Corn-hole, anyone? (Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati: for sale, park, place)

[Eastern Roamer]

Over the last few years the game corn-hole has really become a big hit, but no one I talk to outside of the West-end of Cincinnati has heard of it.
Someone should start marketing and mass producing this convenient little passtime.

[yayoi]

Cincinnati is the only place that calls bean bag toss cornhole. That's probably why you haven't heard about it anywhere else.

[WestcoastBrit]

And I thought you were texting from prison!

[rrtechno]

Corn Hole is becoming increasingly popular here in Northwest Ohio. In fact it appears our little village of Montpelier is planning a Corn Hole court in our new little park on Main Street instead of Horeshoe Pits.

[WeeMadArthur]

The first time I saw corn-hole was at Purdue in West Lafayette, IN in 2002. It is rare to hear it called corn-hole outside of Cincinnati. Everyone played bean-bag toss when they were a little kid. The only difference is that you need to be drunk to enjoy corn-hole.

I don't understand why people play corn-hole.

[ohioan_17]

Originally Posted by yayoi

Cincinnati is the only place that calls bean bag toss cornhole. That's probably why you haven't heard about it anywhere else.

Untrue, mostly everyone in North central Ohio calls it cornhole.

[ohioan_17]

Originally Posted by WeeMadArthur

I don't understand why people play corn-hole.

And everyone else doesn't understand why you don't.

[The Don]

Originally Posted by Eastern Roamer

Over the last few years the game corn-hole has really become a big hit, but no one I talk to outside of the West-end of Cincinnati has heard of it.
Someone should start marketing and mass producing this convenient little passtime.

1. A geography lesson -I don't frequent the West-end of Cincinnati very much but when I do, I have NEVER seen anyone playing corn hole - I think they are too busy dodging bullets. Western Hills is a different issue altogehter but I have seen people playing corn-hole in Clifton, Mason, Columbus, Amelia, Blue Ash among others.

2. A bean bag toss type game WAS mass produced and marketed. I saw them for sale at Kroger four years ago. Obviously it was not a real successful product.

[ak_47_00]

They call it cornhole from Cleveland to Pittsburgh.

[Heaveno]

It was named Bean Bag Toss while I was young. I guess I will do some research to determine the origin of the game.

I did not grow up on the Westside or the West End, I was in North Avondale and we referred to it as Bean Bag Toss. I previously worked for an agency that started one of the first corn-hole fundraising events here in Cincinnati. Many of our members from the agency made some of the first corn-hole Sets sold here in the city.