Four Square games

Confirm stay values and the ordinary queue before play.

• Confirm stay values and the ordinary queue before play.
• Compatible host: One-Serve Pressure. Use one soft playground ball on a dry, flat, clear court. Mark a 6 m square divided into four equal 3 m squares. Label the front row 1, 2 and the back row 3, 4 from left to right, so low square 1 is diagonal from king square 4. Mark a waiting area away from all court lines. Draw the first four ranks and the complete waiting order from folded names; no blindfold is used. Use a caller, score sheet and clock. Announce one ten-minute local scoring session. Pause the clock for safety, access, lineup resets, rulings and necessary recording. Keep the posted queue order, including names beyond the initial four. A caller may also play and keeps the same court and queue rights. Use a visible clock and record results between rallies with the ball held still; no fifth nonplaying person is required. Other participants check a caller’s own disputed result. If observations cannot establish it, replay without a fault award or challenge bonus. Run the active clock from the serving release until the rally stops; hold it during all between-rally work. At any announced round signal, stop the ball, give no stay points for an unfinished rally and carry the current ranks and queue into the next round. The king drops the ball in their own square, then gently hits it underhand after that bounce into diagonal square 1. After one bounce in a player’s square, that player uses one hit with the hands to send it into another square before a second bounce. No catching, carrying, double hits, body blocking or dangerous hits. An outer-line bounce is in. An inner-line bounce or a bounce beyond the outer court faults the last hitter; a second bounce in a square faults that square’s player. An uncertain observation or outside interference replays the same rally without a score. After a definite fault, the faulting player immediately joins the back of the waiting queue. Players below the vacant rank move up in order 1→2→3→4, and the queue head enters square 1. With four players, the faulting player returns in 1 after the others advance. The king remains if someone else faults; never reset all four ranks merely to give the next name a king turn. A pass requires no reason or substitute task. Move a declined entry to the back of the posted queue and offer the next willing name; the passer may return on a later cycle without jumping ahead. If an active player rests, hold the ball, fill that vacancy by the same lower-rank advance and queue entry, and award no fault or stay point merely for resting. Keep earned points; stop if fewer than four willing players remain. Each king has only one serve attempt. A failed serve is an immediate fault with ordinary queue rotation, not a retry or a fresh scheduled king lineup. This is the stated one-bounce house version: no airborne interception and no bad-serve retry beyond an explicitly stated beginner option. League rules may differ. A serve that fails to land legally in diagonal square 1 faults its king; after the serve, a hit whose first bounce is back in the hitter’s own square faults that hitter. After each definite rally-ending fault, each of the three nonfaulting active players receives 1 stay point and the faulting player receives 0. A replay adds no point. Record those results before the next serve. This is a house scoring chart for this session. At ten minutes of active play, stop the ball calmly. An unfinished rally adds no points; do not begin another. Compare recorded stay totals: highest wins and ties are shared. The common entry queue is fair to waiting names, but performance determines court time and this format does not promise equal king turns. Resolve each definite fault completed before the signal once, including any timely challenge; do not begin a new replay after the endpoint. If fewer than four willing players remain earlier, keep partial records without declaring a completed session. Selected rule: Use the base game’s underhand serve, ordinary fault rotation and complete local session. Each nonfaulting active player earns 1 after a definite rally-ending fault; the faulting player earns 0, and a replay earns nothing. Read the score, clock and queue rules before scoring and keep them fixed. This selected rule replaces only its explicitly named schedule, court geometry, task or score condition; keep the other host rules. Use only this selected rule, with no stacked optional variants or duplicate bonus. Safety and needed access support remain available without using an ordinary token. Use a soft playground ball on a clear flat court. No slamming at faces, no body blocking, and pause for slips or crowded edges. One ball in play; keep waiting players off the court lines. Scored results are tracked as challenge points.
• Score Chart Lock Rule · Four Square as 1 challenge point, separate from the main score.
• Reset and rotate evenly after Chart Lock Rule · Four Square; stop at the agreed finish condition.

In one separate frame, each player gets one king serve/rally and a 0 or 1 result.

• In one separate frame, each player gets one king serve/rally and a 0 or 1 result.
• Compatible host: One-Serve Pressure. Use one soft playground ball on a dry, flat, clear court. Mark a 6 m square divided into four equal 3 m squares. Label the front row 1, 2 and the back row 3, 4 from left to right, so low square 1 is diagonal from king square 4. Mark a waiting area away from all court lines. Draw the first four ranks and the complete waiting order from folded names; no blindfold is used. Use a caller, score sheet and clock. Announce one ten-minute local scoring session. Pause the clock for safety, access, lineup resets, rulings and necessary recording. Keep the posted queue order, including names beyond the initial four. A caller may also play and keeps the same court and queue rights. Use a visible clock and record results between rallies with the ball held still; no fifth nonplaying person is required. Other participants check a caller’s own disputed result. If observations cannot establish it, replay without a fault award or challenge bonus. Run the active clock from the serving release until the rally stops; hold it during all between-rally work. At any announced round signal, stop the ball, give no stay points for an unfinished rally and carry the current ranks and queue into the next round. The king drops the ball in their own square, then gently hits it underhand after that bounce into diagonal square 1. After one bounce in a player’s square, that player uses one hit with the hands to send it into another square before a second bounce. No catching, carrying, double hits, body blocking or dangerous hits. An outer-line bounce is in. An inner-line bounce or a bounce beyond the outer court faults the last hitter; a second bounce in a square faults that square’s player. An uncertain observation or outside interference replays the same rally without a score. After a definite fault, the faulting player immediately joins the back of the waiting queue. Players below the vacant rank move up in order 1→2→3→4, and the queue head enters square 1. With four players, the faulting player returns in 1 after the others advance. The king remains if someone else faults; never reset all four ranks merely to give the next name a king turn. A pass requires no reason or substitute task. Move a declined entry to the back of the posted queue and offer the next willing name; the passer may return on a later cycle without jumping ahead. If an active player rests, hold the ball, fill that vacancy by the same lower-rank advance and queue entry, and award no fault or stay point merely for resting. Keep earned points; stop if fewer than four willing players remain. Each king has only one serve attempt. A failed serve is an immediate fault with ordinary queue rotation, not a retry or a fresh scheduled king lineup. This is the stated one-bounce house version: no airborne interception and no bad-serve retry beyond an explicitly stated beginner option. League rules may differ. A serve that fails to land legally in diagonal square 1 faults its king; after the serve, a hit whose first bounce is back in the hitter’s own square faults that hitter. After each definite rally-ending fault, each of the three nonfaulting active players receives 1 stay point and the faulting player receives 0. A replay adds no point. Record those results before the next serve. This is a house scoring chart for this session. At ten minutes of active play, stop the ball calmly. An unfinished rally adds no points; do not begin another. Compare recorded stay totals: highest wins and ties are shared. The common entry queue is fair to waiting names, but performance determines court time and this format does not promise equal king turns. Resolve each definite fault completed before the signal once, including any timely challenge; do not begin a new replay after the endpoint. If fewer than four willing players remain earlier, keep partial records without declaring a completed session. Selected rule: Choose this separate one-attempt drill before the frame. It replaces the host’s ten-minute endpoint, ordinary fault queue and three-player stay awards for this frame only. Post all roster names and one common serving spot in square 4. Give each name one offered king attempt in that order; fill receiving squares 1, 2, 3 with the next three distinct willing roster names around the list. Everyone may help call or record without losing their offered attempt; no fifth official is required. The king drops the ball in square 4 and hits it gently underhand only after that own-square bounce; the first bounce after the hit must land legally in diagonal square 1. Continue the host’s one-bounce hand-return rally. A definite king fault, including a failed serve, gives that king 0; if another active player definitely faults first, the king earns 1. Other players earn no points in this drill. An uncertain observation, outside interference or safety interruption replays the same offered attempt when safe, without a guessed result. A king may pass for 0; nobody is forced to receive. If fewer than four willing people can fill the next rally, stop and keep partial records without claiming a completed equal-attempt frame. Between scored attempts, reset the posted names for the next scheduled king; these resets belong only to this announced drill. After every name’s offered attempt, compare the 0 or 1 results and share the highest tie. Duration depends on roster size, rallies and necessary pauses; do not add ordinary match totals or an invented frame-win bonus. This selected rule replaces only the schedule, task or score condition it names; keep the remaining host rules. Use only this selected rule, with no other optional twists or duplicate comeback. Safety and access pauses remain available, and participation is voluntary. Use a soft playground ball on a clear flat court. No slamming at faces, no body blocking, and pause for slips or crowded edges. One ball in play; keep waiting players off the court lines. Scored results are tracked as challenge points.
• Score One-Turn Frame · Four Square as 1 challenge point, separate from the main score.
• Reset and rotate evenly after One-Turn Frame · Four Square; stop at the agreed finish condition.

