The following is a different way to stack pennies. This is one of the first towers that I ever made. It is easy to do and relatively fast. So if you are trying to build something quick and easy this would be the way to go. The idea is to stack the pennies like they were bricks in a building. Each penny sits on the joint of the two pennies below it.

First you have to create the circle. So I laid pennies around a single penny. I did this for two layers. This made it easy to make a good circle.

Then I just started to stack the pennies on the outer rim of pennies.

I kept stacking…

And stacking….

‘Til I ran out of pennies.

To make a stacked penny bridge, you must have more than one column. In this case I am starting off with two columns stacked ten pennies high. I used three pennies to space the columns out to the correct distance apart. This will allow the pennies on top of the bridge to have the correct space to be stacked.

Next I stack pennies on top of each column the same way I did in part 1.

I continue to stack these pennies so there is enough weight for when I start to add the pennies to create the bridge to span from one column to the other.

I added pennies on either side of the stack. I needed to add the same number of pennies to either side of each column so each stack would remain balanced.

This step is probably the hardest part of the whole bridge. I had to add the two middle pennies without knocking the whole thing over. These two pennies will touch and will carry the penny that will join the two columns. To do this, I held the penny at the very to of one column and slid the penny into place. Then I did the same to the opposite column, being extremely careful not to knock over either column.

Noticing that the columns needed extra weight to help keep them sturdy, I added more pennies to the top of each column. Then I carefully added two more pennies that would hold the top of the joining penny. These were as challenging as the two pennies in the previous step.

I was then able to slide the joining penny between the four pennies I placed in the previous two steps. I almost lost the whole bridge at this point so be careful.

At this point the rest of the bridge is pretty easy. I just started to stack more pennies.

I kept stacking and stacking. I was amazed at how strong the bridge was once I got above two or three layers.

I was so impressed with its strength that I started to stack more weight on top. That is 22 more pennies on top of that bridge. The bridge didn’t even budge.

I added another stack of 22 coins right next to the first stack. The bridge would have held easily, but by this point the whole structure was off center and the whole thing came crashing down. Oh well.

Stacking pennies is an awesome waste of time. I found this website called Pictures of Pennies. There are more than 20 pages of pictures of stacked pennies. I thought hey, I can do this. The following are some photos of my first attempt.

What I did first was make a stack of pennies 10 coins high. Then I held two more coins edge to edge between my thumb and first finger. Then I positioned one more coin over the space where the other two coins met. All three coins are now held between my thumb and first finger. I then carefully lay the three coins on top of the stack of ten. My stack now looks like the picture above.

I continued the previous step several times.

To widen my stack of pennies, I carefully slid more pennies in the empty spaces on either side of the stack. I had to be careful because if I added too many on one side, the stack would fall over.

I am able to add more pennies for one more layer out without the whole stack falling over.

I think you should try it now.