August 28, 2004
I can't pot my nurdled wink...
...so I'll piddle you free and you can boondock a red. What am I talking about?
...so I'll piddle you free and you can boondock a red. What am I talking about?
Read the tiddlywink lexicon and find out.
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Compare and contrast with Scrabble.
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Some things should not be complicated beyond complexity, and I fervently believe tiddlywinks is one of them.
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Having never heard of this game before (being a furriner and all), I had to make use of the FAQ, where I found: [Tiddlywinks] is in fact a complex game of strategy and tactics, which involves a fascinating mixture of manual dexterity and intellectual activity as well. It's a bit like chess in a way, but on an infinitely squared board, and you have the added difficulty of actually playing a piece to where you want it to go. I find Chess hard already. I am sure I'd be utterly baffled by this complex game of strategy and tactics.
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Hi, fuyugare, welcome to the monkeyshines. If you play chess, you can certainly play tiddlywinks. Bit of history here about it. n.b. -- I belong to a depraved generation which treats tiddlywinks with ridicule [jeer, jeer] because any fule can play it. And win [yawn, yawn]. (Except at Cambridge, where apparently some of the more gormless had time on their hands and got a bit worked up about it.) No doubt tiddlywinks will be an Olympic competition one of these years, alongside conkers, hopscotch, and noughts and crosses.
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Hm, I always thought "playing tiddlywinks" was a euphemism.