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Rules for Tiddlywinks

Tiddlywinks is a game where players try to play their colors of winks into the center pot. For singles play, each player has two colors, and for partner play, each player has one color. Red is paired with blue, and yellow is paired with green. The colors should be arranged in clockwise alphabetical order at the corners of the mat with the pot in the center.

Squidge-off
- To determine which color starts, players have a squidge-off and play one wink of each color toward the pot using the squidger. The color closest to the pot goes first, and then the turns go clockwise.
Shooting Winks
- Each player has one shot each turn and receives an extra shot with each wink that lands in the pot.
Losing Turns
- If any player sends one or more of her winks off the mat, she loses her next turn.
Squopping
- A squopped wink--a wink covered by another wink--cannot be played until the covering wink is played and removed.
Free Turns
- If a player's color is completely squopped out, the opponents only have as many free turns as they have unsquopped winks. Then they must free one of the squopped winks.
Potting Out
- When one color pots out (all winks are in the pot), that color scores 4 points. Second place scores 2 points, third place scores 1 point and fourth place scores no points. All plays must then be made for the pot and all squopping ceases.

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