Game Information

cover

McLoughlin Bros.

(no catalog number shown on game)

[none]

[title TIDDLEDY
WINKS]

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

The game comes in a cardboard box with an underbox that has silver diagonals and red splotches. The cover depicts 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"

8⅛ inches wide — 4½ inches high — 2 inches deep

20.6 cm wide — 11.4 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."

offwhite with silver diagonals & red splotches

silver diagonals with red splotches pattern, empty.

offwhite

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

One copy (copy 1) of the game has the following squidgers and winks:

Bone squidger (1 1/8" in diameter): 1 faded purple, 1 green, 1 white, 1 dark brown, 1 light brown.

Bone winks (5/8" to 11/16"): 5 purple, 6 dark green, 6 white, 5 dark brown, 3 light brown, 4 dark red, 3 orangish-red.

One copy (copy 2) of the game has the following squidgers and winks:

Bone squidger (1 1/8" in diameter): 1 purple, 2 red (broken), 1 offwhite (has a yellow tinge), 1 green (broken), 1 black (broken), 1 yellow.

Bone winks (5/8" to 11/16", some somewhat oval): 6 purple, 6 red, 6 white, 6 green, 8 black, 7 yellow.

A couple of dozen nonoriginal cardboard discs are included.