The game of button tiddledy

Material Required to Make the Game of Button Tiddledy:

An empty calling-card box, five flat white buttons about a half-inch in diameter, five flat darkcolored buttons about this same size, two larger buttons an inch or more in diameter.

Perhaps you have played Tiddledywinks. It is really great fun to try to snap the colored disks into the little glass. Perhaps you do not own a real Tiddledy game and, in this case, you may easily make one yourself with a shallow box cover and some buttons. If you take a small flat button and press its rim hard with the rim of a larger button, the small button will hop up into the air and travel quite a good distance.

If you try this several times, you will find out that small pressure gives small hops and an even heavy pressure on the little button may cause it to go far.

This is the principle of Button Tiddledy:

The game is played on the floor or on a table covered with a cloth. Each player must have five buttons and each player's buttons must be different. Two or more may play.

How to play button tiddledy:

1. Two players may play the game or more, if buttons can be found.


2. Play is made without turn as rapidly as possible.


3. Each player places his five buttons in a row twelve inches from the open box.


4. Signal is given to start. The first to get all his five buttons into the box wins.


5. No player is permitted to touch his button, or that of another, with fingers unless a button falls off a table onto the floor. Then it is to be picked up and placed as nearly as possible where it was before it fell.

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