to get them to go in?"

"He's ready to 'squop' for honor of U.S.: It's tiddlywinks, folks". About Ferd Wulkan.

• At 56, Ferd Wulkan is still at the top of his game. But for Wulkan, it's not about the fame or the money. He has no entourage or corporate sponsorship. It's all for the love of tiddlywinks. It's "the perfect game, combining intricate strategy with manual dexterity,"said Wulkan, a union organizer at the University of Massachusetts who lives in Montague. [more]

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"Tiddlywinks tourney lures players". Coverage of NATwA's 25th reunion events in Gill, Massachusetts

• Bill "Red Scarf"Gammerdinger traveled all the way from Texas for this tournament. Another player, a member of the "Zoo Creatures,"came from San Francisco.
  
  Yesterday, in the Gill town hall, players squidged and they squoped [sic].
  
  Many have played the game since they were postadolescents. Several learned the game from one man, Peter "Ferd" Wulkan, the event's organizer. [more]

"Toy exhibit whets holiday appetites"/"Museum displays antique games, dolls" by Fred Contrada.

• A miniature horse-drawn cart once belonging to Calvin Coolidge Jr. is among the toys and Christmas cards on display this month in a special holiday exhibit at Historic Northampton Damon House, 46 Bridge St.
  
  The collection includes 19th century dolls, antique tiddlywinks and Springfield's Milton Bradley Co. games dating back as far as 1860. Most items were used or donated by Northampton residents. [more]

"Tiddlywinks champ marks milestone" by Nancy H. Gonter. About Ferd Wulkan

• MONTAGUE - When Ferd Wulken heard about Tiddlywinks, he knew it was the sport for him. "My best friend said this is a sport for us nerds who aren't very athletic,"says Wulken, who was in college back then. So as a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Wulken started the school's Tiddlywinks team in 1966. From there, he was hooked.
  [more]

AP "Water Polo Is Tiddlywinks In Comparison to Politics" by Hal Boyle

• New York, July 22 (AP)--Water polo used to be regarded as the most strenuous of sports
  
  Anyone who sat through the Republican and Democratic conventions in Philadelphia, however, would have to admit it is tiddlywinks in comparison to the great American game of politics.

"Cops Are Only Good At Tiddlywinks Firemen Charge"

• West Springfield, Oct. 8--Firemen today said they will challenge the police to a "Tiddlywinks" game. [...]

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AP "British Wink at Tiddly"

• [Page 1] Varsity teams from Oxford and Cambridge Universities clash tomorrow in what is billed as the game of the century to introduce a new intercollegiate sport--tiddlywinks [...]
• [Page 16] British Wink
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  [...] One of the Oxford players is a girl. Her presence on the team may be contested by Cambridge players, some of whom insist that tiddlywinks is for gentlemen only.

AP "Parliament Has Tiddlers"

• Oxford University's varsity tiddlywinks team--claimant to the world championship--is scheduled to meet a team made up on members of Parliament in July. [...]

"Campus Capers"

• American undergraduates whose joy in spring was titillatingly enhanced by the news from Britain that Cambridge and Oxford had decided to engae in competitive varsity tiddlywinks are enjoying a fresh delight in the report that the two universities have added birdwatching to their calendar.

NEA "Nikita, Choose Your Squidger"/"Can Tiddlywinks Hasten Peace?". Photo of Gen. Sir Hugh Stockwell playing tiddlywinks.

• LONDON (NEA)--The foreign ministers are haggling in Geneva over such issues as Berlin and Germany, but Rev. Edgar A. Willis has a simpler suggestion for easing East-West tension:
  
  Advantages Cited
  
  Let Nikita Khrushchev take up tiddlywinks. [...]

"We're Losing Ground"

• As a matter of fact, our own campus zanies have been losing ground rapidly to their British counterparts in the Silliness Sweepstakes. Jamming phone booths started in England. So did varsity tiddlywinks.

"Cousin Is Welcomed" with photo caption

• Walter Boughton welcomes Jean Burns to the Clarence Day household in the Valley Players producgtion of "Life With Father." Shirley Bryan as Mrs. Day, looks on while her children played by Richard Holmes and Barry Keating amuse themselves with tiddlywinks.

"Who Says It's a Snap?"/"Tiddlywinks Team From Famed Oxford Seeks Matches With U.S. Opponents"

• England's Oxford University--world renowned for its scholars, its dons and its swans--is ready to show the U.S. its gamesmanship has not lagged.
  
  A four-man team representing the university will visit the U.S. this summer to play matches in that nearly forgotten game that requires skill, timing, keen eye and stead hand--tiddlywinks. [...]

"Cannot Squop Wink Without Squidge"

• "A wink cannot be squopped until it has been brought into play by being squidged from its starting position."
  
  No, gentle reader. This is not doubletalk nor is it a part of the lyrics of a current teen-age-level song hit. [...]

