Backyard Cornhole

Backyard Cornhole puts a regulation cornhole court in your browser: two boards 27 feet apart, a six-inch hole and four bags a round. It comes from Dayplay Games, a brand of Winter Watermelon that also makes a daily mini golf round and a daily darts game. The game is free, with no purchases and no ads, and it plays on a phone or a desktop.

The daily is called "Today's 12 bags". The date in UTC decides where you stand and what you face. It can be a backyard, a beach, a tailgate lot or a city park, at morning, midday, golden hour or dusk. The board may be slick, medium or sticky, which changes how far a sliding bag runs. The wind can change from round to round. On top of that comes one of three twists. A classic day is twelve plain bags with a perfect score of 36. On a "Golden bag" day the last bag of each round counts double. On a "Blockers" day two blue bags sit on the board at the start of each round. They never score, and each one you knock off earns a point.

To throw, you drag a white ring to where you want the bag to land and hold the big button, letting go when the needle is in the green. An early release goes short and left, a late one long and right. You choose a slide, which lands short and glides up the board, or an airmail, which drops and stops. The ring shows where the bag would land on a calm day, so on a windy day you aim off.

You can play the daily again as many times as you like and your best score is the one kept. A strip of the last seven days shows your scores and builds a streak, and a share button posts your result. Outside the daily there is a practice mode in a random spot, matches to 11 or 21 against an easy, steady or sharp computer player, a two-player game on one device and online play with a friend's link or a stranger.

It suits players who like a short skill game with a fresh setting each morning more than a word or number puzzle.