What did you call this game as a child?

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1. Tipsy

2. pitching

3. Pitch and toss

4. Pitching or pitchers

5. Pitchy

6. Toss the coin, still call it that.

7. One year a guy in my year put the £50 school capital fee up on a coin and lost. His da battered him.

8. Pitchy or pitch and toss

9. Jingles

10. Pitch and toss or pitchy. Was at a charity event about 15 years ago and we played it for a bottle of vodka. Pound coins only. Closest to the bottle won. Charity kept the coins.

11. Smash the queen’s head against a wall.

12. Liney – I grew up in Scotland tho

13. Pitchy toss.

    The picture is showing the fabled ‘stander’ which can only be bested by a more vertical stander.

14. Coiny Wally Flick Flick

15. Pitch and toss

16. Pigeon toss

17. Pitch and toss we called it .

18. pitching

19. Penny up

20. Wallie coinie gamble ultimate, of course

21. Pitching.

22. Teacher caught us playing one break time, said “don’t worry lads go ahead”. Let us all throw our coins then picked them all up, put them in his pocket and walked away lol

23. It’s jingles in Scotland (pronounced jing-ills)

24. Coinseys

25. Pitching

26. Broke.

27. Chippy / chip and tee

28. Tinks

29. Toss

30. Tiddily Wanks

31. Gambling

32. Expensive

33. Keely, not sure of the spelling due to never having seen it written.

34. Tipsies

35. Kerby / Kirby / Curby / Kerbie

36. Chuck a penny

37. Pidgey 😂