Game Information

Spear's Games (on cover)

7485 (on rules)

"SPEAR'S GAMES" in oval

[title TIDDLY
WINKS
FOR FOUR
PLAYERS]

[logo SPEAR'S GAMES]
TRADEMARK REGD. GREAT BRITAIN AND CANADA

MANUFACTURED AT THE SPEAR WORKS, ENFIELD, ENGLAND.

tiddlywinks

printed under box lid

"TIDLEY WINKS"

5¾ inches wide — 5¾ inches high — 1 9/16 inches deep

14.6 cm wide — 14.6 cm high — 4 cm deep

The cover has a medium blue background.

"TIDDLY" above "WINKS" (in white with black border & background) appears at top, with "FOR FOUR" above "PLAYERS" (in black) below.

The rest of the cover below depicts the game target (from inside the red box bottom), a square numbered target with six radial sectors (marked "2", "6", ["1"], ["4"], "5", and "3") and a dark cup in its center. 11 winks are flying in the air from left and right toward the cup.

At lower left: the logo "SPEAR'S GAMES" in an oval, with "TRADEMARK REGD. GREAT BRITAIN AND CANADA" below (all in black).

At lower right: "MANUFACTURED AT THE SPEAR WORKS, ENFIELD, ENGLAND." (in black).

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printed rules

"TIDDLY WINKS" (in white with a black ooutline & shadow) on a background that extends the illustration from the game cover.

red overlabel

The game target is a square cardboard insert in the box bottom, numbered "1'". "4", "5", "3", "2", and "6", in radial sectors. A hole in the center houses a black plastic cup, curved from wider at top to narrower at bottom (1 3/4" top diameter, 1 1/4" bottom diameter, 1 1/2" tall).

Copy 1 contains quality plastic winks with no burrs, like 1970s Marchant (rod-cut, small warp) ones:

Squidger (7/8" diameter): 1 green, 1 light green ("Cambridge blue"), 1 yellow.

Winks (5/8" diameter): 2 green, 3 (was 4) light green, 2 (was 4) yellow, 4 red.