Rules for the Game Horseshoes

Video Transcript

"Okay in this clip, I am going to be talking about the rules of horseshoes. We use what is the National Horseshoe Association of America the rules that they set up. That describes the parameters of the pit itself and it also talks about the pen placement, the angle of the pen and the height of the pen. All of these things are prescribed even to the point of a slight angle forward that the pen has. In each of these pits, we have the one extremity one of the guidelines or basically the ruling areas is this board that is right here in front. Now if my partner throws and hits this board before his shoe goes into the pit, that shoe is dead. If the shoe hits here on the side without going into the pit, that shoe is dead no matter where it bounces. If it happens to bounce on as a ringer, it doesn't count. So there is no score on that shoe. So those are some of the things that we are very careful about and of course in a competitive game someone is yelling out real loudly if you hit wood. That is a woody, so that doesn't work and that doesn't score. We are guided by these parameters and that is pretty much the control. But we have again when you are depending on what your situation is, if you are out for a party and nobody is exactly sure there, somebody is playing the way that we used to play back home in Indiana and another guy is playing the way we placed in Jersey, you agree on what is going to be what is scored. You are going to agree if a ringer is going to be counted as three, you are going to agree is a leaner does not count or does count for two. You get all those things squared away before you get into the actual pitching and into the game and that makes for a harmonious afternoon. "