Are conkers and chestnuts the same thing?

Horse chestnuts and conkers are the same thing; they are not edible.

Sweet chestnuts are different and you can eat them.

Are conkers and chestnuts the same thing?
Conkers and horse chestnuts are the same and inedible, sweet chestnuts you can eat and they're lovely!
Reply:No. Conkers are the inedible fruit of horse chestnut trees.

Chestnuts are the edible fruit of chestnut trees.
Reply:No
Reply:No. Conkers are horse chestnuts. Very similar, but not edible.
Reply:NO
Reply:No. You can play with your conkers! but not with your horse chestnuts?
Reply:Conkers are horse chestnuts, don't eat them! Chestnuts are yummy though.
Reply:Yep
Reply:they're from the same family but Horse chestnuts or conkers are not edible, whereas chestnuts are and very yummy too.
Reply:No conkers a horse chestnuts
Reply:yep, ive got an elevener, cmon!
Reply:Conkers are grown from the horse chestnut but they are not an edible verson and could be quite harmful to anyone trying to eat them. The name comes from the dialectal word "conker" meaning snail-shell.History of Conkers





The first recorded game of Conkers using horse chestnuts was on the Isle of Wight in 1848. Until then, children used snail shells or hazelnuts.



In 1965 the World Conker Championships were set up in Ashton (near Oundle) Northamptonshire, England, and still take place on the second Sunday of October every year. In 2004, an audience of 5,000 turned up to watch more than 500 competitors from all over the world slug it out.



In 1993 ex-Python Michael Palin was disqualified from the World Conker Championships for baking his conker and soaking it in vinegar.



In 1999, the British charity ActionAid applied for a patent on hardening conkers, in protest at the patenting of life forms by large companies.



In 2000 a survey of British schools showed that many were not allowing children to play Conkers as headteachers were afraid of the legal consequences if children were injured while playing the game. In 2004 a headmaster was reported to be outfitting pupils with goggles to play the game. This in turn prompted DJs on BBC Radio 1 to start their own Radio 1 Conker Championships. Top Gear later did a show where they played a game of conkers using cranes instead of string, and mobile homes instead of conkers making the comment as they put on the goggles joking "I now feel perfectly happy about being hit in the face by a caravan.