Game Information

Rules

McLoughlin Bro's

(no catalog number shown on game)

[none]

[title IMPROVED GAME
TIDDLEDY
WINKS]

PATENT PENDING

McLoughlin Bro's New-York

The game cover is marked as "PATENT PENDING". The game comes in a cardboard box with an underbox that is pink with silver diagonals and red splotches. The multicolor cover depicts a frog smoking a pipe and holding a fishing rod.

frog, pipe, patent pending, animal, tiddlywinks, pipe, anthropomorphic

leaflet

8 inches wide — 4⅜ inches high — 1⅝ inches deep

20.3 cm wide — 11.1 cm high — 4.1 cm deep

Label: teal border, yellow background at top above the curved device that the winks are standing on.

"IMPROVED GAME" in red at top center, dark brown at bottom, with black outline.

Each of the letters of "TIDDLEDY" appears on a wink (black outline, color, black inner circle, color inside) each with a color (blue, orange, red, green, orange, blue, red, and green). Each wink has legs and is standing on curved device.

"PATENT PENDING" appears in light blue below the curved device line, on a light blue (sky) background. Each letter in it is connected to the curved device with a small black line.

A frog (sitting on half-fence, wearing red pants) is smoking pipe and holding a long yellow fishing pole with line.

To the right of the frog and below "PATENT PENDING", "WINKS" appears in yellow with black shadow on a red rectangular banner held to a wooden frame that interconnects with the fence.

"McLoughlin Bro's New-York" appears starting at center-bottom.

pink/red splotches with silver diagonal lines

Pink/red splotches with silver diagonal lines.

offwhite, empty

1 natural wooden cup (2" diameter at top, 1 3/4" at bottom, 1 3/8" tall), shiny on the outside and nonshiny on the inside, with 2 double rings around the sides.

One copy of this game (copy 1) contains the following squidgers and winks:

Bone squidger (1 1/8"): 1 orange, 1 dark brown/black, 1 red, 2 offwhite, 1 blue.

Bone winks (11/16"): 5 orange, 4 brown, 2 red, 4 white, 5 dark blue, 5 dark green.

Another copy of this game (copy 2) contains the following squidgers and winks:

Bone squidger (1 1/8"): 1 red, 1 white, 1 green, 1 yellow.

Bone winks (11/16"): 3 red, 4 offwhite, 3 green, 4 yellow.