What is the superior lawn game?

Postby **Staggy** » Sun Jul 12, 2015 4:25 pm

I recently played some game with a beer bottle on a pole and you have to throw the frisbee at it and knock it off and catch the bottle. It was very demanding and I ended up soaked in beer diving around trying to make the catches.

Beersbee. It's my favorite lawn game but it's more active than the rest so not sure if it qualifies. Plus if you're not paying attention 100% of the time there's a chance you could take a glass bottle to the face.

Postby **blackjack68** » Sun Jul 12, 2015 6:11 pm

That game sounds terrible and a waste of beer.

Postby **dodint** » Sun Jul 12, 2015 6:15 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxGdYO7fakY

Postby **NailedPenguin** » Sun Jul 12, 2015 9:46 pm

Going to the Swedish festivals up north, I've always wanted to play Kubb, but have not gotten around to it yet.

Completley missed that Eddy mentioned Kubb weeks ago a few posts above mine. Altho now that I know what Kubb is, if I were to pick one poster that was already familiar with Kubb, it would be Edward S. Nake.

Postby **eddy** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 9:21 am

I recently played some game with a beer bottle on a pole and you have to throw the frisbee at it and knock it off and catch the bottle. It was very demanding and I ended up soaked in beer diving around trying to make the catches.
Beersbee. It's my favorite lawn game but it's more active than the rest so not sure if it qualifies. Plus if you're not paying attention 100% of the time there's a chance you could take a glass bottle to the face.

When I played it, you had to hold a beer in one hand and rather than put a full beer on the pole, it was a plastic bottle. I don't really remember the specifics except my wife hated it and I was sore the next day.

Postby **eddy** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 9:28 am

Going to the Swedish festivals up north, I've always wanted to play Kubb, but have not gotten around to it yet.
Completley missed that Eddy mentioned Kubb weeks ago a few posts above mine. Altho now that I know what Kubb is, if I were to pick one poster that was already familiar with Kubb, it would be Edward S. Nake.

The only thing that has kept me from playing this is that it appears to be pretty expensive to buy. I thought about making it, but haven't had time for that. I just may have to pull the trigger on a set from amazon since we will be going to the beach in a few weeks.

Postby **count2infinity** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 9:31 am

Going to the Swedish festivals up north, I've always wanted to play Kubb, but have not gotten around to it yet.
Completley missed that Eddy mentioned Kubb weeks ago a few posts above mine. Altho now that I know what Kubb is, if I were to pick one poster that was already familiar with Kubb, it would be Edward S. Nake.

The only thing that has kept me from playing this is that it appears to be pretty expensive to buy. I thought about making it, but haven't had time for that. I just may have to pull the trigger on a set from amazon since we will be going to the beach in a few weeks.

Damn... I just went and looked. Those sets are freaking expensive. Here's a pretty good "how to" that I plan on making:

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to- ... /?ALLSTEPS

Couldn't be much easier than that... just cut some wood.

Edit: also, playing on the beach would be interesting. No accounting for bounces or rolls any more. Might have to try that some time.

Postby **eddy** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 9:41 am

Going to the Swedish festivals up north, I've always wanted to play Kubb, but have not gotten around to it yet.
Completley missed that Eddy mentioned Kubb weeks ago a few posts above mine. Altho now that I know what Kubb is, if I were to pick one poster that was already familiar with Kubb, it would be Edward S. Nake.

The only thing that has kept me from playing this is that it appears to be pretty expensive to buy. I thought about making it, but haven't had time for that. I just may have to pull the trigger on a set from amazon since we will be going to the beach in a few weeks.
Damn... I just went and looked. Those sets are freaking expensive. Here's a pretty good "how to" that I plan on making:

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to- ... /?ALLSTEPS

Couldn't be much easier than that... just cut some wood.

Edit: also, playing on the beach would be interesting. No accounting for bounces or rolls any more. Might have to try that some time.

just found out my brother has a set, so I'm ready to go. I do believe I will make a nice set in the future though.

Postby **slappybrown** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 5:40 pm

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TRUE

Postby **malkintent** » Tue Jul 28, 2015 9:42 am

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you like dude butt

Postby **Silentom** » Tue Jul 28, 2015 10:05 am

Postby **blackjack68** » Tue Jul 28, 2015 2:53 pm

True or false @malkintent fled the state because he's shook at my bags dominance dot @Juice

TRUE
you like dude butt

Cornhole...

Postby **tjand72** » Wed Jul 29, 2015 11:53 pm

Kubb is great.

Inexpensive when you make your own set.

Postby **dodint** » Tue Aug 11, 2015 11:42 am

We're having an Organizational Day at work on Thursday. One of the things on the signup sheet was "Ladder Golf." Never heard of it. Came here to ask, and then saw it was in the poll. To whomever the 1 person that voted for it was, it looks cool:

I bet it's one of those "looks really easy" but then when you actually go to try it out it's frustratingly difficult.

Postby **Silentom** » Tue Aug 11, 2015 12:16 pm

We're having an Organizational Day at work on Thursday. One of the things on the signup sheet was "Ladder Golf." Never heard of it. Came here to ask, and then saw it was in the poll. To whomever the 1 person that voted for it was, it looks cool:

I bet it's one of those "looks really easy" but then when you actually go to try it out it's frustratingly difficult.

No, just really easy.

YouTube · Postby **mikey** » Tue Aug 11, 2015 12:30 pm

I played that on my friend's roof the other night...the only thing I didn't get was why the top rung was worth more than the bottom...it's pretty easy to hit that top rung...it's pretty difficult to hit that bottom rung...maybe they were just scoring wrong...

Postby **ExPatriatePen** » Tue Aug 11, 2015 12:32 pm

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vqClWdOcWog

Postby **meow** » Tue Aug 11, 2015 12:34 pm

I played that on my friend's roof the other night...the only thing I didn't get was why the top rung was worth more than the bottom...it's pretty easy to hit that top rung...it's pretty difficult to hit that bottom rung...maybe they were just scoring wrong...

Theoretically, the rope is more likely to drop down to a lower rung, thus decreasing the scoring rate. In reality, the top rung scores the most hits.

YouTube · Postby **mikey** » Tue Aug 11, 2015 12:49 pm

By a large margin too...the hardest thing in the game is ending up point away from winning...that's the only thing that took any time at all...

Postby **dodint** » Tue Aug 11, 2015 12:54 pm

For this company picnic thing the choices were bag toss (cornhole, prudes), ladder golf, shuffle board, ring toss, and mini-golf. Lots of bag toss and mini-golf happening, nobody signed up for the rest.

Postby **meow** » Tue Aug 11, 2015 12:56 pm

I'm assuming two things, regarding your ladder golf experience. 1.) The ladders were too close together. 2.) All the ropes were the same length.