Pitching pennies

Pitching pennies, or in Britain Pap, Penny Up, Pitch and Toss, Chucks (or its corruption Pigeon Toss), or "Jingles" is a game played with coins. Players take turns to throw a coin at a wall, from some distance away, and the coin which lands closest to the wall is the winner

Any number of players line up a fixed distance away from a wall. The players each take a coin of common denomination and take turns throwing them towards the wall. The objective is to throw the coins such that they land as close to the wall as possible. Rolling the coin is forbidden. Some forms of the game require the coin to hit the wall to be a valid throw.

In most variations this is a gambling game, with the winner collecting all the losing players' coins from the ground. Other variations include the game ending in "tips", where the player whose coin lands closest to the wall collects all of the coins, shakes them up in their hands and flicks them all into the air. Before the coins land, the player would shout "heads" or "tails" and be entitled to claim those coins landing the corresponding way. The remaining coins (if any) would then be gathered by the player whose coin landed second closest to the wall, who would repeat the throwing and calling of heads or tails. This process would continue until all the coins have been picked up. This variation allows players who have not landed too close to the wall still being able to win some coins.

Pitching pennies is a very old game. While the coins used have inevitably changed, the game was known to be played by the Ancient Greeks using bronze coins. It is believed that this game was used in the first Olympics but was later removed due to lack of entertainment value and this is where the idea of the Gold Medal comes from.

During the tax season of 2009, the employees of BWK, CPA's in Maple Grove, MN brought back the game of pitching pennies, however they upgraded from a penny to quarter. Employees would stand at one end of a hallway and toss the quarters to the other end with the person placing the quarter closest to the door receiving a point. Employees pitched quarters for 6 seasons, with Steve Busho, CPA winning three consecutive pitching championships before the game was retired at the conclusion of the 2016 season.

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