YESSS! My only summer sport here in San Antonio and the only time of the year I fight for a close-in parking space so I can minimize my exposure to un-air conditioned environments.
I think Cornhole may be regional cuz I grew up calling it bean bag toss too. You told people you want to play "cornhole" you will get some strange looks
I didnt hear the name cornhole until the early 2000's, before that we also just called it "bean bag toss" or "bag toss" I figured it was a pretty universal game in the USA. Cornhole has alternate meaning so I still hesitate to use that as its name.
The name "cornhole", referring to the bean bag toss game, came out of Cincinnati, OH, in the late '90s. (The game itself is much older.) The other meaning that you alluded to dates back to the late 1800s or early 1900s, and meant the same thing then as it does now.
I'd heard the alternate meaning long before I heard it applied to the bean bag game. I did a double-take when some friends asked if I wanted to join them for some cornhole in the back yard.
I am from Ohio, and as a kid Cornhole was just bean bag toss. I was in California when that name started being common in Ohio, and when I moved back it was everywhere, and I was confused, because of the other meaning of the word.
Being from Indiana, wiffle ball and cornhole were standard outdoor games at family gatherings growing up. Another popular game my friends and I would play was called sardines. It's a twist on hide and seek. We'd always play outside in the middle of the night. One person goes and hides, and then everyone else goes and looks for them. When a seeker finds the hiding person, they now have to hide in that spot with the hider. Leading eventually to the hider and multiple seekers cramming into the hiding spot, you know...like sardines...so clever...The game is over when there's only one seeker left. The last seeker who couldn't find the group of hiders, becomes the new hider.
@@jamesragsdale3069 Flat with tips all the way around the post-3 points, touching the post or not; leaning against the post-2 points; within the narrow horseshoe's end width-1 point. Hit an opposing player, dirty looks, do it twice and run....
*Axe* *Throwing* *originated* *in* *America* *WAY* *before* *2006* *!!!* The Forks Washington 4th of July Celebration has been doing it as a judged competition with prize money for *decades.* At least 10 of them ! Any place there's been more than one Logger, Sawmill, Lumberyard, Celt ...or Viking...with at least one *AXE* among them...there have bee Axe Throwing Contests ...for real money !!! Sometimes Old Time Logger bet their *Horses* on it !!!!
The Franks of antiquety were well known for their fransica throwing axe. Smashing through opponents sheilds in battle could be considered a judged competition
@@patrickchambers5999 Both trues statements. I work in a machine shop, I know if I ask my boss the tolerance on a part and he says, "horseshoes," I have plenty of "oops" room. 🤣
I don't know where this "Cornhole" game, or the name, came from. I have only heard of it in the last ten years (I"m 59). Seems like a carnival game that has gone popular. Off the top of my head I would recall it as "Bean Bag Toss" for children/school fairs from decades ago.
Growing up I lived on a small farm. During the summer it wasn’t unusual to have various family members (aunts, uncles, cousins) over visiting or have family get togethers. So our yard space usually had the following set up every year: the massive front yard had a net suitable for badminton or volleyball on one side, Jarts (lawn darts) on the other with flowers and fruit trees scattered around. The small side yard to the west had a horseshoe playing area - a favorite pastime of my father and uncles. The side yard to the East had several lawn chairs for enjoying the breeze and a bean bag toss game area - never heard it called cornhole until 15 or so years ago. The back yard had a croquet game set up. For the youngest kids a supply of chalk was always around to draw on the sidewalk, patio, or driveway or make a hopscotch pattern with. It was a fun childhood. 😄
Yep ! Central Illinois childhood - also add homemade ice cream , ice cold watermelon & weinie roast & s'mores in the evenings . Great family fun as kids & adults played as mixed teams & partners too .
Cornhole and horseshoes are perfect backyard (or garden in UK) games which can and should be played while drinking with friends. Cornhole is called that because the bags are filled with corn which explains the Midwest origin but it’s certainly migrated elsewhere. You can literally hold a beer in one hand while tossing with the other.
I'd never heard of the game cornhole until I moved to St. Louis. Even then, I'd lived here 25 years. Upon hearing the name I had two reactions. Namely, internally yelling "WTF!" and maniacal laughter. I'd heard the term " cornhole, but it had a very, very different meaning.