Use gentle finale hits; a hard overshoot faults its hitter.

• Use gentle finale hits; a hard overshoot faults its hitter.
• Compatible host: Cherry-Bomb Ban. Use one soft playground ball on a dry, flat, clear court. Mark a 6 m square divided into four equal 3 m squares. Label the front row 1, 2 and the back row 3, 4 from left to right, so low square 1 is diagonal from king square 4. Mark a waiting area away from all court lines. Draw the first four ranks and the complete waiting order from folded names; no blindfold is used. Use a caller, score sheet and clock. Announce one ten-minute local scoring session. Pause the clock for safety, access, lineup resets, rulings and necessary recording. Keep the posted queue order, including names beyond the initial four. A caller may also play and keeps the same court and queue rights. Use a visible clock and record results between rallies with the ball held still; no fifth nonplaying person is required. Other participants check a caller’s own disputed result. If observations cannot establish it, replay without a fault award or challenge bonus. Run the active clock from the serving release until the rally stops; hold it during all between-rally work. At any announced round signal, stop the ball, give no stay points for an unfinished rally and carry the current ranks and queue into the next round. The king drops the ball in their own square, then gently hits it underhand after that bounce into diagonal square 1. After one bounce in a player’s square, that player uses one hit with the hands to send it into another square before a second bounce. No catching, carrying, double hits, body blocking or dangerous hits. An outer-line bounce is in. An inner-line bounce or a bounce beyond the outer court faults the last hitter; a second bounce in a square faults that square’s player. An uncertain observation or outside interference replays the same rally without a score. After a definite fault, the faulting player immediately joins the back of the waiting queue. Players below the vacant rank move up in order 1→2→3→4, and the queue head enters square 1. With four players, the faulting player returns in 1 after the others advance. The king remains if someone else faults; never reset all four ranks merely to give the next name a king turn. A pass requires no reason or substitute task. Move a declined entry to the back of the posted queue and offer the next willing name; the passer may return on a later cycle without jumping ahead. If an active player rests, hold the ball, fill that vacancy by the same lower-rank advance and queue entry, and award no fault or stay point merely for resting. Keep earned points; stop if fewer than four willing players remain. Ban hard downward cherry-bomb hits and spikes. They fault the hitter immediately even in bounds. Use gentle controlled returns and stop unsafe force rather than trade it for a possible point. This is the stated one-bounce house version: no airborne interception and no bad-serve retry beyond an explicitly stated beginner option. League rules may differ. A serve that fails to land legally in diagonal square 1 faults its king; after the serve, a hit whose first bounce is back in the hitter’s own square faults that hitter. After each definite rally-ending fault, each of the three nonfaulting active players receives 1 stay point and the faulting player receives 0. A replay adds no point. Record those results before the next serve. This is a house scoring chart for this session. At ten minutes of active play, stop the ball calmly. An unfinished rally adds no points; do not begin another. Compare recorded stay totals: highest wins and ties are shared. The common entry queue is fair to waiting names, but performance determines court time and this format does not promise equal king turns. Resolve each definite fault completed before the signal once, including any timely challenge; do not begin a new replay after the endpoint. If fewer than four willing players remain earlier, keep partial records without declaring a completed session. Selected rule: In the final five active minutes, keep gentle controlled returns inside the host’s outer court. A return whose first bounce is beyond that outer boundary faults its hitter, regardless of force: that hitter gets 0 and the other three nonfaulting active players get the ordinary 1 each. Banned downward cherry-bomb hits remain faults even in bounds throughout the match. Stop unsafe force independently; do not grade throwing style for a bonus. Rotate normally and share tied totals. This selected rule replaces only its explicitly named schedule, court geometry, task or score condition; keep the other host rules. Use only this selected rule, with no stacked optional variants or duplicate bonus. Safety and needed access support remain available without using an ordinary token. Use a soft playground ball on a clear flat court. No slamming at faces, no body blocking, and pause for slips or crowded edges. One ball in play; keep waiting players off the court lines. Scored results are tracked as challenge points.
• Score Soft Finale Rule · Four Square as 1 challenge point, separate from the main score.
• Reset and rotate evenly after Soft Finale Rule · Four Square; stop at the agreed finish condition.

A confirmed self-called accidental fault earns 1 honesty point; the fault remains.

