5 Outdoor Games I Only Encountered After Moving to America
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- Since I'm itching to get outside and subject my body to some actual activity, I figured now would be a good time to discuss 5 outdoor games I only encountered after moving to America.
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I'm in Texas. It's summertime. My favorite outdoor pastime is running - back into the air conditioning
CapitolBrian I feel your pain! Houstonian who only runs for a/c! 🤣
@@TheIdeabaker amen. I'm right in the center of downtown 5 days a week and live in Katy
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.
Ha, no humidity in west texas! Nice and dry, like an oven...
Has anyone played washers? Is it just a southern thing? As a Texan, I know my family plays it a lot for holidays.
"cornhole" we just called "bean bag toss" in the 80's, it was common at outdoor parties/fairs.
We just call it Bags in Illinois, where we grow half of the corn.
Dee Raver yes we do.
Omg, thank you. I didn't read your comment & just reiterated the same thing.
Thanks. I had no idea what “cornhole” was n didn’t want to wait.
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 have heard it called Toss Across which I prefer.
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.
Do you refer to someone who needs TP for his bunghole? (heh heh heh heh)
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.
Horse shoes are only lucky if the open end is pointing straight up. Otherwise all the luck spills out.
Or at least that's how I was taught.
Never encountered that rule, but cool. How many points for that, and does it have to be touching the pole?
@@jamesragsdale3069 They were nailed up over doorways or on walls in homes with the ends pointed up for good luck.
@@Primalxbeast Ah. Yeah, lucky horseshoes are a thing. I thought you meant in game, lol
I was taught that blacksmith's mount them over their doors upside down so the good luck spills down on their customers.
@@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....
We have a saying here in America "close only counts in Horseshoes and Hand Grenades"
You forgot atomic bombs.
@@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. 🤣
Horseshoes, hand grenades, and drive in movies
Don't forget horse grenades.
@@KEVMAN7987 funnily enough when I was making this comment I kept on thinking to myself hand shoes and horse grenades lol
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.
*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 !!!!
I’m betting anytime two or more men had one axe amongst them there was an axe throwing contest. 🪓
The Franks of antiquety were well known for their fransica throwing axe. Smashing through opponents sheilds in battle could be considered a judged competition
I've actually seen the American Cornhole Championships on ESPN.
I saw it on pornhub.
Is that ESPN 12?
Indiana native here- we midwesterners take corn hole pretty srsly... LOL
Was the theme music from Deliverance?
I have also seen competitive axe throwing on one of the ESPN channels.
Been playing Cornhole for almost 15 years here in PA. Not to mention we would play "tag" at night but we called it Ghost in the Graveyard.
I forgot all about Ghost in the Graveyard!
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.
G H O S T I N T H E G R A V E Y A R D
Back in the day (early 1970s), we called it “Witch.” I really don’t know why. (Hmmm, gonna ask the siblings tmrw.)
I only heard Bean Bag Toss called Cornhole after I moved to PA in 2011 and I'd lived all over the country prior to that.
No one mentioned shuffleboard yet. Kinda like the winter sport curling, but usually on cement.
That's probably played in Florida more than anywhere else.
I've only ever seen shuffleboard on cruise ships. And I live in Florida. But I don't hang out with old people......
Lots of rec centers and vacation spots have them in the south. I quite love it.
There's a bar in Starkville, MS that at least had a shuffleboard table when I was a student ('09-'14).
All my 9 summers in Florida!! Shuffleboard & cards!!!!
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.
Illinois here. Have played them all. Yes, Lawn darts "Jarts" were fun too, until too many kids got one sticking out of their head. Now THAT'S fun!
manxkin The ‘other’ hole in my head is,...... HEY LAWN DARTS!!! He he he he!!
Jarts were the best! Shame they were taken off the market!
We had jarts too.
I still have a box of them and we play it occasionally
agreed! it's never fun until someone gets impaled and you need to call the game- they just never put that on the box...
7:17 -- And "cornhole" has a far different meaning in the U.S. In Indiana, I've played the game you mention but simply as "the bean bag toss."
No, the saying is,"It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye. Then it's a sport!"
No, the *actual* saying is: "it's all shits and giggles until someone giggles and shits"
@Callum Anderson, at my age, we don't mention loss of body function control, lol.
I heard it's all fun and games until someone gets hurt. Then it's hilarious. Maybe I need a better class of friends.
