"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.

"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]

"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]

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.

"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.

"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

"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.

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"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

"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

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• The New Game
  "Tiddledy Winks,"
  10, 25, and 50 cents.
  THE FAIR.
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"Lincoln Letter."

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

"'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.

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"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]

"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]

"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]

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"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.
  

"THE CITY."/"BISMARCK IN BRIEF"

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

[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]

"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.

"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."
  

"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.

"Business Mere Mention."

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

"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 [more]