Game Information

Advertisement in Manchester Evening News, 21 November 1957, page 7, column last [link https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000272/19571121/007/0007]

Chad Valley (on cover, rules)

(no catalog number shown on game)

"CHAD VALLEY" in black plain text (with no elephant

on cover)

[title SOOTY]

[logo CHAD VALLEY]

BY ARRANGEMENT WITH
H. CORBETT

MADE IN ENGLAND

[title TIDDLEYWINKS]

Bear character Sooty (at right) is shooting a wink into target at left. The Chad Valley logo does not include an elephant. No overlabel on gray box bottom.

Harry Corbett (Sooty character cartoonist)

tiddlywinks, Sooty, bear, puppet

printed under box lid

|Instructions for playing "SOOTY" Tidleywinks|

5⅜ inches wide — 4 11/16 inches high — 1¾ inches deep

13.7 cm wide — 11.9 cm high — 4.4 cm deep

The wraparound label has a yellow background in the top 75% and red below.

"SOOTY" (in dark blue with black outline) appears at upper left.

The logo with "CHAD VALLEY" in black (without an elephant outline) (all in black) appears at upper right.

"TIDDLEYWINKS" (in white) is shown on a red rectangle at the bottom of the cover.

The bear character called Sooty is shown at right in yellow with brown ears, shooting with its paw at winks at lower center.

At left-center is a depiction of the target from the box bottom.

"BY ARRANGEMENT WITH" over "H. CORBETT" (in black) appears at lower left of the yellow background.

"MADE IN ENGLAND" (in black) appears at lower right of the yellow background.

(none)

printed rules on tan

On all 4 aprons: "TIDDLEYWINKS" (in red in italic) on a yellow background.

gray, empty

The game includes a quality yellow compression-molded plastic cup (1 3/4" top diameter, 1 1/4" bottom diameter, with convex sides having three protruding rings around the midpoint, though vertical at base) that has a slightly wider top rim. (The cup in Copy 1 has a chip in the base.)

A rectangular cardboard target fits in the box bottom and has a 1 3/4" diameter hole for the cup. The rest of the target has 4 quadrants, clockwise starting at upper left: Sooty in a blue outfit (on a yellow background); Sooty playing a xylophone (on a blue background); Sooty holding a briefcase marked "S" (on a red background); and Sooty standing, holding a rod in its right hand (on a green background).

Copy 1 includes:

Squidgers (7/8" diameter, quality plastic, no burrs): 1 slightly darker red, 1 yellow, 1 green, 1 slightly darker medium blue.

Winks (5/8" diameter, quality plastic, no burrs): 4 red, 4 yellow, 4 green, 4 medium blue.