NOSTALGIA GAMES

JACKS & TIDDLYWINKS
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a) Jumbo zinc, tip to tip 15/16 of an inch b) Regular sized, tip to tip 5/8 (10/16) of an inch c) Large sized, tip to tip 7/8 (14/16) of an inch	Metal Jacks - We have old-fashioned, metal jacks to test player dexterity and skill! Bounce the rubber ball and start collecting jacks! Click a square below to select an item. Click again to remove the selection. If you want more than 1, then backspace over the automatic 1 and type the desired number in the box (change it to over 99 on the shopping cart page). a) $7.00 a) JUMBO ZINC JACKS WITH 2 BALLS: Slightly larger, shiney gold and silver painted zinc jacks with 2 rubber balls, linen bag. American made. b) $6.00 b) EUROPEAN JACKS WITH 1 BALL, Gold and silver painted metal jacks with plastic ball and imprinted cloth bag. Made by British company. c) $5.00 c) JACKS WITH 1 BALL, Gold and silver painted metal jacks with plastic ball and cloth bag. Made in China.
	Re-Enactment Pewter Jacks- Lead-free pewter jacks with wooden ball and cloth bag are great for re-enactors or visitors to Renaissance Faires. Comes with short history and rules for several olde-tyme games. A modern rubber ball is inluded for modern play. American made jacks. Pewter, tip to tip 13/16 of an inch $8.50 Click the square to select this item. Click again to remove the selection. If you want more than , then backspace over the automatic 1 and type the desired number in the box (change it to over 99 on the shopping cart page).
.	EARLY JACKS Played the world over for millenia, early Jacks was a game usually played with "knucklebones" or pebbles. Throughout the world and before the invention of tiny rubber balls and manufactured metal or plastic star-like pieces, a special game piece or small wooden ball was thrown up and while it was in the air, game pieces on the ground were gathered up in various combinations. Today, a rubber ball is often bounced and pieces scooped up before it bounces a second time. Find replica knucklebones on our Bone Dice page. NOTE: Not only are knucklebones the ancestors of jacks, but they are also the ancestors of dice!
	Tiddlywinks with Cup - Try to get the winks into the cup! $7.00 Click the square to select this item. Click again to remove the selection. If you want more than , then backspace over the automatic 1 and type the desired number in the box (change it to over 99 on the shopping cart page).
	Tiddlywinks with Cardboard Goal - Leave the cardboard goal in the box or take it out of the box when playing. $6.00 Click the square to select this item. Click again to remove the selection. If you want more than , then backspace over the automatic 1 and type the desired number in the box (change it to over 99 on the shopping cart page).
	NORTH AMERICAN TIDDLYWINKS ASSOCIATION - The aim of the adult game is to land winks in a pot. If the winks are outside the pot, then the best thing is to cover another person's winks while having yours left uncovered on the mat. Serious adult competitions began in Britain. Now there are regular tournaments and even a world title. The first trans-Atlantic contact between Britain and the USA was in 1972 when a team from MIT toured the UK. A challenge system now exists between the English Tiddlywink Assoc and the corresponding North American Tiddlywink Assoc. For more information, please go to http://www.tiddlywinks.org/.

