Game Information
Madmar Quality Company (publisher) AGPI # · P-1039Full Publisher Info
Crickets in the Grass (game title) AGPI # · G-29877
Tucker Tiddlywinks # · 
MAD-01v1
Title Source · 
cover
Title, Preserving Case

CRICKETS IN THE GRASS

Title Language · 
English
Date · 
1925 
Date Source(s)
Date Source(s) · Trade Catalog(s)

1925 Madmar Quality Co. catalog

Publisher Name on Game

Madmar Quality Company

Publisher Catalog #

122

Variant Description

Publisher catalog number is 122. The game contains equipment for 2 players.

Game Type · 
Keywords
Number of Players · 
2
Price

$3.00 per dozen (year: 1925)

Rules Format

under box lid

Rules Overview

'The Game of "Crickets in the Grass"'

Rules Transcript
[FIG. 1: aluminum cup held against “cricket” rod]
[FIG. 2: “cricket” rod inside aluminum cup]

The Game of “Crickets in the Grass”

The crickets, which are the little pieces of colored wood, are first placed upon the felt discs, each player having a piece of felt and one aluminum cup. Figure one shows how the aluminum cup is held in the fingers. Press down on one end of the cricket. Draw the cup back slightly and the cricket will jump into the cup as shown in figure two. Two or more can play this game. All ten crickets are used by each player. Suppose that the first player puts in three only out of ten. This player puts down the number “3” with a pencil on a piece of paper. The next player may put in five, so that he puts down the number “5” on paper, and so on until someone makes a total score of 50. Should a player put in all ten crickets in succession, that player is allowed an extra five points.

MADMAR QUALITY COMPANY, Utica, New York

Keep cup level when drawing off cricket.

Container Type

cardboard box

Container Size · (measured in inches)

5 ⅞ inches wide — 5 ⅞ inches high — ¾ inches deep

18.1 cm wide — 18.1 cm high — 1.9 cm deep

Cover Description

A label is attached to the box cover, with an off-white background.

"CRICKETS" appears in red with an off-white and then black outline, then "IN THE" in light yellow with a black outline, and then "GRASS" again in red with an off-white and then black outline. Twelve crickets are crawling in the grass, in an "X" pattern on top. The center of the cover shows a square with blue sky at top and greenery at bottom.

Underlabel Description

red

Apron Descriptions

red, no design

Tiddlywinks Type · 
sticks
Tiddlywinks Targets

2 aluminum cups, 1 3/8" H x 5/8" D with grip area

Winks

12 light brown wooden sticks, 1" long by 1/8" diameter

Tiddlywinks Felt · 
2 circular green pads of felt, 5 3/8" diameter
Collection • Individual(s)

Rick Tucker

More Sources

Bruce Whitehill, Games, American Boxed Games and Their Makers, 1822-1992, With Values, Radnor, Pennsylvania: Wallace-Homestead Book Company, © 1992, page 100.

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