Summer Fun! - Washer toss (lawn games)

What you’ll need to play washer toss:

•          2 wooden boxes made of 2x4s, 15” x 15” square, with plywood on the bottom.
•          2 12”x12” section of carpet for the bottom of each box (optional).
•          2 pieces of 4” wide PVC pipe, cut to the same height as the boxes when placed in the centre of the box.
•          4 2 1/2“ washers. (Use special markings on two of them to distinguish teams.)

How to Play

1.        Place the boxes 30′ apart.
2.        One player from each team stands by one box and throws toward the other.
3.        The aim is to get the washers into the pipe placed in the centre of the box.
4.        Since this is difficult, as in horseshoes, close counts, too!
5.        Once both players at one end of the court have thrown, the score is tallied.
6.        Only one team can score in a round.

Scoring:

1.        Inside the pipe: 5 points
2.        Inside the box, but not the pipe: 3 points
3.        On the top edge of the box: 2 points
4.        Within one foot of the box (includes leaning against the box or underneath it): 1 point

Tally the score for each round. Since only one team can score per round, start with the highest scoring washer and score that. Similar to bocce ball, if the next closest washer is also from that team, its score gets added in. If the next closest washer is from the other team, it is not scored, and the round ends. With four players, play to 21 points.

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