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Cornhole Rules

​Number of Players
  • Doubles: 2 players per team
  • Singles: 2 opposing players

Game Court
  • The boards are placed 27 feet apart, front-to-front.
  • The fronts of both boards serve as foul lines. Players will toss from behind their foul line.
  • One member of each team plays on each end of the court, one player on each side of the board.
  • In Doubles, players stand directly across from each other…no crisscross.
  • Players/Teams will stay in their lane the entire match. Players cannot “share” the same tossing area. (See reverse for court layout)

Frame play
  • To start play, a coin-toss, rock/paper/scissors or some other mutually agreed upon method decides who has which bags, who chooses sides and who tosses first.
  • After the first bag is tossed, the opposing players on the same end of the court alternate tosses until both opposing players have alternately tossed all 4 of their bags.
  • When both (opposing) players on one end of the court have alternately tossed their bags, scores are tallied using cancellation scoring. This completes a Frame.

Points and Scoring: The game is played to 21 points.
  • You do not have to score “21” exactly.
  • You do not have to win by 2.
  • In-the-Hole: 3 points. A bag is considered In-the-Hole if:
    • It is thrown directly into the hole ("a ringer")
    • It strikes the board surface and slides into the hole.
    • It lands on the board and then is knocked in the hole by any other subsequent bag.
  • On-the-Board: 1 point. A bag is considered On-the-Board if it comes to rest on the board surface without first touching the ground. A bag that touches the ground before coming to rest on the board surface is considered a dead bag and should be removed from the board surface before the next bag is thrown.
  • Out-of-Play: 0 points. A bag is Out of Play if it is neither In the Hole nor On the Board. A bag may be knocked Out of Play by any subsequently thrown bag.

Point Cancellation
  • Only the point difference in each Frame is added to the game score.
  • Example: After a player from Team A and B have alternated tossing all 4 of their bags, you add their points. If the player from Team A has 2 in the hole, 1 on the board and 1 off the board = 7 points. If the player from Team B has 1 in the hole, 2 on the board and 1 off the board = 5 points. Only Team A would score 2 game points.
  • Only 1 team/player can score in a single Frame.
 
Toss Rotation: The player of the team who scored in the Frame tosses first to start the next Frame.
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