When Sam is questioned about the large bank deposit he made recently he says that he got the money "matching nickels and dimes". Can someone tell me what that is? Is some sort of gambling game or is it a slang term for just saving your extra change every day? Thanks.
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I think he might be talking about "nickel and dime", a card game similar to poker.
shareor like linder rondstad says, "saving nickels saving dimes...."
shareI know the original post is a couple years old, now, but Sam actually said he got his money matching quarters and halves.
I took it to mean he was saving all his quarters and fifty cent pieces, taking them to the bank and cashing them in every so often until he got the $600 (or however much it was) he deposited in the film.
Yes, he did say "matching quarters and halves", I re-watched the movie recently. Gillespie claims that the $ 600+ deposit was made in large bills, and Sam claims that he regularly traded in the coins for larger bills, but he kept them at home all the time. It's not explained why he did this, but Sam is not the brightest character in the movie…
share..in a cover of a Roy Orbison song..
shareAfter so much time has passed, I'm very surprised to see that no one has been able to answer this question!
Yes, matching coins is a very simple gambling game for two people, usually just for pocket change.
To play, a stake is decided, quarters for instance, and each person holds out a hand with that coin concealed -- with your fingers loosely curled, the coin rests on the side of your middle finger, with your index finger curled around it and your thumb covering it. When both players have their hand out, one person calls "odd" (one coin is heads, one is tails) or "even" (both coins are the same), and then both players raise their thumbs. If the caller gets it right, he collects the other player's coin; if he gets it wrong, he pays his own coin. Then they reload and it's the other player's turn to call.
It's just a little game for killing time.
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You can also play it with three people. In that case, the person with the single head or tail wins the other two coins. If all three have the same it's a draw. This was very popular when I was in high school I'm surprised other people didn't know about it. Maybe it's just something only done down here in Mississippi.
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The version with three players is usually known as "odd man wins", or just "odd man", and would nearly always be found in the same communities where guys would match coins to pass the time.
But nobody just sits easy on a hot and lazy summer afternoon anymore, they're busy txting or playing Angry Birds or some such thing, so folk pastimes like coin matching are fading away.
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Holy Crap. We played this for a couple of months in Jr High, along with pitching pennies. I haven't thought of this in decades!
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I, too, learned to play this game in junior high school in southeast Michigan. I'm "white", and was taught to play by "Black" friends. Each match was prefaced by one of the players saying, "I got you," or "you got me," meaning, respectively, "my coin will match yours" or "your coin must match mine." Fun times.
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