|
Cornhole Game Products |
Rules of the Game
|
- The cornhole boards
shall be placed 27 ft. from board to
board. The junior rules place the boards
21 ft. apart.
- Each cornhole platform
shall be a 48" by 24" rectangle made of
half inch plywood. Sanctioned cornhole
tournaments should only be played on
wooden platforms as there is significant
variance in play between wooded and
plastic or other surfaces.
- The hole in the
cornhole platform shall be six inches in
diameter and be centered nine inches form
the top and 12 inches from each side of
the cornhole platform edges.
- The front of the
cornhole platform shall be approxiamately
4 inches form the ground. The back of the
cornhole platform shall be approxiamtely
12 inches form the ground.
- The cornhole/corn toss
playing surface shall be finish sanded to
a very smooth texture and there shall not
be any blemishes in the wood surface that
might disrupt or distort play.
- The cornhole/corn toss
playing surface shall be painted in a way
as to allow the bags to slide but is not
so slippery that it allows the bags to
slide back down the platform.
- Each bag should be
filled with approxiamtely 2 cups of corn
feed and finished bags should be a minimum
if 6" by 6" square and weigh between 14
and 16 ounces. Each team shall have 4
bags(8 bags per game set).
Image |
Playing the game
- Cornhole can be played
as doubles or singles. In doubles play 2
partners against another team of 2
partners: in singles play a contestant
plays against another contestant. In
doubles play, one member of each team
pitches from one platform and the other
members pitch from the other platform. In
singles play, both members pitch from the
same platform. All other rules are
basically the same for double or singles
play.
- Cornhole bag
In-The-Hole - A corn bag in-the-hole of
(hole-in) is a corn bag which is thrown
through the hole in the platform or
otherwise comes to rest inside the
cornhole platform (knocked in by another
player or an act-of-god. A corn bag in the
hole has a value of 3 points.
- Corn bag In-The-Count
- A corn bag that is not in the hole but
lands with any portion of the corn bag
resting on the platform is in-the-count. A
corn bag in-the-count has a value of one
point. For a corn bag to be in-the-count
it must not touch the ground prior to
coming to rest on the cornhole platform.
If a corn bag comes in contact with the
ground prior to coming to rest on the
cornhole platform, it is a foul and must
be removed prior to continuation of play.
- Corn bag
Out-Of-The-Court - A corn bag which comes
to rest anywhere except in-the-count or
in-the-hole is out-of-the-count and has no
scoring value. A corn bag which is
declared to be a foul is considered to be
out-of-the-count (no matter where it comes
to rest) and must be removed from the
cornhole surface prior to continuation of
play.
- In doubles play, the
first side of contestants alternate
pitching corn bags until thay have thrown
all 4 corn bags, then the remaing
contestants (pitching from the other
cornhole platform) continue in the same
manner until all 4 bags are thrown and the
inning completed. Delivery in singles play
is handled in the same manner ( but from
the same platform) with each of the 2
contestants alternating their pitching
until all 4 corn bags have been pitched
and the inning is complete.
- A contestant may
deliver the corn bag from either the left
or right pitching box (see above) but, in
any one inning, all corn bags must be
delivered from the same pitching box. A
player shall pitch the entire tournament
with the same hand or arm, except in the
case of a medical emergency.
- The contestant who
scored in the preceeding inning shall
pitch first in the next inning. If neither
players score, the player who pitched
second (last) in the preceeding inning
shall pitch first in the next inning.
- The pitcher must
maintain constant contact with the
pitchers box during the entire address and
release of the corn bag. The only
exception is for junior and physically
challenged contestants, who must simply
remain completely behind the 21 ft. foul
line when the corn bag is released. The
opponent, while not pitching, shall stand
behind the cornhole platform at least 2
ft. to the rear of the contestant who is
pitching.
- A foul corn bag is a
corn bag which was delivered in
non-compliance with one of the rules of
the game. It scores as a corn bag out of
the count and is removed form the cornhole
court before any other bags are thrown.
Corn bags already in the court that have
been knocked into foul territory by a foul
corn bag should be returned to the playing
area. Additionally, corn bags that are in
the count, but are knocked into the hole
by a foul bag must be return to their
original scoring position.
- The following are rule
violations that must be spotted and called
by a contestant or assigned judge. The
penalty is to declare the corn bag a foul
corn bag, which requires the corn bag to
be removed prior to resuming play:
- (a) any corn
bag pitched while the player has made
contact with or crossed over the foul line
before the corn bag is released.
- (b)except as
provided above, any corn bag pitched when
the player has started or stepped
completely outside the pitchers box before
the corn bag is released.
- (c)any corn
bag that contacted the ground or court
before coming to rest on the cornhole
platform.
- (d)any corn
bag which struck a previously defined
object such as a treel imb, wire, indoor
court ceiling, etc.
- (e)a corn
bag that is accidently dropped before
final forward swing has started shall not
be considered a foul and may be picked up
and pitched.
- The cornhole match
shall be played until the first team of
contestants reaches(or exceeds) 21 points
at the completion of a inning. The
winning does not need to win by 2 or more
points.
- The cornhole match can
never end in the middle of a inning. Thus,
if the team that pitches first reaches or
exceeds 21 points, the game cannot end
until the other side is allowed to pitch
all of their corn bags and the inning is
complete.
- If the cornhole match
is tied at 21 or more at the end of a
inning, plat continues until one team or
the other achieves a higher score at the
end of a inning and wins the match.
- Cancellation
Scoring -
In cancellation
scoring, corn bags in the hole and corn
bags in the count pitched by opponents
during a inning or half a inning in
doubles play cancel each other out. Only
non cancelled corn bags are counted in the
score of the inning.
- 1. Corn bags
in the hole - Hole-in's cancel each other.
A corn bag in the hole of one contestant
shall cancel a corn bag in the hole of his
competitor and those corn bags shall
not score any points. Any non-cancelled
corn bag in the hole scores 3 points.
- 2. Corn bags
in-the-count - In the count cancel each
other. A corn bag in the count of one
contetant shall cancel a corn bag in the
count of his competitor and those corn
bags shall not score any points. Any
non-cancelled corn bag in the count scores
1 point.
- Score
Calculation
Calculation scoring may be easily
calculated as follows:
- 1. The
points of both contestants are calculated
for hole-in's and in the count corn bags.
- 2. The
points for the lowest scoring contestant
for hole in corn bags is subtracted from
the highest scoring contestant for hole in
corn bags. The result is the hole in score
for the highest contestant. The hole in
score for the lowest scoring contestant is
zero.
- 3. The
points for the lowest scoring contetant
for in the count corn bags is subtracted
from the highest scoring contestant for in
the count corn bags. The result is the in
the count score for the highest
contestant. The in the count score for the
lowest contetant is zero.
- 4. The hole
in score for each player is added to the
in the count score for each player to
derive the recorded score for the inning.
- 5. In this
manner hole-in and in-the-count corn bags
from each player or team of players are
cancelled out and only non cancelled corn
bags are counted in the score.
|
|
|
Cornhole Board
Construction |
Rules of the Game
|
|
|
|
|