• A confirmed self-called accidental fault earns 1 honesty point; the fault remains.
• Compatible host: Honesty Call Bonus · Four Square. Use one soft playground ball on a dry, flat, clear court. Mark a 6 m square divided into four equal 3 m squares. Label the front row 1, 2 and the back row 3, 4 from left to right, so low square 1 is diagonal from king square 4. Mark a waiting area away from all court lines. Draw the first four ranks and the complete waiting order from folded names; no blindfold is used. Use a caller, score sheet and clock. Announce one ten-minute local scoring session. Pause the clock for safety, access and lineup resets. Keep the posted queue order, including names beyond the initial four. The king drops the ball in their own square, then gently hits it underhand after that bounce into diagonal square 1. After one bounce in a player’s square, that player uses one hit with the hands to send it into another square before a second bounce. No catching, carrying, double hits, body blocking or dangerous hits. An outer-line bounce is in. An inner-line bounce or a bounce beyond the outer court faults the last hitter; a second bounce in a square faults that square’s player. An uncertain observation or outside interference replays the same rally without a score. After a definite fault, the faulting player immediately joins the back of the waiting queue. Players below the vacant rank move up in order 1→2→3→4, and the queue head enters square 1. With four players, the faulting player returns in 1 after the others advance. The king remains if someone else faults; never reset all four ranks merely to give the next name a king turn. A person may decline an entry or rest without losing earned points; let the next willing name enter and retain the person’s place on later queue cycles. Stop if fewer than four people willingly fill the court. A player promptly calls their own accidental rally fault before scores or ranks change; an opponent confirms kindly. Apply the fault and ordinary queue movement. After each definite rally-ending fault, each of the three nonfaulting active players receives 1 stay point and the faulting player receives 0. A replay adds no point. Record those results before the next serve. This is a local score wrapper around ordinary fault rotation, not a universal official four-square scoring system. The honesty rule adds 1 separate point at most once per player per match for a confirmed accidental self-call. Deliberate faults earn none and no bonus cancels a safety pause. At ten minutes of active play, stop the ball calmly. An unfinished rally adds no points; do not begin another. Compare recorded stay totals: highest wins and ties are shared. The common entry queue is fair to waiting names, but performance determines court time and this format does not promise equal king turns. Include the separately recorded honesty point in the total. Apply the selected rule’s explicitly stated replacements to the host; keep the remaining host rules. Selected rule: Start with “Honesty Call Bonus · Four Square” on this board. This treatment awards that separate point at most once per player per match after a prompt accidental self-call, kindly confirmed before ranks move. Deliberate faults earn none. Apply the ordinary fault/queue consequence, keep the bonus separate from stay points and never delay a safety stop. Use a soft playground ball on a clear flat court. No slamming at faces, no body blocking, and pause for slips or crowded edges. One ball in play; keep waiting players off the court lines. Scored results are tracked as challenge points.
• Score Foul Honesty Rule · Four Square as 1 challenge point, separate from the main score.
• Reset and rotate evenly after Foul Honesty Rule · Four Square; stop at the agreed finish condition.

Each player may use one fault challenge in the match.

• Each player may use one fault challenge in the match.
• Compatible host: Fault Challenge Token. Use one soft playground ball on a dry, flat, clear court. Mark a 6 m square divided into four equal 3 m squares. Label the front row 1, 2 and the back row 3, 4 from left to right, so low square 1 is diagonal from king square 4. Mark a waiting area away from all court lines. Draw the first four ranks and the complete waiting order from folded names; no blindfold is used. Use a caller, score sheet and clock. Announce one ten-minute local scoring session. Pause the clock for safety, access, lineup resets, rulings and necessary recording. Keep the posted queue order, including names beyond the initial four. Give each player one challenge marker and agree on a caller with a clear view who may also play. A caller may also play and keeps the same court and queue rights. Use a visible clock and record results between rallies with the ball held still; no fifth nonplaying person is required. Other participants check a caller’s own disputed result. If observations cannot establish it, replay without a fault award or challenge bonus. Run the active clock from the serving release until the rally stops; hold it during all between-rally work. At any announced round signal, stop the ball, give no stay points for an unfinished rally and carry the current ranks and queue into the next round. The king drops the ball in their own square, then gently hits it underhand after that bounce into diagonal square 1. After one bounce in a player’s square, that player uses one hit with the hands to send it into another square before a second bounce. No catching, carrying, double hits, body blocking or dangerous hits. An outer-line bounce is in. An inner-line bounce or a bounce beyond the outer court faults the last hitter; a second bounce in a square faults that square’s player. An uncertain observation or outside interference replays the same rally without a score. After a definite fault, the faulting player immediately joins the back of the waiting queue. Players below the vacant rank move up in order 1→2→3→4, and the queue head enters square 1. With four players, the faulting player returns in 1 after the others advance. The king remains if someone else faults; never reset all four ranks merely to give the next name a king turn. A pass requires no reason or substitute task. Move a declined entry to the back of the posted queue and offer the next willing name; the passer may return on a later cycle without jumping ahead. If an active player rests, hold the ball, fill that vacancy by the same lower-rank advance and queue entry, and award no fault or stay point merely for resting. Keep earned points; stop if fewer than four willing players remain. Before scores are recorded or ranks move, a player may spend the marker on a fault call. The agreed caller checks the observed bounce/hit against the written rules; other participants check when the call concerns that caller. Correct the result and queue when the call was wrong; if no reliable ruling is possible, the marker remains spent and the same lineup replays without a bonus. If the active clock has expired, resolve only a fault completed before the signal; an unresolved rally then ends with no points and no new replay. This is the stated one-bounce house version: no airborne interception and no bad-serve retry beyond an explicitly stated beginner option. League rules may differ. A serve that fails to land legally in diagonal square 1 faults its king; after the serve, a hit whose first bounce is back in the hitter’s own square faults that hitter. After each definite rally-ending fault, each of the three nonfaulting active players receives 1 stay point and the faulting player receives 0. A replay adds no point. Record those results before the next serve. This is a house scoring chart for this session. A correct challenge adds 1 to the challenging player; a wrong challenge adds 0. The marker is spent either way. Do not award ordinary stay points twice. At ten minutes of active play, stop the ball calmly. An unfinished rally adds no points; do not begin another. Compare recorded stay totals: highest wins and ties are shared. The common entry queue is fair to waiting names, but performance determines court time and this format does not promise equal king turns. Include each separately recorded challenge bonus in the final total. Resolve each definite fault completed before the signal once, including any timely challenge; do not begin a new replay after the endpoint. If fewer than four willing players remain earlier, keep partial records without declaring a completed session. Selected rule: Challenge before recording the result or moving ranks. Use the agreed playing caller and published bounce/line rules. A correct challenge adds the base game’s 1 bonus and corrects the underlying result and queue; a wrong challenge adds 0. The marker is spent either way. Other participants check that caller’s own disputed result. If no reliable decision is possible, the marker remains spent with no bonus; replay the same lineup only while active time remains. Resolve only already completed faults after the signal, then stop. Safety calls and arithmetic corrections remain unlimited. This selected rule replaces only its explicitly named schedule, court geometry, task or score condition; keep the other host rules. Use only this selected rule, with no stacked optional variants or duplicate bonus. Safety and needed access support remain available without using an ordinary token. Use a soft playground ball on a clear flat court. No slamming at faces, no body blocking, and pause for slips or crowded edges. One ball in play; keep waiting players off the court lines. Scored results are tracked as challenge points.
• Score Challenge Once Rule · Four Square as 1 challenge point, separate from the main score.
• Reset and rotate evenly after Challenge Once Rule · Four Square; stop at the agreed finish condition.

