tiddlywinks

Tiddlywinks derives from British rhyming slang for an unlicensed public house or a small inn only licensed to sell beer and cider (tiddlywink, kiddlywink).{{cite book |last1=Courtney |first1=Margaret Ann |last2=Couch |first2=Thomas Quiller |title=Glossary of Words in Use in Cornwall |date=1880 |publisher=English Dialect Society |page=104 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dFUJAAAAQAAJ&dq=tiddlywink&pg=PA104|quote=Tiddlywink, sometimes Kiddlywink, a small inn only licensed to sell beer and cider}}{{cite journal |last1=Courtney |first1=Margaret Ann |last2=Couch |first2=Thomas Quiller |title=Glossary of Words in Use in Cornwall |journal=Publications |date=1880 |volume=27 |page=104 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RXUMAQAAIAAJ&dq=tiddlywink&pg=PA104 |access-date=2 August 2022 |publisher=English Dialect Society}} Tiddly was slang for an alcoholic drink.{{cite web |title=Tiddleywink: A Game, A Bar, And A Drink |url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/word-history-tiddleywinks |website=Merriam-Webster |access-date=2 August 2022}} It may be related to pillywinks.{{cite journal |last1=Spitzer |first1=Leo |title=Anglo-French Etymologies |journal=Modern Language Notes |date=December 1945 |volume=60 |issue=8 |pages=503–521 |doi=10.2307/2910470 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2910470 |access-date=2 August 2022 |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|jstor=2910470 |url-access=subscription }}

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Tiddlywinks is a competitive game involving four colours of winks. Each player controls the winks of a colour, the colours being blue, green, red and yellow.{{cite web |author1=English Tiddlywinks Association |title=The Official Rules of Tiddlywinks |url=https://etwa.org/rules/rules2016.pdf |access-date=6 November 2022 |date=April 2016}} Red and blue are always partners against green and yellow. There are six winks of each colour, which begin the game in the corners of a felt mat measuring 6 feet by 3 feet. This mat is ordinarily placed on a table, and a pot is placed at its centre. There are two primary methods of play with the four colours of winks: a pairs game, and a singles game. The pairs game involves four players, playing in partnerships, with each winker playing a single colour. The singles game involves a single winker playing against another single winker, each playing two colours of winks in alternation.

The players take turns, and there are two basic aims: to cover (or squop) opponent winks, and to get one's own winks into the pot. As in pool or snooker, if a player pots a wink of their own colour, they are entitled to an extra shot, and this enables a skilled player to pot all of their winks in one turn. The point of squopping, which is the key element distinguishing the modern competitive game from the child's game (though recognized in even the earliest rules from 1890), is that a wink that is covered (even partially) may not be played by its owner. The wink on top may be played, though, and sophisticated play involves shots manipulating large piles of winks.

The game ends in one of two ways: either all the winks of one colour are potted (a pot-out), or play continues up to a specified time limit (usually 25 minutes), after which each colour has a further five turns. Then a scoring system is used to rank the players, based on the numbers of potted and unsquopped winks of each colour.

The important appeal of the game for many players is the required combination of manual dexterity and strategic thought as well as tactics.{{cite web |title=Ten Tiddlywinks Strategies |url=https://tiddlywinks.org/playing-tiddlywinks-an-overview/ten-tiddlywinks-strategies/ |access-date=6 November 2022|format=digitized from original typewritten document from the late 1960s or 1970s}} Tiddlywinkers often claim that the game combines physical skill (such as in snooker or golf) with the strategy of chess. Tiddlywinks is unique in the combination of skill and strategy it requires. Strategy in tiddlywinks is often rather deep, since winks can be captured by squopping (covering) them. Strategic and tactical planning involves anticipating opponents' moves rather than just building a sequence of one's own moves. Another factor that complicates the game is that there is a time limit to the play of the game; it does not merely run until some objective in the game has been met.

All in all, tiddlywinks goes beyond the purely cerebral nature of a game such as chess. The fact that shots can be made or missed, together with the continuum of possible outcomes, makes strategy much less rigid than in chess, and prevents planning more than seven or eight shots in advance.

The winks and pot used in competitive play are standard, and are supplied by the English Tiddlywinks Association. The pots are made of moulded plastic (historically always red), with specified diameters at the top and the base, and specified height. The winks are made to specified measurements, and are made by slicing an extruded cylinder rather than by moulding, and then smoothing them in a tumbler. Although this leads to some minor variation in thickness, it produces a much smoother edge to the wink than that seen on cheap moulded winks.