AP "New Tiddlywinks Challenge Issued In Windsor Locks"

• A challenge to an Oxford tiddlywinks team to compete with a 17-year-old Connecticut boy and a local "milk squad" is still unanswered.

"Reporter's Notebook" by Frank B. Murray

• As the powerful hoses tore into the building, the streams flipped off the slates on the roof life Tiddlywinks. [...]

AP "Tiddlywinkers Flip! Snap! Pop! To New Record"

• Eight British schoolboys finished 85 hours of nonstop tiddlywinks Sunday night and did a little something for charity in the process. [...]

UPI "TIDDLYWINKS TABOO"

• York, England (UPI) -- Organizers of a tiddlywinks contest for charity in a local pub were told by police to find another game-- tiddlywinks for a prize is illegal under the new betting and gaming act. They decided to substitute a contest in which peas are blown through a straw.

AP "Meters in Detroit Will Reject Slugs"

• DETROIT (AP)--The city is installing a device on parking meters which will reject any kind of slug, including tiddlywinks, beer-can rings, washers and token coins. [...]

"Auction Slated on Wednesday"

• Among the articles to be sold are a Peruvian sheepskin coat, a set of ivory antique tiddlywinks, [...]

UPI "Happy Tid-Bits"

• SOUTHAMPTON, England (UPI)--Tough tiddling sparked by senior Timothy Schiller of Fresno, Calif., led the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Engineers to a 122-101 upset tiddlywinks victory over defending champion University of Southampton. [...]

"Of Burping Cows and Tiddlywinks" by James J. Kilpatrick

• At the risk of immodesty, I may add that one of my own editorials is included in the Eritas collection. This was a piece to the Richmond News Leader of May 14, 1958, under the caption of "Notes on an Ancient Game." It dealt with the history and current play of tiddlywinks in the British Isles. [...]

AP "Cotton Bowl"/"Houston vs. Notre Dame"

• "I'm familiar with Notre Dame's background," said Yeoman. "They don't take a casual approach to anything, even tiddlywinks. [...]"

"Wednesday's TV Highlights" (Real People TV)

• REAL PEOPLE--Offering continuing proof that truth is stranger than fiction, this week's show looks at a talking refrigerator, a method for toilet training cats, a psychic who conducts seances for Elvis Presley's family, a tiddlywinks champion and many other oddities. 8 p.m. on 22.

"Scorsese's 'Raging Bull': Sheer, brutal"

• For sheer brutal realism, the boxing in "Ragin Bull" makes the fights in the "Rocky" movies look like a Seven Sisters Tiddlywinks tournament.

AP "Contest rides on a twink of the wink"

• HAVERFORD, Pa. (AP) -- Squidges and squops are nothing to wink at in some circles.
  
  To the players in the 15th annual North American Tiddlywinks Championship, the unusual names are just tools of the trade.

"Airport '81: It Hertz to know No. 2 wants to clip your wings" by Robert Chipkin

• "Yes, I am. But, believe me, what I've been through today makes Monday night football look like a tiddlywinks match."

"KIRKPATRICK"/"Diogenes the Cynic, meet Stockman the Candid"

• What did Mr. Stockman say that was so awful? In essence, he disclosed that here in Washington, politicians play politics. In the name of al lthe angles and the saints, what games are politicians supposed to play? Pinochle? Tiddlywinks?

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• The new and pleasing game, has already become popular in the city. Several are having progressive "Tiddledy Wink" parties. It pleases the old and young. Everybody must have a hand in it. Prices 25 and 50c. each. Sold at C. F. HANSON & CO.'S, 317 Main ST.

"TIDDLEDY WINK!" advertisement

• The popular new game, is raging in Worcester. Everybody is fascinated with it. We are having new invoices each week. Prices from 25c to $1. Call and get one of Tiddledy Wink Parlor Tennis. Just out. It's immense. Sold at C. F. Hanson & Co.'S, 317 Main St.

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• Everybody have a fine old time with this new game. The old play it; the young enjoy it; everybody is wild over it. Sold by C. F. HANSON & CO. 317 Main Street.

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• Are now in full bloom of Popularity. Sold by C. F. HANSON & CO. 317 Main Street.

"ANNOUNCEMENTS."

• The Young Women's Christian Association tonight have a pleasant social from 7:30 to 9 p.m. The new game of Tiddledy Winks will be used for the first time. These socials are for members and those who whill become members of the association.

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"TIDDLEDY-WINKS"/"The New Game Now the Thing for Amusement"

• Tiddledy winks is now the great game for social amusement. Progressive euchre is played out. "Pigs in clover" is ancient history--whist, checkers, chess--all the games which have outlasted a season have, for the time being, gone into eclipse under the bright but doubtless fleeting light of "tiddledy winks."

