Mark Green will return with his dime pitch stand at the Palmerton Festival.

The game combines skill and dimes with a lot of glass. There are crystal, beer glasses and shot glasses to be won. It’s simple in concept, but takes talent. Throw a dime in a glass that’s rotating on a turntable and win a prize. But there is finesse required. You can’t shoot overhand or you might break the glass. Your toss might overshoot or come up short.

The rules are that only dimes can be used. There is no leaning and underhand throws only.

“There are big competitors,” Green said. There are big prizes such as beer steins to be won on Saturday night. People who land a dime in special glasses get entered into a drawing for a bigger prize at 8:30 p.m. Sunday at the festival.

As of press time, Green had not announced the big prizes. At the West End Fair, they awarded a Coca-Cola cooler and a Michael Kors bag.

You can bring your own dimes, or buy them there. Green already has them grouped in color coded bags. The red bag is $1, with denominations continuing to the black-banded bag containing $20.

“Some guys are competitive and buy the $20 bag right off the bat,” Green said.

With the coin shortage Green said he was having trouble getting dimes at the bank, but he’s good now. “We have enough bags,” he said. “We’ll never run out.”

He has a trough underneath the counter to catch dimes, and he puts a tarp down for any overshooters, because he’d never be able to get the dimes out of the grass under the stand.

The popular stand was created at the suggestion of Dale “Peanut” Greenzweig, now president of the West End Fair.

Before Green brought it to the fair, he did a one-day trial at a Jim Thorpe festival. “I didn’t know if I could handle (an entire fair),” Green said.

So he got busy ordering beer glasses, short glasses and crystal. He finds them by the crate on eBay from Texas, New Jersey and everywhere in between.

Now he has two 48-foot trailers full of 100,000 pieces. He’ll need about 2,000 pieces this weekend. “We’ll be ready,” he said.

For more information, follow him on Facebook at “Green’s Dime Pitch.”