What is Cornhole? And How Does it Involve a Woody?

Cornhole is an outdoor, potentially drinking, game that involves a woody or woodies and is additionally referred to as tea bagging. You read that right. According to the American Cornhole Association, their "mission is to introduce our friends and neighbors to," you guessed it, cornhole. The game that involves throwing soft sacks is also called bean bag toss, corn toss, tailgate bean bag toss, bean bag, corn toss, sack toss or even soft horseshoes. My favorite, however, is tea bagging.

Cornhole involves soft bean bag or corn sacks that are tossed at a board - usually made of wood or plastic. The board contains one hole. The object is to throw the bean bag or corn sack into the hole, often referred to as the cornhole. Cornhole can be played by singles or doubles - and probably by any number of people interested in tossing soft bean bag or corn sacks into a cornhole. However, at least two people are required for tea bagging.

In official cornhole play, the pitcher's boxes - boards with holes - sit 27 feet apart. As such, the cornholes - in the boards - sit 33 feet apart. Each tea bagging team tosses four corn bags toward the opponents' cornhole. When both teams throw all their soft bean bag or corn sacks, it is called an inning.

Scoring for Cornhole - How to Add up Those Tea Bagging Sacks and Woodies

Cornhole - A soft bean bag or corn sack tossed into the hole is worth three points. The official term is "corn bag in the hole."

Woody - A woody occurs when the soft bean bag or corn sack lands touching the opponents' pitcher's box. A woody is worth one point. The official term is "corn bag in the count."

Everything Else - Any toss of a soft bean bag or corn sack that does not go through the hole nor lands touching the pitcher's box is worth zero points. The official term is "corn bag out of the count."

The tea bagging game has similarities to horseshoes and bocce ball, although the soft bean bag or corn sacks are supposed to make the game safer. The winner is determined by scoring 21 points first. Turn rotation is dependent upon scoring. According to the American Cornhole Association, "The contestant who scored in the preceding inning shall pitch first in the next inning. If neither pitcher scores, the contestant who pitched second (last) in the preceding inning shall pitch first in the next inning."

The American Cornhole Organization (ACO) holds a yearly ACO World Cornhole Championship. Their website even lists rankings of the top cornhole players, delineating average cornholes and woodies. The Ohio Cornhole Company offers products and accessories for the tea bagging game. At their website, they sell t-shirts that say, "Play Cornhole" and beverage koozies that say "I heart cornhole." I think they should have a t-shirt that says, °I played with your cornhole and all I could get was a woody."