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.
Yes it’s really big in the south east, especially during football season.
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 Wow. No wonder I got fired from that job. lol
We played it in the 80s/90s growing up in Arizona
@@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'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!
Me too! Same WTF experience!
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."
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.
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.
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.
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 ran through a horseshoe game...once...when I was a kid. I got caught in the knee as the horseshoe was coming in, and I bit the dust. Good times!
@@21mph12 Considering that the regulation horseshoes weigh 2 pounds 10 ounces and they are being aimed at a target 40 feet away, you got away light
When I heard about lawn darts being banned, I thought, wouldn't horseshoes also be dangerous?
Jarts (lawn darts), Can Jam, Washers, Badminton, Bocce, Kube, Ladder Ball
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 have been to the Mullet Toss..love it!
I thought the Flor-Bama lounge was always a weekend-long beach party.
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.
I've played horseshoes a bunch, and quite honestly, I still have no clue how the scoring works, but the more I drink, the more fun I have.
Well, you know what they say. All's fair in horseshoes and hand grenades.
I'm familiar with beanbag tossing, just never heard it called cornhole before.
Cornhole uses a inclined board with a fist sized hole in it. Usually played while drinking beer.
@@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.
@@jonmac007 We call that beanbag toss. Because you have a beanbag. and you toss it. Into the hole.
@@JohnDCrafton The bags were originally home made sacks filled with kernels of dried corn, thus the name.
John Crafton, same
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 .
Ed Demoss I’m also in Central IL. In Bloomington now but grew up outside of Danvers.
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.
The pumpkin chucking cannons are beautiful.
Do they allow trebuchets? Here in CA there are groups that demonstrate tossing pumpkins using a trebuchet at several of our Renaissance Fairs.
@@edwardblair4096 Absolutely. Catapults to gigantic air cannons.
In Farmington, MO they have an annual event that amounts to putting gunpowder between a couple anvils and seeing whose anvil goes highest
@@elizabethgundrum2619 What is that called? I can't remember. An anvil shoot?
Still not sure why I'm watching these vids, but they are oddly entertaining.
I know right?lol
Perfect description of my thoughts.
Yes, because they are produced by a very oddly entertaining young man.
@@notmyworld44 Thank you for calling me young, I don't hear that much anymore.
@@gwolfe333 At 76 years of age, I don't either. 😉
Lawn darts would still be a thing if it weren’t for party-pooper lawyers.
Ah, the fun old days dodging quarter-pound incoming missiles. That's not sarcasm at all- I'm quite serious. Much fun was had.
I still have mine. =D
Kids today will never know the thrill of having a legitimate reason to hurl a pointy metal object at their siblings
What are lawn darts?
Mel B - Google “Lawn Darts” or “Jarts”. Apparently this backyard game resulted in multiple deaths.
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!
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.
🙋♀️ We play corn hole here in PA too. Usually after the chicken dance!
I suspect the name is a Midwestern habit. Other regions call it beanbag. We get some _very_ odd looks in Ohio when we call it cornhole.
Im in PA but I call it beanbag toss
Mississippi. Called corn hole. Terrible name. Not that bean bag toss is any better.
@@supmaidoods8753 what part of PA? I'm in the Northeast and we call it cornhole
I knew it as bean bag toss as a child and was introduced to cornhole in high school lol everyone I know knows about cornhole in PA
We didn't play tag or hide and seek. We played manhunt. Kind of a combo of both with teams but much more fun.
We played a game called Manhunt when I was little. It was like hide-and-go-seek, but in the woods.
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.
We played something like that until we figured out the older kids were just sending us out to hide while they didn't look for us.
In the dark.
some of my favorite outdoor games include lacrosse, ghosts in the graveyard, capture the flag, kick the can, kickball, lawn darts and tug of war.
Thank you for another fun episode.
Yeah, Jarts! When I was very young, growing up near Rockford Illinois in the late 70s my family had Jarts.
Cornhole is mandatory in Alaska. Every house in Alaska has a corn hole set in the front yard. (I’m making an exaggeration, but not much of one.)
oxenforde I don’t have one...
Lol - born & raised n Alaska... was 60+ yo before I ever heard beanbag toss called cornhole
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.
"Shut your cornhole!"
I’m also from IL and we just call it bags.
Grew up in Indiana in the 70s. No one called it "cornhole". Also, that word has a more naughty meaning than "sacktoss".
