Game Information

rules

McLoughlin Bros.

(no catalog number shown on game)

[none]

[title TIDDLEDY
WINKS]

PATENT NOV. 18 1890.
McLOUGHLIN BROS. N.Y.

The underbox is dark blue. The cover shows a woman's hand at right with two golden bracelets and a blue and white frilly sleeve.

tiddlywinks

leaflet (4 sides)

"GAME OF TIDDLEDY WINKS", copyrighted 1890 By McLoughlin Bros., including "DIRECTIONS FOR THE ENGLISH GAME" and "DIRECTIONS FOR THE AMERICAN GAME"

8 inches wide — 4⅜ inches high — 2 inches deep

20.3 cm wide — 11.1 cm high — 5.1 cm deep

Label: yellow border. The inner background at top is light blue, across center, blue, and below, gren and tan.

At right is a lady's arm holding blue squidger against a green wink on a red pad; she has a ring on her ring finger, two bracelets, and a frilly sleeve.

At left is a light brown wooden cup with two sets of circumferential trim. A white wink is just above it, a blue wink is resting to the left, and a green wink is on the playing surface to the pot's right. From left to right, a yellow, green, black, and red wink are in the air.

At upper left, "TIDDLEDY" appears in red with black outline with clear + black shadow. to lower right. "WINKS" is in yellow with black outline with clear + black shadow, starting below the "E".

To the right of "TIDDLEDY", the following appears in red: "PATENT NOV. 18 1890." above "McLOUGHLIN BROS. N.Y."

dark blue

Blue with no design.

offwhite

1 urn-shaped shiny natural wooden cup, made on a lathe (2 1/4" at top, 1 3/4" at bottom, several curves).

1 large (1 1/8") and 6 small (5/8") each of brown, red, green, orange/yellow, white, purple/blue (except 5 small of purple/blue); many nonoriginal cardboard disks