Tiddledy Winks (1888)

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Playtime: 10
Min. Age: 4
Players: 1 - 6
Publisher: H. P. Gibson & Sons, MB Spellen, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, House of Marbles, Noris Spiele, Brimtoy, Safari Ltd., Globe Series of Games, Gold Medal Toy Co., Peri Spiele, Rocket Toys and Games, World Games, Verlag Bing Werke AG, Bookmark Verlag, Hasbro, (Unknown), Somerville Ltd., Defiance, Gibsons, McLoughlin Brothers, Drivabolagen AB, Damm / Egmont, Transogram, Merit, Kitfix Swallow Group, Philmar, Mulder, ABRA, Concorde Toy Company, Foster's Group, Schylling, Carlit, Parker Brothers, Codeg, B & S Company, Walbert Toy Manufacturing Co., Fundex, Papita, Marchant, Wilder Manufacturing Co, Schmidt Spiele, Kay, American Toy Works, Cayro, The Games, Joker, King International, Peter Pan Playthings, Pin International, John Adams (IDEAL), Whitman, Channel Craft, Chad Valley Co Ltd., Milton Bradley, Selecta Spel en Hobby, Janod Jeux, John Lewis, Pressman Toy Corp., Jumbo, Thomas Salter Ltd, Spear's Games, Toysmith, H-B Productions, Inc., HEMA, Berwick's Toy Co. Ltd., Wari, Copp Clark Publishing Company, E.I. Horsman, Otto Maier Verlag, (Public Domain), Pintoy, Playtime House, John Sands Pty Ltd, John Jaques of London, Piatnik, Harlesden Games, Wm F. Drueke & Sons, Inc.
Designers: Joseph Assheton Fincher
Artists: Roger Hargreaves, Charles M. Schulz, Eelco Martinus ten Harmsen van der Beek, Hank Ketcham
Mechanics: Flicking

Tiddledy Winks varies based on publisher, but they all generally have a cup or other container that sits in the center of a target. The object of the game is to flip small smooth disks (the "winks") into the cup. This is accomplished by placing a wink on a piece of felt and then pressing down on the edge of the wink with a larger disk (the "tiddledy") so that the wink pops up into the air, and hopefully lands in the cup. The highest points are awarded for winks that land in the cup, with winks landing in the target area scoring less. Players decide ahead of time to play a set number of rounds (in which case the winner is the person with the highest score at the end of the last round), or to play until someone reaches a certain score (in which case the winner is the first person to reach or exceed that score).

Wikipedia notes that Joseph Assheton Fincher filed the original patent application for the game in 1888, applied for the trademark Tiddledy-Winks in 1889, and licensed John Jaques and Son as the exclusive distributors of the game. However, the intense popularity of the game prompted other publishers to churn out cheaper competitors under names like Spoof, Flipperty Flop, Jumpkins, Golfette, Maro, Flutter. As early as 1890, Jacques boxes included a label warning of "worthless imitations... issued by unscrupulous and jealous persons", and its rules threatened that "proceedings will be taken against any one infringing the Proprietors' Rights in this Game".

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The game was also published under these names: Das Flohspiel , Noddy's Tiddley Winks Game , Knips , Hupkins , Tom & Jerry Tiddlywinks , Knips-Spiel , Saute-Jeton , Combination Tiddledy Winks , Enid Blyton Giant Tiddley Winks , Space Target Tiddly Winks , Jumpy , Puces , Floh-Springen , Tiddly Winks , Mickey Mouse Tidley-Winks , Vlooientoren , Loppespill , Tidley Winks , Target Tiddly-Winks , Huckleberry Hound Tiddly Winks , Pchełki , Target Tidleywinks , Блошки , Spring Tiddledey Winks , Eclipse Tiddlywinks , Tiddly Winks and Tic-Tac-Toe , Jeu de Puces , Widdly Tinks , Tiddleywinks , Luxury Tiddly Winks , Spring , Sooty Tidleywinks , Championship Tiddley Winks , Turtley Winks , Tiddledy Winks , Tinkle Bell Tiddledy Winks , Tip Top Tiddledy Winks , Walt Disney's Tiddly Winks , Winnie the Pooh Tiddly Winks , The New Round Game of Tiddledy Winks , Flohspringen , Foster's Lager Official Tiddlywinks , Popular Tiddledy Winks , Snoopy Vlooienspel , Tiddledy Winks Tiddledy Tots , The Jamboree Tidley Winks , Big Mini: Flohspiel , Bull's Eye Tiddly Winks , Loppspel , Flohspiel , Pulci , Gioco delle Pulci , Round Game of Tiddledy Winks , Dennis the Menace Tiddly Winks , Tidleywinks , Floh-Hüpfen , Elephant Tiddledy Winks , Ruimtevaart Vlooienspel , Schijf Tiddledy Winks , Kirppupeli , Tiddley Winks , Mr. Tickle's Tiddlywinks , Walt Disney's Ludwig Von Drake Tiddly Winks , Fairies Cauldron , Tiddlywinks , Flips , Snoopy's Game of Tiddlywinks , La Puce , Floh-Spiel , Word Building Tiddley Winks , Donald Duck Tiddly Winks , Loppespil , Peter Pan Tiddledy Winks , Jumbo Tiddledy Winks , Vlooienspel

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