Pitch penny game

Show More. Features Attractive and easy-to-use interface Single player and two-player mode Completely free. Additional information Published by Erich Kohl. Published by Erich Kohl. Approximate size 6.

Age rating For all ages. Installation Get this app while signed in to your Microsoft account and install on up to ten Windows 10 devices. Language supported English United States. Additional terms Terms of transaction. Seizure warnings Photosensitive seizure warning. Report this product Report this game to Microsoft Thanks for reporting your concern. It is also popular in South America where it is called Sapo [toad].

Linguists will observe that these names mean "Frog" or "Toad" game. The reason for this is that the common feature for all these games is that the most difficult hole is in the shape of an ornate frog or toad in the centre.

The number of holes, obstacles, size, design of table and the rules all vary from region to region. Sometimes a pair of holes further back are filled with a trapdoor that swings down if a coin lands on it. This is a picture of Sapo at a hotel in Nasca, Peru. This game has a cluttered looking 20 holes to aim at, one of which is our froggy friend. Courtesy Lucy Worrall and Matthew Murphy.

Players attempt to throw coins or disks in the holes which score differently according to their difficulty. Disks that land successfully slide down to the front of the table to a compartment at the front of the table showing the score. A quote from the OED refers to the European game as being a charity game - perhaps the greater element of luck in a multi-hole game lends itself to fundraising activities.

The Basques play the simplest but also the most skilful version of the game - because it features just the single frog hole. Pictured are the author's sons playing La Rana in the street outside a bar in Bilbao, capital of the Basque region in With thanks to his friend Jose Vela. Here then is a clear similarity with the British Toad in the Hole game. The Basque? A game which may well be a derivative of Toad in the Hole is the American game of "Cornhole".

It seems to be centred around Cincinnati, Ohio where it is all the rage but it is rumoured to have begun in Indiana and one person wrote to the author from Minnesota about the game. It uses four bean bags per two man team. There are two 4 x 2 feet ramps with holes apprx 6 inches from the top high part of the ramp or board and directly centered. The boards are placed around 30 feet apart and each team has a player placed at each board. Play alternates between players at one end each throwing their teams four bean bags.

A typical way to score is that any bag landing on the board without hitting the ground first scores one point. Any bag in the hole scores three points. In fact, quite a number of people have written to the author asking for rules, board dimensions and so forth but really the game appears to be a bit of an informal craze - without any 'official' rules or regulations. Pundits needn't be concerned - this just makes it easier to construct your own boards without any worries.

Many pub games have been without any official rules for centuries and all the better for it A number of people from North America have written to the author enquiring about a game that is popular in that region called "Holeyboard" or "Washers" or "Ringers". In this game, large washers flat metal rings about 1 - 2 inches diameter are thrown by a person standing on one box towards another box 8 feet away. Each box is has 3 holes about 10 inches apart and the holes score 1 point for the near hole, 3 points for the middle hole and 5 points for the furthest hole.

Players go backwards and forwards, alternating the target box in the same manner as for quoits or bowls. The objective is to reach exactly 21 points. Various dimensions for the boxes et al have been reported and it appears to be common to connect the two boxes with cord or rope - presumably so that setting them at the correct distance is merely a matter of pulling the rope taut.

One person reported that he played with cups instead of holes and another believed that the game was originally played with holes in the ground - certainly, there do not appear to be any standards. There is another version of "Washers" in existence which is like a missing ancestor between the game described above and the old game of Quoits. Instead of 3 holes, the object is still to throw washers into a single cup which is set into pits reminiscent of quoit pits. Is this a single hole version of the above game or is it a variation of quoits with a hole instead of a stake?

The origin of this game isn't clear and it's relationship to the other games on this page, if any, is a mystery. If anyone, can shed any light on these matters, the author would be pleased to receive an email from them. Masters Traditional Games publishes free rules for traditional games and also sells a fully-fledged pub-style Toad in the Hole game. In this game, one person throws a penny and another person tries to hit the first penny with his penny.

Penny Pitching Materials Pennies, beads, or small rocks A wall Chalk Directions Start this game by drawing boundaries next to a wall and away from it, about four feet apart and six feet long. Draw another line at the top of the playing area.