Game Information

BING

19/456/1 (ink-stamped on box bottom)

"BING" on face of die with 2 spots, with 3 and 5 spot faces to right

[title Tidley Winks]

[logo BING]

large box (8 1/8" square); no country mark in cover logo

tiddlywinks, quoits, hexagram

(no rules present in games examined)

8⅛ inches wide — 8⅛ inches high — 1⅜ inches deep

20.6 cm wide — 20.6 cm high — 3.5 cm deep

Label with white outer border, then black line.

"Tidley Winks" is shown in red in a semi-script font at top.

Yellow background at top, bottom has table with green tablecloth and game target on it. A boy at left is wearing a blue sailor-like outfit, and is shooting a white or yellow quoit with his right hand. To the right behind the table is a girl wearing a red outfit with black spots, her right arm on the previous boy's back, who is looking on . To the right is a boy wearing a gray suit and red tie looking on. A woman is seated at right, facing left, and is shooting a red quoit.

The logo appears at lower left.

red

Red with no design.

"19/456/1"

The game target has a natural wooden base (7 1/4" wide, 7 3/8" high, and 3/8" thick), with a semishiny paper hexagram target attached.

The paper target has a dull light blue border. A red chain marking appears over the light blue border all around the edges.

The hexagram target has a "15" in the middle yellow circle with a 1/4" tall nail through it.

Outside the yellow circle is a red hexagon with green curlicues on each of the 6 segments. Nails are also placed on the inside and outside vertices of the hexagon. The inside ones have "3" marked under each. The outer ones have "5" marked under each.

Outside the red hexagon is a green hexagram, each with a black flower-like symbol. The outer vertices of the hexagram each have a nail and are marked "10" under each.

Outside the green hexagram segments and inside the outer light blue border are yellow areas. The corner ones have the same flower-like symbol over them.

One copy (copy 1) includes the following:

3 wooden rectangular squidgers (3/8" wide by 1 1/2" long, and about 1/16" thick), including one broken one.

Quality celluloid quoits (7/8" outer diameter, 1/2" inner diameter, about 1/32" thick): 2 dull red, 2 green, 2 dull blue, and 2 yellowish offwhite.

Different quality quoits (11/16" outer diameter, 1/2" inner diameter, 1/8" thick): 2 white.