When I was a kid I use to play badminton and croquet a lot. I live in Michigan. Now all I hear about that kids play is Corn hole.
Yes, me too! I forgot about badminton❣️
Me too! in California yet. We also played horseshoes and wiffle ball. I've never heard of corn hole until very recently.
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.
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.
I was waiting for washers!!
21mph12 yes!! I was waiting for washers and hillbilly golf!!
So glad to see Washers mentioned. At times it's almost like a cult.
I've seen cornhole played at weddings in Florida and Michigan.
Same, Oregon, outdoor weddings
Jenn Grace These cornhole comments are making me giggle like a teenager 😂
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.
“Surprisingly proficient at throwing stuff”...
I always considered him a hobbit.
He’s absolutely a hobbit
like ernest t. bass .... on the andy griffith show..
You think we've got weird outdoor games, when you come from a country that rolls cheese wheels, and is adjacent to a country with caber tossing ?
Caber tossing is a form of courting, imo. What woman wouldn’t be attracted to the man who can throw the heaviest tree the farthest ?
Catherine That’s demeaning, imo.
@@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.
dadoctah Impressive feat, either way.
@@dadoctah Darn, you got me, had to look up flonking. How many drinks did take to think that up, I wonder.
Excellent additional photos!👍
Kick-the-Can was my favorite childhood summer activity. The more neighborhood kids the better! It's a type of Hide-and-Seek.
Great episode!!! Had me laughing sooo hard !!
Your hat alone is worth the watch.
I worked at the MD renfest through highschool. Sold turkey legs across from the axe throw and pony rides. The shout out did my heart good. 🥰
So glad that you’ve experienced the MD Renaissance fair. It’s such a fun experience!
Lifelong Hoosier here, and yes cornhole's very popular here in Indiana.
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...
i just learned where the name for hoosier tires came from, thank you lol
@@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.
@@bobland7628 In idaho we didnt get the memo that we could use an entirely different word so we just call ourselves idahoans :P
We've been playing cornhole in the south for years.
Fun fact, Softball is an on and off again Olympic sport. It will be in the 2021 2020 Olympic games, as Japan is addicted to anything Baseball.
So much talent! ❤️
*The game of Corn Hole? Truthfully I've never heard of it. I would assume with a name like that, it would be played in a prison.* 😆
You must have just called it bean bag toss, like me.
Cornhole is horseshoes but without the possibility of broken shins if you get in the way of the “game piece” that is thrown.
@Robert Fortier Exactly! I'm guessing by the comments not too many understand the alternate meaning.
salsaman06 Likely not...
Different rules, I think....
Cornhole can also mean something different in America, just like sack toss in Britain.
Salad Toss is another game all together.
Beavis and Butthead probably play this game....
Finally, someone said it...
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.
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.
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.
You went to the MD RennFest?!? I hope you stopped by The Bee Folks and Blessed Scents! Cheers 🍻
It wasn’t until I moved to Texas that I encountered Washers for the first time.
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😊
Growing up on the East coast, we called this very popular game "bean bag toss." My Southern friends called the exact same activity "corn hole."
Most of those games are midwest staples..I'd know I come from where those grape nuts are made..lol post cereal is just down the road
hahahah Grape Nuts- edible gravel...*snickers*
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 ;)
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.
In Kentucky, it's common to have a corn hole set painted in your favorite college's colors. All good fun! Love your channel!!
Unless you did these outdoor activities with a beer in one hand, you’re not doing it the proper American way, my dude.
America, F*ck Yeah! 🍻 🇺🇸
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.
Most of these were played as kids. We used to play wiffle ball on the street and drank quarter juices not beer.
I found the more I drank the better I got at cornhole.
Get em Lawrence
I’ve only ever played, or seen, cornhole in the parking lot at Kaufman Stadium (home of the Kansas City Royals) and the parking lot at Arrowhead Stadium (Home of the Super Bowl Champs Kansas City Chiefs) while tailgating.
Carrie Swank I’ve got a set in my yard.
I grew up mostly in Cali but also in Illinois for a few years and I never heard of cornhole until I moved to Florida. Of course, now I love playing!
I'd never heard of cornhole, we played bocce and horseshoes!
Never heard of Bocce Ball till I went over to a friends house & they had a court on the backyard.
I used to play Bocce ball a lot as a kid! We used to have tournaments at my church every year.
