Touching of bags that are in play is prohibited. A bag in play is defined as any scoring bag that is being scored as 1 point “on the board”. If a player (or a player’s teammate) touches a bag that is in play during the timeout (or during play outside of a timeout before the round is complete), the round immediately ends and all bags are transitioned to the next round at the other board.

In addition, if the team that touched the bags still has just 1 bag left and their opponent has 0 bags remaining, that bag is dead and the round is ended and scored just like any round.

If the opposing team of the team who touched the bags still has a bag left then the round is over and the opposing team will earn (3) points in the round for each bag still in hand plus (3) points for every bag still in play on the board. For example, if the opposing team of who touched the bags had (1) bag in the hole, (1) bag on the board, (1) bag off the board, and (1) bag left to throw, that team would earn (9) points for the round, with the only bag not counting for points would be the bag off the board.

The team that touched the bags will receive a valued score only equalling (3) points for every bag that is in the hole. Any bags that are off the board or on the board will be scored as (0) points.

For example, Team A has two bags in the hole and one bag on the board with one bag left yet to throw. Team B has one bag in the hole and two bags on the board with one bag left yet to throw. Team A touches the bags on the board and moves them from their original place. Team A receives a valued score of 6 for the round for the two bags in the hole and Team B receives a valued score of 12 for the round. The round is over and Team B earns 6 total points towards the overall score using cancellation scoring.

If all bags are believed to have been thrown and both teams/players clear the board of bags and proceed to start the next round only to find that a single bag has not yet been thrown, the round is still over and the points are scored as the round finishes. The single bag leftover is simply forfeited.

If a player stomps, jumps, or completes another action that causes bags to fall into the hole in the middle of a round, the same touching rules are applied.

If a third party spectator, official, or other outside force touches bags causing them to move, the best reasonable judgment by the players in the game and a director/official will place the bags back into their original position.

If a team begins to remove bags from the hole while the opposing team still has one bag remaining, that remaining bag is scored at a value of 3 points and the round is immediately over. This rule only applies if no bags on the board were touched. If bags on the board were touched, see above rule regarding touching bags in play. If the team begins removing bags from the hole and there are bags on the board, and no bags on the board are touched, the team with the bag remaining can either choose to accept a 3 point value for the bag in hand or can choose to throw the final bag as the round stood prior to touching bags in the hole. Picking up bags that are off the board does not apply to this rule.