The mats are made of thick felt. Mats obtained from different suppliers have different characteristics, and part of the skill of a tournament player is to adjust to different mats.

Squidgers are custom-made by their owners or purchased from squidger makers. A player may use as many as they like, selecting an appropriate squidger for each shot. Top players may carry up to twenty different squidgers, but will not typically use all of them in one game. The rules governing squidgers permit a range of dimensions, and the material is not specified, except for the condition that squidgers must not damage either the winks or the mat. Modern squidgers are predominantly made from different types of plastic, though antique ones were made from bone, vegetable ivory, and other materials. Squidgers are usually filed or sanded to form a sharp edge and then polished.{{cite journal |last1=Tucker |first1=Rick |editor1-last=Tucker |editor1-first=Rick |title=Squidger Making with or without a Lathe and Manipulating Winks |journal=Newswink |date=2 August 1980 |issue=10 |pages=8–9 |url=https://tiddlywinks.org/equipment/squidger-making-with-or-without-a-lathe-and-manipulating-winks/ |access-date=6 November 2022}}

Selected terms used in the game include:{{cite web|url=http://tiddlywinks.org/lexicon-of-tiddlywinks/|first=Rick|last=Tucker|title=Lexicon of Tiddlywinks|date=January 2016|orig-year=1994|version=16|publisher=Tiddlywinks.org|access-date=26 January 2016}}{{cite journal|first=Philip M.|last=Cohen|title=Winking Words|journal=Verbatim|date=December 1977|page=4}}{{cite book|first=Eric|last=Partridge|author-link=Eric Partridge|title=A dictionary of slang & unconventional English|edition=8th|editor1-first=Paul|editor1-last=Beale|publisher=Routledge & Kegan Paul|location=London, England|date=1984}} Appendix devoted to tiddlywinks jargon.

Blitz: an attempt to pot all six winks of a given player's colour early in the game

Bomb: to send a wink at a pile, usually from distance, in the hope of significantly disturbing it

Boondock: to free a squopped wink by sending it a long way away, leaving the squopping wink free in the battle area

Bristol: a shot which moves a pile of two or more winks as a single unit; the shot is played by holding the squidger at a right angle to its normal plane

Carnovsky (US)/Penhaligon (UK): potting a wink from the baseline (i.e., from 3 feet away)

Cracker (UK): a simultaneous knock-off and squop, i.e. a shot which knocks one wink off the top of another while simultaneously squopping it

Crud (UK): a forceful shot whose purpose is to destroy a pile completely

Good shot: named after John Good. The shot consists of playing a flat wink (one not involved in a pile) through a nearby pile with the intent of destroying the pile

Gromp: an attempt to jump a pile onto another wink (usually with the squidger held in a conventional rather than a Bristol fashion)

John Lennon memorial shot: a simultaneous boondock and squop

Lunch: to pot a squopped wink (usually belonging to an opponent)

Scrunge (UK): to bounce out of the pot

Squidger: the disc used to shoot a wink{{cite web|title=Oxford English Dictionary|url=http://www.oed.com|website=OED.com|publisher=Oxford University Press|access-date=26 January 2016|location=Oxford, England|url-access=subscription }}Entry for squidger, n.

Squop: to play a wink so that it comes to rest above another wink{{cite web|title=Oxford English Dictionary|url=http://www.oed.com|website=OED.com|publisher=Oxford University Press|access-date=26 January 2016|location=Oxford, England|url-access=subscription }}Entries for squop, v. and squop, n.

Sub: to play a wink so that it (unintentionally) ends up under another wink

Tiddlies: points calculated when determining the finishing placement of winkers in a tiddlywinks game

