This category emphasizes the products, producers, and retailers of the equipment, accessories, and supplies used in tossing games.
Tossing games include Bocce Ball, Cornhole, Darts, Frisbee, Frisbee Golf, Horseshoes, KanJam, Kubb, Ladder Toss (Ladderball), Ring Toss, Tidalball, Washer Toss, and perhaps some others.
The equipment used in Bocce includes the Bocce balls and a smaller target ball known as a jack, boccino, or pallino. Bocce balls can be made of wood, metal, baked clay, or various types of plastic. Perfetta and Playaboule both offer bocce sets.
Cornhole requires cornhole boards and bean bags filled with corn kernels, beans, or synthetic materials. Although the bags were traditionally filled with corn kernels or dried beans, the American Cornhole Association dictates that bags should be filled with plastic resin or other materials that will maintain a consistent weight and shape.
Matches are played with two sets of four bags each, two boards, and two, four, or eight players. There are four bags in a set, each of which should be distinguishable from the other, usually by different colors. GoSports, Victory Tailgate, and Wild Sports manufacture durable cornhole sets.
The game of darts requires dartboards and darts, which come in steel-tip and soft-tip variants. Dartboards are commonly made of sisal fibers, although less expensive boards are sometimes made of cork or coiled paper. Winmau, Harrows, and Unicorn are popular producers of darts and dartboards.
The primary product involved in the activity known as frisbee is the disc itself, known as a Frisbee. The term frisbee popularly describes all flying discs, although Frisbee is a registered trademark of the Wham-O toy company. Thus, sports like ultimate or disc golf do not refer to their discs as frisbees. Thus, the only producer of actual Frisbees is Wham-O, although Discraft is a popular manufacturer of flying discs.
Frisbee Golf (Disc Golf) uses specialized discs that are thrown as a target. The game is generally played on a course with 9 or 18 holes (baskets). Players complete a hole by throwing a disc from a tee pad or tee area toward a basket constructed with a central pole holding a basket under an assembly of hanging chains. Numerous manufacturers, including Innova and Discraft, make several brands of baskets.
Horseshoes is a lawn game played between two people using four horseshoes and two throwing targets (stakes) set in a lawn or sandbox area. While players initially used genuine horseshoes, used to shoe horses, they are now made specifically for the game. The National Horseshoe Pitchers Association outlines the acceptable equipment. Manufacturers include Franklin Sports, St. Pierre, and Triumph Sports USA.
KanJam is a flying disc game played with a flying disc and two cans (kans) into which players deflect the disc. KanJam manufactures its proprietary game sets sold in several sporting goods stores.
Kubb has been described as a combination of bowling and horseshoes. Either twenty-one or twenty-three game pieces are used in Kubb. These include ten kubbs, which are rectangular wooden blocks, a larger wooden piece known as a king, six batons, and four to six field marking pins. Popular manufacturers include Kubbspel and Yard Games.
In ladder toss, players throw bolas, which are two balls connected by a string, onto a ladder. Each ladder has three rungs, each rung scoring a different point value. The rungs are made of plastic pipe, wood, or other materials, and the balls on the bolas are often golf balls, but may be any uniform weight. Franklin Sports and GoSports produce ladderball sets.
Ring toss is a game where rings are tossed around a peg. A variant (ring-a-bottle) uses a bottle rather than a peg. The equipment used consists of rings and a target board with pegs. Hey! Play!, Champion Sports, and Elite Sportz manufacture ring toss sets.
Tidalball is a beach game that combines elements of cornhole and bocce ball. Typically played with four players, split into two teams, players take turns tossing balls to land the ball in the hole for three points or in the trench for one point. The equipment includes six balls, a shovel, and a bag to carry the game components. The primary producer of the game is Tidalball.
Washer toss is a game that involves tossing washers into a target box. The necessary equipment consists of metal washers and target boxes or holes. Triumph Sports USA and Victory Tailgate make durable washer toss sets.
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Also known as Polish Horseshoes, Beersbee is an outdoor game that combines elements of Frisbee and horseshoes. The game involves two teams of two players each, with poles set about 30 feet apart. A beer bottle or can is placed on top of each pole, and the objective is to knock the other team's bottle off the pole with a Frisbee. Beersbee Polish Horseshoes and Beersbee Dunk can be purchased through the website. A description, a video, and customer reviews are included.
https://beersbee.com/
Cork Toss is a tossing game that uses wine glasses as game pieces. The corks are standard wine corks that can be any size, and any shape of a wine glass will work; the wider the rim, the easier the game. The winner is the first to make three corks into the wine glasses. Other rules and alternative play are described here, and several options in cork toss boxes can be purchased from the website, along with corks, bean bags, or ping pong balls, which may also be used.
https://corktoss.com/
Founded in 1926, Sportcraft was the first to introduce novelty European recreational sporting games to the United States and Canada, such as croquet, bocce ball, and badminton. Its online product catalog may be viewed through a few product categories: tossing games (bean bag, steel ladder, wooden ring, cornhole), net games (badminton, pickleball), lawn games (croquet, bocce, slam ball), and washer toss games (portable, wooden), which may be purchased through the site.
https://sportcraft.ca/
Tosso was founded by Brent Doud, who designed and built the Ladder Golf brand of tossing games in 2003, creating this website in 2012 to focus on higher-quality but lesser-known games and products. Headquartered in San Diego, California, the company designs and builds outdoor games, many tossing games. Its catalog is sorted into Giant Games, Personalized Games, Brewery Games, Hammer Crown, Ladder Golf, Yard Games, USA-Made Games, and other products. A blog is included.
https://www.tosso.com/
Founded by Kevin Muellerleile, who was introduced to the Scandinavian yard game, Kubb, in 2008, Yard Games focuses on building yard games, offering a large variety of them on its web store, including backyard and outdoor games, indoor games, family games, customized games, and Giant games (Connect4, Yard Dice, Yard Pong, Ring Toss, Domino, Checkers, Washer Toss), as well as a variety of wedding packages. Online shopping is enabled, and an informational blog is included.
https://yardgames.com/
