Corn Hole Regulations

Scoring

• When you corn hole, you and a partner will square off against another team of two players. Each team will get four bean bags to toss at the inclined board. If you can throw the bean bag through the bull's-eye hole in the board, you and your partner get three points. If you throw a bean bag that lands on the board, you get one point. The team that gets to 21 wins the game. You can also play a best-of-five or best-of-seven series.

Strategy

• Team A and Team B will alternate shots. If the bean bag tosser from team A throws his first bean bag on the board--but not in the hole--the player from team B can try to knock the bean bag off the board. However, if he attempts to knock the bean bag off the board and it goes through the hole, the opponent gets all three points for the shot. Also if a team gets to 19 points and then throws a corn hole--the bean bag goes through the hole--the team does not win. You need exactly 21 points to win. If you go over, you go back to zero and must start over.

Order of Shooting

• In a two-person game, player A would take the first shot in the first round and player B would take the second shot. They alternate in this manner until each person has tossed all four bean bags. In the second round, player B shoots the first bag and then player A. Shooting out of order will nullify any points scored in that round.

Corn Hole Regulations

• The corn hole board is 48 inches long by 24 inches wide. The hole in the platform is 6 inches in diameter and it is 9 inches from the top and 12 inches from each side. The front of the corn hole platform should be 2 1/2 inches from the ground and the back of the board should be 12 inches from the ground. The players should take their shots at the board from a distance of 30 feet. Juniors (players 12 and younger) should take their shots from 21 feet.