How to Build a Cornhole Game Set

By: Jennifer Stimpson, This Old House online

Shopping List

Supplies You Will Need

½-inch birch-veneer plywood

  2x4s Get four 8-foot boards

⅜-by-3½-inch carriage bolts, washers, and nuts to attach the legs

 1-inch trim-head screws to attach the top

  3-inch deck screws to assemble the frame

  Wood glue

  6½-inch utility pulls Get two

Wood filler

Stain-blocking white primer

 Spray paint

  Painter's tape

  Spray polyacrylic

220-grit sandpaper

6-by-6-inch 16-ounce beanbags Get eight

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Tools List
Tools You Will Need
- Jigsaw fitted with scroll blade (for plywood) and aggressive blade (for lumber)
- Drill driver fitted with ¼-inch and ⅜-inch drill bits
- Compass
- Utility knife
- Plastic putty knife to seal the painter's tape
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two men tracing circle for cornhole game board

Photo: Wendell Webber

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1. Outline and cut out the holes

 On a 24-by-48-inch piece of ½-inch furniture-grade plywood, mark a spot 8⅞ inches from the top and centered 12 inches from each side. Plant your compass point there, and draw a circle with a 3-inch radius. Drill a hole anywhere inside the circle for the jigsaw blade, and then use the jigsaw to cut out the circle. Stack the two sheets of plywood together, and use the cutout to trace the circle for the second sheet. Drill a hole, and then cut out the circle in that piece.