The distance you stand away from the board is really up to you. The official competition distance is 8.2 metres (27 ft) but a good social distance is 6 metres (20 ft). We recommend being a little closer when you first start out or have younger or older players. To work out your distance, just stride it out. A good stride is a metre but if you have short legs it’s perhaps only half a metre.

• You can have 2 players or 2 teams but there are only 2 players each round.
• Use a line or a marker (real or imaginary) that the players stand behind.
• A foot over the line is a foot fault, that throw doesn’t get points and the bag is removed from play.
• Throws are alternate – one player throws one bag and then the next player throws one bag.
• Once each player has thrown all four of their bags – that’s a round and you record your store.

• You get three points for a bag in the hole.
• You get one point for a bag on the board.
• If a bag touches the ground that is zero points.
• Example A: Player A has 2 bags in the hole and 2 on the board = 8 points for Player A. Player B has 1 bag in the hole and 3 bags on the board = 6 points for Player B. The lower score gets taken off the higher score and the player with the higher score gets those points.
• Example B: Player A has 8 points and Player B has 6 points. 8 – 6 = 2. Player A gets 2 points for the round. Player A has 5 points and Player B has 9 points. 9 – 5 = 4.Player B gets 4 points for the round. The team who scores the highest points throws first in the next round. If no points are scored, the team who went first in the previous round throws first again.

The first team to 21 points wins the game!