No. 303 - Cornhole

We spent the afternoon at a local non-haunted (for the kids) mountain attraction enjoying a bumpy hayride, walking a corn maze, drinking hot chocolate and hot cider and listening to stories from a tattie bogle, the subject of Post No. 279. Fun stuff.

On the ride home, my wife was reading status updates from her Facebook friends and said someone was looking forward to playing cornhole today, and asked if I knew what that was. The closest thing that came to mind was Cornholio from Beavis and Butthead, but that appeared to have nothing to do with it.

I learned that cornhole is basically another name for bean bag or bean toss. It is a lawn game in which players take turn throwing cornhole bags (cotton duck bags filled with feed corn) at a raised platform with a hole in the far end. These platforms are usually made with plywood or plastic and are often decorated. A corn bag in the hole scores 3 points, while one on the platform scores 1 point. Play continues until a player reaches the score of 21.

It has been said that the game originated in Germany in the 14th century, and then was rediscovered in the hills of Kentucky over 100 years ago.