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the lazy backyard game disguising serious physics as a beanbag and a hole.
means A lawn game in which players take turns tossing fabric beanbags at a raised, slanted wooden board with a hole near the top, scoring points for landing on the board or sinking a bag through the hole.
from A plain compound of 'corn' and 'hole' — the original beanbags were stuffed with dried corn kernels rather than today's plastic pellets, and the whole point is to sink them in the hole. The game itself has murky roots, with competing origin tales (often placed in the American Midwest), but the name is refreshingly literal: corn in a bag, aimed at a hole. Be warned that 'cornhole' carries crude slang senses elsewhere, which is why the game also travels under tidier names like 'bags' or 'baggo.'
- Real money
- Pro players earn six figures tossing bags
- ESPN airs it
- Broadcast nationally as legitimate competitive sport
- Bag science
- Filled with resin pellets, not actual corn now
- Origin myth
- Claimed by Kentucky, Cincinnati, and medieval Germany alike
- Hole size
- Six inches wide, eternally just out of reach
american cornhole league — professional league founded in 2010 with tournaments paying $100k+ prize pools
world cornhole championship — annual tournament in fort wayne, indiana since 2007 with 500+ competitors