Epic Win: Toss Across
Submitted by M Bailey, Tic-Tac-Toe champion
The true story behind the creation of Toss Across:
I’ve got this great idea.
Okay…
So what’s everyone’s favorite game of all time?
I don’t know. Monopoly? Risk
No, of ALL TIME!
Slow down, Kanye. Uh, chess? Checkers? Backgammon?
Who the **** likes Backgammon? Nobody plays Backgammon. Backgammon is ****ing stupid.
Okay, I get it: you don’t like Backgammon—
The correct answer was Tic-Tac-Toe.
Fine. What about Tic-Tac-Toe?
Now, what is everyone’s favorite thing to do?
(long sigh) Just tell me.
Lobbing beanbags at a target.
What? This already sounds like the worst idea ever.
No, just listen. If you combine Tic-Tac-Toe with lobbing beanbags, what do you get?
Hollywood Squares? But with the ability to hurl something at Whoopi when she’s not funny? That’s genius!
You’re getting warmer…
YAY!! I remember this one!!! Three across!!! YOU WIN!
Green shag carpeting and wood panels. Impressive.
I had one as an old hand me down, but my was pink and blue, it was fun it kept my brother and I entertained for um… a week maybe?
This game was mildly entertaining until our dogs got to the bean bags. And I’m guessing that photo was taken in a mobilehome built circa 1972 or ‘3.
I’d rather bean my opponent with the bean bags, honestly
Not Whoppi Goldberg! Charles Nelson Reilly or Paul Lynde. Sheesh. If you were around in the 70’s you’d KNOW this!
I would be a fun drinking game.
Yeah, you would be a fun drinking game. I’d play you.
Frankly, I preferred Charles Nelson-Reilly on his other regular game show, Match Game, because the double entendres seemed to fly a lot faster and looser (and back and forth between the 6 stars, which typically were fairly consistantly same stars throughout a season) more than on Squares.
I had a Toss Across as a kid, and even after we lost the beanbags, one could use other things – Including making it a game of skill with a waterhose, by tilting the target board up and trying to use the pressure nozzle to turn a square the way you wanted without disturbing the others.
Totally an awesome drinking game.
Tic-Tac-Toe? That’s no fun – it always ends in a tie.
Let’s play Global Thermo-nuclear War!
How about a nice game of chess?
I’m always astonished when these things have NAMES. Half the stuff that gets posted here, I go “oh THAT’S what it’s called!”
Oh, you young child, you.
I always called it “beanbag toss”
I still have mine lol. But its a different color.
I remember I used to have that…dang.
I know I CANT be the only one who broke the glass to my ceiling light with one of these bean bags!!!