"Much-married earl" obituary

• Johnny Kimberley, the fourth Earl of Kimberley, a glorious failure in a variety of private and public endeavors including the posts of Liberal spokesman in the British House of Lords and chairman of Britain's National Council on Alcoholism, died May 12. He was 78.
• He also had been a member of Britain's national bobsled team, a championship tiddlywinks player, a breeder of prize pigs and an amateur steeplechase jockey and shark fisherman of note.

"Squop it: Tiddlywinks is a serious matter, Adult Americans, Brits face off in 50th annual tournament". Coverage of the events of the 50th anniversary of the Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club

• A whole lot of squidging, squopping and potting has been going on at Cambridge University in England, all part of a prestigious jubilee: The 50th anniversary of tournament tiddlywinks.Yes, tournament tiddlywinks. No, not just that silly kids' game. Well, sort of.There's more to tiddlywinks than flipping small discs into a little pot. [more]

• It is peculiarly edifying to read in the papers that "Miss So-and-So gave a highly enjoyable Tiddledy-Winks party at her house Tuesday evening."

"Matches Slated in Tiddlywinks"

• The 1969 championships of the North American Tiddlywinks Association are scheduled to be held this month at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with four colleges competing.

"SHARPLESS BROTHERS"

• [...] Curious Puzzles, Tenpins, Tops and Balls, and Building Blocks in colors gay, and Tiddledy Winks, the most popular game of the day.

"Poor Man's Philosopher" by Hal Boyle

• Horace McGrubb, chairman of the giant Acme Tiddlywinks Co., is one corporation head who doesn't have to worry about the party problem.

"Before Bewildered Audience"/"Bucks Tiddlywinkers Lose" by Howard J. Tedder, Tiddlywinks Editor.

• NEW HOPE--A small but bewildered audience watched the Oxford University Tiddlywinks Society cream a Bucks County team, 23 to 5, at the Playhouse Inn Sunday.
  
  The missile gap is serious enough--but the U.S. is apparently so far behind in tiddlywinks that it will probaby never catch up.
• [Photograph] PLOT MOVE: Humorist S. J. Perelman and actress Patricia Scott plan move during match between Oxford University Tiddlywins Society and team representing Bucks County Playhouse yesterday.

UPI "Rutgers, Princeton To Squidge, Squop"

• Rutgers and Princeton, who share the oldest football rivalry in the country, have agreed to a new, less bruising competition--tiddlywinks.
  
  Aaron Kriegel, president of the Independent Students Countil at Rutgers said Thursday he challenged the Princetonians to a tiddlywinks tournament and the men from Old Nassau promptley accepted.
• Richard Bell of Princeton, accepting the challenge, told the Rutgers men:
  
  "We are going to squidge and squop our way to victory. We will win for the honor of our school."
• The tourney will be staged on Feb. 24 [...]"

UPI "The Lighter Side"/"Harsh Light On Another Major Sport" by Dick West

• Ever since a couple of baseball and football players wrote bestselling books of revelations about their games, publishers have been scouting the locker rooms for other disenchanted athletes of literary bent.
  
  It is therefore hardly surprising to learn the Pishtosh Press is publishing an expose of tiddlywinks written by the game's great superstar, "Iron Thumb" McFlick.

AP "In the eye of a wink"/"They're testing their tiddly talents" coverage of the 15th North American Continentals team championships at Haverford College in Pennsylvania.

• Severin Drix, 33, known as the foster father of North American tiddlywinks, said tiddlywinks is something like "a cross between chess and brain surgery"
  
  "It's a game for the mathematically minded. It's a game of quarter-inches. You're always making delicate maneuvers. You have to be able to look at a pile of winks and have an intuitive sense of what's going to happen," said Drix, a Cornell graduate who teaches high school math near Ithaca.

AP "Tiddlywink players take game seriously" at Ocean City, New Jersey. Cites Larry Kahn, Jim Marlin, and Rick Tucker.

• Larry Kahn watched his opponent get nurdled almost immediately, so he didn't dare pot his own wink. Instead, he shot so he could squop and piddle later.

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"516" "It's Mortal Kombat Over Pogs" by Marilyn Goldstein

• It was devised by an Oahu elementary school teacher for her class, based on the Depression game tiddledywinks.

"CURT GOWDY: SIGNING OFF ON AN ERA. Voice giant Gowdy dies" obituary

• Gowdy's magnificent voice and presence could elevate the status of a tiddlywinks league.

"Tiddledy-Wink Athletes" letter from C.H.M.

• Let the good work go on, and may the time never come when the tiddledy-wink athletes can make the laws.

"LATEST CUSTOMS RULINGS.; Prices of Imports Increased to Make True Market Values."

• George Borgfeldt Co. lost yesterday before the Board of General Appraisers in a claim that small, flat, circular pieces of bone used as counters by children in a game of tiddlywinks should have been assessed at 20 per cent. as manufactures of bone. The Collector took duty at 35 per cent. as parts of toys.

