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National Tiddlywinks Championships

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Oct 30 2007

Blitz, bomb, boondock, bristol, crud, gromp, scrunge, lunch or squop?

There were tense times on Sunday as players concentrated on making the right move during the National Singles Tiddlywinks tournament held at Selwyn Diamond, in Cambridge.

Patrick Barrie, the chairman of the English Tiddlywinks Association explains that there’s much more to tiddlywinks than just flicking counters into a cup. ‘It is in fact a complex game of strategy and tactics, which involves a fascinating mixture of manual dexterity and intellectual activity. It’s a bit like chess, but on an infinitely squared board, and you have the added difficulty of actually playing a piece to where you want it to go.’

It’s a game that’s taken seriously of course, but as I discovered, great fun as well. Just don’t ask me what any of those moves are, I thought lunch was time to go and have a pie and pint, whilst it is infact a move to pot a squopped wink. A squopped wink?.. where’s that pint?

 

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The vast majority of posts in this blog are about quirky & eccentric competitions & festivals. I started it in 2006 in France with a competition I’ll never forget. Where contestants battle it out to become the World Champion Pig Squeeler, or ‘Cri du Cochon’. I had little knowledge back then of quite how far my pursuit of these kind of events would lead me. I’ve travelled all over Britain (and occasionally further afield) to capture our curiosities and quirks. There’s nothing uniquely eccentric about the British, you’ll find people all over the world up to all sorts of weird and wonderful activities, but we do have a remarkable capacity to embrace the madness. ‘A Brit Different’ is the book that was born from it, my labour of love! So what next? There’s always something interesting going on, so watch this space, only time will tell!

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