Posted on 03/19/2025 1:06:30 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Whether you’re barbecuing this weekend or just hanging out, what’s your go-to GAME you like to play in the backyard? We’ve got a ranking of the 10 BEST backyard games of all time based on fun, accessibility, and overall popularity. See if you agree . . .
1. Cornhole. It’s kind of THE go-to game now. Cincinnati gets credit for coming up with the modern version in the 1960s. But someone also patented a similar game with square holes way back in 1883.
2. Bocce. It’s good for multiple people, and you can play it anywhere. You don’t need a legit bocce court, or even a nice patch of grass. Just open space.
3. Wiffle ball. A guy in Connecticut made backyard baseball possible when he came up with it in 1953.
4. Two-hand-touch. Flag football is even better. Just stuff a rag in your belt.
5. Kickball. Fun fact: Brits call it “football rounders,” and Canadians call it “soccer baseball.” (You sure you want ’em as the 51st state, Mr. President?)
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Buck Buck
That literally made me snort aloud, since every time I see that game being played, I wonder how it originated, and I think of some young Aztec warriors...
Bocce is my favorite.
That’s what I’m talking about. That is a much more obvious move in pétanque. It takes skill though because it’s a much smaller and heavier ball to throw. You can toss it high, underhanded, with backspin etc. Usually it’s played on a slightly harder dirt surface, but a bocce court will work. I used to play it a lot. Went to a park last summer and they had the bocce courts. We brought our pétanque sets and one of the older guys who was the neighborhood’s designated bocce court manager (a retired guy) was raking the courts. He has never seen pétanque and was fascinated. He opened the shed and brought out the bocce balls because neither of us had played the other game. Bocce is the Italian version (or pétanque is the French version) of the same game/rules/court. The equipment is a little different but the same rules more or less.
Trampoline sex for me.
Wiffle ball:
Hit the house = a single
On the roof = a double
Over the roof = a homer
Crossbows and Apples, from Hasbro.
Ouch!
Right after Cherry Bomb Tossing.
In my yard, I pretend I’m an Indian squaw. I gather all the tree branches and twigs that fall, and use them for kindling. I also play chase with the critters who try to eat my flowers and herbs.
Hahahahaha...that is a great kind of game especially with guy who want things to get kinetic! The harder you wind up and throw, the more kinetic it gets until you rip up your stupid shoulder, as I did.
I know it probably sounds sexist, but I found that guys just liked loud noises and seeing things fly apart...and it doesn’t go away completely, so that you can easily imagine a few fifty year old guys screwing around and throwing bowling balls off the top of a dam somewhere. Just to see it fly to pieces.
I went candlepin bowling one time, and I was with a guy who had that same attitude (as did I, by the way) and he put so much juice on it and let go much later than he should have, and the ball sailed all the way down and put a jagged hole in the plastic surface above the lane behind which all the pins were set up.
Gosh. That is going on 50 years ago.
About 20 years ago they tore out that candlepin bowling alley and converted the space into a Dunkin Donuts, a pet store, and a bunch of small shops.
But for the next 30 years, every time I went into that place, the first thing my eyes were draw to was that jagged, black hole above that lane!
The element of danger makes the game more exciting.
Beat me to it...Jarts most definitely.
Drain the Keg
if you are not living on the edge you are taking up too much space
Lawn Darts!
What could possibly go wrong?
Kickball was the wonderball game. Everyone from 4 to 99 could play. All the neighborhood kids played. If too little someone ran for you. occasionally the fathers and mothers came out and joined the teams.
Giant Steps
Statues
Mother May I?
Red Light
And on lazy summer days a box a stick a string and a piece of bread as we sat in bushes waiting to trap a bird.
You are on 🎯 with that. We never found them dangerous either.
Lawn Darts, the old style like we had in my day.
Horseshoes, with real metal horseshoes
I agree with all your picks.
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