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Cornhole is a backyard game that can be played by almost anyone. It is known by a lot of other names such as bean bags, or bag toss but majorities still know it as cornhole. The game also has a very long history and is said to have started in the fourteenth century. Nobody really knows much about its history but the cornhole fun to play. The cornhole is quite easy and all you do is throw the cornhole bags and make sure they go through the hole in the cornhole boards. You get different points when your bean bags go through the whole, if they land on the cornhole board and so on

There are two ways of playing the bag toss. The singles and the doubles play, the singles involves each player playing by themselves and doubles means the players can pair up in teams of two. In doubles the teams each have a separate cornhole to pitch in. One team tosses their bean bags into one hole and the others get another hole in the cornhole boards. In singles play, all the players pitch their bean bags in the same hole on the cornhole boards. However, this is the only difference between the two types of play but all the other rules of the bag toss are the same.

Cornhole is broken down into innings; each has a top and bottom round of play. In doubles play the top of an inning is completed when both the players have tossed all their four cornhole bags. The bottom of the bag toss inning is when the other team of contestants have tossed all their four cornhole bags in their cornhole board. When playing singles the top of the inning is when the first player tosses four bean bags into the cornhole boards. The bottom of the inning is when all the other players have tossed four bean bags into their respective cornhole boards. This simply means that you can't complete an inning until all the contestants have pitched their cornhole bags.

The scoring is not so complicated and depends on where there are cornhole bags. If the cornhole bags land in the hole then that is three points. You get the three points whether the bean bags gets in the hole the first try or they are pushed by other bags inside or if they just enter the cornhole miraculously! The other points you get are if the cornhole bags land anywhere on the board or touch the board. This is called being in the count which means the cornhole bags count for points and are one point each. However if a bag is tossed and lands outside the hole and does not land in the count area then there are no points to be earned.

The actual game takes place when each of the contestants takes turns to toss bean bags into the hole until everyone has pitched four cornhole bags each. The game ends when a player has reached twenty one points and is declared the winner.