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Tiddlywinks Bibliography

© 1980-2010 Rick Tucker & Fred Shapiro.  All Rights Reserved.  Legal

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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Miscellaneous References

Advertisements

1979 Advertisement on London Underground showing tiddlywinks being shot into a shoe (reported by Iona Opie)  

Family Letters

  Lockwood family Christmas letters original (NATwA)
  Relle family Christmas letters original (NATwA)

Food

Jun 2000 Cadbury Chomp bars. On candy bar wrapper: "If Chomp's not busy in the Chomp bar quarry, he'll be playing tiddlywinks with a sunflower called Roger."  

Games

See also collectible tiddlywinks games

© 1981 Game "Trivial Pursuit", Selchow & Righter Co., Bay Shore NY.  ((c) 1981 Horn Abbot Ltd.).  Genus edition, Sports & Leisure (SL) category, card 848.  Question:  "What's the name of the piece flipped into the cup in tiddlywinks?"  
1985

Game "Trivial Pursuit", Selchow & Righter Co.  Genus II edition.  Question with answer "squidger".

 

Living Things

  Gentianaceae (Exacum affine).  "Tiddly Winks" plant.  Also known as Persian violet and German violet.  Annual  
 

Kalmia latifolia “Tiddlywinks”.  Also known as Mountain Laurel.  Shrub.

 

Photographic Sessions

27 Nov 1957 Keystone Press Agency photographic session at Christ's College, Cambridge (as cited in Winks Rampant)  

Press Releases, Schedules

See also MIT press releases and NATwA press releases

17-27 Sep 1988 Baltimore Original Sports Bar placemat listing of World Singles 28 match on 21 September between Jon Mapley and Larry Kahn original (NATwA)
Dec 1986 Ocean City, New Jersey: "CHILDREN'S CONCERT", "TIDDLY WINKS, DECEMBER 13TH" original (NATwA)
Dec 1986 Ocean City, New Jersey: "MANY HOLIDAY ACTIVITIES SET FOR OCEAN CITY" original (NATwA)
Dec 1986 Ocean City, New Jersey: "Anyone for Tiddly Winks?"/"CITY INTRODUCES OLD GAME TO NEW JERSEY'S SPORT'S (sic) SCENE" original (NATwA)

Other References

  Arye Gittelman, untitled work for MIT writing class  
  Dave Lockwood, untitled work for MIT writing class  
  Dave Lockwood, unpublished manuscript about winks strategy  
  Rich Steidle, unpublished manuscript on tiddlywinks  
1979 Incorporation of the United States Four-Color Tiddlywinks Association in Massachusetts by Joe Sachs  
Spring 1979 Ron Mabbitt, MIT Strobe Projects Laboratory report.  "Study of trajectories of tiddlywinks in flight", with photographic sequences.   
13 Dec 1979 Rick Tucker, MIT Strobe Projects Laboratory report.  "Tiddlywinks Photography" with photographs and slides. Original (NATwA)
Dec 1981 Fred Shapiro, "Pathfinder on Tournament Tiddlywinks" Original (NATwA)

 

 

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