Each player stands about 8ft (2.4m) away from the pub bench, which has a hole and a draw underneath to hold the pennies.
Players can throw more than one penny at a time and the first to sink all of them during the round is the winner.
The coins range from the early Victorian era right up to the decimalisation of the currency in February 1971, Foster said.
Where the name of the game originates from is not known, however, Foster said there were “lots of theories but no absolute proof”.
Glenn Thomas, who has lived in Stretton for five years, said the small village had a population of around 150 people.
When the pub, then called The Jackson Stops, closed in January 2025, villagers continued playing the game in church to try to keep the tradition alive.
Thomas said: “The pub, when it shut down, it shut down very unexpectedly.
“In the months that followed we really felt the loss, it felt like the soul had gone out of the village.
“People weren’t spending as much time with each other. It was very much the heart of the village.
“Nurdles was just one of those special traditions almost unique to our village.
“We did try to keep it going, Richard and others made a separate nurdles bench, but it wasn’t the same.
“It was the wrong ambience and atmosphere.
“With the pub being shut we could just see that nurdles as a tradition was going to die out. It was heart-breaking.
“It was one of the big motivations to get the pub open again.”