Patrick Barrie

Patrick Barrie
Nationality	British
Occupation	Tiddlywinks player

Patrick Barrie is a British tiddlywinks player. He has won eleven World Singles matches, most recently in March 2025 by defeating defending champion Matthew Rose. ^[1] He has won eight World Pairs matches (most recently partnering Harley Jones), but lost the World Pairs title in April 2022 to Larry Kahn and Jon Mapley. ^[1]

Barrie started playing tiddlywinks in 1984 as an undergraduate at Cambridge University, ^{[2] [3]} where he is a senior lecturer in chemical engineering. ^[4] He has a long rivalry with American player Larry Kahn, ^{[2] [3]} with the Los Angeles Times describing them as "the Nadal and Djokovic of their game". ^[5] The pair have played 11 World Singles matches, with Barrie winning three, and eight World Pairs matches (with various partners) with four wins apiece. ^[1]

He has also won the English Tiddlywinks Association (ETwA) Singles (English national championship) ten times and the ETwA Pairs nine times. ^[1] His tiddlywinks exploits have seen him sponsored by a whisky distillery, with his image appearing on some of their bottles. ^{[2] [6]}

References

1. "Major Tiddlywinks Championships". www.etwa.org. Retrieved 10 July 2025.
2. "England's tiddlywinks grandmaster comes from behind to set himself up for unifying bout". inews.co.uk. 5 November 2018. Archived from the original on 31 March 2019. Retrieved 31 December 2019.
3. "How does it feel... To be a Tiddlywinks grandmaster". cityam.com. 23 April 2013. Archived from the original on 9 May 2013.
4. "Dr Patrick Barrie | Fellows | Contact | Emmanuel College, Cambridge". www.emma.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
5. "They are the Nadal and Djokovic of their game, but that game is tiddlywinks". Los Angeles Times. 26 December 2020. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
6. "The week in pictures". 7 April 2017. Retrieved 20 July 2020.