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Dwile flonking, the ancient pub sport invented in 1966

Ellsworth Toohey
Jul 08, 2026
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dwile flonking — Roz South / CC BY-SA 2.0 (via Wikipedia)

In 1966, apprentice printers in Beccles, Suffolk revived a pub game for the town’s summer fête, claiming its rules came from a 1585 manuscript rediscovered in an attic. The game was dwile flonking, and the manuscript never existed. According to Wikipedia, “the Suffolk county archivist was unable t…

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