Coconut shy

Can throwing is a game of skill that can be found in commercial form at fairs to throw bars, and entertainment stalls. Since only a few empty cans and some throwing objects ( balls or similar) are required, the cost of materials is very low, therefore, can throwing is also offered at many school events and children's parties and used.

Regulate

To play can throwing, more usually 500 ml cans stacked pyramid-shaped. These three doses can be placed over another in the bottom row, in about two and finally up another. A configuration with 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1 can is possible. Then the cans pyramid is pelted with about tennis ball big balls of fabric, which has the consequence that if successful, the pyramid collapses, at least in parts.

For each can, are no longer available, there is a point. Most often, the thrower has three balls to to score as many points. On many fairs a profit is often only be paid in the form of a property price if it manages to convey all doses of their location into the underlying safety net.

History

Can throwing is a common rather in German-speaking entertainment game. In the UK, one uses empty coconut shells on poles for dropping. There it is mentioned as Coconut shy in 1903 already in the Oxford English Dictionary. In 1897 describes the writer HG Wells, such a fair pleasure in his story " The Invisible Man".