The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-12-20
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SELF With These Winter Nights.

sell WIN &NlSHls.
II you have not made the acquaintance
Of Tiddledywinks you are losing some
OF the innocent pleasure OF life, and the
procession is moving on witllou. you.
The country has 1t and Wheeling has
caught on. Ie ancient business man,
after figuring on percentage all day,
takes his evening recreation with lid.
dledywinks. The tired housewife rests
herself with Tiddledywinks. The young
people OF the family are becoming ex.
pert at it. Counting couples like to Gil
III the waste places with Eiddledywinks.
The game was born in Merrie Eng
land, brought over at u tender age and
made a good American.
The name is apparently nonsensical,
and its origin is only to be explained by
deduction. Small ivory chips arc
jumped by striking them on the edge
with larger chip,.and the object OF the
game is to make them fall into n small
wink" pot set in the center OF the
table.
Every girl winks when her chin
Iumps, so the small chips arc called
"winks." The large chips are called
Jumpers, and his suggests the baby ap-
pe!lation for an altogether different kind
Of jumper, and so they are called std.
dledys."
From two 10 Dix persons can play, but
the more the better as well as merrier.
when arranged as partners.
The whole pot is placed in the center
OF the table. 1t is email cup, barely
two inches in diameter. If a mat or
heavy tablecloth is used, the only other
implements" is the winks, the fiddle.
dys and number OF pastepoard count.
e!s, II not, each player is provided
with small pad or mat about three
by four inches, from which to Jump the
winks.
Each player has six winks. The mats
are placed ct al equal distance from the
wink pot. A wink is put on the mat,
aud the player holding one Of the fiddle.
dys hits or presses with its edge upon
the wink, causing it to jump. The beet
result is secured by resting the tiddledy
on the wink and drawing it backward.
The wink may be made TO jump several
leet in this way. The science comes in
so gauglng the pressure that the wink
will fall in the pot. II it goes beyond,
the player must jump it back.
One plays until he fails to nut winl;
in. and then the turn passee. Partners
may help each other. The object in the
English game is to get all the winks in,
and the ono who is through first tallies
one for every wink lett on the table
when they are through.
1t often happens that wink falls on
that OF another player. The under one
can not be touched, and the owner OF
the upper ons may play all the rest in
before trying that and setting the under
one free.
In the American game each wink
jumped in the pot counts one. At the
start pool is formed, each player
anteing seven counters. Each plays his
own six winks the first round. After
that he plays any winks he chooses, and
as long rs he can put winks in the not.
II ne tails to put wink in six trials he
fofiets two counters to the pool. Ii he
clears the table he can take out OF the
pot as many az he can put back.
-Four wlnks in succession form run,
and Tor every wink in d run over three
the player receives an extra counter from
the pool. When the winks are all in
the player who has made the largest run
and the one putting in the largest nun
Der OF winks divide the pool equally.
Both the English and American games
are played 60 as to give variety, and the
game is also made more interesting by
varying the distances at which the mats
are placed from the wink.pot at the
start-out. Sometimes q line ten inches
in diameter is drawn around the wink.
pot, and winks falling in it have to be
left until all others are in. The ring il |
called the dead.line.
The game is quick and lively, REQUIRES
considerable skill, and the score is easily |
kept. This makes it especially enter.
tanning as progressive" game with
several tables.
There are notifications OF Tiddledy.
wlnks according to taste and circum.
stance. 4 simple way to play the game
is to see which OF the players can get ali
OF his "wirks" into the "wink.pot" first,
and this givea him the game, without
counters or other accessories.