Article 1 -- No Title; Overheard in a Huddle

• "YES, we had a rough game with Dartmouth on Saturday," conceded Lou Little. "But it wasn't anything to make a fuss about. After all, football's a rough game." [...]

"Sports of the Times; Distance Casts a Spell"

• Mickey Wright has overdriven the green on a 385-yard hole, has won driving contests with measured wallops of 285 yards, has averaged seventy-three strokes a round for the past year and has scored a 66. It's enough to make every male duffer abandon golf and take up tiddlywinks or some game better suited to their talents because Mickey Wright is not a guy but a doll.

"Letter to the Editor 1"

• Obviously you had a very unhappy childhood; apparently (1) you were never taken to Coney Island; (2) you never played tiddly-winks

"ADVERTISING; New Home for James Parry, Inc." by Philip H. Dougherty

• Mr. Parry comes from Hamilton, N.Y. (''the pearl of the Chenango Valley,'' he said of the town 25 miles southwest of Utica) and from Harvard College, class of '64, where he got his degree cum laude in social studies, but more important was founder and captain of the tiddlywinks team that went undefeated and brought publicity to The Gargoyle, a humor magazine trying to compete with The Crimson.

"CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; Just Fun and Games? No! It's Greed and War, Too"

• Some games appear to be without guile. The show includes two versions of Pillow Dex, which is called the precursor to American Ping-Pong; several versions of Tiddledy Winks, in which a wink is flicked with a tiddly or squidger into a cup; and a half-dozen games of dexterity called Fish Pond, Frog Pond and Four and Twenty Blackbirds, in which one uses a line and hook to pluck flat figures (fish, frogs or blackbirds) out of their slots without dropping them. What could be wrong with this?

"The Last Week Quiz"

• No, I'm not going there. We need a break. Dare you to answer this end-of-the-endless election quiz:
  
  1. Speaking about the campaign, John McCain said: "It's not an easy business. It's not ...
  
  A) Mumblety-peg.
  B) Beanbag.
  C) Tiddledy Winks.
  D) Table Skittles.
  

"TIDDLEDY WINK."

• Another Amusement which is Rapidly Growing in Favor.
  
  "Tiddledy-wink."
  
  "A Tiddledy-wink social."
  
  There is no joke about it. It is a serious, soul-absorbing topic, and if you ever run up against a lay-out you'll think so.
  
  "Lay-out" sounds queer in connection with a social, but "Tiddledy-wink" socials look, at first sight, very much like a "lay-out." Chips--red, green, blue and white--are used in this new game with such a queer name. They are not placed as in a "game," but they are all-important just the same in "Tiddledy-wink."
  
  A "Tiddledy-wink" social is like this: You invite a crowd to your house, having previously secured a "lay-out." You clear the table of chairs, and on the big center table you place a heavy woollen cover. In the center you place a small glass--one that they use in saloons for whiskey straights is just the thing. Then you deal out the chips. There are twenty-four in number, and about the size of a nickel. Four persons play. They get six chips apiece. In the hand of each person is another and larger chip. The six chips are placed in a row in front of the player, and then number one presses down hard on the edge of one of his small chips with the large one and tries to "flip" it into the small whiskey glass in the center of the table.
  
  It looks easy.
  
  But it isn't.
  
  Well, you go on pressing down on those chips until somebody has all he had in the glass. Then it's his game. Then everybody else laughs, and they all try it over again.
  
  There are several tricks in "Tiddledy-wink." For instance, if you and somebody else are in the game, and you get one of your chips out near the glass and the other fellow gets on top of your chip, then yours is a prisoner and you can't "flip" it without first moving his, and the only move you can make with another man's chip is to place it in the glass, thereby pushing him ahead one notch. So when you play "Tiddledy-wink"--for you will play it before long[--]the great idea is to make some other fellow's chip prisoner, and then before he can get his own chip in the glass he must gently lift yours in first.
  
  "Tiddledy-wink" is a great game. It is fully as absorbing as "pigs in clover," and it is threatened that the country will have to stand a siege of it.
  
  How on earth the name "Tiddledy-wink" got mixed up with the game is still a mystery, and just about the only mystery in it.

"BOOKS"/"Light And Death Perfectly Combined" by John Leonard, New York Times News Service. Review of Robert Oppenheimer. Letters and Recollections, edited by Alice Kimball Smith and Charles Weiner, Harvard Press

• He invents 'a lethally' complicated version' of tiddlywinks

"THE CITY."/"BISMARCK IN BRIEF"

• Tiddledy-wink tables at the church social to-night.

