haroldoftherocs
Oct 24 2008, 09:37 AM
Long before I ever got involved with disc golf, I was throwing round objects at a target. In eastern PA where I grew up, there is a game called quoits (pronounced - kwates). I didn't know it was a regional game until I moved to DC in 1988. In my PA hometown, everyone has a quoit set and everyone plays.

It's been called "indoor horseshoes" and scores just like horseshoes. The difference is, there's no defense in horseshoes, but there's defense in quoits. In horseshoes, you really can't knock your opponents horseshoe out of the pit. In quoits, you definitely try to knock your opponents quoit off the board. The two quoit boards are set 18 feet apart, hub to hub. Each quoit weighs 1 lb. Disc golfers are naturally attracted to the game as it's an "aim-and-shoot' kinda game.

Here are some links to check out. There's several variations of the game, but I'm a "slate board" quoit player. For slate board quoits, it's totally an eastern PA, western Jersey thing. Almost no one outside of this area has heard of it. For "dirt quoits" or traditional quoits, it's much better known. For my taste, traditional quoits isn't much different than horseshoes. In dirt quoits, you still can't knock the opponents quoit out of the pit, plus, you can't play indoors. Slate board is definitely the way to go... I like the defense aspect it brings plus I don't wanna be picking mud out of my shoes. :-)

http://www.quoits.info/versions/slateboard.html
http://www.quoitfactory.com/quoit-faq.html
http://www.rubber-quoits.com/
http://www.quoitsdirect.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoits

http://www.quoitfactory.com/images/slate-boards-quoits.jpg

Quoit freaks are just as freaked over their sport as disc golfers are over theirs. I brought my quoit set to Seneca Creek State Park DGC and the disc golfers took to it like they'd been playing all their life. Quoits is easy to learn to begin with, but disc golfers grasp the concept immediately. We have had some seriously fun and competetive matches. It's definitely a fun thing to do after the round is over.

Quoits! It's one of the funnest things you've never heard of. If you're coming to this year's Seneca Creek Soiree, you will see first hand how fun and competetive it is.

kUrTp
Oct 24 2008, 09:49 AM
I've played quoits out here in Indiana, PA for years. My buddy from Somerset Co., South Central PA, introduced the game to me. It's a great drinking game. And he has a slate board also.

bravo
Oct 24 2008, 10:29 AM
i remember as a 5year old having 2 sheets of plywood and some bean bags
also the plastic tictactoe board that had the abuility to change the players score from turn to turn

veganray
Oct 24 2008, 10:36 AM
I think that was called "Toss Across". I loved sliding the bean bag under super-hard, thereby (if you hit it just right) instantly winning as an entire column would turn to X's (or O's).

stack
Oct 24 2008, 10:55 AM
looks like a fancy dancy yankee version of cornhole

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io8X4pz_QJ0

:)

travisgreenway
Oct 24 2008, 11:10 AM
Round these parts we call it washers...well really waRSHers (spit)! :D

Washers Web site (http://www.originalwashers.com/)

travisgreenway
Oct 24 2008, 11:17 AM
Quoits looks like a SWEET game but man it is expensive (because of the slate) but then again the slate was one of the biggest selling points....reguardless COOL game..I'll have to come to PA to golf and pick up a set of Quoits....(what a wierd name) :D

stack
Oct 24 2008, 11:27 AM
have seen and played warshers as well

anyone here play 'cups'? frisbee game w/ 2 pvc pipes and solo cups

good times

veganray
Oct 24 2008, 01:00 PM
anyone here play 'cups'? frisbee game w/ 2 pvc pipes and solo cups

good times


aka Frizbeer aka Polish Horseshoes. **** good times! (Cans of beer, particularly Dale's Pale Ale, work, too.)

Jeff_LaG
Oct 24 2008, 01:36 PM
I've played quoits out here in Indiana, PA for years. My buddy from Somerset Co., South Central PA, introduced the game to me. It's a great drinking game. And he has a slate board also.



