Outdoor & pub games
Shove ha'penny
ABRA, 1840
Shove ha'penny is a skill game published by ABRA in 1840. It is played with 2 players and in about 1 to 30 minutes.
- players
- 2
- minutes
- 1–30
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The box
- Publishers
- ABRA, John Jaques of London, K & C Ltd
- Year of release
- 1840
- Also known as
- Shove-groat · Shovel-board · Slide-groat · Slip-groat
About the game
Shove ha'penny, or shove halfpenny, () also known in ancestral form as shoffe-grote ['shove-groat' in Modern English], slype groat ['slip groat'], and slide-thrift, is a pub game in the shuffleboard family, played predominantly in the United Kingdom. Two players or teams compete against one another using coins or discs on a tabletop board.More from ABRA
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