Anyone hear of washers? It’s a summer game similar to horseshoes, cept it’s portable. You have two boxes, we make our own. 2’X2’ and a 3" PVC pipe in the center. These store bought ones don’t have the same dimensions as we use, but if you are lazy you could always go that route.
Place the boxes 20 Ft apart and each person (alternating throw) throws five large washers into the box. In the bottom of the box is 1, a “leaner” is 2, which is anything leaning inside the box, or Landing up on the sides and staying on them. In the pipe is 3 it’s called a ringer. And something has happened twice in our years of playing that we call a top pipe leaner, and it’s worth 5. It’s when a washer sits on TOP of the pipe. Again, it’s only happened twice but we had to give it a name and a point total.
My buddy and I played our first game to 21 yesterday and I buried 3 ringers in the first game. What winter rust! Anyone else play?
we play off the long three hole boxes and off cups in the ground. I think off the boards is a lot harder due to the washer skipping off the hard surface.
it’s one of those games where you think you’re good and then you go up against some 50 yr old guy that puts you out in three throws. Literally, three throws.
We call it hillbilly horseshoes and yeah it’s a blast. Some friends of mine saw some people playing it when they went to a Nascar race. I prefer to throw it overhand like a dart.
I also made my own ladder golf game. That’s a cool game as well.
[quote]lawsonsamuels wrote:
we play off the long three hole boxes and off cups in the ground. I think off the boards is a lot harder due to the washer skipping off the hard surface.
it’s one of those games where you think you’re good and then you go up against some 50 yr old guy that puts you out in three throws. Literally, three throws. [/quote]
I like the one with the central pipe vs the three hole one because there is a higher reward potential. In the three hole game the holes are all the same size. With the PVC pipe, it’s hard but not impossible to get one from 20’ away and it makes a recongnizable sound, so even if you aren’t watching the game intently, you hear that noise and look over and someone is sure to be fist pumping or celebrating somehow. Also there are plenty of bounce outs in the box game as well, part of the skill is getting it to “bite” or bounce into a wall and stay in the box.
Oh yeah washers is definitely summertime fun - we play it in the park every once in while. I suck at it.
Interestingly, the friend of mine who introduced the game to me is from Texas - funny that.
However, am I the only person who doesn’t think this game is really portable. I mean, it requires a significant amount of gear - but this could just be the set we use…and/or I’m lazy and hate carrying things to and fro.
[quote]Mascherano wrote:
Oh yeah washers is definitely summertime fun - we play it in the park every once in while. I suck at it.
Interestingly, the friend of mine who introduced the game to me is from Texas - funny that.
However, am I the only person who doesn’t think this game is really portable. I mean, it requires a significant amount of gear - but this could just be the set we use…and/or I’m lazy and hate carrying things to and fro.
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I mean it fits in the back seat or trunk of a car, it’s smaller than the cooler full of beer and dead animal flesh. I’d call it portable. I wish there were tournaments around here. I would so take everyones money. One long 4th of july weekend we went camping with about 8 friends, we played washers from sunrise till sundown. I finished the 3 days with 98 Ringers. We kept score on a cardboard box and now it’s kind of a tradition to keep a ringers tally for an all day party on a cardboard box. I also was the first amongst our group of players to throw back to back ringers, and also the first to throw a cancellation ringer. Where your opponent gets a ringer and you pour one in on top of them. My last feat of skill was 3 ringers in a round (5 washers thrown) I’m still waiting for my 5 in the pipe. I will do it before I die, I have a lot of throwing between now and then.
[quote]Fuzzyapple wrote:
How big are these “large washers”?
I was totally looking for a possible original thread thinking this is a mock. Sounds fun.[/quote]
I think the washers are 3 inch diameter, they are the bigest you can get at home depot or tractor supply. The PVC pipe is actually a 4" diameter, not 3". I’ll do some measurements when I get home if you all want. Again, I have played the “official” washers game and it is easier than our game. The walls on the boxes are higher, the box is smaller and the pipe is bigger. And I think they play at 15 Ft or some shorter distance.
My neighbor was cleaning out his shed last year and found an old set of lawn darts. The real ones with a point and not those PC peices crap you can’t get hurt with.
[quote]bond james bond wrote:
My neighbor was cleaning out his shed last year and found an old set of lawn darts. The real ones with a point and not those PC peices crap you can’t get hurt with. [/quote]
Every good BBQ drinking game must have some element of danger or injury or else it’s just not fun.
[quote]Fuzzyapple wrote:
How big are these “large washers”?
I was totally looking for a possible original thread thinking this is a mock. Sounds fun.[/quote]
3" flat metal washers. great thing about it is all you really need is the washers. If you’re outside, dig two holes in the dirt 20’ apart and shove a redcup or a empty tin can down in it and you’re ready to play. and unlike horseshoes, you really can’t hurt folks seriously with a thrown washer. which does take some fun out of it.
I’m from California, and first experienced washers when I moved to Texas. I am absolutely terrible, but that is still at least 200% better than I am at the ladder golf game.
Yeah, love playing washers in the summer. Not from Texas, but it was pretty big in the small town in the midwest I grew up in. We score differently, though. A little more simply. 1 point if it’s touching or within a washers distance anywhere on the outside of the box, 3 anywhere inside the box (leaning or not), and 5 in the pipe. We do play to 21, though. We also play that within the same turn, you can cancel each others throws out if you both hit a pipe, etc.