Posted by cel

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I had never heard of the game “cornhole” before I went to visit my friends in Louisville, KY recently. They have 4 children ages 3-11 and this a wonderful, fun family game. Apparently it is quite popular in the south. It also goes by the names “Corn Toss, Bean Bag, Bean Toss, Soft Horseshoes, Indiana Horseshoes” but is predominately referred to as Cornhole in Kentucky and Southern Ohio.

Cornhole is similar to horseshoes or skee ball. You use a wooden platform or box that has a hole in it. You stand at a distance and try to throw bean bags into the hole on the platform. A bag that lands on the platform scores 1 point and a bag that lands in the hole scores 3 points. Players take turns throwing their bean bags (corn bags) until someone reaches a score of 21 points.

The beauty of this game with kids (though the adults had just as much fun and dominated the sets available at this particular party) is that it is simple, you can adjust the difficulty by just adjusting your distance from the platform, and you can adjust the winning score (say make it 10 instead of 21) so the game lasts as long as you want it to.

You do need a game set to play. The prices can be high (some tournament cornhole people take their game very seriously), but there are mini sets you can get for less.