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Have you ever played horseshoes?
It’s a fun backyard game. But when you think about it, horseshoes can be a pretty dangerous game — especially when children come running through the yard without giving a thought to their personal safety. Those hefty chunks of iron are capable of causing a fairly serious injury.
There is another fun backyard game that follows the same thought as horseshoes. It’s equal in skill requirements, but reduces the weight of the object being tossed to a couple ounces and completely eliminates that dangerous rod sticking out of the ground!
Washers is a family-oriented skill game that is easily portable, can be set up in a couple seconds, and is considerably safer than horseshoes.
Washers vs Horseshoes
For starters, a game of washers replaces the heavy iron rings used in horseshoes with simple steel washers from the hardware store.
The steel rods used to score are replaced by a wooden board with 3 holes (or a wooden box with 1 hole, depending on which “version” you’re playing).
Each hole is large enough to accept a washer when accurately thrown at it.
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