To all concerned parties, I can remember playing Flinch in the mid to late fifties as a child because it was a game my grandmother loved. The earliest reference I have been able to locate dates the game from 1938 or maybe a little earlier. The rules I found all dated from the 1963 version, but I can remember playing it in 1956 or earlier and the cards we were playing with seemed to be very old. Since I was only 9 or 10 years old at the time my memory might be playing tricks on me so draw your own conclusions. I have to conclude that since my grandmother loved this game and gave it to my siblings and I to play that the 1938 date is a little closer to the origin date than 1963. D.L. Cassidy Orange, CA