This is made of a large reel cut in half and the roller portion cut away into a point with a penknife. The pin is made of a wooden skewer or penholder with the point projecting slightly beyond the cut portion of the reel. These are very good tops and spin very steadily.
A TEETOTUM
Materials Required:—
A small block of soft wood, an old penholder, a sharp penknife, a gimlet.
Fig. 85.
This is made from a square block of wood cut sharply to a point with a peg sunk well into a close-fitting hole. Each flat side of the top has on it a letter or a number, and the game is to spin it round, and according to which letter or number falls upward each player takes or makes so many counters to the pool. The letters generally used are—
P==pay one, N==nothing, T==take one, W==win all. Beans or counters are usually played for.