Keep waiting players clear of the court and all edges before every serve.

• Keep waiting players clear of the court and all edges before every serve.
• Compatible host: No Crowding Queue. Use one soft playground ball on a dry, flat, clear court. Mark a 6 m square divided into four equal 3 m squares. Label the front row 1, 2 and the back row 3, 4 from left to right, so low square 1 is diagonal from king square 4. Mark a waiting area away from all court lines. Draw the first four ranks and the complete waiting order from folded names; no blindfold is used. Use a caller, score sheet and clock. Announce one ten-minute local scoring session. Pause the clock for safety, access, lineup resets, rulings and necessary recording. Keep the posted queue order, including names beyond the initial four. Mark a waiting area and clear entry/exit path well outside court lines. A caller may also play and keeps the same court and queue rights. Use a visible clock and record results between rallies with the ball held still; no fifth nonplaying person is required. Other participants check a caller’s own disputed result. If observations cannot establish it, replay without a fault award or challenge bonus. Run the active clock from the serving release until the rally stops; hold it during all between-rally work. At any announced round signal, stop the ball, give no stay points for an unfinished rally and carry the current ranks and queue into the next round. The king drops the ball in their own square, then gently hits it underhand after that bounce into diagonal square 1. After one bounce in a player’s square, that player uses one hit with the hands to send it into another square before a second bounce. No catching, carrying, double hits, body blocking or dangerous hits. An outer-line bounce is in. An inner-line bounce or a bounce beyond the outer court faults the last hitter; a second bounce in a square faults that square’s player. An uncertain observation or outside interference replays the same rally without a score. After a definite fault, the faulting player immediately joins the back of the waiting queue. Players below the vacant rank move up in order 1→2→3→4, and the queue head enters square 1. With four players, the faulting player returns in 1 after the others advance. The king remains if someone else faults; never reset all four ranks merely to give the next name a king turn. A pass requires no reason or substitute task. Move a declined entry to the back of the posted queue and offer the next willing name; the passer may return on a later cycle without jumping ahead. If an active player rests, hold the ball, fill that vacancy by the same lower-rank advance and queue entry, and award no fault or stay point merely for resting. Keep earned points; stop if fewer than four willing players remain. Before every serve, the caller checks that only the four active players are on court and waiting people are clear of all edges. Stop and clear crowding before releasing the ball, regardless of points. This is the stated one-bounce house version: no airborne interception and no bad-serve retry beyond an explicitly stated beginner option. League rules may differ. A serve that fails to land legally in diagonal square 1 faults its king; after the serve, a hit whose first bounce is back in the hitter’s own square faults that hitter. After each definite rally-ending fault, each of the three nonfaulting active players receives 1 stay point and the faulting player receives 0. A replay adds no point. Record those results before the next serve. This is a house scoring chart for this session. Record 1 shared process point after the session’s queue checks are completed, outside competitive totals. At ten minutes of active play, stop the ball calmly. An unfinished rally adds no points; do not begin another. Compare recorded stay totals: highest wins and ties are shared. The common entry queue is fair to waiting names, but performance determines court time and this format does not promise equal king turns. The shared point does not select the winner. Resolve each definite fault completed before the signal once, including any timely challenge; do not begin a new replay after the endpoint. If fewer than four willing players remain earlier, keep partial records without declaring a completed session. Selected rule: Use only the four active players on court. Everyone else stays in the marked waiting area, with clear entry and exit. Stop and clear crowding before serving, regardless of points. Record the base game’s 1 shared queue-check process point once outside competitive totals; add no second bonus. This selected rule replaces only its explicitly named schedule, court geometry, task or score condition; keep the other host rules. Use only this selected rule, with no stacked optional variants or duplicate bonus. Safety and needed access support remain available without using an ordinary token. Use a soft playground ball on a clear flat court. No slamming at faces, no body blocking, and pause for slips or crowded edges. One ball in play; keep waiting players off the court lines. Scored results are tracked as challenge points.
• Score No Crowding Rule · Four Square as 1 challenge point, separate from the main score.
• Reset and rotate evenly after No Crowding Rule · Four Square; stop at the agreed finish condition.

After the ordinary match, each strictly trailing player may take one extra legal king attempt.