TIC TAC TOE & PICK UP STICKS
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	3D Peg Tic Tac Toe - Regular tic tac toe too simple and boring for you? Here is a 3-dimensional version in which 9 pegs hold light and dark wooden beads during a game. Try for 3 straight up, or 3 in a vertical diagonal, or just plain 3 on a horizontal plane not the bottom!. $15.00 Click the square to select this item. Click again to remove the selection. If you want more than , then backspace over the automatic 1 and type the desired number in the box (change it to over 99 on the shopping cart page).
	Tic Tac Toe on Storage Box - Have a simple game of tic tac toe, then store the marbles inside the board! Great for travel. $10.00 Click the square to select this item. Click again to remove the selection. If you want more than , then backspace over the automatic 1 and type the desired number in the box (change it to over 99 on the shopping cart page).
.	EARLY TIC TAC TOE Possibly the ancestor of Tic Tac Toe, a grid game called 9-Men's Morris uses 9 pieces for each player and each player tries to get 3 pieces in a row. With each successful three in a row, an opponent's piece is removed from play. It has been found in carvings of ancient Egypt from as early as 1300BC. Find 9-Men'sMorris games on our African Heritage Games page. In Britain, tic tac toe is known as Noughts and Crosses.
	Wooden Pick Up Sticks - Colored sticks worth different points. A test of dexterity, reflexes, and nerves, players try to pick up an individual stick from a pile of sticks without jiggling any of the others! Click a square below to select an item. Click again to remove the selection. If you want more than 1, then backspace over the automatic 1 and type the desired number in the box (change it to over 99 on the shopping cart page). a) $6.00 a) end stained wooden sticks, 7 1/8" long in a cardboard box. b) $7.00 b) entirely stained wooden sticks, 9 1/2" long in a box with sliding, clear lid. .
	Giant Wooden Pick Up Sticks - Bigger colored sticks for game play! 9 3/4" sticks stored in a yellow tube. $8.00 Click the square to select this item. Click again to remove the selection. If you want more than , then backspace over the automatic 1 and type the desired number in the box (change it to over 99 on the shopping cart page).
	Birch Pick Up Sticks - Colored sticks made from birch and entirely stained in muted earth tones. Stored in a canvas pouch. Made in the USA. $10.00 Click the square to select this item. Click again to remove the selection. If you want more than , then backspace over the automatic 1 and type the desired number in the box (change it to over 99 on the shopping cart page).
	Lawn Pick Up Sticks - HUGE 36" long sticks with colored ends for playing pick up sticks on the lawn, family room floor, wherever! Stored in a cotton drawstring bag. Available only in the store (too big to ship). EARLY PICK UP STICKS- ASIA TO HUNGARY (MIKADO) In 5th century BC India, Buddha gave a list of games he would not play. In that list was a game whose object was to remove one piece of crockery from a pile without wobbling other pieces. In 12th-century China, pick up sticks were intricately carved from ivory, bone, or wood and point values were determined by the type of figure a stick had carved into it. One stick was called the "emperor stick." The sticks were used for divination or gambling. In the 16th century, the oracle practice travelled to Japan where the Emperor was referred to as "Mikado" and the sticks became known as Mikado sticks. Mikado sticks typically have bands of color. The Japanese Mikado version of pick-up sticks was brought to the United States in 1936 from Hungary. EARLY PICK UP STICKS- ASIA TO BRITAIN (SPELLICANS) The British discovered pick up sticks while in China and the game became popular in Britain as Spellicans. The British carried the game to North America long before the 20th century Hungarian version. EARLY PICK UP STICKS- NATIVE AMERICA (JACKSTRAWS) The Native Americans played a similar game with colored, painted, or dotted straws of wheat or reeds. The Indians taught their straw game to early colonists and Jackstraws became a popular parlor game for young people during the Colonial and Victorian eras

CHINESE CHECKERS
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Players jump marbles across the board in a race to occupy each other's home base. Marbles are NOT removed when jumped but stay on the board to help in the movement of marbles across the board.

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	Round Chinese Checkers - Round, wooden boards and marbles for a game of Chinese Checkers. Players jump marbles across the board in a race to occupy each other's home base. Click a square below to select an item. Click again to remove the selection. If you want more than 1, then backspace over the automatic 1 and type the desired number in the box (change it to over 99 on the shopping cart page). a) $25.00 a) LIGHT WOOD 12" diameter, regular-sized pearlized marbles b) $35.00 b) CHERRY 11 1/2" diameter, cherry wood, smaller plain marbles
	Octagon and Square Chinese Checkers - Here we have non-round boards of Chinese Checkers! Players jump marbles across the board in a race to occupy each other's home base. Click a square below to select an item. Click again to remove the selection. If you want more than 1, then backspace over the automatic 1 and type the desired number in the box (change it to over 99 on the shopping cart page). a) $35.00 a) 13" OCTAGON flat edge to flat edge, light wood, smaller pearlized marbles, pockets for storing marbles during play b) $35.00 b) 12" SQUARE, light wood, transparent regular-sized muted color marbles
	Wooden Peg Chinese Checkers - Here we have a non-marble version of Chinese Checkers! Better for travel because you don't have marbles to chase after if they drop off the board. Players jump pegs across the board in a race to occupy each other's home base. Click a square below to select an item. Click again to remove the selection. If you want more than 1, then backspace over the automatic 1 and type the desired number in the box (change it to over 99 on the shopping cart page). a) $15.00 a) 11" BOARD, light wood, holes for painted pegs. b) $15.00 b) 7" BOARD, light wood, holes for painted pegs.
	4 Person Metal Peg Chinese Checkers - Using metal pegs, play 4 person Chinese Checkers on a small board inside a folding box. $10.00 Click the square to select this item. Click again to remove the selection. If you want more than , then backspace over the automatic 1 and type the desired number in the box (change it to over 99 on the shopping cart page).
	2 Person Chinese Checkers on Trapezoid - Play 2 person Chinese Checkers on a specially made trapezoid cherry board. $24.00 Click the square to select this item. Click again to remove the selection. If you want more than , then backspace over the automatic 1 and type the desired number in the box (change it to over 99 on the shopping cart page).
	2 Person Chinese Checkers on Red Square - Play 2 person Chinese Checkers on a 5 1/2" square red-painted board. Marbles are stored in grooves along the edge. $8.00 Click the square to select this item. Click again to remove the selection. If you want more than , then backspace over the automatic 1 and type the desired number in the box (change it to over 99 on the shopping cart page).
a & b) Plain Marbles, 10 or 5 of each color yellow, red, blue, green, white, black c) 4 Transparent/Iridescent, 10 of each: yellow, red, blue, green + 2 Opaque, 10 of each: black & white,	Chinese Checker Marbles - These 14mm marbles are slightly smaller than regular-sized 16mm sized marbles. Each style has 6 colors, 10 of each color. Click a square below to select an item. Click again to remove the selection. If you want more than 1, then backspace over the automatic 1 and type the desired number in the box (change it to over 99 on the shopping cart page). a) $9.00 a) 14mm PLAIN: 10 of each color- yellow, red, blue, green, white, black b) $4.50 b) 14mm PLAIN HALF SET: only 5 of each color c) $9.00 c) 14mm TRANSPARENT/IRIDESCENT: 10 of each color- transparent or iridescent red, yellow, blue, and green plus opaque black and white When I was a girl, we played Cinese Checkers with regular-sized 16mm marbles in whatever patterns we could find as long as they were the same color! So maybe a few each of transparent yellow, cat's eye yellow, opaque bumble bee yellow & black, and just plain opaque yellow. Nowadays, people associate just the smaller, plain 14mm marbles with Chinese Checkers. EARLY CHINESE CHECKERS Chinese Checkers is based on the older German 2-player game of Halma. Chinese Checkers for up to 6 players was actually invented in the United States by a professor from Boston. Nowadays, it is for 2-6 players.

