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Mar 20, 2025·How to play·14:16·803·Watch on YouTube

Shove Groat/Shove Ha'penny - English pub game | rules | history | strategy

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Watch “Shove Groat/Shove Ha'penny - English pub game | rules | history | strategy,” a how-to-play guide for Shove Ha'penny on BoardGameVideo.

Description provided by The Gaming Bench on YouTube:

A popular game played by the aristocracy and commoners alike, Shove Groat was a simple game of skill that evolved into Shove Ha’penny, a game still played in UK pubs today. Learn how to play, why it was outlawed by the King (while he played to his heart’s content), and how to improve your own skill. Shove Groat/Shave Ha'penny build video: https://youtu.be/kQhQqFtx68U PHOTO CREDITS Slingers table CC BY 2.0 Boston Public Library https://www.flickr.com/people/24029425@N06 MUSIC CREDITS Master of the Feast by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1400019 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Brandenburg Concerto No4-1 BWV1049 - Classical Whimsical by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100303 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ REFERENCES Publications • Smith, Patrick J. The Complete Anachronist #71: Period Pastimes. The Society for Creative Anachronism, 1994 • Willughby, Frances Book of Games. Routledge, 2016 • Bell, R.C. Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations, Dover Publications, 1979 Videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cztY8rMbR1A&t=546s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA4y5gakofU https://www.britishpathe.com/asset/81109/ https://archive.org/download/TheCrucibleFullText/The%20Crucible%20full%20text.pdf https://pooltableportfolio.com/blogs/magazine/shuffling-through-time-a-brief-history-of-shuffleboard-tables?srsltid=AfmBOoqA0sSrSpY1fodOSRh_i8dDHP7VFgHQg1JfNQ-wlV2qM7vx1YSo WEBSITES https://detectingfinds.co.uk/mystery-of-the-shovel-board-shilling https://bargames101.com/history-of-table-shuffleboard/ http://www.tradgames.org.uk/games/Shove-HaPenny.htm https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shuffleboard_%28slide-groat_or_shove-groat_table%29._Courtesy_of_the_New_York_Public_Library,_Digital_Collections,_Public_Domain.jpg https://1884.rkarl.org/2020/01/the-unlawful-games-act-1541.html https://www.legacybilliards.com/blogs/resources/when-was-shuffleboard-invented?srsltid=AfmBOopFHJ12ahQYlgIhxKqgsP8PGhJVc5b-SQchM8G3I2bdprDM8D_K https://vlex.co.uk/vid/unlawful-games-act-1541-808126529 Timecodes 00:00 – Intro 01:22 – Rules 03:45 – History 09:28 – The Unlawful Games Act of 1541 12:29 – Strategy 13:46 – Wrap-up

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Shove Ha'penny

Shove Ha'penny

2 players
1 - 30 min
Light weight: Learn it in minutes

About Shove Ha'penny, from BoardGameGeek:

Shove ha'penny is a traditional British pub (tavern) game of dexterity and skill dating from the the mid 19th Century, with earlier variants in existence as early as the 15th Century. It is still widely played today. Players push ('shove') polished coins (half pennies, traditionally) along a board which has been marked out in horizontal bands, called 'beds'. The most common method is to place the coin on the bottom edge of the board, slightly overhanging, and tap it with the heel of the hand. The aim of the game is to position coins within the beds, with no part touching the bands. This requires considerable skill. Players must get a coin in each bed three times. Each success is scored, often with a cribbage style peg and hole system up the side of the board or with chalk tallies. Boards are made of wood or slate.

Mechanics

Dexterity
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