• After the ordinary match, each strictly trailing player may take one extra legal king attempt.
• Compatible host: One-Serve Pressure. Use one soft playground ball on a dry, flat, clear court. Mark a 6 m square divided into four equal 3 m squares. Label the front row 1, 2 and the back row 3, 4 from left to right, so low square 1 is diagonal from king square 4. Mark a waiting area away from all court lines. Draw the first four ranks and the complete waiting order from folded names; no blindfold is used. Use a caller, score sheet and clock. Announce one ten-minute local scoring session. Pause the clock for safety, access, lineup resets, rulings and necessary recording. Keep the posted queue order, including names beyond the initial four. A caller may also play and keeps the same court and queue rights. Use a visible clock and record results between rallies with the ball held still; no fifth nonplaying person is required. Other participants check a caller’s own disputed result. If observations cannot establish it, replay without a fault award or challenge bonus. Run the active clock from the serving release until the rally stops; hold it during all between-rally work. At any announced round signal, stop the ball, give no stay points for an unfinished rally and carry the current ranks and queue into the next round. The king drops the ball in their own square, then gently hits it underhand after that bounce into diagonal square 1. After one bounce in a player’s square, that player uses one hit with the hands to send it into another square before a second bounce. No catching, carrying, double hits, body blocking or dangerous hits. An outer-line bounce is in. An inner-line bounce or a bounce beyond the outer court faults the last hitter; a second bounce in a square faults that square’s player. An uncertain observation or outside interference replays the same rally without a score. After a definite fault, the faulting player immediately joins the back of the waiting queue. Players below the vacant rank move up in order 1→2→3→4, and the queue head enters square 1. With four players, the faulting player returns in 1 after the others advance. The king remains if someone else faults; never reset all four ranks merely to give the next name a king turn. A pass requires no reason or substitute task. Move a declined entry to the back of the posted queue and offer the next willing name; the passer may return on a later cycle without jumping ahead. If an active player rests, hold the ball, fill that vacancy by the same lower-rank advance and queue entry, and award no fault or stay point merely for resting. Keep earned points; stop if fewer than four willing players remain. Each king has only one serve attempt. A failed serve is an immediate fault with ordinary queue rotation, not a retry or a fresh scheduled king lineup. This is the stated one-bounce house version: no airborne interception and no bad-serve retry beyond an explicitly stated beginner option. League rules may differ. A serve that fails to land legally in diagonal square 1 faults its king; after the serve, a hit whose first bounce is back in the hitter’s own square faults that hitter. After each definite rally-ending fault, each of the three nonfaulting active players receives 1 stay point and the faulting player receives 0. A replay adds no point. Record those results before the next serve. This is a house scoring chart for this session. At ten minutes of active play, stop the ball calmly. An unfinished rally adds no points; do not begin another. Compare recorded stay totals: highest wins and ties are shared. The common entry queue is fair to waiting names, but performance determines court time and this format does not promise equal king turns. Resolve each definite fault completed before the signal once, including any timely challenge; do not begin a new replay after the endpoint. If fewer than four willing players remain earlier, keep partial records without declaring a completed session. Selected rule: First complete the ordinary ten-minute active-play match with its unchanged fault queue. Snapshot the leader’s total and every total at that endpoint; eligible players are those strictly below that saved lead, and tied leaders get no extra attempt. Then offer each eligible name one extra king serve/rally in the original posted roster order. Use the same marked serving spot in square 4 for everyone and the next three distinct willing names around the roster in receiving squares 1, 2, 3. Caller and recorder may play; no fifth official or forced receiver is needed. Use the host’s own-square drop/bounce, underhand hit into diagonal square 1 and ordinary one-bounce rally rules. A definite king fault or a pass gives that eligible king 0; a definite fault by someone else gives that king 1. Only the eligible king can add that extra point; the other three add none. Replay genuine uncertainty, interference or a safety interruption without inventing a result. Eligibility stays fixed from the saved endpoint, even while extras are recorded. Compare ordinary totals plus those actual extra points after all eligible names have an offered attempt; share final ties. If fewer than four willing participants remain, retain completed records but do not claim the extra-attempt finale is complete. Allow time beyond the ten-minute match for these attempts and pauses. This finale alone uses scheduled kings; it creates no midmatch re-entry, immunity or change to the ordinary queue. This selected rule replaces only the schedule, task or score condition it names; keep the remaining host rules. Use only this selected rule, with no other optional twists or duplicate comeback. Safety and access pauses remain available, and participation is voluntary. Use a soft playground ball on a clear flat court. No slamming at faces, no body blocking, and pause for slips or crowded edges. One ball in play; keep waiting players off the court lines. Scored results are tracked as challenge points.
• Score Comeback Extra Rule · Four Square as 1 challenge point, separate from the main score.
• Reset and rotate evenly after Comeback Extra Rule · Four Square; stop at the agreed finish condition.

A captain may announce the smaller court for one complete timed round.

• A captain may announce the smaller court for one complete timed round.
• Compatible host: Short-Court Precision · Four Square. Use one soft playground ball on a dry, flat, clear court. Mark a 4 m square divided into four equal 2 m squares. Label the front row 1, 2 and the back row 3, 4 from left to right, so low square 1 is diagonal from king square 4. Mark a waiting area away from all court lines. Draw the first four ranks and the complete waiting order from folded names; no blindfold is used. Use a caller, score sheet and clock. Announce one ten-minute local scoring session. Pause the clock for safety, access, lineup resets, rulings and necessary recording. Keep the posted queue order, including names beyond the initial four. Use the smaller court only if four players can move and hit gently without crowding. A caller may also play and keeps the same court and queue rights. Use a visible clock and record results between rallies with the ball held still; no fifth nonplaying person is required. Other participants check a caller’s own disputed result. If observations cannot establish it, replay without a fault award or challenge bonus. Run the active clock from the serving release until the rally stops; hold it during all between-rally work. At any announced round signal, stop the ball, give no stay points for an unfinished rally and carry the current ranks and queue into the next round. The king drops the ball in their own square, then gently hits it underhand after that bounce into diagonal square 1. After one bounce in a player’s square, that player uses one hit with the hands to send it into another square before a second bounce. No catching, carrying, double hits, body blocking or dangerous hits. An outer-line bounce is in. An inner-line bounce or a bounce beyond the outer court faults the last hitter; a second bounce in a square faults that square’s player. An uncertain observation or outside interference replays the same rally without a score. After a definite fault, the faulting player immediately joins the back of the waiting queue. Players below the vacant rank move up in order 1→2→3→4, and the queue head enters square 1. With four players, the faulting player returns in 1 after the others advance. The king remains if someone else faults; never reset all four ranks merely to give the next name a king turn. A pass requires no reason or substitute task. Move a declined entry to the back of the posted queue and offer the next willing name; the passer may return on a later cycle without jumping ahead. If an active player rests, hold the ball, fill that vacancy by the same lower-rank advance and queue entry, and award no fault or stay point merely for resting. Keep earned points; stop if fewer than four willing players remain. This is the stated one-bounce house version: no airborne interception and no bad-serve retry beyond an explicitly stated beginner option. League rules may differ. A serve that fails to land legally in diagonal square 1 faults its king; after the serve, a hit whose first bounce is back in the hitter’s own square faults that hitter. After each definite rally-ending fault, each of the three nonfaulting active players receives 1 stay point and the faulting player receives 0. A replay adds no point. Record those results before the next serve. This is a house scoring chart for this session. At ten minutes of active play, stop the ball calmly. An unfinished rally adds no points; do not begin another. Compare recorded stay totals: highest wins and ties are shared. The common entry queue is fair to waiting names, but performance determines court time and this format does not promise equal king turns. Resolve each definite fault completed before the signal once, including any timely challenge; do not begin a new replay after the endpoint. If fewer than four willing players remain earlier, keep partial records without declaring a completed session. Selected rule: This selected rule replaces the host’s whole-match 4 m geometry with two five-minute rounds and a 6 m default court. Mark both courts with the same labels before play. A captain may announce the 4 m option before one of those two rounds; everyone uses it for that complete round if safe, and the other round uses 6 m. Hold the ball and pause the active clock while moving; carry ranks, queue and stay totals over. If the short option is declined, use 6 m in both rounds. Keep ordinary faults, one active ball and the ten-active-minute endpoint. Never improvise a shorter serving line within a rally. This selected rule replaces only its explicitly named schedule, court geometry, task or score condition; keep the other host rules. Use only this selected rule, with no stacked optional variants or duplicate bonus. Safety and needed access support remain available without using an ordinary token. Use a soft playground ball on a clear flat court. No slamming at faces, no body blocking, and pause for slips or crowded edges. One ball in play; keep waiting players off the court lines. Scored results are tracked as challenge points.
• Score Short Option Rule · Four Square as 1 challenge point, separate from the main score.
• Reset and rotate evenly after Short Option Rule · Four Square; stop at the agreed finish condition.

