Tiddlywinks recently celebrated the 70th anniversary of becoming a competitive sport. In January of 1955 three Cambridge students who were hopeless as athletes but still wanted to obtain a prestigious blue, the highest honor of sportsmen at their school, set about writing the rules, a thesis on The Science Of Tiddlywinks, coined terminology, and oversaw the creation of the Tiddlywinks Anthem. After registering their club they set out to find matches and finally got lucky when Prince Phillip accepted the challenge and appointed a comedy group to play for him. Eventually tiddlywinks caught on and in 1961 the first British Universities Championship was played for the Silver Wink. The competition lives on to this day.
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