Uh, Somerset County is definitely NOT south central PA - it is considered southwestern PA. Franklin County and Adams County (Chambersburg, Gettysburg, Hanover, etc.) are south central PA.

stack
Oct 24 2008, 02:26 PM
i thought hagerstown was south central PA! :)

haroldoftherocs
Oct 24 2008, 04:59 PM
Unfortunately, slate board quoit sets are expensive, heavy, and somewhat fragile (at the corners and at the hubs) if not handled correctly. I have always wanted to bring a set back to DC, but the cost was WAY more than I could justify. My mother, who still loves me after 44 years, gave me a quoit set for my 44th birthday. :D

Recently they have been making what are known as 'composite' boards, but allegedly, the quoits bounce off of them like a tennis ball. They are much cheaper to buy and to ship. In fact, a slate board set costs more to ship than it does to buy and some manufacturers will no longer ship slate boards.

I put this post on a local message board and soon after posts about "Cups" and "Cornhole" began appearing. I haven't played Cups yet, but I am way excited to give it a whack. So I'm glad I started talking about quoits it is seems to be motivating people to talk about other obscure, but fun, games.

Quoits is a weird name. But Cornhole is just a downright scary name. Sounds like something you'd play with Ned Beatty along a river somewhere (where you goin' city boy?)

Hagerstown may not be South Central PA , but Taneytown sure is!

crgadyk
Oct 24 2008, 05:05 PM
If you come spend any summer weekend in Ohio you will quickly notice that cornhole isn't an obscure sport around these parts. Here you ain't kewl unless you got a cornhole set and its even more impressive if you make them yourself.

We went to Eldora speedway a while back for a dirt track race and you could walk 50 feet in the camping areas without stepping on a cornhole box or washers board. A disc golf friend of mine who is retired took up cornhole as a profession and has funded several cruises and other vacations in the past 5 years. I think last year he made close to 10k in cornhole tournament winnings.

kUrTp
Oct 24 2008, 05:11 PM
I've played quoits out here in Indiana, PA for years. My buddy from Somerset Co., South Central PA, introduced the game to me. It's a great drinking game. And he has a slate board also.



Uh, Somerset County is definitely NOT south central PA - it is considered southwestern PA. Franklin County and Adams County (Chambersburg, Gettysburg, Hanover, etc.) are south central PA.



Close enough...Still in Stillers Country though!!!

haroldoftherocs
Oct 24 2008, 05:26 PM
In Gittisburg (known to the rest of us as Gettysburg), it's half Stillers, half Iggles. You can try to call it Stiller's country, but the drive to Philly from Gittisburg is still much shorter than the drive to the Burg.

CAMBAGGER
Oct 24 2008, 08:01 PM
looks like a fancy dancy yankee version of cornhole

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io8X4pz_QJ0

:)



Cornhole??? Sound like a prison game to me. I have had the opp or tunity to play the great game of Wer-shers :D

stack
Oct 25 2008, 01:33 AM
totally agree about the name cornhole... i raised an eyebrow about it the first few times i heard it as well.

bob
Oct 25 2008, 02:07 AM
cornhole is also Baggo. one of the most played games in the country. They had a few set up at USDGC this year.
Quoits is a cruise ship game too, but is played more like shuffleboard on a flat deck of concentric rings.

veganray
Oct 25 2008, 12:50 PM
A disc golf friend of mine who is retired took up cornhole as a profession and has funded several cruises and other vacations in the past 5 years. I think last year he made close to 10k in cornhole tournament winnings.


Jeez! Maybe we should change the name of our sport to "Felch" &amp; give <u>our</u> pros a chance of rolling in the $$.

Richard
Oct 27 2008, 03:37 PM
Keep your private practices to yourself. The last thing we need are a bunch of felchers taking over disc golf. Move to San Fran, you'll have more rights. Princess.

hawkgammon
Oct 27 2008, 05:23 PM
That's just a sissy version of this:

http://alexlockhart.com/t350steve/Images/jarts_box.jpg

Bigger than the "Association"? (http://www.jarts.com/)

http://www.jarts.com/images/2008_Yard14.JPG

CAMBAGGER
Oct 27 2008, 05:27 PM
That's really just a sissy version of the real thing...Anail Lawn Darts! :D