Draw the complete initial ranks and waiting order once before play.

• Draw the complete initial ranks and waiting order once before play.
• Compatible host: Blind Draw Queue. Use one soft playground ball on a dry, flat, clear court. Mark a 6 m square divided into four equal 3 m squares. Label the front row 1, 2 and the back row 3, 4 from left to right, so low square 1 is diagonal from king square 4. Mark a waiting area away from all court lines. Draw the first four ranks and the complete waiting order from folded names; no blindfold is used. Use a caller, score sheet and clock. Announce one ten-minute local scoring session. Pause the clock for safety, access, lineup resets, rulings and necessary recording. Keep the posted queue order, including names beyond the initial four. A caller may also play and keeps the same court and queue rights. Use a visible clock and record results between rallies with the ball held still; no fifth nonplaying person is required. Other participants check a caller’s own disputed result. If observations cannot establish it, replay without a fault award or challenge bonus. Run the active clock from the serving release until the rally stops; hold it during all between-rally work. At any announced round signal, stop the ball, give no stay points for an unfinished rally and carry the current ranks and queue into the next round. The king drops the ball in their own square, then gently hits it underhand after that bounce into diagonal square 1. After one bounce in a player’s square, that player uses one hit with the hands to send it into another square before a second bounce. No catching, carrying, double hits, body blocking or dangerous hits. An outer-line bounce is in. An inner-line bounce or a bounce beyond the outer court faults the last hitter; a second bounce in a square faults that square’s player. An uncertain observation or outside interference replays the same rally without a score. After a definite fault, the faulting player immediately joins the back of the waiting queue. Players below the vacant rank move up in order 1→2→3→4, and the queue head enters square 1. With four players, the faulting player returns in 1 after the others advance. The king remains if someone else faults; never reset all four ranks merely to give the next name a king turn. A pass requires no reason or substitute task. Move a declined entry to the back of the posted queue and offer the next willing name; the passer may return on a later cycle without jumping ahead. If an active player rests, hold the ball, fill that vacancy by the same lower-rank advance and queue entry, and award no fault or stay point merely for resting. Keep earned points; stop if fewer than four willing players remain. Keep the initial draw and ordinary queue moves visible; do not redraw the order during play. Mark entries, faults and passes as they occur. This is the stated one-bounce house version: no airborne interception and no bad-serve retry beyond an explicitly stated beginner option. League rules may differ. A serve that fails to land legally in diagonal square 1 faults its king; after the serve, a hit whose first bounce is back in the hitter’s own square faults that hitter. After each definite rally-ending fault, each of the three nonfaulting active players receives 1 stay point and the faulting player receives 0. A replay adds no point. Record those results before the next serve. This is a house scoring chart for this session. At the end, correct the full entry/pass ledger openly and record 1 shared order-tracking process point once for the group, outside competitive stay totals. At ten minutes of active play, stop the ball calmly. An unfinished rally adds no points; do not begin another. Compare recorded stay totals: highest wins and ties are shared. The common entry queue is fair to waiting names, but performance determines court time and this format does not promise equal king turns. The shared order-tracking point does not choose the winner. Resolve each definite fault completed before the signal once, including any timely challenge; do not begin a new replay after the endpoint. If fewer than four willing players remain earlier, keep partial records without declaring a completed session. Selected rule: Use folded names without a blindfold. Keep the drawn queue and all later ordinary fault moves visible; do not redraw after a favorable or poor result. A pass skips that offered entry while preserving later queue cycles. Apply the host’s 1 shared order-tracking point once for the whole group after checking the complete ledger, outside competitive totals and with no duplicate bonus. This selected rule replaces only its explicitly named schedule, court geometry, task or score condition; keep the other host rules. Use only this selected rule, with no stacked optional variants or duplicate bonus. Safety and needed access support remain available without using an ordinary token. Use a soft playground ball on a clear flat court. No slamming at faces, no body blocking, and pause for slips or crowded edges. One ball in play; keep waiting players off the court lines. Scored results are tracked as challenge points.
• Score Blind Order Rule · Four Square as 1 challenge point, separate from the main score.
• Reset and rotate evenly after Blind Order Rule · Four Square; stop at the agreed finish condition.

A new king may use one announced nearer serving spot instead of the serve mulligan.

• A new king may use one announced nearer serving spot instead of the serve mulligan.
• Compatible host: Beginner Soft Serve. Use one soft playground ball on a dry, flat, clear court. Mark a 6 m square divided into four equal 3 m squares. Label the front row 1, 2 and the back row 3, 4 from left to right, so low square 1 is diagonal from king square 4. Mark a waiting area away from all court lines. Draw the first four ranks and the complete waiting order from folded names; no blindfold is used. Use a caller, score sheet and clock. Announce one ten-minute local scoring session. Pause the clock for safety, access, lineup resets, rulings and necessary recording. Keep the posted queue order, including names beyond the initial four. Give each new player one soft-serve mulligan marker. A caller may also play and keeps the same court and queue rights. Use a visible clock and record results between rallies with the ball held still; no fifth nonplaying person is required. Other participants check a caller’s own disputed result. If observations cannot establish it, replay without a fault award or challenge bonus. Run the active clock from the serving release until the rally stops; hold it during all between-rally work. At any announced round signal, stop the ball, give no stay points for an unfinished rally and carry the current ranks and queue into the next round. The king drops the ball in their own square, then gently hits it underhand after that bounce into diagonal square 1. After one bounce in a player’s square, that player uses one hit with the hands to send it into another square before a second bounce. No catching, carrying, double hits, body blocking or dangerous hits. An outer-line bounce is in. An inner-line bounce or a bounce beyond the outer court faults the last hitter; a second bounce in a square faults that square’s player. An uncertain observation or outside interference replays the same rally without a score. After a definite fault, the faulting player immediately joins the back of the waiting queue. Players below the vacant rank move up in order 1→2→3→4, and the queue head enters square 1. With four players, the faulting player returns in 1 after the others advance. The king remains if someone else faults; never reset all four ranks merely to give the next name a king turn. A pass requires no reason or substitute task. Move a declined entry to the back of the posted queue and offer the next willing name; the passer may return on a later cycle without jumping ahead. If an active player rests, hold the ball, fill that vacancy by the same lower-rank advance and queue entry, and award no fault or stay point merely for resting. Keep earned points; stop if fewer than four willing players remain. Before a failed serve is recorded or ranks move, a new king may announce and spend the one marker to replay that serve gently from the same square. Restore the same ranks and queue; it is a retry, not a scored extra rally. Later faults rotate normally. This is the stated one-bounce house version: no airborne interception and no bad-serve retry beyond an explicitly stated beginner option. League rules may differ. A serve that fails to land legally in diagonal square 1 faults its king; after the serve, a hit whose first bounce is back in the hitter’s own square faults that hitter. After each definite rally-ending fault, each of the three nonfaulting active players receives 1 stay point and the faulting player receives 0. A replay adds no point. Record those results before the next serve. This is a house scoring chart for this session. At ten minutes of active play, stop the ball calmly. An unfinished rally adds no points; do not begin another. Compare recorded stay totals: highest wins and ties are shared. The common entry queue is fair to waiting names, but performance determines court time and this format does not promise equal king turns. Resolve each definite fault completed before the signal once, including any timely challenge; do not begin a new replay after the endpoint. If fewer than four willing players remain earlier, keep partial records without declaring a completed session. Selected rule: Before scoring, mark an ordinary serving spot near king square’s outer back corner and a nearer spot at its center; check both allow a safe dropped-ball underhand serve to diagonal 1. Each new player may announce the nearer spot before one serve, then mark it used. Later serves use the ordinary spot. Apply normal faults and queueing afterward. This option replaces the separate serve mulligan and adds no rally. Necessary access help remains separate. This selected rule replaces only its explicitly named schedule, court geometry, task or score condition; keep the other host rules. Use only this selected rule, with no stacked optional variants or duplicate bonus. Safety and needed access support remain available without using an ordinary token. Use a soft playground ball on a clear flat court. No slamming at faces, no body blocking, and pause for slips or crowded edges. One ball in play; keep waiting players off the court lines. Scored results are tracked as challenge points.
• Score Beginner Spot Rule · Four Square as 1 challenge point, separate from the main score.
• Reset and rotate evenly after Beginner Spot Rule · Four Square; stop at the agreed finish condition.

