Tiddledy Winks (1888)
Playtime: 10
Min. Age: 4
Players: 1 - 6
Publisher: Concorde Toy Company, Merit, Foster's Group, McLoughlin Brothers, Janod Jeux, Globe Series of Games, World Games, Damm / Egmont, Transogram, Peter Pan Playthings, Spear's Games, Pin International, Philmar, B & S Company, Milton Bradley, Channel Craft, Marchant, Schmidt Spiele, Verlag Bing Werke AG, Playtime House, Harlesden Games, Fundex, Codeg, Drivabolagen AB, Peri Spiele, (Unknown), Wilder Manufacturing Co, Noris Spiele, H. P. Gibson & Sons, American Toy Works, Wm F. Drueke & Sons, Inc., Kay, Joker, Hasbro, Carlit, Pressman Toy Corp., House of Marbles, Brimtoy, Schylling, Cayro, The Games, Pintoy, Rocket Toys and Games, HEMA, Defiance, Piatnik, Jumbo, John Jaques of London, John Adams (IDEAL), Chad Valley Co Ltd., H-B Productions, Inc., Otto Maier Verlag, Thomas Salter Ltd, (Public Domain), Bookmark Verlag, John Sands Pty Ltd, Gibsons, Mulder, Parker Brothers, Whitman, MB Spellen, Kitfix Swallow Group, Selecta Spel en Hobby, King International, Somerville Ltd., Wari, John Lewis, Safari Ltd., E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Papita, Walbert Toy Manufacturing Co., ABRA, Toysmith, Gold Medal Toy Co., E.I. Horsman, Copp Clark Publishing Company, Berwick's Toy Co. Ltd.
Designers: Joseph Assheton Fincher
Artists: Hank Ketcham, Roger Hargreaves, Charles M. Schulz, Eelco Martinus ten Harmsen van der Beek
Mechanics: Flicking
Min. Age: 4
Players: 1 - 6
Publisher: Concorde Toy Company, Merit, Foster's Group, McLoughlin Brothers, Janod Jeux, Globe Series of Games, World Games, Damm / Egmont, Transogram, Peter Pan Playthings, Spear's Games, Pin International, Philmar, B & S Company, Milton Bradley, Channel Craft, Marchant, Schmidt Spiele, Verlag Bing Werke AG, Playtime House, Harlesden Games, Fundex, Codeg, Drivabolagen AB, Peri Spiele, (Unknown), Wilder Manufacturing Co, Noris Spiele, H. P. Gibson & Sons, American Toy Works, Wm F. Drueke & Sons, Inc., Kay, Joker, Hasbro, Carlit, Pressman Toy Corp., House of Marbles, Brimtoy, Schylling, Cayro, The Games, Pintoy, Rocket Toys and Games, HEMA, Defiance, Piatnik, Jumbo, John Jaques of London, John Adams (IDEAL), Chad Valley Co Ltd., H-B Productions, Inc., Otto Maier Verlag, Thomas Salter Ltd, (Public Domain), Bookmark Verlag, John Sands Pty Ltd, Gibsons, Mulder, Parker Brothers, Whitman, MB Spellen, Kitfix Swallow Group, Selecta Spel en Hobby, King International, Somerville Ltd., Wari, John Lewis, Safari Ltd., E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Papita, Walbert Toy Manufacturing Co., ABRA, Toysmith, Gold Medal Toy Co., E.I. Horsman, Copp Clark Publishing Company, Berwick's Toy Co. Ltd.
Designers: Joseph Assheton Fincher
Artists: Hank Ketcham, Roger Hargreaves, Charles M. Schulz, Eelco Martinus ten Harmsen van der Beek
Mechanics: Flicking
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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".
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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