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Nail driving

Also known as Hammerschlagen · Wettnageln

Nail driving: photograph by Alan Light
Photo: Alan Light, CC BY 2.0, source on Wikimedia Commons

Take turns hitting the nail into a stump with the narrow end of a hammer; the one who sinks their nail first wins, a bent nail loses.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of Germany.

Origins

Usually placed in the era of Modern Heritage (1800 to today), although its exact origins are uncertain, within the cultural world of Northern and Eastern Europe.

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