North American Tiddlywinks Association

09/14/2025

Maximilian Lockwood snatches the win from Rick Tucker in the last game of NATwA's Annapolis Individual Pairs at Windgate, held yesterday.

05/18/2025

Hooray to the winners of the 2025 NATwA Pairs • Maximilian Lockwood & Dave Lockwood! • held 17 May 2025 in Rockville, Maryland

05/11/2025

01/13/2025

Nearly 60 years ago! Winking by the Queen's University team of Belfast on 4 February 1966! (Courtesy: ITV)

01/12/2025

Celebrating 70 years of competitive winking this month at Cambridge!

Three friends who helped start competitive tiddlywinks so they could represent Cambridge University at sport have marked the 70th anniversary of the

12/08/2024

A tip o' the hat to the 2024 NATwA Singles champion • Prabhas Pokharel!

date • 7 December 2024
location • Rockville, Maryland

Prabhas led the pack after round-robin play with a score of 19 points, with Maximilian Lockwood in second at 17 1/2 points.

Prabhas won the playoff game over Maximilian by a score of 4 1/2 - 2 1/2.

The final scores for the top two: 1️⃣Prabhas 23 1/2 and 2️⃣Maximilian 20.

The 2024 championship was the first NATwA Singles win for Prabhas. He has won the NATwA Pairs twice, in 2004 and 2007.

11/14/2024

Longtime winkers Dave Lockwood, Larry Kahn, and Rick Tucker • interviewed by Brielle Domings for the MIT Alumni Association • plus article by Kathryn O’Neill.

Tiddlywinks is like chess, only you have to shoot your piece to where you want it to go. MIT alumni have been at the highest ranks of the game for decades.Read more.

11/12/2024

Hats off to David Lockwood & Jeff Tokman for winning the 2024 NATwA Pairs championship on 9 November!

10/25/2024

03/01/2024

“Show me a tiddlywinks match on the moon.” • asked of Microsoft Copilot. Here’s its response:

Certainly! Let's imagine a whimsical tiddlywinks match on the moon. 🌕🪐

**Title: "Lunar Winks Showdown"**

In the low-gravity expanse of the moon, our intrepid tiddlywinks players gather around a specially designed lunar mat. The mat, instead of felt, is made of shimmering moon dust, and the pot at the center is a tiny crater filled with stardust. The winks, of course, are miniature moon rocks, polished to perfection.

Here are our four lunar tiddlywinks champions:

1. **Blue Moonbeam**: Blue winks, always dreaming of Earth's oceans. Blue has 3 potted winks and 2 free, totaling 9 points.

2. **Green Stardust**: Green winks, representing the lush forests of Earth. Green has no potted winks but 4 free, totaling 4 points.

3. **Red Comet**: Red winks, fiery and determined. Red has 1 potted wink and none free, totaling 3 points.

4. **Yellow Nebula**: Yellow winks, bright as a sunflower. Yellow has 4 in the pot and 1 free, totaling an impressive 13 points.

The game unfolds under the watchful eyes of Earth, twinkling in the distant sky. The players take turns, their squidgers made of moonbeam energy. Blue and Red form an alliance against Green and Yellow, just like the Earthly rules dictate.

**Gameplay Highlights**:

- Blue deftly squops Green's winks, sending them spinning into the stardust.

- Red attempts a cosmic trick shot, bouncing off a moon crater to pot a wink.

- Yellow's winks dance in lunar pirouettes, aiming for the pot.

And as the moon rises higher, casting elongated shadows, the final scores emerge:

- **Yellow Nebula**: 4 points
- **Blue Moonbeam**: 2 points
- **Green Stardust**: 1 point

**Victory belongs to Green and Yellow**, their celestial teamwork prevailing in this lunar tiddlywinks saga. They celebrate with moon rock smoothies and a zero-gravity dance.

Remember, dear Earthlings, this match is purely fictional, but the spirit of play transcends even the vastness of space. 🚀🌠

*Sources*:
1. [Wikipedia: Tiddlywinks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiddlywinks) ¹

2. [Tiddlywinks.org: An Introduction to Tiddlywinks](https://tiddlywinks.org/playing-tiddlywinks-an-overview/an-introduction-to-tiddlywinks/) ²

3. [North American Tiddlywinks Association: Frequently Asked Questions](https://tiddlywinks.org/about/frequently-asked-questions/) ³

4. [Tiddlywinks.org: On the Mat • 1954 to 1957](https://tiddlywinks.org/tiddlywinks-history/on-the-mat-1954-to-1957/) ⁴.

Source: Conversation with Bing, 3/1/2024

(1) Tiddlywinks - Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiddlywinks.

(2) An Introduction to Tiddlywinks. https://tiddlywinks.org/playing-tiddlywinks-an-overview/an-introduction-to-tiddlywinks/.

(3) Frequently Asked Questions – North American Tiddlywinks Association. https://tiddlywinks.org/about/frequently-asked-questions/.

(4) On the Mat • 1954 to 1957 – North American ... - Tiddlywinks. https://tiddlywinks.org/tiddlywinks-history/on-the-mat-1954-to-1957/.

(5) en.wikipedia.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiddlywinks.

02/29/2024

A long podcast about tiddlywinks. Decent but with a a number of notable errors.

Source:https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-7jegq-add542Remember the game tiddlywinks you played as a kid? There’s way more to it than you ever imagined. I...

01/28/2024

Martin Conmy writes about his experiences at some of the most unusual student societies Oxford has to offer: Tiddlywinks, Quidditch, and the Psychedelic Society.