An old version of the heads or tails coin toss is cross or pile or cross and pile. That’s because an old English coin was marked with a cross on one side and pile meant the back of a coin. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Cross and Pile Coin Toss”
We were talking earlier about coin tosses and heads or tails.
I didn’t realize that an earlier version of heads or tails is cross and pile or cross or pile.
Cross or pile. What’s the explanation for that?
In English, on one particular coin, there used to be a cross on one side.
And on the other side, the word pile just means the back of a coin.
Oh, interesting.
Yeah, so you can play cross or pile.
