Sapo is a Peruvian leisure game best played in one’s yard with the company of many friends.  It’s a distant cousin, twice-removed, of Cornhole, the great American tailgating game. 

Sapo involves attempting to throw golden nugget coins at a box which contains a number of holes on the top which correspond with various point values.  But the Holy Grail of Sapo is the golden toad which sits on its throne atop the box, with a mouth just wide enough to fit a golden nugget.

From two inches away it’s quite hard to throw a coin into the toad’s mouth.  You can imagine how difficult it can be, then, to throw it in from 10+ yards away. 

Actually, I bet you can’t imagine how hard it is.  If you’ve never played it’s almost impossible to understand just how miraculous it is when a Sapo occurs.  I once attended a Sapo Slam with approximately 20 other players, and during the course of 4+ hours of play, I saw exactly one live Sapo.

So you can now begin to understand the above video, which is quite appropriately named “A Carothers Sapo Miracle.”  In just his 2nd round of throws, on his very first toss of the round, the grand champion of Sapo Brent Carothers unleashed a throw for the ages.  And yes, the camera was rolling. 

Do you believe in miracles?