• The Daily Irontonian gives the following lucid and graphic explanation of "Tiddledy winks," which is now the fad in society. The game is played with tiddledies, winks, a wink pot, dinguses, difficulties, etc. Any number of players may engage in the game. Each player takes a dingus.The winks are divided equally, likewise the difficulties. Take a wink, put it on the dingus, then by pressing a tiddledy on the wink, make it jump into the wink-pot--if you can. If you succeed you are entitled to a duflicity, and for every wink you jump into the ding-pot from the duwink you count a fl ctidledy, and continue so to operate the tink-winkle upon the polly wog until the points so carried shall equal the sum total of the hogwip multiplied by the puterinktum and added to the contents of the aforesaid wink-pot, or words to that effect, you may be said to have won the game.

"Surfer Site of the Day"

• Yet another way to blow off a whole summer with your friends. Play Tiddlywinks. The Scots take it seriously.http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~ben/tiddlywinks/

"Surfer Site of the Day

• For these folks, the old game of Tiddlywinks is a modern obsession. http://www.tiddlywinks.org

"Surfer Site of the Day"

• Remember Tiddlywinks? Prepare yourself for the new trend. http://www.tiddlywinks.org

AP "Weak in Tiddlywinks? Try Out for Bobolinks"

• Undergraduates at Oxford and Cambridge who recently added tiddlywinks to their traditional rivalry today added birdwatching.
  
  In the first match, Oxford won. In the prescribed 24-hour period the Oxfordites booked 128 types of birds. Cambridge spotted only 108.

AP "Tiddlywinks Joins Boxing and Football"

• Tiddlywinks today became an official intervarsity sport between Oxford and Cambridge.

"Cappy Dick"/"Young Hobby Club" with illustration of "How to Play" with five cups and a boy shooting at one.

• A new version of tiddlywinks is today's fun project for boys and girls.

[Sunday magazine] "Like Chess, But Not" by David Budin. About Marg Henninge Calhoun. B&W photo of Marg Henninge Calhoun on page 14, B&W photo of winks on page 17.

• Margaret Henninge Calhoun walks around the table, studying every conceivable shot. She leans over it, lining up possibilities, while her opponent, trying to anticipate Henninge Calhoun's next move, plans his potential strategies. You can feel the tension. Then she shoots, and wins the game.Sure, the Cleveland Indians are fielding their best team in 35 years, and that's good. But the city already has a bona fide sports champion for 1994. [more]

• The social question of the hour seems to be whether Tiddledy Winks shall succeed whist and eucher this winter in social diversions. The Tiddledy Wink craze hasn't struck Marion very hard yet, but the momentous question will come up. In the meantime a considerable portion of the male population will indulge in old fashioned poker

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AP "What's Next? Hopscotch?"

• Undergraduates at Oxford and Cambridge who recently added tiddlywinks to their traditional rivalry Monday added birdwatching.
  
  In the first match, Oxford won. In the prescribed 24-hour period the Oxfordites booked 128 types of birds. Cambridge spotted only 108.

AP "Game of Tiddlywinks Newest Rage in Engand" by Alvin Steinkopf

• [Photography] Oxford University captain Elliott Langford carefully tiddles his wink in the world's championship tiddlywink match at Oxford, England. Teammate Pat Laugharne (left) keeps careful watch as their team triumped over Cambridge University, 113 to 111. The former children's game is booming among England's college set.
• Tiddlywinks used to be for kids.
  
  But in Britain lately the game has caught the interest of muscular athletes, intellectuals, and even the royal family. [...]
• [Cartoon depicting adults flicking winking in the air in a room] One of the many versions of the revived game of tiddlywinks, tag tiddlywinks, involves a great deal of physical exertion not unlike the old parlor game of musical chairs

AP "UCLA-USC rivalry always fierce, no matter the sport"

• "Even if we met in tiddlywinks," says UCLA's J. D. Morgan of the rivalry with the University of Southern California, "some segment of the city would want to know who is starting at tiddle."

AP "Now It Can Be Told--I Lettered in 'Tiddly'"

• Tiddlywinks Thursday became an official inter-varsity sport between Oxford and Cambridge.
• The Rev. E. A. Willis, secretary general of the English Tiddlywinks Association, umpired one of the games and told skeptical onlookers: "This is a game that requires a lot of skill."

• Can you play Tiddledy Winks? No! Then you are behind the times, and you should proceed at once to invest in a small cup; some ivory bits, and some "Snappers." Tiddledy Winks is a great game. It cultivates patience and is a sure cure for conceit. To be had at Kinsloe's book store for 25 cents.

• The girls have got to playing tiddledy-winks for the soda.
• Mr. Qulip says that the popular game known as "Tiddledywinks" must have been invented as a safe alternative for persons unable to stand the mental strain of prolonged indulgence in the "Idiot's Delight."

"SOCIETY GOSSIP"/"A DEBUTANTE WRITES OF HER IMPRESSIONS OF SOCIETY."

• Announcements for Next Week.
  
  MONDAY, DECEMBER 29.
  
  Miss Ella McG. Huber, daughter of Mr. John Y. Huber, has issued cards for a children's tiddledy winks tea.

• FRIDAY (To-day). [...] Miss Alice Grant gave a "tiddlywinks" party for Miss Glidden, of Baltimore.

