Nickels (game)

Nickels is a betting game played with any desired denomination of coins. It is played on a flat, hard surface next to a back wall, such as the side of a building or a street curb. The object is to place a coin closer to the wall than one's opponents.
Play area
The play area consists of the following:
*A foul line, which players are forbidden to step over during a throw.
*A goal line at the opposite side of the foul line
*Boundary lines at each side of the field of play, which spectators or coins are not allowed to cross.
Rules
Rules of the game, some necessary and others not, include:
*The foul line can not be crossed during a throw. Doing so results in immediate loss of the round.
*The coin is not scored, and will be lost, if it leaves the boundary area.
*Bouncing the coin off the goal line is permitted.
*If time is not taken to clear a proper area, and no boundary lines are set, a coin is in "interference" if it touches any obstacle. Coins in interference are lost as if they go out of bounds.
*Play is divided into rounds, of which the winner collects all the coins played unless specified that the round is "friendly" or "for practice."

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