I live in Ohio and I had never heard of it until it became our "official" game under former governor Strickland. And, yes, I had the same reaction as you did and for the same reason.
I live in Ohio too & as a kid in school in the early 80's we played "bag toss" in gym class. When I was in my 20's is when I first heard it called Cornhole & I am still horrified that ppl use that name
@@pielucas439 I had forgotten about playing it in gym. And we did call it bag toss. It's been bugging me because I kind of remember playing it when I was young but never remembered calling it corn hole. Thanks for jogging my memory!
Personally I think the best version of that is a game in the early 1970's, a beanbag toss tic - tac-toe (Brit knots-naughts?- and crosses) game called "Toss Across."
We played Ghost in the Graveyard but we always had a ghost hidden somewhere that tried to keep the others from base.... which was somewhere opposite the starting point.
I hadn’t heard of cornhole until I moved to the Midwest, but I found that it’s *everywhere* here! Also, those beanbags are filled with corn. It’s very special corn, as I found out when I borrowed the cornhole game from work for our family reunion, and one of the bags broke. They are very expensive to replace (because the corn is so freakin’ special, apparently). I ended up just putting in run-of-the-mill popcorn, sewed it up, and hoped that nobody noticed. They didn’t.
😆 yeah that isn't surprising. My family in Nova Scotia all had cornhole boards in the yards. They would fill the bags with seeds that had spoiled and were unplantable. The "special corn" was special because it was an inedible kind, like most corn is. Much like those colorful kinds used in decorations.
It's just shelled field corn. You can get it in any store that sells bird seed. The reason you want use field corn instead of beans, popcorn, or other seeds is that as the bags are used the kernels crack and rub against each other generating what's basically powdered corn starch. As they hit the boards that powder works its way out of the fabric as it hits and makes the boards more slippery and thus harder to score points.
@@435now Or you use the Dried Dent Field Corn, the type used for feeding Livestock. At least that is what people in States with lots of Livestock use for the Bag Filler if they do not use the Cheap bags with the plastic pellets Like kind for Pellet gun in them or ones with metal BB's in them.
I've worked as a land surveyor for most of my life. We used to have Bush axe throwing competitions in the woods during breaks. Generally we'd be working somewhere where the land would be cleared so harming the trees wasn't an issue. I like the straight spear throwing technique but could also use the spin. Also threw machetes knives hatchets and regular axes.
I now reside in Tennessee, and can tell you it's played all over in the southeast. Georgia, Kentucky, Carolinas and Tennessee I can vouch have Cornhole.
I grew up in rural-ish Pennsylvania and we commonly used the phrase "Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades!" If you don't know how scoring in horseshoes works, that phase makes no sense, as I quickly learned in college.
There’s a big annual event at the Florida/Alabama line called the International Mullet Toss. The one who throws a dead mullet (fish) the farthest from Florida into Alabama, wins. Includes a weekend-long beach party!
I'm from Illinois, and we called it bean bag toss. I never heard "Cornhole" until I moved to Tennessee, and I assumed it was a Southern profanity originally.
@@jonmac007 Cornhole is the kid-safe version of horseshoes. A lot of the playing strategy is similar. Beer is standard for leveling the skill levels of the adult players in both.
Lawrence, in about 1963, when I was 5, I made the mistake of walking behind my dad, in Northern Michigan, as he was in the process of throwing a horseshoe. I was knocked unconcious. My poor dad never forgave himself. But I did.
I visited my daughter and her family in Tennessee and not only did they have cornhole, the board was embossed with the Tennessee state flag and as darkness fell . . . I realized the hole was ringed with lights! We could keep on playing into the night!
Manhunt was a youth group lock-in staple for me. For reference, a lock in was basically a big sleepover at the church with games and movies all night. My dance class did them, too.
We played all of the above but also sardines where only one person hides and everyone else has to find that person and hide with them until there is only one person left. Rinse and repeat. Another fun one is capture the flag. Teams have safe zones and there’s a free for all area in the middle and each team has a flag and you have to capture the other team’s flag. I am trying to remember if you got “out” and had to sit out if you got caught or if you were kept in a jail of sorts as like a hostage. either way, it was fun. Usually played at night and it helped to play on a wooded lot. Easier to hide. But it was fun.
