Game Information

"Glevum" Series (on rules for "MATCH TIDLEYWINKS" only)

(no catalog number shown on game)

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[cover TIDLEY
WINKS
Compendium]

This version includes the game "Cat & Mouse" and does not include the game "Flippons". The "Repeller" game target is offwhite on one side and a solid pink on the other.

quoits, tiddlywinks

2 individual offwhite sheets (different sizes, each one-sided) and an additional pink sheet (one side).

Copy 1 includes: "TIDLEY WINKS" on a pink vertical sheet;
|THE GAME OF "REPELLER," OR ATTACK AND DEFENCE|; and
|"TABLE QUOITS"|

15 inches wide — 12 inches high — 1 15/16 inches deep

38.1 cm wide — 30.5 cm high — 4.9 cm deep

The wraparound label is red. The cover has no illustrations. "TIDLEY" (concave down) above "WINKS" (concave up) is shown at center near the top, each in a silver font with left notches in most letters, and with a flourish curve below each. Below is "Compendium" in silver, in script, with the end of the second "m" curving down and to the left, and then curving to the right and up, intersecting the upper curve.

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tan, empty

Red, empty.

light gray with edges of box bottom's red underlabel, empty

Copy 1 includes:

A cardboard target for the game "Repeller" that has 6 folding rectangular (4 7/8" wide by 6 1/4" high) sections, each of which has two 2" circular holes through which winks are to be shot. One side of the folding target is offwhite. The other side is solid pink.

A red, slightly shiny finished turned wooden cup (1 7/8" top and bottom diameter, concave sides down to a 1 1/2" minimum diameter) has one black ring around the protruding base. Woode grain can be seen through the red finish. The bottom is unfinished.

The round (5 3/8" top diameter, 5 3/4" bottom diameter, 7/8" tall) wooden target for the game "Table Quoits" has an unfinished bottom and shiny finished sides. A white round piece of paper is glued to the top of the target and has 3 concentric rings (in black). The outermost ring has 12 nails (about 9/16" tall) spaced equally around it; a number is marked adjacent to each nail (clockwise from top): 8, 5, 11, 6, 8, 5, 11, 6, 8, 5, 11, and 6. The next innermost ring has 9 nails with the following numbers: 7, 6, 5, 7, 6, 5, 7, 6, and 5. The innermost ring has 4 nails, marked 2, 2, 2, and 2. An additional nail is at the center of the target, which is marked 20, with "PATENT No." in a concave-down curve above it and "22446" in a concave-up curve below it.

Copy 1 includes the following:

Quoit (may be vegetable ivory, 13/16" outer diameter, 9/16" inner diameter, 3/32" thick): 1 offwhite.

Quoit (may be vegetable ivory, 3/4" outer diameter, 9/16" inner diameter, 3/32" thick): 2 yellowish-offwhite.

The nearly square (3 7/8" by 3 3/4" and 1 1/8" tall) wooden target for the game "Match Tidleywinks" has four quadrants on the top, each with a cylindrical unfinished wooden hole (1 3/8" diameter) as a target for shooting winks. The top and sides are covered with a shiny wraparound label that has top quadrants in (clockwise) green, red, blue, and yellow around the wooden holes. Each of the four sides of the target show round winnks (green, red, yellow, and blue) on a gray background. The bottom of the target has an additional dull blue label with no markings.

The cardboard target for the "Cat & Mouse" game consists of 2 rectangular sides (1 7/16" wide by 8" high), each with a red background and depicting a gray cat with a hole cut out at the mouth (round at bottom, pointed just below the nose), and with "BRITISH MANUFACTURE" (in white) at top and |"BRITISH MANUFACTURE"| (in red) at bottom right. These 2 sides are attached at the bottom with a tan bifold piece of cardboard that extends out to 4".

Copy 1 includes:

Squidgers (27/32" diameter, quality plastic, shiny, no burrs): 1 green, 1 medium blue, 1 yellow.

Squidgers (7/8" diameter, quality plastic, less shiny, no burrs): 1 red.

Winks (11/16" diameter, quality plastic, shiny, no burrs): 3 green, 1 darker green, 4 medium blue, 1 dark blue, 4 yellow, 2 red, 1 darker red.