Shove Ha’penny

Posted by aiddy on Sun 02 January 2011

shove ha'penny

Granny teaching us to play shove ha’penny. Wikipedia tells us that it’s also known as shove halfpenny or shoffe-groat (but what a groat is I don’t know). But then H reminds us that you shouldn’t rely on wikipedia as it’s not authoritative. But then it might be as good as it gets¹ .

[¹] Link is broken, but the Wired article still lurks in the internet's archive… https://archive.is/AUQeW#selection-1783.302-1795.156

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