BINGO
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	Shutter Bingo Card - Move shutters or slides over a called number. Re-use as often as you play. Nothing gets forgotten back home and chips don't get spilled nor lost. $2.00 Click the square to select this item. Click again to remove the selection. If you want more than , then backspace over the automatic 1 and type the desired number in the box (change it to over 99 on the shopping cart page).
	Bingo Balls - Pull balls out of a hat, box, vase, bag, or whatever! Then place them on a cookie sheet filled with sand or a folded towel to keep them in place. Or be creative in another way! $14.00 Click the square to select this item. Click again to remove the selection. If you want more than , then backspace over the automatic 1 and type the desired number in the box (change it to over 99 on the shopping cart page).
	150 Bingo Sheets - 150 sheets with 2 games each = 300 games in this packet of bingo sheets. $5.00 Click the square to select this item. Click again to remove the selection. If you want more than , then backspace over the automatic 1 and type the desired number in the box (change it to over 99 on the shopping cart page).
	1000 Bingo Sheets - 1000 sheets with 3 games each = 3000 games in this large packet of bingo sheets. $25.00 Click the square to select this item. Click again to remove the selection. If you want more than , then backspace over the automatic 1 and type the desired number in the box (change it to over 99 on the shopping cart page).
	Find transparent Bingo chips on our Chips and Drops page. EARLY BINGO/BEANO An early version of Bingo was played in Italy as early as 1530. By the 18th century, the French had added playing cards and tokens. In 1929, Edwin Lowe watched a game of Beano being played with dried beans in Atlanta. Afterwards, he introduced the game to friends in New York. According to legend, one of his players became so excited to win that he yelled "Bingo" instead of "Beano." By the 1940s, Lowe's Bingo games were all over the country. Through the centuries, Bingo has been used to educate children about math, spelling, animals, and history. It is also a popular fund raiser for churches and other groups.

PICTURE BINGO Loteria is a popular Mexican bingo game that uses pictures instead of numbers for Bingo. Loteria is the inspiration for the picture bingo games by Lucy Hammet Games of Texas seen below.

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	Picture Bingo: Animals - Bingo with picture cards that are called out for the bingo squares. Each of the 42 picture cards has information on the back. Games include chips and boards for 2-6 players. Click a square below to select an item. Click again to remove the selection. If you want more than 1, then backspace over the automatic 1 and type the desired number in the box (change it to over 99 on the shopping cart page). a) $15.00 a) CAT b) $15.00 b) DOG c) $15.00 c) HORSE d) $15.00 d) REPTILE
	Picture Bingo: Outside Themes - Bingo with picture cards that are called out for the bingo squares. Each of the 42 picture cards has information on the back. Games include chips and boards for 2-6 players. Click a square below to select an item. Click again to remove the selection. If you want more than 1, then backspace over the automatic 1 and type the desired number in the box (change it to over 99 on the shopping cart page). a) $15.00 a) NATURE b) $15.00 b) WILDFLOWER c) $15.00 c) WEATHER d) $15.00 d) SPACE e) $15.00 e) GARDENING
	Picture Bingo: Special Topics - Bingo with picture cards that are called out for the bingo squares. Each of the 42 picture cards has information on the back. Games include chips and boards for 2-6 players. Click a square below to select an item. Click again to remove the selection. If you want more than 1, then backspace over the automatic 1 and type the desired number in the box (change it to over 99 on the shopping cart page). a) $15.00 a) TEXAS: sights and symbols of Texas (heh, we're in Texas!) b) $15.00 b) CHRISTMAS: a holiday game for all generations. If it's not November nor December, please allow a month for us to get it in stock (if we don't have it left over from last year).