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"Stormin Mormon" wrote in message
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In July the church is having an outdoor picnic. Our ward (congregation)
has
been asked to make a "penny toss" game which will be used for an entire
two
hours. Though, if it's a goodun, it will be probably folded up, and used
for
later fairs and such.

That's as much information as I have, a "penny toss". I volunteered to
make
such a doodad. Figured you'd done something like this for the cub scouts.
Any ideas come to mind?

I'm thinking to make some kind of sort of like a kitchen counter. With a
wall in back. The goal is to bounce a penny off the back wall, and make
it
go through a hole in the counter. When it falls through the hole, it
should
make a nice loud clank or clunk, which indicates a hit. Real early think
stages. Anyone have any ideas?

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I did not build the table. I did operate the booth for a couple of years at
our church social when I was a teenager. It was a 1/2 sheet of 3/4" plywood
with about 12" legs. It sat in a booth with about a 3 foot backset to the
tossing rails on 3 sides. No leaning past X amount was one of the rules.

Compared to what you mentioned our table was really simple. Think
checkerboard with the squares a tad larger than the coin to be tossed. A
coin inside any square wins. Selected squares, colored differently have a
higher payout. I think we had one one dollar square in the center (this was
40 years ago).

I think the payout was something like:
coin in any square earns 5 times.
Red earns 10 times, I think this an X pattern
blue earns 20 times, I think this was a big diamond around the center.
single center square earns 100 times.

Now days I would think a nickel would be about the minimum I would go for.
That would be for a friendly game.

I know I counted and rolled 6500 pennies that day. That was the net after
the payout for about a 6 hour function.Everyone was amazed that such a
simple thing brought in so much money. The win a 100 silver dollars only
netted $200.

I can ramble so more if you have questions.


Colbyt