Use the smaller supervised child court and the adult court sequentially, with independent results.

• Use the smaller supervised child court and the adult court sequentially, with independent results.
• Compatible host: Kids Court Split. Use one soft playground ball on a dry, flat, clear court. Mark a 6 m square divided into four equal 3 m squares. Label the front row 1, 2 and the back row 3, 4 from left to right, so low square 1 is diagonal from king square 4. Mark a waiting area away from all court lines. Draw the first four ranks and the complete waiting order from folded names; no blindfold is used. Use a caller, score sheet and clock. Announce one ten-minute active-play session for each of the two tracks. Pause the clock for safety, access, lineup resets, rulings and necessary recording. Keep the posted queue order, including names beyond the initial four. A caller may also play and keeps the same court and queue rights. Use a visible clock and record results between rallies with the ball held still; no fifth nonplaying person is required. Other participants check a caller’s own disputed result. If observations cannot establish it, replay without a fault award or challenge bonus. Run the active clock from the serving release until the rally stops; hold it during all between-rally work. At any announced round signal, stop the ball, give no stay points for an unfinished rally and carry the current ranks and queue into the next round. Where children already attend, mark a separate adjacent 4 m court divided into four 2 m squares with the same labels. Leave a clear buffer between courts. Before choosing this two-track format, confirm at least four willing children for the child court and four willing adults for the adult court, with no person counted in both rosters. No child or adult must participate or fill a receiving role. An adult supervises from outside the child court; an adult-track participant may supervise while that court is closed. If either roster cannot fill four squares willingly, choose another format rather than promise two independent results. Draw each track’s own initial ranks and full queue, and use separate score sheets. The king drops the ball in their own square, then gently hits it underhand after that bounce into diagonal square 1. After one bounce in a player’s square, that player uses one hit with the hands to send it into another square before a second bounce. No catching, carrying, double hits, body blocking or dangerous hits. An outer-line bounce is in. An inner-line bounce or a bounce beyond the outer court faults the last hitter; a second bounce in a square faults that square’s player. An uncertain observation or outside interference replays the same rally without a score. After a definite fault, the faulting player immediately joins the back of the waiting queue. Players below the vacant rank move up in order 1→2→3→4, and the queue head enters square 1. With four players, the faulting player returns in 1 after the others advance. The king remains if someone else faults; never reset all four ranks merely to give the next name a king turn. A pass requires no reason or substitute task. Move a declined entry to the back of the posted queue and offer the next willing name; the passer may return on a later cycle without jumping ahead. If an active player rests, hold the ball, fill that vacancy by the same lower-rank advance and queue entry, and award no fault or stay point merely for resting. Keep earned points; stop if fewer than four willing players remain. Each king has only one serve attempt. A failed serve is an immediate fault with ordinary queue rotation, not a retry or a fresh scheduled king lineup. This is the stated one-bounce house version: no airborne interception and no bad-serve retry beyond an explicitly stated beginner option. League rules may differ. A serve that fails to land legally in diagonal square 1 faults its king; after the serve, a hit whose first bounce is back in the hitter’s own square faults that hitter. Play the child and adult sessions sequentially with the same single active ball; keep the unused court closed and everybody away from its lines. The child court uses the same underhand serve, bounce, line and ordinary fault-queue rules at its smaller size, with comfortable gentle serves and the supervising adult calling pauses. Passing or resting is free on either track. Stop its session if fewer than four willing participants remain; never recruit an unwilling receiver to finish a clock. After each definite rally-ending fault, each of the three nonfaulting active players receives 1 stay point and the faulting player receives 0. A replay adds no point. Record those results before the next serve. This is a house scoring chart for this session. Keep child and adult stay totals separate; different court sizes are not comparable. After each track completes its ten minutes of active play, recognize its own highest stay total and share ties. Two completed tracks take 20 minutes of active play altogether, plus teaching, resets, recording, rests and access/safety pauses; this is not a ten-minute total event. Ordinary faults determine court time within each track, so individual king turns and playing time are not equal. Keep an interrupted track’s partial results without declaring its session complete or borrowing the other track’s result. Selected rule: Use the host’s two already prepared tracks and separate willing rosters of at least four. Run each ten-minute active-play session in turn with the same single ball, the child court supervised by an adult outside it. Keep the other court closed, and keep each track’s own initial ranks, ordinary fault queue and stay-score sheet. Nobody must participate or fill a receiving role; if either track lacks four willing participants, choose another format. Compare completed-session totals only within that track, sharing ties; no combined adult-child winner or simultaneous second-ball play is created. Plan 20 active minutes total plus teaching, transitions and all necessary pauses. This selected rule replaces only the schedule, task or score condition it names; keep the remaining host rules. Use only this selected rule, with no other optional twists or duplicate comeback. Safety and access pauses remain available, and participation is voluntary. Use a soft playground ball on a clear flat court. No slamming at faces, no body blocking, and pause for slips or crowded edges. One ball in play; keep waiting players off the court lines. Scored results are tracked as challenge points.
• Score Kids Track Rule · Four Square as 1 challenge point, separate from the main score.
• Reset and rotate evenly after Kids Track Rule · Four Square; stop at the agreed finish condition.