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The game began as a parlour game in Victorian England. Bank clerk{{cite book|title=Census Returns of England and Wales|date=1891|publisher=The National Archives of the UK, Public Record Office|location=Kew, Surrey, England|page=Class: RG12; Piece: 1102; Folio: 18; Page: 14|url=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=6598&h=25030273&ssrc=pt&tid=64702480&pid=30161237741&usePUB=true|access-date=28 March 2018}} Joseph Assheton Fincher (1863–1900)Joseph Assheton Fincher birth registration, General Register Office, England.Joseph Assheton Fincher death registration, General Register Office, England. filed the original patent application for the game in 1888{{cite web |first=Joseph A.|last=Fincher|title=Tiddledy-Winks Patent: A New and Improved Game |date=1888 |url=http://tiddlywinks.org/bibliography/tiddlywinks-patents/tiddlywinks-patent-1888-joseph-assheton-fincher/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905214846/http://tiddlywinks.org/bibliography/tiddlywinks-patents/tiddlywinks-patent-1888-joseph-assheton-fincher/ |archive-date=5 September 2015

|publisher= Her Majesty's Stationery Office, by Darling & Son, Ltd. |location=London, England|access-date=26 January 2016}} UK patent # 16,215 (1888). and applied for the trademark Tiddledy-Winks in 1889.{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141118223816/http://www.tiddlywinks.org:80/collector/trademarks/Default.htm |archive-date=18 November 2014 |url=http://www.tiddlywinks.org/collector/trademarks/Default.htm|title=Trade Marks Journal|date=15 May 1889|issue=581|page=476|publisher=U.K. Patent Office|access-date=26 January 2016}} John Jaques and Son were the exclusive distributors of the game named Tiddledy-Winks.{{cite web |title=1890's Tiddledy Winks by J. Jaques & Son, London |url=https://tomsk3000.com/product/1890s-tiddledy-winks-by-j-jaques-son-london/ |website=tomsk3000 |access-date=2 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220422095200/https://tomsk3000.com/product/1890s-tiddledy-winks-by-j-jaques-son-london/ |archive-date=22 April 2022}}

However, competition was quite fierce, and for several years starting in 1888 other game publishers came out with their own versions of the game using other names, including Spoof, Flipperty Flop, Jumpkins, Golfette, Maro, Flutter, and many others.UK copyright applications at the National Archives, Kew It became one of the most popular crazes during the 1890s, played by adults and children alike.{{cite web|title=The Popular Game of Tiddledy Winks|url=https://statenisland.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/E5F2C0CC-A357-40D6-9C9F-712802077830|website=Staten Island Historical Society Online Collections Database|publisher=Historic Richmond Town|access-date=21 April 2017}}

Throughout its history, many different varieties were produced to meet the marketplace demands, including those combining tiddledy-winks principles with tennis, basketball, baseball, croquet, cricket, football, golf, and other popular sports and endeavours.{{cite journal|url=http://tiddlywinks.org/history/tiddlywinks-the-classic-victorian-pastime-1996/|first=Rick|last=Tucker|title=Tiddlywinks – The Classic Victorian Pastime: On Target for the 21st Century|date=October 1996|publisher=American Game Collectors Association|journal=Game Researchers' Notes|issn=1050-6608|access-date=26 January 2016}} Throughout the first half of the twentieth century, the public perception of the game changed.

There are two national associations, the English Tiddlywinks Association (ETwA){{cite web |title=Frequently Asked Questions About Tiddlywinks |url=https://etwa.org/FAQ.html |website=etwa.org |access-date=2 August 2022}} and the North American Tiddlywinks Association (NATwA),{{cite web |title=Tiddlywinks at a Glance |url=http://tiddlywinks.org/ |website=North American Tiddlywinks Association |access-date=2 August 2022}} (the Scottish Tiddlywinks Association{{cite web |title=This is a placeholder for the Scottish tiddlywinks association (ScotTwA). |url=https://scottwa.org/ |website=The Scottish Tiddlywinks Association |access-date=2 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220313224414/https://scottwa.org/ |archive-date=13 March 2022}} having disbanded in the late 1990s).{{cite web |title=Scottish Tiddlywinks Association Publications |url=http://tiddlywinks.org/publications/scottish-tiddlywinks-association-publications/ |website=North American Tiddlywinks Association |access-date=2 August 2022 |date=20 November 2018}} These organisations are responsible for conducting tournaments and maintaining the rules of the game. International competition is overseen by the International Federation of Tiddlywinks Associations (IFTwA),{{cite web |title=International Federation of Tiddlywinks Associations |url=https://iftwa.org/ |website=International Federation of Tiddlywinks Associations |access-date=6 November 2022}} founded on 16 June 1963{{cite web |title=History of IFTwA |date=18 April 2018 |url=https://iftwa.org/history-of-iftwa/ |publisher=International Federation of Tiddlywinks Associations |access-date=6 November 2022}} though in practice it is rarely called upon to intervene.