When Autumn comes, keep a look out on the telly for something called "punkin chunkin." It's a big contest which involves hurling pumpkins with catapults of various design. You might get a big kick out of it. You might also want to look up the Mullet Toss, a big annual event held at the Flora-bama, a big bar on the beach straddling the Florida and Alabama State lines. As the name implies, thousands of people converge on the spot to drink beer and hurl large dead fish. Great fun for all. I often thought it would be fantastic to combine the two, hurling large dead fish with catapults. Carp-a-pult I'd call it. We have to make our own fun here in Alabama. We do play a lot of Cornhole, though. We're very big on tailgating, so we naturally gravitated to it.
Lost in the pond axe throwing has been done since 1866s as a slight substitute for knife-throwing. In the US although Google says it was around since the third century ad.
Yeah Axe throwing has been a part of most Fairs and Logging shows as long as they've existed. And the use of it as a past time has existed as long as people have had axes.
Yup. Lumberjack competitions are a thing in North America, a friend of mine did them in college in the early 1990s, including axe throwing. And the axe throwing part has definitely been exported back to the UK, I have an acquaintance who owns a gym in Liverpool where axe throwing is one of the more popular training skills he offers.
We played a version of beanbags in the 60's at a cousin's house in Minneapolis, so it's been around at least that long. There's been a big resurgence in the last 10 years or so.
Wiffle Ball is, sadly, more likely to cause grass stains than remove them. Axe throwing, yeah, our middle school aged son went to a friend's birthday party doing this. It was one of the most terrifying hours of our lives! And "sack toss" means the same thing here in the US as it does in the UK ;)
Badminton! I had forgotten all about that! Yes, we had a set and played in our backyard as kids. Much fun, and no harm done if the little kids get a shuttlecock to the head.
Greg B you probably have, but you call it bean bag toss because you aren’t a 12 year old or a frat boy trying to get away with saying something naughty.
@@donnaroberts281 Nope. We didn't have that game yet when I was a kid in CA. Hadn't spread from the midwest yet I guess. Maybe something similar at the fair or something. Croquet, badminton, horseshoes, wiffle ball, yeah. Beanbags, no.
@@themermaidstale5008 That's a common misconception. The object in caber tossing isn't distance but straightness. Someone should be along shortly to explain dwile flonking.
I admit, I hadn't heard of ax throwing until last year when one of my co-workers said she goes every other week. We're teachers, so I guess it's a good way to relieve stress. I played the most outdoors when I was a kid, and gradually moved indoors as I got older. My favorite games to play outside were box ball (also known as 4 square), kickball, bocce ball, refrigerator tag (which we just shortened to refrigerator), and various other playground games.
Cornhole is the opening of a silo that the corn comes out of or the tractor attachment that cuts down the corn stalks. We still call cornhole bean bag toss in my area.
This video reminded me of a saying that I wondered if you had ever heard of. If you hadn't heard of the game of horseshoes in Britain, this saying must be an American one, so I think you will enjoy it. It is: "Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades." This is said when someone tries to excuse their failure by saying they were close. In horseshoes, if a toss doesn't score a ringer, but is close, a smaller score can be achieved. I think the hand grenades part of the saying is self explanatory.
I’m from MO & I grew up playing “bean bag toss” in elementary school & at BBQs & tailgates. Along with washers. (Similar to cornhole, but there is an open box with a short piece of PVC pipe in the middle. Your goal is to aim the washer for the pipe, or at least the box)
Yes, here in Missouri we like to throw a variety of objects at an equal or greater number of targets. Hillbilly golf gets my vote for weirdest outdoor throwing game.
A game that is usually found at carnivals is Quoits. Basically tossing an 8 inch hoop, trying to get it onto a stake in the ground. Another game is Lawn Darts. Keep children well out of the way while trying to get the Dart into a circle.
We’ve played a lot of cornhole here in WA (state) since _at least_ the 80s, but called it ‘bean bag toss’ until the early 2000s when ‘corn sock hole’ and then just ‘cornhole’ became the norm almost in the same year.
fellow Hoosier here- and yes, agreed, it's simply not a bbq, family picnic or a the way to burn off another Indianapolis Colts loss than with a rousing game of cornhole...