Originally you threw leftover corn/corn cobs through the hole in the board, hence the name "cornhole".
Really?? Lol!
Most people here in chicago call it bags, but he stayed in Indiana first so he probably heard that first
I always wondered about that. Seems like cobs would be way harder to get in there.
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.
But then wouldn't it be called corncob-hole?
Every fall festival that I’ve ever been to, cornhole has been played, and Im in Alabama.
Whenever I'm in a bad mood I watch one of your videos your hilarious
Hi! We used to play croquet and bocce ball❣️I’m from the Boston, Massachusetts area! Not sure if you played these in England or not, love your videos👏
Croquet is a very horrible smelling semi-edible substance my mother used to make using canned salmon.
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 ...
Everybody who plays horseshoes DOES WIN!!! They get to play horseshoes!!!!
You, my friend, get it.
BuckIsland Outdoors I don’t
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.
Team donkey punching can be rather intense but overall provides a good workout as well as fostering teamwork and multitasking
"Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades" :-)
And thermonuclear weapons.
Horse grenades.
There is the notorious comment that "close" only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.
Horse grenades.
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."
"Close" also counts in shuffleboard, curling and depth charges.
@@wb6wsn * Most high explosives only have to be close especially "Danger Close".
Yeah. If you don't get a ringer, but the horseshoe is leaning on the stake, it's one point
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.
Our neighbors introduced us to cornhole when we moved to South Dakota. They called it "Holey-Board" and we played it every night in the summer!
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.
Stevo He walked right into that one.
Don't think his wife would like that.
And she was part Cherokee.
Catherine close enough
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.
OK, you got me with "no bears out tonight" never heard of that one - you must have been in a more rural area - how was that played?
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.
My kids still play these games. No I wasn’t born in the 30’s!
I remember some of these, but, Marco Polo and, four square I remember most. I just can’t remember the rules of Four square.
@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.
I’ve heard the phrase “cornhole” before, but... “Hey Peter man, watch your cornhole bud.” - Lawrence, Peter’s neighbor (Office Space)
Lawn darts or jarts you can occasionally find a set at antique stores. The were outlawed but were fun to play.
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.
We always opened Sharks & Minnows with the sharks hollering "Fishy Fishy Cross My Ocean!"
I'd completely forgotten that until now
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)
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.
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
Here in Michigan only old Italian men play 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....
Crack the whip, Rolly bats, Red light Green Light, Red Rover,
god Red Rover- I got bruises from that as a kid! we played for keeps!
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 :/
@@eclipsehorse8693 We played dodge ball that way until the slow kids complained
@@haroldwilkes6608 yeah, we did to- it was without a doubt the roughest game in grade school- kickball and four square were hard core too...
Don't forget kick the can!
I've lived all over the country and every place has had cornhole.
What about Ladder Ball? I wonder if it's only a Pacific North West thing.
@@shadowprince4482 Is that the game with balls on a string and you try to snag them on a "ladder" of a couple rungs? We have that here in Central New York. I forget what they call it. We have cornhole here too. Typical family gathering games. Now they have a new game for events like this: "pass the virus"
@@shadowprince4482 We play it in Pennsylvania.
But we usually call it hillbilly golf or ladder ball.
We did not have it in California. I’ve never heard it here in Washington. I’ve only heard “cornhole” used to mean anal sex.
Jarts and croquet were popular outdoor family games when I was small, in the Midwest. When we moved to the South, we had a pool & didn't really do outdoor games after that.
Everybody plays corn hole here in Tennessee, there are outdoor areas at loads of sports bars, it's huge at UT games (any sporting event actually) while tailgating...and bbq's or cookout's.
If you have a good wiffle ball pitcher its almost impossible to hit off him. Might as well close your eyes when you swing.
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.
Did you guys wrap the ball in black tape too?
Nah never taped it. That'd nullify my previous comment
Its the air wholes that give it the crazy action and make it so gard to hit abd not go as far
I’m almost surprised he didn’t say Norwegian horseshoes
Kubb?
My favorite outdoor activity is to find a peaceful Bay along North Florida's Panhandle coast, plant myself and fish, all the while greatly appreciating Mother Nature and just sitting and observing. Actually catching Fish is Just Gravy on top of a good meal.
Cornhole to my family growing up was called “washers”. Because we would play with metal washers instead of beanbags. Same game rules though.