Tiddledy Winks (1888)

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Playtime: 10
Min. Age: 4
Players: 1 - 6
Publisher: Defiance, House of Marbles, Copp Clark Publishing Company, Hasbro, Spear's Games, MB Spellen, Marchant, Gibsons, American Toy Works, Pin International, Gold Medal Toy Co., Kay, Foster's Group, E.I. Horsman, Milton Bradley, HEMA, Damm / Egmont, Joker, Pressman Toy Corp., Jumbo, B & S Company, Pintoy, Selecta Spel en Hobby, H-B Productions, Inc., Channel Craft, Brimtoy, Harlesden Games, Playtime House, (Unknown), Noris Spiele, Merit, Wm F. Drueke & Sons, Inc., Wari, John Lewis, Peter Pan Playthings, Concorde Toy Company, Transogram, H. P. Gibson & Sons, Wilder Manufacturing Co, McLoughlin Brothers, John Adams (IDEAL), Toysmith, Bookmark Verlag, E. E. Fairchild Corporation, Codeg, (Public Domain), Carlit, John Sands Pty Ltd, World Games, Drivabolagen AB, Globe Series of Games, Otto Maier Verlag, Kitfix Swallow Group, Berwick's Toy Co. Ltd., Fundex, Papita, Whitman, Piatnik, Rocket Toys and Games, Peri Spiele, Thomas Salter Ltd, Philmar, Mulder, Chad Valley Co Ltd., Janod Jeux, Safari Ltd., ABRA, King International, Somerville Ltd., Schylling, Parker Brothers, John Jaques of London, Schmidt Spiele, Verlag Bing Werke AG, Cayro, The Games, Walbert Toy Manufacturing Co.
Designers: Joseph Assheton Fincher
Artists: Hank Ketcham, Eelco Martinus ten Harmsen van der Beek, Roger Hargreaves, Charles M. Schulz
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: Tiddly Winks , Eclipse Tiddlywinks , Space Target Tiddly Winks , Tiddleywinks , Tiddlywinks , Gioco delle Pulci , Knips , Mickey Mouse Tidley-Winks , Ruimtevaart Vlooienspel , Tom & Jerry Tiddlywinks , The Jamboree Tidley Winks , Tiddley Winks , Tiddly Winks and Tic-Tac-Toe , Tinkle Bell Tiddledy Winks , Flips , Flohspringen , Big Mini: Flohspiel , Championship Tiddley Winks , Jeu de Puces , Floh-Springen , Donald Duck Tiddly Winks , Luxury Tiddly Winks , Kirppupeli , Foster's Lager Official Tiddlywinks , Pchełki , Flohspiel , Jumbo Tiddledy Winks , Round Game of Tiddledy Winks , Vlooienspel , Saute-Jeton , Snoopy's Game of Tiddlywinks , Peter Pan Tiddledy Winks , Popular Tiddledy Winks , Floh-Spiel , Das Flohspiel , Bull's Eye Tiddly Winks , Puces , Loppespill , La Puce , Snoopy Vlooienspel , Vlooientoren , Tidley Winks , Floh-Hüpfen , Loppspel , Блошки , Combination Tiddledy Winks , Sooty Tidleywinks , Huckleberry Hound Tiddly Winks , Tidleywinks , Tiddledy Winks , Pulci , Target Tidleywinks , Turtley Winks , Mr. Tickle's Tiddlywinks , Tiddledy Winks Tiddledy Tots , Knips-Spiel , The New Round Game of Tiddledy Winks , Winnie the Pooh Tiddly Winks , Schijf Tiddledy Winks , Word Building Tiddley Winks , Elephant Tiddledy Winks , Enid Blyton Giant Tiddley Winks , Noddy's Tiddley Winks Game , Walt Disney's Tiddly Winks , Target Tiddly-Winks , Walt Disney's Ludwig Von Drake Tiddly Winks , Spring , Tip Top Tiddledy Winks , Spring Tiddledey Winks , Hupkins , Widdly Tinks , Fairies Cauldron , Jumpy , Loppespil , Dennis the Menace Tiddly Winks

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