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Push-penny = Shove ha'penny?
Exactly my thought, shanks.
Marty compares push-penny to marbles; the intention appears to be to knock out opponents rather than score points as such.
If I'm thinking about the right animal, shove ha'penny on the other hand is a point scoring game, and takes place on a board. You try to knock the coins (or counters)
into specific lanes, each with a different points value. So you'd have, say, one 6-point lane, three 1-point lanes, two 2-point lanes etc.
It's fascinating how you end up with all these cross-overs, and start discerning a few fundamental game "templates".
Is there one ultimate underlying game, do you think?
The Glass Bead Game perhaps?!
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