![]() ![]() With the pot located in the center, it’s too far to pot a wink directly. Players begin games with a shot from the corners of a 6-foot-long table. For those playing, it really helps to be good at math too. Not that the game is that straightforward. Successfully shooting into the pot wins three tiddlies. They press the squidger along the side of a wink and the resulting release of tension sends the wink flying. ![]() Players use plastic discs called squidgers to shoot smaller discs, the winks, into a pot the size of a shot glass. Winks, as Kahn prefers to call it, combines strategy and manual dexterity. ![]() “It’s not really a spectator sport,” said Barrie, with a wink.Įarlier this year, the ETwA (as it likes to be known) met in a back room of the Red Bull pub in Cambridge to discuss whether to introduce prize money into competitions. In the following five hours of play, nobody did. Barrie blew his nose on a white handkerchief, as Harley Jones, who would officiate, emailed the members of the English Tiddlywinks Assn. Still, Kahn decided to make do and began acclimatizing himself with the table by sending a succession of winks hurtling toward the plastic red cup. ![]()
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