AP "In search of 'Tiddlewinks scholarship'"

• "Even if your child has never mastered anything more complicated than the game of Tiddlywinks," the letter to several thousand parents and students begins, "somewhere, sometime, someone has set up a scholarship fund for Tiddlywinks players."

• The Chicago Post declares that tiddledy wink will produce softening of the brain.

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UP "JOLLY GOOD TIME WAS HAD BY ALL"

• The Cambridge University Tiddlywink Team trounced Prince Philip's Royal Tiddlywinks Club 16-2 today. The prince claimed he sprained his "winking" finger practicing and could not play.
  
  The match was a tongue-in-cheek contest that drew a sellout crowd of 500 and raised nearly £300 for the National Playing Fields Association, of which Prince Philip is the president.

AP "Political Tiddlywinks"

• Oxford University's varsity tiddlywinks team--claimant to the world championship--is scheduled to meet a team made up of members of Parliament in July. The match is set for the House of Commons.
  
  The Oxonian tiddlers defeated Cambridge University last week. On that performance, they claimed the world title and fire off their challenge to the lawmakers. It was accepted.

UPI "Tiddlywinks Champs"

• Cambridge University Sunday claimed the tiddlywinks championship of the world under new international match rules. The Cambridge team soundly defeated the Telcon Terribles, a factory team from Crawley, England.

"COULD THEY BE USED IN TIDDLYWINKS GAME?"

• Attention police:
  
  Someone removed and hauled off 76 cast-iron manhole covers (total weight 4,916 pounds) early Thursday.

"Sports mania on CBS" by Rena Pederson

• Tiddlywinks?
  
  Yes, they had the international tiddlywinks competition on NBC's "Grandstand" sports show Sunday.
  
  Of course, it was a joke to film a match between the Harvard team (in Harvard Lampoon jerseys) and the Oxford team from England (in tuxedos).

UPI "Squidging, squopping, Bristoling He really flips over tiddlywinks" re Dave Lockwood

• David H. Lockwood, North American tiddlywinks champion, is blond, a Methodist minister's son, molded by Chicago high schools and button proud.

"CHRISTMAS NIGHT FUN."/"GAMES FOR THE PARLOR IN THE HOLIDAY'S CLOSING HOURS." by James W. Johnson

• [Illustration of men and women playing tiddledy-winks on a round table with a cup at the center]
  
  TIDDLEDY-WINKS
  
  [...]
  
  Lawn tennis has long proved a favorable field for the experiments of the inventors; and several parlor games in imitation of this grand outdoor sport have been put on the market. Until this year, however, their efforts have [not] met with much success. They adhered too closely to the original; and for obvious reasons very few housewives could be found who would smile on a parlor pastime in which flying balls, no matter how light, were a constant and serious menace to her choicest bits of bric-a-brac.
  
  This season the difficulty was finally overcome by the invention of a game of table tennis.
  
  The inspiration for this game came through the revival a few months ago of an ancient English game known as "tiddledy winks." which has created almost as great a furor as the pigs-in-clover or 13-14-15 puzzles did in their day. "Tiddledy winks" is simplicity itself. In fact it is so very easy that one of the greatest houses in the trade, to whom the idea was first submitted a year ago by a clever employe, declined to handle it because they did not believe the public would take to such an absurdly simple thing. The paraphernalia consists of two dozen or more different colored bone chips of the size and shape of an ordinary copper cent; a half dozen larger chips like those used in poker; a cup of bone, wood or glass, as large as a medium-sized whisky tumbler, and a heavy woolen mat, or, better still, a heavy table cover. The little chips are divided among any number of players up to six, and the scheme is to jump them into the cup, or "wink-pot," as it is known, by laying them flat on the mat or table cover, and then pressing their edges with the larger disk.
  
  In the tennis game that has grown out of "tiddledy winks," and which is known by the rather trying name of "tiddledy wink tennis," a green felt mat about eighteen inches long and nine inches wide is ruled off, exactly like a lawn tennis court. The game is scored as in ordinary tennis. In the center is stretched the "net" made of pasteboard, about two inches high, and the little "tiddledy wink" counters are served over this net, the poker chips doing duty as rac-tennis and can be played in "singles" or "doubles."
  

"Obituary: FLYNN, JOHN"

• Sometimes his letters were satirical, as when he proposed a multi-million dollar sweetheart deal to build a stadium for tiddlywinks (at tax payer expense),

• The Misses Morlan give a Tiddledy Winks party at their residence on South Main Tuesday evening next.

"FUN ON CHRISTMAS NIGHT."

• Games for the Parlor in the Holiday's Closing Hours.
  
  THEY ARE OF MUCH VARIED KIND
  
  And Many of Them are Indoor Adaptations of Open-Air Summer Sports--Some of the Newest Inventions in Card Games.
  
