Hosting a Penny War at school or work to raise money!

If you haven’t participated in Penny Wars yet, here is how to do it.


• Divide your group into teams. In a company, this can be different departments. In a school, it can be different grades or home rooms.

• Put buckets out for each team – usually for 3 – 5 days. (The real action comes on the last hour of the last day anyway).

• Teams want to accumulate the most POINTS. You get ONE point for every penny in your bucket. You get two points for every rolled penny in your bucket (so a roll of 50 pennies is worth 100 points).

• Teams will LOSE points for every SILVER coin or dollar bill that another team throws into their bucket. So if someone throws a $5 bill into your bucket, your team loses 500 points.

• The strategy – don’t let the other team know how many rolled pennies you have until the last minute – then dump them in and see the dollar bills fly in to take your points away.

• In the end, count your money, take it to the bank and turn in your money for your team. It is as simple as that!