Position the twoboxes facing each other at 20 feet apart from front edge to front edge you can use a shorter distance for casual play. Tournament style portuguese horseshoes the most challenging and exciting tossing game designs on the planet second to none. The rules are simple and may vary depending on who s playing. Also known as portuguese or podagee horseshoes portagee horseshoes aren t played with horseshoes at all. Portuguese horseshoes are also called washers or portagee horseshoes.
The best way to translate portuguese into pidgin the creole language of hawaii is podagee so when some podagees were told they couldn t put stakes in the ground at their county parks to play regular horseshoes they created their own game. The portable boxes make it easy to play this game anywhere with no need for pounding in stakes. My late grandfather joao pereira de freitas was a makawao blacksmith so i am uniquely qualified to attest that portuguese horseshoes is neither portuguese nor does it involve horseshoes. Time for summer with podagee horseshoes by the north end craftsman. The game is portuguese horseshoes.
Large washers take the place of horseshoes and a wooden box with a hole in the center known as the cup substitutes for a horseshoe pit. Large washers take the place of horseshoes and a wooden box with a hole in the center known as the cup substitutes for a horseshoe pit. The best way to translate portuguese into pidgin the creole language of hawaii is podagee so when some podagees were told they couldn t put stakes in the ground at their county parks to play regular horseshoes they created their own game. Position the twoboxes facing each other at 20 feet apart from front edge to front edge you can use a shorter distance for casual play.
