The Rules of Cornhole - EXPLAINED!

Ninh explains: The Rules of Cornhole.

The object of the game is to score more points than your opponent.

Cornhole, sometimes referred to as ‘American Cornhole’, is a popular pastime at tailgates

and social gatherings that has now become a televised professional sport in the US.

Cornhole is played either as singles with one player playing against another player.

Or as doubles, where two people play against two people.

In doubles, teammates stand at opposite boards.

Each player or team has four bags, filled with corn or something similar, and they will

differ in colour to that of their opponents.

They will aim to throw their bag into the cornhole, which is situated on a board that

is 27ft away.

These boards are a maximum of 24” x 48”, with the holes six inches from the top of

the board.

To start the game, a coin toss or rock paper scissors determines who goes first.

Players are permitted to stand on either side of the board in a 4’x3’ area called the

pitchers box.

They cannot cross the front of it and doing so will render your thr6ow invalid and any

points you score removed.

The idea is to try and throw the bag into the hole.

Once you have attempted this, it is your opponents turn to do the same.

If you manage to land a bag onto the board, this is known as ‘in the count’ or a ‘woody’

and this scores 1 point.

If you manage to throw the bag into the hole, either directly or by deflecting it in, this

is known as ‘in the hole’ or ‘cornhole’ and this scores 3 points.

If you miss the board completely, if a bag ever touches the ground, or if one of the

bags falls off or is deflected off the board, this scores nothing.

Once all players have thrown their four bags, this is known as an inning or a frame.

The scores are counted up for each player and subtracted from each other.

The player who has scored more, gets to add the score difference to his total points score.

If both players score the exact same, the inning is declared as a draw.

A new inning will then start from the opposite board, with the player or team scoring the

most in the previous round throwing first.

A game is played until someone reaches 21 points.

The first person or team to reach 21 total points is the winner.

In most games, the winning margin is 21 points or over.

But in some tournaments you have to score exactly 21 points.

Going over will result in your total score being reset to 15 points.

That’s basically cornhole in a nutshell, but there’s a few other things you’ll

need to understand before playing or watching a game.

For example: GENERAL RULES

There’s a few general rules that you have to abide by when playing Cornhole.

These are strictly enforced when playing in tournaments, but not so much when playing

casually.

Some of these rules include.

- You may only use the same hand to throw every bag in a single inning.

- You have a maximum of 20 seconds to throw any one bag.

- You may not cross the front of the board during a throw.

- And you must throw the bag in an underarm manner.

BAGS

The bags themselves are filled with corn or similar material.

They are approximately 6 inches x 6 inches and have a maximum weight of 16oz.

One of the things you don’t see is that one side of the bag is rougher than the other.

This is intentional, as this affects the types of shots that can be made with these bags.

TYPES OF SHOTS Players employ a variety of shots and techniques

in order to win the game.

These include – A slide shot – where the bag hits the board

and slides into the hole.

A blocker – where a bag is intentionally thrown to stop short of the hole to block

an opponent slide.

A bouncer – where a bag is bounced in and over an opponent blocker.

and the Mailshot – where the bag is intentionally tossed directly into the hole.

This is the hardest shot to make in Cornhole.

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Ninh Ly – www.ninh.co.uk - @NinhLyUK