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pitch-and-toss
ˈpitch-and-ˈtoss [From name of the two actions.] a. A game of combined skill and chance. Also (Sc.), a manœuvre in the game of knifey, knifie (sense a). Each player pitches a coin at a mark; the one whose coin lies nearest to the mark then tosses all the coins and keeps those that turn up ‘head’; th... Oxford English Dictionary
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pitch-and-toss
pitch-and-tossn [U] game of skill and chance in which coins are thrown at a particular mark 掷硬币游戏. 牛津英汉双解词典
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Toss play
In American football, a toss play is any running play which starts with a pitch to the running back. In a toss play, the back often "curves out" towards the sideline on either side for a toss sweep. References American football plays wikipedia.org
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Kick-off (association football)
the pitch to attack in the first half), or to choose which end of the pitch to attack in the first half (in which case the team losing the toss takes Pitch markings In 1891, internal pitch-markings were introduced. wikipedia.org
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Pitch (card game)
Unique to Contway 6-point pitch is the ability to toss trump cards before the redeal. Roadhouse Pitch Roadhouse Pitch is an auction pitch variant. wikipedia.org
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pitch-farthing
ˈpitch-ˌfarthing [pitch v.1 17.] A game resembling pitch-and-toss, in which the coins, instead of being tossed so as to fall ‘head or tail’, were pitched towards a hole, so as to afford more scope for skill; = chuck-farthing, q.v.1742 Chesterfield Lett. (1792) I. xciv. 268 Your various occupations o... Oxford English Dictionary
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Sweep (American football)
Types of the sweep Toss sweep A toss sweep is a play that is usually run out of the I formation or single set back formation. , the pitch is considered a forward pass, resulting in an incomplete pass rather than a fumble if the ball is dropped. wikipedia.org
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Probability of winning in a die rolling game with six players There are 6 players numbered 1 to 6, 1 Player, Player 2, ..., Player 6. Player 1 rolls a die , if he gets a 1 wins and the game ends, otherwise the die pa...
If Player 1 does not win on her first toss, by symmetry, the **other** players all have equal probabilities of being "next", so all have equal probabilities On the first toss, either P1 tosses a $1$ and wins immediately, or tosses something else and becomes effectively one of the "other" players.
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Pitching pennies
Pigeon Toss, or in Britain Pap, Penny Up, and Pitch and Toss in Rudyard Kipling's poem "If -", Keeley (Scotland), "Nippy (Wales)", Chucks, Quarters, “Tinks wikipedia.org
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Cricket pitch
These conditions will impact on the decision at the coin toss at the beginning of the game, as to whether batting first or bowling first is more advantageous before the toss. wikipedia.org
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Beamer (cricket)
This kind of delivery is dangerous, as a batter will be expecting the ball to bounce on the pitch. See also Full toss Beanball – the baseball equivalent of a beamer Bodyline References Bowling (cricket) Cricket terminology Banned sports tactics wikipedia.org
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Teddy bear toss
Australian soccer team Newcastle Jets held its inaugural teddy bear toss in December 2019. In February 2023, supporters of Beşiktaş J.K. in the Turkish football Süper Lig, threw stuffed animals onto the pitch to be donated to surviving children wikipedia.org
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Australian cricket team in the West Indies in 2002–03
and chose to bat first on a flat pitch. Due to the flat nature of the pitch, Australia would benefit by using the unorthodox strategy of playing five bowlers, which proved to be a major factor wikipedia.org
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1876–77 Sheffield Challenge Cup
so long as one opponent was between them and the goal-line, whereas the Association offside law demanded three; if the ball went off the side of the pitch The captains would toss for choice of venue, the captain who lost the toss could choose the venue for a replay, and second replays were to be at the first wikipedia.org
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2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal
The 2018 Cricket Pitch Fixing scandal refers to the alleged doctoring of the pitch, a central strip of the playing field, in the home test matches of the results was revealed by Al Jazeera just a few days after the announcement was made by the ICC that they were scrapping the traditional method of a coin toss wikipedia.org
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