Cornhole Drinking Games
When was the last time you played cornhole without an alcoholic beverage in your hand? Yeah…that’s what we thought!
Since the beverages are there anyway, why not turn your next cornhole match into a drinking game?
The rules of cornhole are simple, so implementing a drinking game is pretty easy as well. In this post we will explain a few different cornhole drinking games, each of which differs in its buzz potential as well as in who the ideal players are.
Game 1: Steady Sipping
In this version, you play cornhole following the traditional rules. The only change is that for every hole-in your team scores, the opposite team has to take a sip before the game continues.
The buzz potential for this game is mild and gradually acquired. How buzzed you get depends on the skill level of your opponents.
If your opponents are brand new to cornhole, chances are that you will not be taking many drinks. If you are a pro player it could be fun to play against cornhole newbies, though just remember that the more you score the less likely you are to actually drink. After all, drinking generally does not improve aim for those who are already not great at tossing bags.
Game 2: Competitive Drinking
If you and your friends are feeling slightly more competitive (but still want to remember how the game ends), this version might be a good choice for you.
To play, follow the normal rules of cornhole. After every half inning, you and your teammate need to take one drink for every point scored against you.
Remember that a bag in the hole counts as three points and a bag on the board counts as one point–and you play until a team reaches 21 points.
This means at least one team will take 21 or more drinks, and the other team has the potential to have nearly that many. This game can be played against newbies, though it is likely to be more fun if you and your opponents are evenly matched. There is the potential to get a pretty good buzz going, though of course your buzz level depends on the strength of your beverage.
Game 3: Shots for Shots
With this version, cornhole can start to get really interesting. Play according to the rules described in Game 2—but add this twist.
After drinking the number of points scored against you, clear the board. The last two competing opponents will toss one extra bag. This extra bag is appropriately called the “shot” bag. If the bag goes in the hole, the player up next on the opposing team has to take a shot before continuing play.
Now that shots are involved, the buzz potential just increased greatly–especially if your opponent has a killer toss. You can either invest in buying extra bags to use as designated shot bags or you can simply reuse bags from the previous round.
Game 4: Drinking Baggo
Cornhole drinking games are nothing new, which is why when you are buying cornhole boards you can also buy cornhole drinking bags. We sell customized drinking bags as well as cheap cornhole boards, so check them out before you try playing this last and most lethal version of cornhole.
In this game, you play cornhole following the traditional rules, except you play using customized drinking bags. Each team has four bags as usual, except these bags say drink, chug, shot, and social. Whenever the opposing team gets one of these bags in the hole, you and your teammate have to do whatever the bag says. For the social bag, both teams have to take a drink.
The buzz potential is extreme in this version because it is entirely possible to take a drink, chug, and shot within a five minute time span. If the skill levels of the two teams are mismatched, it is likely one team will get completely wasted while the other team maintains their edge.
Those are our suggestions to add a little more interest to the adult version of cornhole. Do you have any other cornhole drinking games you and your friends have created? Let us know and we’ll spread the word!