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Ring-the-nail

Source: What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games And Pastimes
Category: RAINY-DAY GAMES





A variation of this can be played with common large nails and brass
curtain rings. Eight nails are driven into a board in a circle,
leaving about an inch sticking up. In the centre, one is driven,
standing about three inches tall. Small rings, curtain rings, for
instance, are thrown toward this. Each time they encircle one of the
lower nails is counted five, and the centre nail ten.




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