EIH (cover)
E. I. Horsman (rules)
EIH in gold on a dark blue diamond
[title TIDDLEDY
WINKS.
THE
NEW
GAME]...
[logo EIH]
square box; all lettering in blue on gold background with gold illustrations; wooden cup
sheet (1 side with rules, other side has ad)
"TIDDLEDY WINKS DIRECTIONS. PUBLISHED BY E. I. HORSMAN, NEW YORK."
An advertisement for Horsman's Tiddledy Wink Tennis and Tiddledy Winks Combined appears on the back of the rules sheet.
TIDDLEDY WINKS
DIRECTIONS.
PUBLISHED BY E. I. HORSMAN, NEW YORK.
THIS Game may be played by any number of people (two, or four in partnership is best) on any card or similar small table, with a thick cloth on.
A pool should be formed by the players before commencing. Each player is then provided with four or six small counters of the same color and one large one, the use of the larger one being to press the edge of the smaller, and in that way cause it to jump into the cup, which is placed in the centre of the table.
The players place their counters in line in front of them at any equal distance round the table from the cup, and after-playing out all their counters from the starting points are at liberty to play with any counter of their own color they please.
The game is played in turn, but the player, if successful in scoring (i.e., putting a counter into the cup) is entitled to play again with another of his counters, and so on until he fails. The player who first gets all his small counters into the cup wins the pool and if agreed beforehand, may claim as forfeits all the counters then on the cloth, and be paid by the respective owners of the same.
On no account is a player allowed to touch his opponent’s counters, so that should it so happen that accidentally one of his adversary’s men in anyway covers the counter he wishes to play with (no other being available) he must wait until his opponent has removed his counter before he can play. A player may not intentionally cover his opponent’s counters. Should a counter roll off the table, it is to be replaced one inch from the edge, where it fell off.
Partners sit opposite as at whist, and may play with each other’s counters.
6 inches wide — 6 inches high — 1¾ inches deep
15.2 cm wide — 15.2 cm high — 4.4 cm deep
Label with deep blue background, and deep blue illustrations. Inside an outer deep blue border are two parallel golden lines forming a rectangle around the cover, though the parallel lines break from the parallel in several places (all corners except the upper right, left center, and right center) where they extend inwards and sometimes bend from the rectangle. In addition, branches with leaves connect on the outside to the rectangle at left and right. Plus, a pair of parallel semicircles appear at bottom center and top center outside the rectangle, with dots between the semicircles and rays and dots radiating outward from the semicircles like suns.
The title, "TIDDLEDY" above "WINKS." (in large letters with dental zigzags connected to the "T", "Y', "W", and "N") fills most of the cover. Below it, in the lower left, "THE" and then "NEW" below and to the right and then "GAME…" below and to the right, appear in faded gold.
The logo appears in the lower right, inside the double-line border.
deep blue
tan, empty
deep blue in diamond pattern with embossed spots inside diamonds, empty
tan with edges of deep blue box bottom label
The game includes a natural turned wooden cup (1 7/8" top and bottom diameter, 1 7/8" height, concave on the side with a maximum 1 1/2" diameter near the flared base).
One copy (copy 1) of this game includes:
1 nonshiny bone squidger (1 1/8" diameter): dull pale green with a slight chip; worn faded blue (slightly oval), red (slightly oval), black (with white wear spots), offwhite, and pale yellow.
1 nonshiny bone squidger (1" diameter): red, pale dull yellow, and faint green.
1 shiny bone squidger (1" diameter); brown.
Nonshiny bone winks (11/16" diameter); 10 pale green/teal, 5 light faded blue, 6 slightly faded red, 6 bright red, 6 bright yellow, 3 dark black, 6 yellowish-offwhite, and 4 offwhite.
Shiny bone winks (5/8" diameter): 6 brown, 1 worn purple.
Nonshiny bone winks (5/8" diameter); 2 faded/worn green, 1 faded/worn green/faint purple.
One copy (copy 1) includes a nonoriginal "DIRECTIONS FOR THE GAME OF TIDDLEDY WINKS." from A.W.P. (in addition to rules by Horsman).
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