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Mill boys pitching pennies on the street, 1916. Pitching pennies 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. In Britain the game is also known as pap, penny up or penny up the wall and it is referred to as pitch-and-toss in ...
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Mentions of the game date back to the 18th century. [3] The rules of the game were described in the 19th century as follows: Each competitor starts with the same number of coins. They pitch their coins one at a time from a mark at a given distance towards a hole in the ground. The competitors are ranked based on how close they come to the hole.
The most valuable of these was a 2010-D penny with a high grade that sold for $4,994 in a 2013 auction, according to the U.S. Coins Guide. The most valuable 2011-D penny to ever sell was another ...
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Matching pennies is a non-cooperative game studied in game theory. It is played between two players, Even and Odd. Each player has a penny and must secretly turn the penny to heads or tails. The players then reveal their choices simultaneously. If the pennies match (both heads or both tails), then Even wins and keeps both pennies.
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