Pitching pennies, or in Britain Pap, Penny Up, Keeley (Scotland), 'Nippy (Wales)', Pitch and Toss, Chucks, “Tinks” or 'Jingies' 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.
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The history of the game is ancient, and it is known to have been played by Ancient Greek children using bronze coins.[1] In modern Israel the game is also played with Apricot kernels, and is called 'Gogoim'.
There's evidence that the game was played thousands of years ago in ancient Sumeria (modern-day Iraq), in ancient Sudan on the upper Nile River, and Egypt. Ancient mancala game boards have been unearthed in Zimbabwe, Uganda, and Ghana. Mancala made its way to the United States when enslaved Africans brought over the game. I'm having this same issue. It's very frustrating. I got my iPhone 6 plus replaced a couple days ago, synced it with iCloud. When i went to continue the game i was playing previously, it opens my app store so as to download game pigeon, but instead of saying 'get' in the little box, it says installed. I can't find the app anywhere within my phone to delete it.
Any number of players line up a fixed distance away from a wall. The players each take a coin of common denomination and take turns throwing them towards the wall. The objective is to throw the coins such that they land as close to the wall as possible. Rolling the coin is forbidden. Some forms of the game require the coin to hit the wall to be a valid throw.
In most variations this is a gambling game, with the winner collecting all the losing players' coins from the ground. Other variations include the game ending in 'tips', where the player whose coin lands closest to the wall collects all of the coins, shakes them up in their hands and flicks them all into the air. Before the coins land, the player would shout 'heads' or 'tails' and be entitled to claim those coins landing the corresponding way. The remaining coins (if any) would then be gathered by the player whose coin landed second closest to the wall, who would repeat the throwing and calling of heads or tails. This process would continue until all the coins have been picked up. This variation allows players who have not landed too close to the wall still being able to win some coins.
In another variant, if a tossed coin comes to rest on any part of the coin closest to the wall (the leading coin before the toss),the player whose coin is on top, at the end of the game, is declared the winner even if the coin is further from the wall that the coin below. However, should another player toss a coin closer to the wall, than either of the stacked coins, that tossed coin then becomes the leading coin. In cases where two coins land on the leading coin, the closet upper coin to the wall wins (even if the coin below is closer to the wall). Under the same conditions, other games state that the owner of the upper coin collects only the coin below, but all other players get their coins returned to them. In this case, it leaves the owner of the lower coin, who was closest to the wall and once leading, the only player that does not get their coin returned. In other games, under the same conditions (a coin coming to rest on top of the leading coin), the game is considered null and void, and each player picks up the coin they tossed. In all forms of the game, when no clear winner is determined, in cases where two or more coins are equally close to the wall and particularly when all are touching the wall, some rules declare the game null and void and all players have their coins returned to them, while other games state that the owners of the tied coins win and divide the remaining coins between them. The last rule mentioned can create difficulties if the winnings are not divisible by whole coins. Therefore, generally, the rule is seldom played. Rules are established before any game begins.
Below are steps on how you can rename a file or directory. Click on one of the following links to automatically navigate to the correct operating system.
NoteYou must have write or modify permissions to a file, folder, or directory to rename it. In some cases, you may need administrator privileges in the operating system to rename.
Windows users can rename their files and directories by using one of the following methods. We've listed the following recommendations in what we believe to be the easiest methods of renaming a file.
If you don't wait long enough and click the file or folder too fast, it can open the file or folder rather than allowing you to rename it.
Microsoft Windows users can also rename any file using the Windows command line.
MS-DOS and Windows command line users can change the name of a file or directory by using the ren or rename command. Below are examples of how this command can be used. Additional information about each of these commands is found by clicking the above command links.
In the following example, this would rename the file test.txt to hope.txt.
If the test.txt file is not located in your current directory, you must specify the path to the file as a prefix to the file name. For example, if the file was in the 'computer' directory, you would type a command similar to the following example.
Whenever dealing with a file or directory with a space, it must be surrounded with quotes. Otherwise, you'll get the 'The syntax of the command is incorrect.' error. To rename the file 'computer hope.txt' to 'example file.txt', your command would resemble the following example.
To rename multiple files at once, you must utilize some form of wild character. Below are examples of how this could be done.
The following example would rename all the files in the current directory that end with .rtf to .txt files.
In this next example, the command would rename a file with an unknown character in the file name to something that can be read. The '?' used in the following example is the wild character for an unknown character.
Renaming a directory in MS-DOS is much like renaming a file. Use the ren or rename command to rename the directory. Because you cannot have a file and directory of the same name, you won't need to worry about mistakenly renaming a file instead of a directory. The only exception is if you're using wild characters.
In the following example, this would rename the computer directory to hope.
Rename the directory 'computer hope' to 'example directory'. Whenever dealing with a file or directory with a space, it must be surrounded with quotes. Otherwise, you'll get the 'The syntax of the command is incorrect.' error.
To rename files in a batch file, you can use any of the rename commands or examples shown in the MS-DOS and Windows command line section.
Apple macOS users can rename their files and directories by using one of the following methods. We've listed the following recommendations in what we believe to be the easiest methods of renaming a file.
In the macOS X Finder, select the file by clicking the file once and then press the 'return' key on the keyboard. After pressing return, you can type in the new name of the file.
Select the file or icon you want to rename. Click and then hover over the file name until it is highlighted. Once highlighted, this indicates the file can be renamed.
Using the Terminal, you can also rename any file. See our Linux and Unix users section for steps on renaming a file using the mv command.
For detailed information about renaming files in Linux, see the Linux mv command.
With the Google Chrome OS on a Chromebook, you can rename your files and directories by using one of the following methods. We've listed the following recommendations in what we believe to be the easiest methods of renaming a file.
Highlight the file by clicking the file once. Press Ctrl+Enter on the keyboard and then type the new name of the file.
Right-click the file by pressing two fingers on the touchpad at the same time. In the right-click menu, click Rename and then type the new file name.