Although tiddlywinks nowadays is a singles or pairs game, competition in the 1950s until the 2000s centred on team competition, with teams consisting of several (two to four) pairs. There were a number of university teams, and international matches were also played. More recently, singles and pairs tournaments have come to be the focus of competitive tiddlywinks, with only a few team matches being played each year. The four most prestigious tournaments are the National Singles and National Pairs tournaments held in England and the United States. The World Singles and World Pairs championships operate on a challenge basis; anyone winning a national tournament (or being the highest-placed home player behind a foreign winner) is entitled to challenge the current champion.

There are several other less prestigious tournaments in England and the United States throughout the year, often with a format designed to encourage inexperienced players. The results of tournaments and world championship matches are used to calculate Tiddlywinks Ratings,{{cite web|url=http://www.etwa.org/ratings/index.html|first=Patrick|last=Barrie|title=Tiddlywinks World Ratings|access-date=26 January 2016}} which give a ranking of players.

The birth of the modern game can be traced to a group of Cambridge University undergraduates meeting in Christ's College on 16 January 1955.{{cite book |last1=Consterdine |first1=Guy |title=On the Mat – 1955 to 1957 – The Origins of Modern Tiddlywinks |date=March 1967 |url=https://tiddlywinks.org/tiddlywinks-history/on-the-mat-1954-to-1957/ |access-date=6 November 2022}} Their aim was to devise a sport at which they could represent the university. Within three years the Oxford University Tiddlywinks Society was formed; although the two universities had been playing matches since 1946.{{cite journal|title=To the death...|journal=The Times|department=Sporting Diary|author-link=Simon Barnes|first=Simon|last=Barnes|date=21 December 1985|page=8 column 1|issue=62327}} In 1957, an article appeared in The Spectator entitled "Does Prince Philip cheat at tiddlywinks?"{{cite news|last1=Strix|title=Does Prince Philip Cheat at Tiddlywinks?|date=18 October 1957|page=12 column 1|location=London, England|url=http://archive.spectator.co.uk/page/18th-october-1957/12|url-access=subscription }} Sensing a good publicity opportunity the Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club (CUTwC) challenged Prince Philip (later to become Chancellor of the university in 1976) to a tiddlywinks match to defend his honour. The Duke of Edinburgh appointed The Goons as his Royal champions. The Duke presented a trophy, the Silver Wink, designed and made by Robert Welch{{cite tweet |last1=Booth |first1=Charlotte |user=6harlie |number= 1380539236420575233 |title=It was engraved with the Royal Coat of Arms on one side and 'The Silver Wink' on the other |url=https://twitter.com/6harlie/status/1380539236420575233?s=20&t=tCi_xdrWzChs-2Pt_q54ew |via=Twitter |access-date=6 November 2022|format=multiple tweets in thread |date=9 April 2021}} for the British Universities Championship.{{cite book|url=http://tiddlywinks.org/history/on-the-mat/|first=Guy|last=Consterdine|title=On the Mat – 1954–1957 – The Origins of Modern Tiddlywinks|date=March 1967|access-date=26 January 2016}}

The English Tiddlywinks Association (ETwA) was founded on 12 June 1958{{cite news|date=13 June 1958|page=13 column 4|journal=The Times|location=London, England|title=Tiddlywinks World Rules Drawn Up; Association Formed|quote=The congress, which was sponsored by the Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club, also formed an English Tiddlywinks Association and appointed the Rev. E. A. Willis, a retired Minister, of Richmond, Surrey, who has played tiddlywinks for more than 50 years, as its secretary general.}}{{cite book|url=http://tiddlywinks.org/history/winks-rampant/|first=Guy|last=Consterdine|title=Winks Rampant – 1957–1958 – The Development of Modern Tiddlywinks|date=October 1972|access-date=26 January 2016}} with the Reverend Edgar "Eggs" Ambrose Willis{{cite web |last1=Tucker |first1=Rick |title=Reverend E. A. Willis |url=https://tiddlywinks.org/winkers/reverend-e-a-willis/ |publisher=North American Tiddlywinks Association |access-date=6 November 2022}} as its first Secretary-General.

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During the 1960s as many as 37 universities were playing the game in Great Britain.

