The singles game involves a single winker playing against another single winker, each playing two colors of winks in alternation. The pairs game involves four players, playing in partnerships, with each winker playing a single color. There are two primary methods of play with the four colors of winks: a pairs game, and a singles game. This mat is ordinarily placed on a table, and a pot is placed at its centre. There are six winks of each colour, which begin the game in the corners of a felt mat measuring 6 feet by 3 feet. Red and blue are always partners against green and yellow. Each player controls the winks of a colour, the colours being blue, green, red and yellow. Tiddlywinks is a competitive game involving four colours of winks. The French jeu de puces ('flea game'), a catapult version of tiddlywinks Tiddlywinks derives from British rhyming slang for an unlicensed public house or a small inn only licensed to sell beer and cider (tiddlywink, kiddlywink). The modern game uses far more complex rules and a consistent set of high-grade equipment. However, the modern competitive game of tiddlywinks made a strong comeback at the University of Cambridge in 1955. Tiddlywinks is sometimes considered a simple-minded, frivolous children's game, rather than a sophisticated strategic game. As part of strategic gameplay, players often attempt to squop their opponents' winks and develop, maintain and break up large piles of winks. The defensive objective of the game is to prevent your opponents from potting their winks by 'squopping' them: shooting your own winks to land on top of your opponents' winks. The offensive objective of the game is to score points by sending your own winks into the pot. Players use a 'squidger' (nowadays made of plastic) to shoot a wink into flight by flicking the squidger across the top of a wink and then over its edge, thereby propelling it into the air. Tiddlywinks is a game played on a flat felt mat with sets of small discs called 'winks', a pot, which is the target, and a collection of squidgers, which are also discs. Usually 2 or 4 sometimes 3 6 for a triples match

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