Game Information
Chad Valley Games (publisher) AGPI # · P-3161Full Publisher Info
Answers Great War Game (game title) AGPI # · G-30341
Tucker Tiddlywinks # · 
CVG-11
Title Source · 
game cover
Title, Preserving Case

ANSWERS GREAT WAR GAME

Title Language · 
English
Title Note
Answers was a weekly British journal.
Date · 
1914 
Date Source(s)

Advertisement in the Leeds Mercury, Friday 11 December 1914, page 1, column 1

Publisher Name on Game

Chad Valley Works (on rules)

Publication Location on Game

Harborne, England

Publisher Mark(s)

(none)

Brand on Game

(none)

Cover Text

«ANSWERS
GREAT
WAR
GAME»

COPYRIGHT

CHAS. A.
WALKER

Persons Involved

Charles A. Walker (cover artist)

Premium · 
Promotional item made by Chad Valley for the Answers journal [link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Answers_(periodical)].
Game Type · 
tiddlywinks
Keywords

war, airplane, horse

Number of Players · 
any
Rules Format

white label under box lid

Rules Overview

// "ANSWERS" WAR GAME //

Container Type

carsdboard box

Container Size · (measured in inches)

9 ⅞ inches wide — 5 ⅜ inches high — 1 ½ inches deep

30.8 cm wide — 16.8 cm high — 14 cm deep

Cover Description

The top label has an orangish-tan outer border and background and all letters and illustrations are in black.

A small biplane is shown at upper right.

"ANSWERS" (black with black lower-right drop shadows, reading concave down in letters with squiggly tops and bottoms) appears at top on a white cloud background.

Below, six men are riding horseback to the right across the center. "GREAT" (black outline with orangish-tan interior with a straight baseline) appears over three of the riders and horses.

"WAR GAME" (same style as "GREAT") is bwloe over ground, with two explosions shown at bottom left of center and right of center.

"COPYRIGHT" appears in the orangish-tan outer border at bottom left.

The cover illustrator, "CHAS. A." above "WALKER" (in black) is shown at lower right.

Underlabel Description

dark red

Inside Box Lid

rules label

Apron Descriptions

dark red, empty

Box Bottom Description

light brown

Contents

Copy 1 includes:

6 cardboard pieces, each showing an infantry man on a horse (multicolor)

6 cardboard pieces, each showing 6 helmeted infantry men in a trench behind a wooden barrier next to a stream of water.

3 round, white cardboard pieces representing Red Cross Tents, each showing a red cross and "FORFEIT" over "10" (in black) at center.

8 round cardboard wagon wheels (brown and black), plus 4 wooden axles to connect them and 4 black wooden axles as artillery guns mounted on them.

4 rectangular cardboard pieces, each in gray with "10" (in blue), 2 small black squares, and a small square hole. These are attached over the wagon wheels.

A very small red and white cloth flag on a metal pole on a wooden base.

Bone squidgers (1 1/8" diameter): 1 red, 1 green, 1 dull blue.

(Unknown material) squidgers (1 1/16" diameter): 1 purple

Bone winks (5/8" diameter): 6 red.

Tiddlywinks Felt · 
(no felt in games examined)
Collection • Individual(s)

Rick Tucker

GARD Database ID · 

GARD 15850 ⇱

Database Update Date · 
2025-04-14 20:05:24
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