In 1962, the Oxford University Tiddlywinks Society (OUTS) toured the United States for several weeks under the sponsorship of Guinness.{{cite web|last1=Moore|first1=Philip|title=50 Years Ago|url=http://www.severnhospice.org.uk/50-years/|website=SevernHospice.org.uk|publisher=Severn Hospice|quote=The year of 1962 was a significant one for me. At the end of May I celebrated my 21st birthday just before the end of my second year reading maths at Oxford, then came August and this tiddlywinks tour.|access-date=27 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420164554/https://www.severnhospice.org.uk/50-years|archive-date=20 Apr 2021|url-status=dead}} They were undefeated against various hastily-formed teams such as a group of Madison Avenue executives, the Seattle World's Fair "All-Stars", and a group of Harvard students.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,874467,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091102112042/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,874467,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2 November 2009 |title= Winking In|publisher=Time Inc.|magazine=Time|date=14 September 1962|pages=56–57|url-access=subscription |access-date=26 January 2016}} A match against the New York Giants was scheduled but the football players backed out at the last moment.{{cite web |last1=Tucker |first1=Rick |title=Oxford Tour of the U.S. • 1962 |url=https://tiddlywinks.org/tiddlywinks-history/oxford-tour-of-the-u-s-1962/ |publisher=North American Tiddlywinks Association |access-date=6 November 2022}} A very prominent article appeared in Life magazine on 14 December 1962 with coverage of the Harvard team.{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l0oEAAAAMBAJ&q=tiddlywinks&pg=PA121 |magazine=Life|title=Hold that Squop!|date= 14 December 1962|pages=121–122|publisher=Time-Life Inc.|access-date=26 January 2016}} Harvard's Gargoyle Undergraduate Tiddlywinks Society (GUTS) dominated winks in this era.{{cite news|date=15 October 1962|page=3 column 3|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts USA|title=Tiddlywinkers Win|journal=The Harvard Crimson|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1962/10/15/tiddlywinkers-win-pharvard-tiddlywinkers-had-a//}} In the next few years, Harvard and other colleges continued to play, though at a low ebb. From 1962 to 1966, tiddlywinks play in the United States was governed by the National Undergraduate Tiddlywinks Association (NUTS).

The North American Tiddlywinks Association (NATwA) was formed on 27 February 1966,{{cite journal|url=http://imprint.uwaterloo.ca/pdfarchive/1965-66_v6,n24_Coryphaeus.pdf|journal=The Coryphaeus|publisher=Waterloo University students|date=18 March 1966|volume=6|issue=24|page=3|title=Twinx trounce Harvard, we laugh}}{{cite journal|url=http://tiddlywinks.org/history/history-of-the-north-american-tiddlywinks-association-natwa-1962-to-1969/|last=Drix|first=Severin|title=History of the North American Tiddlywinks Association, 1962 to 1969|journal=The Missing Wink|publisher=North American Tiddlywinks Association|date=August 1974|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts USA|pages=4, 5, 6, 10|access-date=26 January 2016}} (article concluded in February 1975 issue, pages 10, 11). replacing NUTS, with founders from both American (Harvard University and Harvard Medical School) and Canadian (University of Waterloo and Waterloo Lutheran University) teams.

In the meantime, in the fall of 1965, Severin Drix started a team at Cornell, and challenged his friend Ferd Wulkan of MIT to start a tiddlywinks team. MIT and Cornell played in NATwA's tiddlywinks tournaments starting in February 1967, and became dominant. The Harvard and Waterloo teams disappeared from the scene by 1968. The game took particularly strong root at MIT, and the early development of most American players can still be traced to MIT today.

While the basic elements of the modern strategic game were devised by CUTwC in its early years, the rules have continued to be modified under the auspices of the various national tiddlywinks associations. ETwA coordinated the game throughout the boom period of the 1960s when winks flourished. A decline in interest within the UK in 1969–1970 led to the establishment of the three national competitions which have been contested to date, namely the National Singles, National Pairs, and the Teams of Four. There are also annual Open Competitions, notably in Oxford, Cambridge and London.

