Tiddlywinks

Tiddlywinks is a dexterity tabletop game played on a flat felt mat, in which players use a larger disc called a squidger to flick smaller discs called winks so that they leap into the air and land inside a central pot. The game traces to Victorian England, where Joseph Assheton Fincher filed the original patent in 1888. A more rigorous competitive form, with standardized equipment and expanded rules, developed at Cambridge University in 1955 and remains the basis for modern tournament play. Matches are usually contested by two or four players, sometimes three, and typically run thirty minutes to an hour. Beyond potting winks for points, players can squop an opponent's wink by landing their own wink on top of it, immobilizing the covered piece until it is freed, which gives the game a defensive, tactical layer alongside its physical skill demands.