- The game is played with 4 players.
- The boards will be placed 30 feet center hole to hole.
- Team partners face each other from opposite boards.
- Play starts at either board with all eight bags.
- Each team plays with a set of 4 bags and each team had their own color bag.
- Opponent's alternate tosses until all 8 bags are played.
- The round is then scored (see scoring)..
- Repeat the play from the other end and the highest scoring team from the previous throw has honors.

- The first team to get 21 or more points wins!
- A team earns 1 point for a bag on the board. Bags can't bounce on the ground and then land on the board or in the hole. Hangers on the front of the board when picked up, and stays on counts for one. It is appropriate to remove all bags from the board that hit the ground first; this is done before play continues.
- A team earns 3 points for bags that go into the hole. They must go completely in the hole. Bags that are hanging in the hole only count for 1 point. If your opponent knocks your bag into the hole you still get the 3 points.
- The score is the difference in the team totals. For example: After 1 round or 8 bags played; Team #1 has thrown 1 bag into the hole and three off the board, their total then is 3 points. Team #2 has thrown 1 bag on the board and three off the board; there total then is 1 point. You subtract team #2's score from team #1's score and the total for the round is team #1 earns 2 points.