The first serious trans-Atlantic contact was established in 1972, when a team from MIT including Dave Lockwood{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2019/04/21/712201836/not-just-childs-play-world-tiddlywink-champions-look-to-reclaim-their-glory| title=Not Just Child's Play: World Tiddlywinks Champions Look To Reclaim Their Glory | date=21 April 2019| access-date=21 April 2019| publisher=NPR| first1=Emma| last1=Bowman| last2=Simon| first2=Scott}} toured the UK.{{cite journal|last1=Shapiro|first1=Fred|author-link=Fred R. Shapiro|title=MIT's world champions|url=http://tech.mit.edu/V92/PDF/V92-N20.pdf|journal=The Tech|access-date=26 January 2016|page=7|date=25 April 1972|issn=0148-9607|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts USA}}{{cite journal|journal=Tech Talk|publisher=MIT News Office|title=Winkers Take World Title in British Tourney|pages=1, 3|date=5 April 1972}}{{cite journal|title=Bumper MIT Tour Edition|publisher=English Tiddlywinks Association|journal=Winking World|issue=21|date=October 1972}} The success of the Americans shocked complacent Britons. Competition started at the highest level, the World Singles, in 1973. A challenge system was agreed between ETwA and NATwA. The supreme ruling body in world contests is the International Federation of Tiddlywinks Associations (IFTwA). To challenge at the world level, a player must win one of the national titles, or finish as the highest placed home player behind a foreign winner. There have been over 65 World Singles contests to date. The Americans dominated all the early matches, and it was not until the 22nd contest that a Briton won for the first time. Since then the top Britons and Americans have been closely matched. After the establishment of the World Singles, a World Pairs event followed, and there have since been over 40 World Pairs contests. International matches have been played since 1972.

During its history, winks has enjoyed variable levels of interest. The game has never taken a strong hold outside the UK and North America. The focus of British tiddlywinks is still at Cambridge, and CUTwC's 50th anniversary celebrations in 2005 were well attended. The Oxford University Tiddlywinks Society has recently{{when|date=August 2023}} fallen out of existence. Despite this there has recently been some resurgence in the game, with new clubs having been formed recently{{when|date=August 2023}} in the University of York and in Shrewsbury School.

In America, there has been a tradition of tiddlywinks in Washington D.C., Boston, Eastern Ohio, and Ithaca, New York. There was a renewal of winks in 2007 through the MIT Tiddlywinks Association.{{cite web|url=https://news.mit.edu/2007/tiddlywinks-0110|title=Tiddlywinks team plans return to former glory|first=Sarah|last=Brown|date=10 January 2007|publisher=MIT News Office|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts USA|access-date=26 January 2016}} National competitions are well attended, with a group of enthusiastic young players joining the stock of veteran players who have proved themselves at the highest level in world competition. In the US, the game had a firm footing in certain high schools, since the children of many of the players who took up the game in the late 1960s and early 1970s played when they were in high school.{{cite news|last1=Aratani|first1= Lori|title= Family's Game Is No Joke Silver Spring Father and Sons Revel in Competitive Tiddlywinks|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/pb/archive/local/2006/01/21/familys-game-is-no-joke-span-classbankheadsilver-spring-father-and-sons-revel-in-competitive-tiddlywinks-span/6d238de1-e299-4ef7-a91f-879cb26fcc25/?resType=accessibility|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=26 January 2016|location=Washington, D.C. USA|page=B-1|date=21 January 2006}} These players are now looking to revive university tiddlywinks in the United States.

On 1 March 2008, there was a Royal Match in Cambridge to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the original Royal Match played against The Goons in 1958 (see above). CUTwC players took on HRH Prince Philip's Royal Champions, the Savage Club, with members of the original 1958 CUTwC team in attendance. Cambridge repeated their victory from 1958 by winning the match 24–18.{{cite web|url=http://www.cam.ac.uk/news/royal-match-of-tiddlywinks|title=Royal Match of Tiddlywinks|publisher=University of Cambridge|location=Cambridge, England|date= 3 March 2008|access-date=26 January 2016}}

Since 2000, the World Singles championship has been dominated by Larry Kahn and Patrick Barrie, with each player having won seven matches (as of December 2019).{{Cite web|url=http://www.etwa.org/results.html#WS|title=Major Tiddlywinks Championships|website=etwa.org|access-date=2019-12-31}}

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• [http://www.etwa.org/rules/index.html The Rules of Tiddlywinks]
• [http://www.etwa.org/results.html World and national tiddlywinks championships]
• [http://iftwa.org/ International Federation of Tiddlywinks Associations]

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