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PHEW! SOME UNLIKELY ONES HERE
If
you've got a question, ask away
Contact details are on the home page
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Penny
Black Questions
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Clearing
all the outer coins in one break is called a Reddy Break. Why?
Although the outer pennies were originally green, in the 1980s the outer
pennies were usually coloured red and the term Reddy Break was a terrible
pun about a popular breakfast cereal - Ready Brek. These days the colour
of the outer pennies are chosen to complement the background colour of
the board, but the term has stuck.
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Is
it still a Golden Guy if my opponent has a go before the first yellow
is won?
Yes,
of course. It doesn't matter how many turns you and your opponent have
before the first yellow is won. But once that first yellow is won you
have to then clear the board in one break. Your opponent has to just watch!
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What
do you call it when you win a golden guy from the flick off, and your
opponent never has a single turn?
Traditionally,
that's been called just a Golden Guy, too. However, some people now refer
to it as a Platinum Guy. I like that. But whether the name sticks or not
is down to the players.
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Clearing the board
in one break is called a Golden Guy. Why?
To pay homage to Guy who worked as a laboratory technician at Hill Top
High School. Guy and Dazza are still the best players I have ever seen.
If you're out there Guy then please send us a photograph.
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Penny
Blue Questions
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None yet.
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If
I put the green over my opponent's goal line do I get a positional flick
as usual before the goal flick routine begins?
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When
I score a goal do I get a positional flick as usual before the goal flick
routine begins?
No. When you score a goal your turn is over immediately.
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What
happens if I pass, it's intercepted, and the green comes to rest within
a penny diameter of one of my pennies. Does that penny get spotted even
though the green touched my opponent's penny last?
Yes. After all, it's the end of your turn, isn't
it?
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Can you force an
own goal?
Yes you can. Good players look to see if it's possible. Flick your penny
into your opponent's penny so that your opponent's penny then knocks the
green into his/her own goal. This is not an infringement because the green
is moved. As long as the green was in the shooting area, and no other
infringement occurs, the goal stands.
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My opponent flicked
one of his pennies into mine and then my penny (the one that his penny
hit) hit the green into my goal. The green had been in his shooting area
and he said that that meant he'd scored. Can you score from such an interception?
You most definitely
can score from an interception because an interception is not an infringement.
Good players look to see if such a forced 'own goal' is possible.
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Why are the goal
areas round? Why not have a D like on a hockey or a 5 a-side pitch?
On the first versions
of Penny Green the goal areas were Ds like on a 5 a-side pitch. But sneaky
players were repositioning pennies just behind the goal line between the
posts making it extremely difficult for their opponent to score goals.
The most elegant solution to this problem was to extend the goal areas
into circles. This had the added benefit of making the two in rule more
difficut to avoid and so keeps players more honest in their attacking
intentions.
Incidently, the rule
about repositioning pennies so they must be nearer a side or zone line
than a goal area line is to stop a player making a defensive screen just
outside his own goal area.
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Why do zone lines
extend into the out zone?
Take a look at the
photograph below and imagine if the zone line was not extended. On balance
I thought having the extensions was better than not having them.
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Penny
Red Questions
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At the end of player
A's turn one of his shooters was left nearly over the line and then when
his opponent - player B - played his shot the red struck a glancing blow
to player A's shooter and knocked it wholly over the line onto player
B's court. Who wins the point?
It
depends. If player B did not make a legal shot then he loses
the point as usual. However, if he made a good shot then it is player
A's turn again. The rules state that at no time during a player's turn
may any of his shooters be wholly over the line. Therefore player A loses
the point.
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Is it possible
to score two star shots in one turn with two different flicks?
Yes. If at the end
of his turn player A leaves one of his shooters on the line then the following
is possible. Player B takes two flicks to accomplish a starshot that knocks
that shooter off the board but leaves the red so that it does not go wholly
over the line. Player B then has one flick left to send the red over the
line. If with that last shot he knocks off the board player A's second
shooter then he has scored two starshots in one turn.
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Roof
Ball Questions
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None
yet.
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Shoot
Questions
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None
yet.
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Spinmaster
Questions
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What
happens if I play the burr and it hits my opponent's shield hard, bounces
onto the centre field and hits the hedge, and bounces back onto his field?
Do I lose the point?
No. Play continues. The rules state that you must
get the burr at rest on your opponent's field and you have.
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What
happens if I play a shot, the burr goes off the field, hits a pencil or
a watch or any other object and bounces back on to the field on my opponent's
side. Does play continue, or does my opponent win the point?
Neither. The point is replayed. But you should make sure that there are
no objects lying close to the fields before you start playing.
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What happens if
I accidently breathe on the burr and make it move? Can't I just replace
it back where it was?
No. You lose the point. If you move the burr in
any way other than with a clean flick, you lose the point.
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Touchdown
Questions
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None
yet.
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Penny
White Questions
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None yet.
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Quarterback
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None yet
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General
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Can't you put the
leaflets out on Word? Not everyone has Publisher.
Even
better, I've put them now as pdfs
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Where
can I buy a Penny Black Board from?
This is the most frequently asked question of all. The whole idea of the
website is for the games to take off at grass roots level. Make one yourself
or ask a handy man friend to help you out.( Failing that, if you want
me to make you one just email me and I see what I can do - Sir Tifficat)
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You give a multiplication
factor of 1.25 to size up from Penny games to Tupenny games. Is a 2p coin
1.25 times bigger than a penny then?
Not quite. The diameter
of a 2p coin is 1.276 times bigger than a 1p, and is 1.219 times bigger
than a euro 5c. Now here's the thing. I can never decide which I prefer
to use for standard sized Penny Black and Penny Green boards. So I just
split the difference to a nice number, one and a quarter, which marks
up a Penny Black board to 30 inches (750mm) and the side line on a Penny
Green board to 100mm. Nice round numbers. It just felt right.
You might say that
the mark up from a Penny Red board to a Tupenny Red board is one and a
third. But the red was originally designed for the Tupenny game. Using
2p coins on a one foot board seemed pretty much perfect. So actually,I
scaled down to the Penny game, and as I could get nine inch wide
shelving boards I thought that was good enough. Personally, I much prefer
to play Tupenny Red than Penny Red.
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