Talk:Push-pin (game)

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link isn't working[edit]

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)[reply]

rules[edit]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]