Best Yard Game Evah! (Poll) (1 Viewer)

[jon_mx]

What's your fav?

 

[Wrigley]

Beer frisbee

 

[rockaction]

I dunno, but my favorite entertainment is The Jump Into The Pig Roast Jamboree Band

 

[Dan Lambskin]

Horseshoes 

Cornhhole

Jarts

 

[In The Zone]

Growing up in our neighborhood we had a wiffle ball league and had 4 different yards we used as fields.

Good Times.

 

[Limp Ditka]

Kan Jam

 

[Foosball God]

No Bocce?

 

[Parrothead]

drinking beer in a lawn chair..  i'm pretty good at it

 

[TheFanatic]

Growing up in our neighborhood we had a wiffle ball league and had 4 different yards we used as fields.

Good Times.

We played a ton of wiffle ball too, but went with Jarts. Just because I can't play it any more. 

 

[Reg Lllama of Brixton]

Beer frisbee

Some of the disc golf nerds I know have their own portable baskets.   They'll set them up in a yard and play a putting game with basically the same rules as Quarters.

 

[jon_mx]

No Bocce?

Sounds gay.  Get off my lawn! 

 

[jon_mx]

Surprised croquet is getting skunked. 

 

[Limp Ditka]

No Bocce?

Love me some freestyle bocce. Had a buddy that lived on 5 acres in rural Wisconsin. Nice, hilly, partially wooded land. Throw the jack in some random direction, bowl, repeat. Do that all afternoon with a cooler of beer and a hitter box. Pretty sure that's what heaven is

 

[Wrigley]

Some of the disc golf nerds I know have their own portable baskets.   They'll set them up in a yard and play a putting game with basically the same rules as Quarters.

This game requires you to always have a beer in your hand 

If a catchable frisbee hits the ground it's a point, if the bottle hits the ground it's two.

Teams must work together, one catches the disc, the other the bottle(while holding onto your own beer)

:drink:

 

[Limp Ditka]

This game requires you to always have a beer in your hand 

If a catchable frisbee hits the ground it's a point, if the bottle hits the ground it's two.

Teams must work together, one catches the disc, the other the bottle(while holding onto your own beer)

:drink:

We do that out in some knee deep water on the lake. Makes the game more fun and, more importantly, less painful

 

[jon_mx]

Beer frisbee

That is more of a drinking game and not really fun for the whole family.  Jarts on the other hand is good family fun.  Nothing says fun more than throwing sharp heavy projectiles towards unsuspecting family members!   

 

[ChiefD]

Washers. 

 

[otb_lifer]

back in the day, hardly anyone we knew had a 'yard' ... maybe a concrete courtyard, where some facacta pool was thrown up - best game was *untie the bikini strings* 

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

I'll go whiffle ball and home runs over the fence, do-overs for hitting the branch, sliding into dog #### and using bricks for bases.

 

[Wrigley]

That is more of a drinking game and not really fun for the whole family.  Jarts on the other hand is good family fun.  Nothing says fun more than throwing sharp heavy projectiles towards unsuspecting family members!   

what?   The kids can have soda 

 

[jon_mx]

Washers. 

They play a game called 'wershers' around here. 

 

[Dickies]

Whiffle ball is probably the most fun, but requires a handful of competitive people to shine.  Of the options listed I voted cornhole since it's the easiest with a family setting.  

My personal favorite is Kan Jam.  Similar to cornhole, but with frisbees.

 

[Jeremy]

Whiffle ball is probably the most fun, but requires a handful of competitive people to shine.  

I love Whiffle ball, but invariably you have to accommodate someone's 3 year old taking 20 pitches, finally hitting the ball, and then running backwards around the bases.  Which is cute and everything, but it's best when you can get a real game going. 

 

[Osaurus]

No love for a safe and wholesome game of jarts?

 

[=Smackdown=]

Bocce

 

[apalmer]

Then or now?  50 years ago, wiffle ball, without question (can't even count the number of bones I broke playing it).  Now that old age has set in? Have to go with something tamer like cornhole.

 

[Limp Ditka]

Then or now?  50 years ago, wiffle ball, without question (can't even count the number of bones I broke playing it).  Now that old age has set in? Have to go with something tamer like cornhole.

wait... what?

 

[otb_lifer]

Then or now?  50 years ago, wiffle ball, without question (can't even count the number of bones I broke playing it).  Now that old age has set in? Have to go with something tamer like cornhole.

wtffff? were you playing on horseback? 

 

[playin4beer]

Kan Jam

Seconded...

We even play this out ice fishing.. 

 

[apalmer]

wait... what?

wtffff? were you playing on horseback? 

Obviously, you guys weren't playing SERIOUS wiffle ball.  If you aren't dodging jarts while running the bases, you're playing minor league rules.

 

[wikkidpissah]

greased naked Slip 'n Slide Twister

 

[mquinnjr]

Ladder Golf

 

[Wrigley]

No love for a safe and wholesome game of jarts?

I hear they still play this in STL

"nothing better than playing jarts in jorts"

 

[The Future Champs]

It requires a great lawn (very large, beautiful short grass), but that said, beer and croquet are an awesome combination.

Smaller and/ or lower quality lawn I'd go with Bocce.

 

[playin4beer]

It requires a great lawn (very large, beautiful short grass), but that said, beer and croquet are an awesome combination.

Smaller and/ or lower quality lawn I'd go with Bocce.

Pretty sure if somebody tried to get a croquet game going in my circle of friends, they'd take a mallet to the sack...

 

[TheFanatic]

Bocce ball isn't getting enough love. It's a good game too..

 

[The Future Champs]

Pretty sure if somebody tried to get a croquet game going in my circle of friends, they'd take a mallet to the sack...

I confidently stand by my original statement, and feel sorry for your circle of friends.

 

[Jules Winnfield]

Kubb is a good game 

 

[playin4beer]

I confidently stand by my original statement, and feel sorry for your circle of friends.

Don't.. I'm sure it's a great game..  My friends are great.. they'd help me bury a body if needed.  Just not your "croquet" playing crowd.

 

[In The Zone]

Obviously, you guys weren't playing SERIOUS wiffle ball.  If you aren't dodging jarts while running the bases, you're playing minor league rules.

We dodged cars in my yard. The deep outfield ran into the street. 

 

[MikeIke]

I'm a FBG. The only yard game we played was polo. 

 

[dmac37]

No love for a safe and wholesome game of jarts?

 

[apalmer]

We dodged cars in my yard. The deep outfield ran into the street. 

Didn't everyone's?  The street was the warning track.

 

[3C's]

Didn't everyone's?  The street was the warning track.

Our "field" was my friend's backyard. We had good sized yards way back then and his was one of the few w/o a fence (or dog, no sliding into dog poop). While there were no broken bones (amazingly) third base was along the back side of his brick house. Collisions, sliding into the house, etc. did occur but we bounced right up like kids always do. Another friend and I were never allowed to be on the same team since we both had ridiculous control pitching. Duct tape to hold the split balls together added to the fun.

 

[rockaction]

Jamal Lewis down? 

I'll show myself out.  

 

[Psychopav]

Kubb is a good game 

+1

 

[AAABatteries]

Whiffleball is fun but it's too difficult to get a game going to rank high for me - I can play horseshoes or cornhole with 1 or 2 people.

 

[Nigel]

What's this about needing a bunch of people for wiffle ball? Used to play a ton of one on one in college, two on two was ideal. 

 

[Enderdog]

Kick the can.

 

[The General]

Ladder Golf