World Wide Games Table Skittles Set, Delaware Ohio — 17 Pieces View Watchlist >
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World Wide Games Table Skittles Set, Delaware Ohio — 17 Pieces
The top leaves your fingers spinning and skitters down the board, wobbling, catching, nearly falling — then rights itself and wanders straight into a cluster of pins. Two clatter into the 10-point bay. The remaining fourteen keep going another lap. You didn't plan that. Nobody ever does. That's the whole point. Table skittles is one of the oldest pub games in the English-speaking world, and in the hands of World Wide Games of Delaware, Ohio, it became something worth keeping: a solid-wood American artifact built for decades of play rather than a season.
The board is a long rectangular open-top tray of finger-jointed stained hardwood with a bright plywood floor stamped SKITTLES at center. Interior partitions divide the far end into scoring bays marked with circled point values — 5 and 10 — rewarding the pins that wander deepest. Sixteen turned hardwood pins, dark-stained with the characteristic hourglass profile of traditional skittles, stand across the playing field. Two natural-wood spinning tops, each with a slender spindle seated on a disc base, serve as the "ball." Launch one from the near end, let it wander, watch what falls — and where. The maker's mark is burned into the underside: WORLD WIDE GAMES®, DELAWARE, OHIO, U.S.A. Founded in 1954 by outdoor educator Don Fausel, WWG spent decades supplying summer camps, YMCAs, recreation departments, and schools with exactly this kind of thing: traditional folk games built from real wood, not plastic. They stopped production in the early 2000s. Sets in this condition don't sit long.
CONDITION
Good overall with no remarkable damage. Pins show light handling wear and minor finish variation consistent with play use; one spinning top is noticeably lighter and newer-toned than the other, indicating a replacement. Board joinery is tight and the playing surface is clean throughout.
DIMENSIONS / SPECIFICATIONS
- Overall: 4 3/4" H × 18" W × 40 1/2" L
- Material: Stained hardwood frame, plywood floor, turned hardwood pins
- Maker: World Wide Games®, Delaware, Ohio, U.S.A.
- Total Pieces: 17 (board + 16 pins + 2 tops)
- Campbell's Soup Can (4" H) Shown for Scale — Not Included
