Played it this weekend at a party. Lots of fun!
We have a family tournament every July 4. Lots of fun.
How much TP do you need for it?
Well, you need at least 100 TP before you can cast a weaponskill, but in any case I much prefer Jarts or even plain 'ol horseshoes.
Second question: how many of you said “WTF is wrong with you people?” when they heard people “play” cornhole[ing].
There was a song? ad? recently that referenced that, and I did a doubletake before someone explained it was a game, kind of like the old Fisher-Price Toss-Across.
Are you threatening me?
To answer a questions synonymous with the title question, yes, I did go to college.
I see what you did there…
Etiquette question - Should you play cornhole before or after a rousing game of Soggy Biscuit?
I see cornholing first began to gel in KY.
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ME. I can only guess that some college guys thought the name would be funny (it is!) and then, when the game caught on, a lot of folks didn’t get it.
The first I ever heard of the game was when I met some people at a party and one of the guys asked me, completely straight faced, “want to play cornnhole?” I was not sure how to respond. I can hear those hypothetical smart-assed college guys laughing.
I am Cornhole Jesus.
Apologies if I told this story in another thread.
Every year on Memorial Day weekend, I’m part of a gathering of people from all over the country – a group of fellow music/music trivia freaks who came together on AOL some 15 years ago. After several years of playing in the virtual world, we began having annual real-world gatherings as well.
The guys who host the party are from Ohio, as am I. Others are from locales as far-flung as California, Washington State, Alabama, Kansas City, Kentucky, Connecticut, New York State and New York City.
From what I’ve been able to gather, Ohio is cornhole central for the entire nation. It’s huge here…but what I learned at the gathering is that it is not huge elsewhere.
At the gathering a couple of years ago, I casually mentioned that there had been a cornhole tournament at a benefit gig my band had played recently.
You would have thought I had slipped and fallen face-down in a pile of sheep dung…that’s how uproarious the reaction was to my innocent statement. (FWIW, the reaction of the one member of our group who is gay was the most uproarious of all.)
No one else had ever heard of any definition of “cornhole” other than…er, that one. They were absolutely flabbergasted to learn that the term applied to a game where you toss beanbags at a hole. I had to Email them all links to the American Cornhole Association’s website before they believed me.
To this day, I get teased about this all the time.
“Calm down, Beavis” smack
Funny…I have two cornhole boards in the back of my car right now that I had someone make for me for my wife’s birthday.
And yeah, it’s an Ohio/Cincinnati/Tristate thing. People in Northern Kentucky and SE Indiana adjacent to the Nasty 'Nati play it a lot too.
It’s really a fun game, and perfect for outside get-togethers in the Summer. And unlike horseshoes, which it is similar to, its portable!
It’s certainly very popular around here (South-Central Ohio), but I never knew it was a regional thing. There are tournaments at work (during work hours), and you see people playing in backyards all the time. I played once; it’s pretty fun, but like all sports I was terrible at it…could barely get the beanbags to land on the board, let alone in the hole.
This game is called Baggo or Bags in Chicago and has been around as long as I can remember, although in recent years the name Cornhole has taken over here also. (I gather the official Chicago version has slightly smaller boards than in other places.
I thought it was just a local thing like 16-inch softball until a couple of weeks ago when I was camping in Ohio. A lot of people had games there.
This is not a demonstrably less giggleriffic game name, considering the tone set by “cornhole”…