"Close only counts with horseshoes and hand-grenades"

[Revtim]

I never played horseshoes, but does it really count if you "almost" make a shot? What kind of messed up game is that?

Or is the old saying "faulty"?

[BenDover]

What kind of messed up game is that?

Why is the game "messed up" just because you don't know the rules?

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I have as much authority as the Pope; I just don't have as many people who believe it! - George Carlin

[mangeorge]

Yah!!!
Target shooting: Do only the bulls eyes count.
Darts: Same.
Baseball: You get 4 chances to get home.
Football: Field goals.
Basketball: Tap ins. (Or whatever you call it)
Etc, etc, etc. :)
Peace,
mangeorge


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Work like you don't need the money.....
Love like you've never been hurt.....
Dance like nobody's watching! ....(Paraphrased)

[WallyM7]

You forgot dancing.

Close counts in dancing.

You're welcome.

[NanoByte]

How 'bout in the case of. . .uh. . .impregnation?

Ray

[WallyM7]

Inconceivable!

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Millions long for immortality, yet don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

[Steviant]

I played horseshoes a lot when I worked in a Canadian lumbercamp in the bush as a student. It was a traditional lumbercamp game because the tree-felling business was one of the last places a lot of horses were used as work animals. I won't dwell on the fact that a lot of lumberjacks would deliberately blind a frisky horse so it would haul logs day in, day out, more obediently.
Anyway, I seem to recall the scoring was three points for a ringer, two points for a leaner, and one point if one of your horseshoes was "close" enough for a horseshoe to touch both your horseshoe and the target stake at the same time.

[pmh]

Steviant,

This scoring is what I've played by most often too. Games to 21 points. I suspect it is the true standard for casual games.

For official scoring, see my link above.

[Chief Crunch]

The closer your horseshoe lands to the pole sticking out of the ground, the more points you get. I played it years ago. I can't remember the specific point values and distances.

[pmh]

http://www.ece.neu.edu/personal/stricker/horseshoes/horseshoe_rules.html

[mangeorge]

"Official Horseshoes"? Really? Honest guys, I didn't know such a thing existed. But I guess I should have.
Can't people do anything just for the fun of it?
Peace,
mangeorge

[Nickrz]

Half the fun of playing is beating the crap out of your opponent. Don't they teach youse guys anything in Californica?

[mangeorge]

Sure they do, Nick. We learn to smoke a couple joints before, during, and after any picnic game. That way everyone has a hell of a good time, and no one cares about the official rules. Nobody remembers the rules. :)
Peace,
mangeorge

[RealityChuck]

The list of sports left out wrestline, where you're given points for a near-pin.

[Enright3]

WallyM7 sez...

Inconceivable!


O.K. I'll bite...

Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Enright3