@@tara9828 Yep, a Hoosier is someone from Indiana. In fact, Hoosier Tire is based in Plymouth (actually, Lakeville), Indiana, and I used to live in Plymouth.
Here in California, I've only encountered cornhole at microbreweries (typically in the warehouse districts with some sort of outdoor seating arrangement) and other beer garden type venues.
You probably won't remember but we used to have a program in the UK on Saturday afternoons called 'World of Sport' As the name implies it used to have small segments of sports from around the world to fill in between horse races and football news. I remember they covered the Lumberjack World Championships from Haywood Wisconsin every year.
I'm in Calgary. I've played both of the games you mentioned. I didn't like bocce ball because I couldn't throw the ball that far. We have sites around the city where there is lawn bowling.
Was wondering if croquet was played anywhere except my backyard. My sisters and I were very serious about knocking each other's balls out of bounds. And hard. Part of the game was loosing track of where the hoops were stuck in the ground and putting your foot through one and falling over. BTW, that's not an official part of the game. We had a nice set. My younger sister took charge of Mom's estate sale when Mom decided to move. Didn't find out it was going on until it was over. I guess you could say Connie was still knocking my older sister and I out of bounds. Have no idea [mourning] where a lot of stuff went ...
Stumpy’s Hatchet House created the first indoor axe throwing facility in America. They came up with the unique design of the layout (high ceilings, open space concept, mesh steel partitions so as to not feel claustrophobic), interchangeable wood slots for the bullseye, etc. Everyone else just copied what they did since it is still very successful.
I'm from New England. Cornhole just recently exploded in popularity a couple years ago. I went from never hearing about it to seeing it appear at most parties.
Yeah, the cobs would spill out of the Corn bin when drawn out for pig feed, and you had bored kids on the farm tossing them back at the hole in the bin.
It was called Bean Bag Toss on the west coast. The axe throwing has been going on for much longer than you think. Usually, atleast where I've lived, it was done by loggers showing off at County fairs. Also races up and down trees.
True wiffle balls have the holes on only one side. They curve like crazy. When I was a kid we played one fly up, where one player would hit a baseball or softball, and anyone who caught it before it hit the ground would bat next. A variation of this was 500, where catching a fly ball counts 100 points, catching it on one bounce counts 75 points, 2 bounces is 50 points, and 3 or more bounces is 25 points. Whoever gets to 500 points first gets to bat, and everyone else's score goes back to zero. There's also the game of Horse, played on a basketball court. Players take shots, and if a player makes his shot the next player has to sink the same shot from the same place, and if he fails he gets a penalty letter, starting with "h". A player who gets five penalty letters against him ("horse") is eliminated. This continues until there's only one player left. The neighborhood kids would also play a game called Spud. It involved trying to hit each other with a thrown ball. The rules were sort of complicated for a kids' game. You can read about it here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spud_(game)
I'd never thought about it before, but there are a *lot* of variations on baseball. Wiffleball, softball, stickball, kickball, etc. I suppose they exist because, while proper baseball requires a baseball field and a good deal of equipment, the basic concept of the game (hitting a ball that's thrown toward you) can be improvised anywhere, with just about anything.
I may not be as devoted a subscriber as some others, but anytime I do watch your videos I'm pleasantly enlightened, and that's saying a lot for an American who has lived in California (SoCal and NorCal), Colorado, Texas, Illinois (yes, Chicago), Massachusetts, and Maryland.
When I was a kid my dad and I were into black powder shooting. The gatherings would usually have contests of not only target shooting but tomahawk/ax throwing and knife throwing as well. This was back in the 80's and 90's. Was lots of fun.
I'm from Boston and fully aware of Cornhole. My family in Nova Scotia had Cornholes too. It's hardly exclusive to the midwest, but seems to be more common in rural areas. I remember when I was a kid, I think it was Matel that made a plastic version. I think that's when the name Sack Toss became popular since cornhole is also a synonym for your butthole.
Not true at all. Many people don't like beer, don't drink any alcohol or are sober and are doing it the American way still. Not everything has to involve alcohol.