  [Copyright, 1890, by James W. Johnson.]
  
  [[illustration of a well-dressed man and woman]]
  
  Thanks to the inventive gentlemen who devise new games for a living. [...]
  
  This season the difficulty was finally overcome by the invention of a game of table tennis.
  
  [illustration of men and women playing tiddledy-winks at a table]
  
  TIDDLEDY-WINKS.
  
  The inspiration for this game came through the revival a few months ago of an ancient English game known as "tiddledy winks" which has created almost as great a furor as the pigs-in-clover, or 13-14-15 puzzles did in their day. "Tiddledy Winks" is simplicity itself. In fact it is so easy that one of the greatest houses in the trade, to whom the idea was submitted a year ago by a clever employee, declined to handle it because they did not believe the public would take so such an absurdly simple thing. The paraphernalia consists [break to column 2] of two dozen or more different colored bone chips of the same size and shape of an ordinary copper cent; a half dozen larger chips like those used in poker; a cup of bone, wood or glass, as large as a medium sized whiskey tumbler, and a heavy woolen mat or, better still, a heavy table cover. The little chips are divided among any number of players up to six, and the scheme is to jump them into the cup or "wink pot," as it is known, by laying them flat on the mat or table cover and then pressing their edges with the larger disk.
  
  In the new tennis game that has grown out of "tiddledy winks," and which is known by the rather trying name of "tiddledy wink tennis," a green felt mat about eighteen inches long and nine inches wide is ruled off exactly like a lawn tennis court. In the center is stretched the "net" made of pasteboard, about two inches high, and the little "tiddledy wink" counters are "served" over this net, the poker chips doing duty as racquets. The game is scored as in ordinary tennis and can be played as "singles" or "doubles."
  
  [...]

"The tiddlywinks tax". Letter establishing the "Fighting Utah Tiddlywinks team, intending to join NATwA and build a tiddlywinks arena.

• This letter announces the establishment of the Fighting Utah Tiddlywinks (FUT) team, and our intention to join the North American Tiddlywinks Association (NATwA).In order to represent Utah in style, compensate the organizers of FUT and jump on the bandwagon of state and local government welfare for the rich, we are proposing a quarter-cent sales tax increase on ice cream and candy sales to finance construction of a state-of-the-art tiddlywinks indoor arena.

"How to raise the money". Follow-on letter

• My proposal for tax support for a tiddlywinks stadium (Forum, May 28) has not generated widespread public support.

"Pastimes" by Lorinda A. Henry

• I was also influenced by finding, in that same week, a small box in the cupboard that contained two games - jacks and tiddlywinks - and was already pondering as to whether anyone still plays games as basic and un-electronic as those.

"BUSINESS NOTICES."

• Tiddledy Winks. sep12d3t
• TIDDLEDY WINKS.
  ANABASIS.
  BAILINDA.
• At Lane's
• To be happy, play Halma.

NEA "'Tougher than chess'"/"Tiddlywinks isn't just kid stuff" re Dave Lockwood. Photo of Dave Lockwood potting.

• Lockwood says tiddlywinks is a way of bringing "the ridiculous" into his life.

"Business Mere Mention."

• The new and celebrated game of "Tiddledy Winks" for sale at G. W. Wilder's, head of State street, Montpelier, Vt.

AP "25-Year Men Gain Status in Industry as Elder Statesmen" by Hal Boyle

• "You don't have to worry when your little girl plays with Acme tiddlywinks. Yes, Acme tiddlywinks are completely safe [...]"

Advertisement by Pay 'n Save Drugs. Illustration of Milton Bradley Tiddledy-Winks with animals skating on cover.

• Tiddledy Winks
  An old favorite of allchildren. The trick's to see who's first to get discs into cup.

"MICKEY FINN" by Lank Leonard

• I'LL READ THE QUESTION ONCE AGAIN, MR. MOONEY! "NAME THE MAN WHO INVESTED THE GAME OF TIDDLYWINKS AND STATE WHERE THE FIRST GAME WAS PLAYED!!"
  
  ?

Reuters "Prince Philip's Tiddlywinks Champions Lose"

• Prince Philip's chosen champions for a challenge match of tiddlywinks were defeate today by the Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club.
  
  The royal champions--Britains wackiest comedians, the Goons--played their mightiest, but lost 120½ to 50½. [...]

"PEOPLE IN THE NEWS"/"TIDDLYWINKS"

• Prince Philip, recently forced to withdraw from a match with the Cambridge University tiddlywink team because of a "strained muscle" in his tiddly (index) finger, has turned down a challenge to an international match by the American Tiddlywinks Club.
  
  The American team trains once a week in a New York restaurant
  
  Buckingham Palace, in a letter to the Americans, revealed that Prince Philip's team, the Goons, had been disbanded. The Goons had been trounced in their latest match with the Cantabrigians.
  
  Joel M. Reed, a spokesman for the United States team, is skeptical.
  
