Talk:Tiddlywinks

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[edit] An adult game?

Serious modern tiddlywinks is referred to thrice as an "adult game", to distinguish it from the more trivial children's game. Can we find a better term, like "serious tiddlywinks"? It is neither exclusively for adults, nor does it have any of the connotations normally associated with so-called "adult" activities or products!

[edit] The Chess Reference

The claim that tiddlywinks is comparable to chess in complexity seems spurious. There are only a handful of games that are played at the level of strategic sophistication of chess. (Go comes to mind). Can we change this claim to compare tiddly-winks instead to something that is more directly comparable?Oliver Crow

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Removed chess reference Oliver Crow 07:22, 5 May 2004 (UTC)

I agree with Oliver Crow that the comparison of tiddlywinks to chess is bombastic. For one thing, tiddlywinks is a sport (sort of), since it involves not only strategy but physical skill. But even if we assume winks can be placed with 100% accuracy, I suspect the game less complex---mathematically speaking---than chess. Does anyone think a computer tiddlywink player would need to plan millions of moves ahead? Sympleko (Συμπλεκω) 12:48, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

I agree. For me, the essential difference between a sport and a game is that playing a sport requires physical interaction with the material: you couldn't play 'winks by post or over the 'net. A much more accurate analogy for me is pool or snooker, where there are tactics - covering pockets or snookering your opponent being comparable to squopping - but the physical ability to execute the chosen shot is the ultimate deciding factor. Garry Kasparov never tried to capture his opponent's bishop but missed! --Gshrimpton 15:55, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Tiddlywinks is indeed a sport. As far as I'm concerned, some sort of physical dextery has to be in place for it to be a sport. Hence, Tiddlywinks is a sport and chess isn't. Whether you think that tiddlywinks is a very good sport is another matter. Triangle e 11:55, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

There is genuine complexity in the shot choice, thinking several moves ahead. Obviously this is far from the complexity of chess or Go. The sport to which it is most often compared is croquet, though winks has a wider variety of types of shot, and greater strategic complexity. JDAWiseman 16:46, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Summary

Is needed. -Slash- 07:38, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Agreed.

Jolly good article by the way. And I mean both jolly and good. Tally ho. Alastair Haines 03:41, 23 July 2007 (UTC)