29 High-Octane Lawn Games For Adults That Turn The Backyard Into A Fun Zone

Elevate your outdoor fun with Basket Pong lawn game! Combining the excitement of basketball and beer pong, this game is perfect for parties and family gatherings. Easy to set up and endlessly entertaining, it’s your go-to for backyard competition.

Unleash your competitive spirit with the Basket Heads lawn game! Strap on a basket hat, dodge flying balls, and score points. Perfect for backyard fun and laughter. It’s a wild mix of basketball and dodgeball that’ll have everyone in stitches!

If Frisbee and basketball married and had a kid, the resulting game would be Kan Jam. The extreme disc game challenges you to send your disc sailing at a target, kinda like in horseshoes, and be the first one to get to 21 points.

Skeeball and golf become one in one of the coolest games you'll ever play in your backyard. Set this up and you'll have a line out to the front door of people who want to give it a try and see how many points they can punt.

This is cornhole or lawn tic tac toe made vertical. The pole stands at about 4 feet tall and holds a series of buckets of varying widths. Your goal is to rack up the moist points by hitting those higher buckets.

What's a pickleball fanatic to do when there's no pickleball court where they're vacationing? Play Paddle Smash, of course, which is pickleball with a twist. There are four paddles included so four can play and the center of the net serves as the court, you have to bounce it to a fellow player or else you lose a point.

Find out if you'd cut it playing games with a Viking by breaking out this Kubb Viking Clash game. The game is based on a Nordic traditional game and the goal is to toss the smaller batons to known down the other player's army. It's harder than it sounds!

Next time you're out on the links you'll be glad you were practicing with this backyard cornhole game. The perfect mix of golf and cornhole, the game is great to play with friends, lightweight and easy to set up, and fun for hours. You could play it indoors, too, if it starts to rain.

Pop darts use the power of suction to stay stuck to the board so you don't have to worry about accidentally poking a hole in the family dog. The game is simple, try to hit the target on the board or land a dart in your zone. It's color-coded to make things simple.

The "ping pong" balls in this game are huge so thankfully there's a pump included to blow them up. They're about 3" in size, scaled to match the 9" tall cups that you'll have to toss them into. And while you could fill those cups with beer, maybe drink from your bottle or can instead.

Behold, the ultimate game of skill. Try your hand at being Legolas in the backyard with this archery bow and target set. The compound bow comes with a quiver of arrows, wristguards, a target, and a booklet that tells you how to use it without hurting yourself.

This is the kind of game you can use to host your own backyard carnival. Tower Ball looks simple but it'll test your aim like nothing else will. The setup is simple, and each side of the tower has increasingly smaller holes to toss the 8 included hackey sacks into.

Generations of players have enjoyed badminton and despite its reputation, it can get pretty heated. Challenge your competitive friends to a game with this set and you might call each other rivals by the game's end. The net can adjust to fit players of all heights.

The game of toss across could go on forever depending on how well you each play offense and defense. The X and O spinners on the game board are sensitive to being hit by beanbags so you never know if the spin will land in your favor.

Take regular volleyball to the next level with a game set that combines volleyball with foursquare. It's four men for themselves in this game, which sets up easily so you can start playing soon. Use it to play badminton, too!

It was a huge missed opportunity to not call this game "Inflatabowl" but we digress. It's so fun that it makes up for that faux pas with the name and can be played both indoors and out. Everything is lightweight and inflatable and a pump is included to spare your lungs.

Fans of Harry Potter will be challenging you to this game every chance they get. Big Chess is the yard game you can and should leave up all year round. The pieces are large but easy to lift and manipulate around the board and it's all made from material designed to be outside.

Since it's totally OK for grown-ups to stay out after the streetlights come on, it's necessary that they have something to play with. This LED Frisbee will literally light up the night. It has hours of battery life and is easy to see on the darkest of nights.