@@benjaminsorenson I'm one of those Americans! I have never been able to get past the smell of beer! I just do not like alcoholic drinks at all. Never have, and I'm 63 years old now.
Squamage was a game I picked up from Mad Magazine in the 60s. There was a ball, and a field of undetermined shape and size and no rules. Well, no rule besides, "Get the guy with the ball!" Guys with a snow shoe, scuba mask and a hockey stick. Another in cleats and football helmet with a spike, anything you can imagine. And the object was to splatter whoever happened to be in possession of the ball.
Speaking as an Oregonian, here are some of my treasured games to play with minimal equipment, with thorough rules in case anyone reading does not know how to play and wishes to do so themselves. Note that these games usually have flexible rulesets, so your local rules may vary: Cornhole: Each person has four beanbags which they must throw on the board, which I believe to be two feet by one (60x30 cm), set up 20 feet (6 m) away. Points are not tallied until all eight beanbags have been thrown, because as both players are throwing to the same target, you can knock each other's bags around. Bags through the hole are five points, Bags on the top half are three points, and bags on the bottom half are one point. Play goes for four or six rounds, usually alternating between two cornholes, and a winner is declared. This can also be played as doubles, with one member of each team on both sides, tossing in order. For instance, Alice and Charlie are on a team, as are Bob and Denise. Alice and Bob stand at the cornhole Charlie and Denise toss to, and Charlie and Denise stand at Alice and Bob's target. The tosses go Alice, Bob, Charlie, Denise. Foursquare: A chalk drawing or any available collection of four concrete squares that meet at a point are chosen as the playing field. Each square is around four feet (120cm) on each side. There is one ball, by tradition red with a particular pattern, simply called a "playground ball". The King, in the first square, starts with the ball. The ball is bounced once in the square, then hit, typically to the opposite square, although not required. If the ball bounces in your square, you must bounce it into someone else's square, because if it bounces in your square twice, or once and then hits the ground before you touch it, you are out. If you touch the ball then the ball goes out of the playing field, you are out. If you use overhand, you are out. If you kick the ball, you are out. If you touch the ball then it collides with a player's head, you are out. If you touch the ball, then it touches a central line between two squares, you are out. You are not out if you touch it then it hits a line dividing the playing field from the outside world. Once a player is out, the people move up (so second would go to first, third would go to second, or fourth would go to third), a new player enters, and the game continues. You can't really win, there's no end condition. You just play until you are interrupted or bored, and I have never seen anyone leave out of boredom. Ninesquare in the Air: As you might expect, this is a variation on Foursquare. In addition to a ball, which is best not the "playground ball" but something more lightweight, there is a PVC setup with nine squares and a pipe going down from each point. The pipes place the nine squares about seven feet (2.1 m) in the air. The King square is now in the middle, with the ascending squares spiraling inwards. The play starts when the ball is tossed up from the center into a neighboring square. If the ball passes through the bounding square at the top, you must pass it up back through your bounding square so that it comes back down in another person's square. If it enters your square and hits the ground, you are out. If you touch it, but it does not enter someone else's square, and hits the ground, you are out. If you touch it twice in a row, you are out. Sharks and Minnows/Captain Captain: this one does not require any equipment, but it does require a massive amount of space. Around fifty children will line up on one side of this space, with one to four lucky children in the middle. In Sharks and Minnows, these are the Sharks. Sharks and Minnows is simpler, with Captain Captain only adding minor changes, so I will explain Sharks and Minnows first. When the sharks are ready, they will count down, and on "go", all fifty Minnows make a mad dash to the other side of the lawn. Any Minnows tagged by a Shark become Seaweed, and must sit down where they were tagged and not move for the rest of the game. This repeats, with the Seaweed also being able to tag Minnows. Given the size of the field required to play this with any sort of fun, around 30x30 meters, there are usually no clearly defined boundaries, but Minnows are discouraged from running sideways to evade the sharks indefinitely, with usually a five-second allowance outside the original line of Minnows per round. Once the Minnows have reduced in number sufficiently, they become the new Sharks, and play resets. In Captain Captain, Sharks become Captain, singular. The Sailors (formerly Minnows) must chant in unison, very loudly, "Captain Captain, may we cross your ship, potato chip?". The Captain can either say "Only if you _", typically being some type of color on their clothing, age, or type of clothing (e.g. only if you're wearing red, only if you're below seven years old, only if you're wearing sandals). The sailors who fit that description may pass across with no threat to Captain or any Seaweed stuck to the deck. Then the Captain says "go" and normal play resumes. If the Captain chooses not to say "Only if...", they say "No!" and no one is safe, and must immediately make a run for it.