  "Are they actually disbanded," he asks of the Goons, "or are they afraid of facing a team from the United States?"
  
  As for the digital fitness of the prince, Reed observes: "His tiddly finger must be in pretty poor shape considering how many pretty movie stars he shakes hands with!"

AP "TIDDLYWINKS TITLE:"/It's Oxford Over Cambridge--But Fight Has Just Begun" by Sterling Slappey

• The Oxonian Tiddlers defeated the Cantab Winkers at Tiddlywinks (or perhaps you spell it tiddlewinks) today and immediately claimed the world championship.
  
  The score was a nip-and-tuck 113-111 favoring the Oxonians from Oxford University over the Cantabs from Cambridge. [...]

AP "BUT IS IT CRICKET?"/"Girl Winkers Help Oxford Beat Cambridge Squidgers"

• Oxford winkers, flouting tradition, slipped three girl winkers into the varsity tiddlywinks team Saturday and toppled flabbergasted Cambridge, 59½-52½.

Advertisement by JCPenney with illustration of catapult game with mouth that opens and closes at center.

• Now 8.99
  Mr. Mouth Zany new 'flip' to tiddlywinks for 4 players, ages 5 and up.

"SOCIETY'S MAZE."/"MERRY MOVEMENTS THE PAST WEEK IN CITY AND SUBURBS" entry

• Miss Sue Caldwell entertained a party of friends Friday evening, at her home on Sixteenth street, in honor of Miss Lan Hubbard, who leaves in a few days to attend school, and Miss Lizzie Mendel, who has just returned from a summery stay at Lake Minnetonkia. The affair was in the nature of a Tiddly-Winks party, and was thoroughly enjoyable.

• HADN'T Congress better while away the time with a game of Tiddlywinks?

• "the World Pog Federation touts its authorized game pieces as the real deal – ‘the tiddlywinks of the 1990s, heir to marbles, comic books, baseball cards and jacks,’"

• Page 2 Column 3: WHAT IS TIDDLEDY WINKS?

"Disgraceful."

• Proctor (determined to be severe—What? Do you mean to deny that you have been playing poker? Here are the chips, three colors, and thre is the basket to hold them. What do you claim to be playing?
  
  '94 (in chorus)—Tiddledy Winks.

"IT'S A SNAP Tiddlywinks teams converge on Sussex for old-fashioned competition"

• Whooooaaahh, Nellie! The VFW Post's 20th annual Tiddlywinks Tournament was a real barn-burner, and tiddlywinkers from throughout the state rode into Sussex recently to shoot their winks.Thirty-six teams, with players from Milwaukee, Muskego, Madison, Hartford, West Bend, Colgate and other tiddlywink meccas across Wisconsin made Sussex their hub during the recent two-day event.

• Page 3 Column 3: LOOK OUT FOR TIDDLEDY WINKS.
• Page 4, Column 7: WHAT IS TIDDLEDY WINKS?

• Page 4, Column 7: WHAT IS TIDDLEDY WINKS?
• Page 5, Column 2: LOOK OUT FOR TIDDLEDY WINKS.

• Page 1, Column 3: What is Tiddledy Winks?
• Page 2, Column 3: What is Tiddledy Winks?
• Page 3, Column 1: What is Tiddledy Winks?
• Page 4, Column 5: Look Out for Tiddledy Winks.

"Sense and Nonsense"

• Indianapolis Ram's Horn: "Is the professor at home?" asked the doctor, addressing the wife of the sage and philosopher. "He is," was the reply. "I wish to consult him in regard to a new discovery in spectrum analysis. Is he in the library?" "No, he is in the parlor playing tiddly-winks."

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"Another Craze Threatened."

• "Tiddledy-wink."
  
  "A Tiddledy-wink social."
  
  There is no joke about it. It is a serious, soul-absorbing topic, and if ever you run up againsta a lay-out you'll think so.
  
  "Lay-out" sounds queer in connection with a social, but "Tiddledy-wink" socials look, at first sight, very much like a "lay-out." Chips—red, green, blue, and white—are used in this new game with such a queer name. They are not placed as in a "game," but they are all important just the same in "Tiddledy-wink."
  
  [and more]

"Tiddlywinks tourney brings 'em back"/"Sussex competition donates to food pantry, VA hospital". About VFW Post winkers

• SUSSEX —The disk-flicking skills of Mark Kopczynski and the other four members of Ralph's Team had brought the group to the final rounds of the 30th annual Sussex tiddlywinks tournament. After taking a few token practice shots on the corkboard playing surface duct taped to one of the dozen folding tables set up at Sussex Bowl on Sunday, Kopczynski showed that another important component in tiddlywinks —a sense of humor —was also [...]

"TIDDLYWINKS TIME AGAIN IN SUSSEX"

• Horne Mudlitz VFW Post 6377 will host the 32nd annual Tiddlywinks Tournament