 The game described in Heyliger de Windt's 1883 patent for "Parlor Quoits" displays most of the features of the modern game of "cornhole", but with a square hole instead of a round one.Quoits is a game similar to horseshoes, played by throwing steel discs at a metal spike.De Windt's patent followed several earlier "parlor quoits" patents that sought to recreate quoit game-play in an indoor environment.