What Are Tidly Winks?

In france, it's called the game of the flea. In croation, its called jumping flea. And we call it tiddly winks from an unlicensed alcohol shop. The word tiddley wink used to mean a place where you could get beer, but it wasn't licensed. It was christened tiddledy winks by joseph asherton fincher in 18 89 and he got the patent for it in 1889. There were soe as abig crats in the 18 nineties - then it fell out of fashion. But there were all these sort of late victorian ebordian versions of its, such as tidlywink