IMPROVED GAME TIDDLEDY WINKS

On cover: "PATENT NOV. 18 1890.".

McLoughlin Bro's

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«IMPROVED GAME
TIDDLEDY
WINKS»

PATENT NOV. 18 1890.

McLlughlin Bro's New York

The game cover is marked as "PATENT NOV. 18 1890". The game comes in a cardboard box with a tan underbox. The multicolor cover depicts a frog smoking a pipe and holding a fishing rod.

animal, frog, pipe, fishing rod, anthropomorphic, cattail, anthropomorphic

(no rules present in games examined)

cardboard box

7 ⅞ inches wide — 4 ⅜ inches high — 1 ⅝ inches deep

24.4 cm wide — 13.7 cm high — 4.8 cm deep

Box background: pink/red splotches & silver diagonal lines. Label: teal border, yellow background. "IMPROVED GAME" in red at top, black at bottom, with black outline. "TIDDLEDY" in which on multicolor winks with legs standing on curved device. "PATENT NOV. 18 1890" in black above "WINKS" red canvas. Frog (sitting on half-fence, wearing red pants) smoking pipe and holding fishing pole with line. "WINKS" in yellow with black shadow on red background (as if canvas held to wooden frame.

tan with silver diagonals and red splotches

Pink/red splotches with silver diagonal lines.

One copy of the game has a shiny natural wooden cup (2" diameter at top, 1 3/4" at bottom, 1 7/16" tall).

Another copy (copy 2) of the game has a clear cylindrical glass cup (1 11/16" in diameter, 1 5/8" tall) and thin glass on the sides, which is not original to the game because it is taller and wider than the depth of the box.

In one copy, the squidgers and winks are not bone. Large ( 1 5/16"): 2 white, 1 red. Small (11/16"): 6 white, 5 red, 4 orange, 3 yellow, 3 blue, 1 blue (4 pieces)

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

Clay squidger (1 1/4"): 2 medium blue, 1 black, 2 dark red, 1 medium red, 1 green, 2 yellow, 2 white.

Clay winks (11/16"): 11 medium blue, 6 black, 10 red with a tinge of orange, 6 red, 6 green, 10 yellow, 11 white, 6 white with noticeable squidge marks.

Bone wink (11/16"): 1 white.

Clay or plastic winks (11/16"): 5 yellow with a tinge of orange, 5 medium-light blue.

Dozens of nonoriginal cardboard disks are present.

A small, thick red wooden marker is present.

Another copy (copy 3) of this game includes the following squidgers and winks:

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

Bone winks (5/8"): 6 green, 6 bright red, 5 red, 6 brown, 6 blue, 6 white.

Rick Tucker