For example: if yellow was played (wrongly) after blue, your opponent can choose to continue with either the black or the blue ball. If this does happen, then your opponent can choose whether or not to replace the balls or leave them where they are, and choose which ball to restart with. It’s important not to play the wrong ball or play out of turn.They can move very fast! If you do touch a ball, your opponent can choose to leave it where it comes to rest or to put it back where it was before. So don’t trip over a ball and watch out for moving balls. Even if it’s not your turn, you must not touch any ball, or let it touch you, or you will lose your next turn.If a fault is committed the turn ends, no points are scored, and your opponent can decide to take his turn from where the balls are or to have them returned to where they were.It’s is a fault to force the ball through regardless! Great care has to be taken to avoid these faults when your ball is close to an upright of a hoop and at an angle to the opening. It’s also a fault to hit your own ball more than once – a ‘double tap’ – or to ‘crush’ your ball into a hoop or the peg. When striking your ball, be careful not to touch another ball with your mallet as this constitutes a ‘fault’.When it is your turn you have to take it – you are not allowed to ‘pass’. Accidentally touching your ball counts as a strike. Each turn consists of striking the correct ball with the face of the mallet head and with no other part of the mallet.If a ball other than the striker’s ball is hit through the hoop (peeled) by the striker’s ball, then the hoop counts for that peeled ball, even if the striker’s ball also goes through that hoop.A hoop is run when no part of the ball protrudes beyond the side of the hoop from which it started (see the diagram) A ball may take more than one turn to run a hoop.The game proceeds in the sequence shown and the first player to run seven hoops wins.
Once someone has run hoop 1, everyone then plays to run hoop 2, and so on.The first hoop to be run is hoop 1, in the direction indicated on the diagram. In succeeding turns you strike your ball from where it lies. Each person starts on the court within one yard of the corner closest to hoop 4.The winner must strike first using blue ball, the order of play as shown on the centre peg is blue, red, black, yellow. In Doubles: each player strikes his own ball – with blue partnering black and red partnering yellow. In Singles: one player uses the blue and black balls, the other red and yellow.
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