A fun 4
player game played by normal
people, especially in Illinois. Two opposing players on each side proceed to throw bean bags at an elevated board on the other side, where their partners are standing. One point is awarded for a bag tossed onto the board: three points are awarded if the bag goes into the
hole at the
top of the board. You play until one side reaches
21 points, or 11 if the opposing team has not scored a
single point. Points are calculated at the end of each round, but the amount of points scored by your opponent also comes into affect with how many points you scored. If both opposing players have the same amount of points, no one gets any and the round is called a "wash". If one person gets four bags on the board and his opponent has two bags on and two bags in the hole, the opponent would have won that round 4-0, since his 8-4 score is subtracted down to 4-0. Bags is the proper name for this
game, not "bean bags" or the random name that my college friends in Michigan call it, which doesn't make sense.
"Dude, we've won 13 games in a row at bags".
"Not
now chief, I'm in the fucking
zone. I'm playing a bags tourney and we haven't lost yet"