Talk:Push-pin (game)

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July 2009: the Oxford Shakespeare link isn't working. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.62.156.193 (talk • contribs) 17:24, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

rules
The section for 'Rules' describes two totally distinct games and gives the rules for neither. It might be worth admitting at the outset that this knowledge has not been well-preserved. The given source (Gomme, 1898) is also unsure about it, and suggests one of her sources had the pins being aimed at some object. Following her reference of Halliwell's ['Dictionary of Archaic Terms' (1852)](https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofarch02hall/page/652/mode/2up?q=%22PUSH-PIN%22) you can see that even there it is listed as a topic of some uncertainty. Bennett Foddy (talk) 20:05, 20 January 2024 (UTC)


 * It seems the reference in Halliwell is to Beaumont and Fletcher's 1647 play 'Women Pleased', viz:
 * "Play at Push-pin there. Sir?"
 * "It was well aim’d, but plague upon’t, you shot short. And that will lose your Game"
 * (https://archive.org/details/b30527892_0005/page/2772/mode/2up?q=pin) Bennett Foddy (talk) 20:24, 20 January 2024 (UTC)