When I was a kid in New Jersey, I had never heard of Cornhole. However, when I went to college in Virginia, everybody knew what it was. It was very popular. But on that note, no one in Virginia had ever played Bocce Ball
Donna Roberts Nope that's what I thought too. Million dollar homes in NJ with Bocce Ball courts out by the pool & tennis court. And no they weren't Mafiosa 😂
Donna Roberts Nope that's what I thought too. Million dollar homes in NJ with Bocce Ball courts out by the pool & tennis court. And no they weren't Mafiosa 😂
@@samanthab1923 Nope... not millionaires. Just people with a small yard, so a great game for the kids is "how close can you gently toss this ball to that one". Not even Italian....
This is supposed to have originated with baseball player Frank Robinson: "Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades."
We played “kick the can”, “Marco polo”, “no bears out tonight “, “freeze tag”, “22 sss cadoo “, and “four square”, and many many more such childhood games.
We use to play a game we called "Statues." This was back when it was safe for kids to be outside after it started getting dark. We would all dance around and act silly until we seen the headlights of a car coming by, at which time everyone would instantly freeze in what ever silly pose they were in (like statues) and try to hold that pose until the car passed. I guess for a modern day version you could always have someone randomly starting and stopping music.
@Root 66 , sorry you had to throw that "diversity" issue into this. Growing up I have had friends of several different races and the only one that really done me wrong was another white girl (she "borrowed" my bike). The overall lowering of moral values is not a race issue - it's more of an issue due to the fact that parents (of all races) due to one reason or another spend less time with their kids teaching them how to behave. Then you add that to the so called "advice" by child experts that was given to parents about not stunting their kids with anything "negative" to the point that so many young people are now spoiled rotten and feel they are entitled to everything they want. Then on top of it all you have social media portraying fantasies as realities. None of this should be about race - "bad" comes out of all races just as "good" does as well.
We played washers, corn hole, horseshoes, badmitten, dodgeball, softball, catch and tennis that were official games. We also played games we made up on the spot. They were sometimes the most fun😊
hello, just found out Winston Churchill's mom was American! seeing as how the royal family also welcomed an American princess, you should do American women in Britain.
Cornhole is also surprisingly common in New England. I grew up in NY, PA, & NJ (long story), and never heard of it. But when I moved to New England, I found that almost everyone knows it.
My family enjoys games of ladder ball during our summer cookouts. Like cornhole, you're throwing bolas’s at a 4 foot high, and 4 foot wide, 3 rung ladder. The middle rung, being the hardest to hit, is worth the most points. I'm from Utah
Red rovers just child abuse, 12 people got arrested at my boys and girls club when I was 8 because “child abuse.” But then again, 2 kids arms were broken :/
Cornhole is actually pretty popular here in West Virginia too, if there's a party or some big get together outdoors it's a pretty safe bet that almost every time there's bound to be at least one set of cornhole boards and 2 sets of bean bags somewhere close by.
I went to a day camp once where they played wiffle ball with a Fat Albert bat. It was hard to miss the ball, but even if you got a hit it didn't go very far. Unless the wind caught it.
I'd never heard of "cornhole" until I worked a couple of years as a security guard at a private campground. It seems everyone there played it. Just about every campsite had the "targets" I guess they're called. Softball cannot be played without a cooler full of beer. Except at the Baptist Church Softball League games. Then the cooler is kept out of sight. I'm sure it's in the rules somewhere.
Stick ball - which uses a longer thinner wood bat than wiffle bat and a rubber ball pitched (thrown) to a hard wall backstop sometimes with a strike zone marked on it. Another game which required no special equipment (other than a tree) is where one team using the tree for support of the first guy, line up bent over and the other team tries to jump on top to see how many they can get onboard. Don't know if this had a name. There's also kids games of "giant step AKA may I" and "1,2,3 red light", both needing no special equipment.
