Chinese Horseshoes is played with six small
metal disks or pucks and two playing surfaces called pits with
three scoring holes per pit. There are three pucks to a side,
or team, and they are made a certain color to distinguish the
pucks of one team from the three pucks of the opposing team. A
coin or puck toss will determine which will toss first. A member
having won the coin toss to start the game tosses out the first
set of pucks. When the first team member exhausts the first three
pucks then the second team will toss their three pucks. A team
has the option of rolling, throwing, bouncing, banking, etc. its
puck toward the pit provided it hits the top of the playing surface
or the player does not commit a foul by not keeping his or her
feet atop the playing surface at the time of the toss. A player
also has the option of "spanking" or hitting out any puck in play
in trying to obtain a point, or decreasing the opposing team's
points. At the end of each "frame" (when both teams have exhausted
3 pucks each), a designated official under the scrutiny of the
captain/ or designee of each team, will determine the points scored.
Points are determined by the pucks that land in the scoring holes
or on top of the playing surface. In the event that two pucks
from each of the teams land in the same scoring hole, no points
will be awarded. An instant win can be obtained one of two ways.
One way is by scoring a "YAHK-A-POOH". (See scoring for details)
This is awarded by tossing all 3 pucks into all 3 of the scoring
holes in no particular order. The only way to cancel a "YAHK-A-POOH"
is the opposing team must also throw a " YAHK-A-POOH" of there
own. The second way to score an instant win is to skunk the opposing
team. (See scoring for details)
Rules
