Nickels

This article is about the betting game. For other uses, see Nickel (disambiguation).

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 objective of Nickels is to place your coin closer to the wall than your opponents.

Play Area

The play area consists of the following.

• A foul line, of 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 will not be scored, and will be lost, if it leaves the boundary area.
• Bouncing the coin off the goal line is permitted.
• If the 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 (such as a backpack). Coins in interference are lost as if they went out of bounds.
• Play is separated into rounds, of which the winner collects all the coins played unless specified that the round is "friendly" or "for practice."

See also

Threes - Street Dice Game

External links

• Street Games