# Playing in the yard **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 27, 2018, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playing-in-the-yard/813226 "2018-04-27T16:50:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2018, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playing-in-the-yard/813226/1 "2018-04-27T16:50:38Z")
What sort of yard games do you have? I have a [kubb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubb) set and [Jarts](https://www.vintagegaragechicago.com/jarts/). Somewhere I have a volleyball net and poles, and a volleyball. Oh, and I have some Frisbees packed away somewhere. Unfortunately, I have no one to play with. . ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2018, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playing-in-the-yard/813226/2 "2018-04-27T16:52:57Z")
Are those games on I-Tunes or Google Play store? I can’t find them. 🙂 Just kidding. Corn hole is the game! That and wiffle-ball. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2018, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playing-in-the-yard/813226/3 "2018-04-27T18:04:36Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > Corn hole is the game! Where I come from, ‘corn hole’ has an entirely different meaning from a game you play in a yard. (Well, I suppose you _could_ do it in the yard. But it would violate societal norms.) ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2018, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playing-in-the-yard/813226/4 "2018-04-27T18:07:50Z")
Second [corn-hole](https://www.cornhole.com/). Also bocce. [Ladder golf](https://laddergolf.com/) is cool too. A buddy got Kanjam recently. I’ve never played, but it looks fun. But Kanjam doesn’t seem like you can hold a beer in the other hand while you play. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2018, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playing-in-the-yard/813226/5 "2018-04-27T18:17:23Z")
Bocce and croquet. Bunch of toys and stuff for the grandkid. Around here we call cornhole “bags.” My BIL has a set we’ve borrowed. Took out the horseshoe stakes after my dumb mutt charged into one chasing a squirrel… ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2018, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playing-in-the-yard/813226/6 "2018-04-27T18:22:08Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > Around here we call cornhole “bags.” My BIL has a set we’ve borrowed. Nobody had the game when I was growing up. It was just something you’d see at carnivals. It was called ‘bean bag toss’. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2018, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playing-in-the-yard/813226/7 "2018-04-27T18:24:15Z")
We have shuffleboard. Well, it’s by the pool and it’s sort of a communal “yard” but we do play it. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2018, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playing-in-the-yard/813226/8 "2018-04-27T18:30:02Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Unfortunately, I have no one to play with. I don’t even have a yard… ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2018, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playing-in-the-yard/813226/9 "2018-04-27T19:22:14Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Nobody had the game when I was growing up. It was just something you’d see at carnivals. It was called ‘bean bag toss’. And your version would have had the bag full of dried beans. The “corn hole” version has the bag (at least, originally) filled with dried shelled field corn. Where it was played, they would have had more corn laying around than beans (except for soybeans, which would have probably worked I guess). ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2018, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playing-in-the-yard/813226/10 "2018-04-30T19:36:28Z")
Badminton/volleyball set, bocce ball, LaCrosse, and soccer. I want to get one of those giant Yahtzee sets. ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2018, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/playing-in-the-yard/813226/11 "2018-04-30T21:14:43Z")
I used to have one called Lawnmower. The game is started indoors. One player taunts, threatens, and cajoles the other player, until he goes outside and pushes the game piece around the yard and gets a sunburn. Never liked it - got rid of it eventually.