Use gestures for optional strategy during one timed round; safety calls remain aloud.

• Use gestures for optional strategy during one timed round; safety calls remain aloud.
• Compatible host: Silent Rally Round. Use one soft playground ball on a dry, flat, clear court. Mark a 6 m square divided into four equal 3 m squares. Label the front row 1, 2 and the back row 3, 4 from left to right, so low square 1 is diagonal from king square 4. Mark a waiting area away from all court lines. Draw the first four ranks and the complete waiting order from folded names; no blindfold is used. Use a caller, score sheet and clock. Announce one ten-minute local scoring session. Pause the clock for safety, access, lineup resets, rulings and necessary recording. Keep the posted queue order, including names beyond the initial four. Divide the session into two five-minute rounds with the same clock rules. Announce round two as the quiet-strategy round and demonstrate ready/wait/score/pass gestures. A caller may also play and keeps the same court and queue rights. Use a visible clock and record results between rallies with the ball held still; no fifth nonplaying person is required. Other participants check a caller’s own disputed result. If observations cannot establish it, replay without a fault award or challenge bonus. Run the active clock from the serving release until the rally stops; hold it during all between-rally work. At any announced round signal, stop the ball, give no stay points for an unfinished rally and carry the current ranks and queue into the next round. The king drops the ball in their own square, then gently hits it underhand after that bounce into diagonal square 1. After one bounce in a player’s square, that player uses one hit with the hands to send it into another square before a second bounce. No catching, carrying, double hits, body blocking or dangerous hits. An outer-line bounce is in. An inner-line bounce or a bounce beyond the outer court faults the last hitter; a second bounce in a square faults that square’s player. An uncertain observation or outside interference replays the same rally without a score. After a definite fault, the faulting player immediately joins the back of the waiting queue. Players below the vacant rank move up in order 1→2→3→4, and the queue head enters square 1. With four players, the faulting player returns in 1 after the others advance. The king remains if someone else faults; never reset all four ranks merely to give the next name a king turn. A pass requires no reason or substitute task. Move a declined entry to the back of the posted queue and offer the next willing name; the passer may return on a later cycle without jumping ahead. If an active player rests, hold the ball, fill that vacancy by the same lower-rank advance and queue entry, and award no fault or stay point merely for resting. Keep earned points; stop if fewer than four willing players remain. In round two, use gestures for optional strategy only. Safety calls remain aloud; speech or another method needed for access or clarity is always allowed. Omit silence when needed rather than penalizing it. This is the stated one-bounce house version: no airborne interception and no bad-serve retry beyond an explicitly stated beginner option. League rules may differ. A serve that fails to land legally in diagonal square 1 faults its king; after the serve, a hit whose first bounce is back in the hitter’s own square faults that hitter. After each definite rally-ending fault, each of the three nonfaulting active players receives 1 stay point and the faulting player receives 0. A replay adds no point. Record those results before the next serve. This is a house scoring chart for this session. At ten minutes of active play, stop the ball calmly. An unfinished rally adds no points; do not begin another. Compare recorded stay totals: highest wins and ties are shared. The common entry queue is fair to waiting names, but performance determines court time and this format does not promise equal king turns. Resolve each definite fault completed before the signal once, including any timely challenge; do not begin a new replay after the endpoint. If fewer than four willing players remain earlier, keep partial records without declaring a completed session. Selected rule: Use the base game’s announced second five-minute round with unchanged ranks and ordinary fault queue. Gesture for optional strategy, readiness and score. Speech or another method needed for safety, access or clarity remains available; omit silence when needed rather than penalize it. Silence adds no point or new fault. This selected rule replaces only its explicitly named schedule, court geometry, task or score condition; keep the other host rules. Use only this selected rule, with no stacked optional variants or duplicate bonus. Safety and needed access support remain available without using an ordinary token. Use a soft playground ball on a clear flat court. No slamming at faces, no body blocking, and pause for slips or crowded edges. One ball in play; keep waiting players off the court lines. Scored results are tracked as challenge points.
• Score Silent Frame Rule · Four Square as 1 challenge point, separate from the main score.
• Reset and rotate evenly after Silent Frame Rule · Four Square; stop at the agreed finish condition.

Compare total rally returns divided by the same number of recorded rallies.

• Compare total rally returns divided by the same number of recorded rallies.
• Compatible host: Team Average Rallies · Four Square. This is a cooperative rally-length comparison, not a winner-stays match. Use one soft playground ball on a dry, flat, clear court. Mark a 6 m square divided into four equal 3 m squares. Label the front row, left to right, 1 and 2; label the back row 3 and 4, making low square 1 diagonal from high/king square 4. Keep waiting players well outside the court lines. Read the map and demonstrate the serve before scoring. With 4, 8, 12 or 16 willing players, draw fixed teams of four and post four recorded rallies per team, one serving offer per teammate. Teams use the same single court in sequence; one team alone records a shared challenge. For 5–7, 9–11 or 13–15, use the full roster as one shared cooperative group instead of excluding surplus people or comparing unequal teams. Post one cyclic roster and one recorded rally per listed starting server: that person takes square 4 and the next three names fill 1, 2 and 3, wrapping at the end. This gives each person four court appearances and one serving offer when all take their roles. A caller may also play and keeps the same offered roles. Record results between rallies with the ball held still; no clock or fifth nonplaying person is required. Other participants check a caller’s own disputed result. If observations cannot establish it, replay without a fault award or challenge bonus. The king drops the ball in their own square and hits it gently underhand after that bounce into diagonal square 1. After one bounce in a player’s square, that player hits once with the hands into another square before a second bounce. No catching, carrying, double hits or body blocking. An outer-line bounce is in; an inner dividing-line bounce or a bounce beyond the outer court faults the last hitter. A second bounce in a square faults its player. Stop a dangerous hit immediately. An uncertain call or outside interference replays the rally without a point. In each team rally, work together to return the ball legally. Count a return only after its first bounce lands legally in another square; the serve itself is not a return. An illegal attempted return adds no length. A fault ends that rally and fixes its length. For each four-person team, advance every teammate one square in the cycle 4→3→2→1→4 after each recorded rally, so all four serve once. In the shared-roster branch, use the next posted starting lineup instead. An outside interruption replays the offered rally without recording a length. A person may pass any role without explaining or losing prior results. Hold the ball and use four distinct willing people from that fixed team or shared roster; never make one person fill two squares. A substitute serving volunteer does not create another recorded rally. If four willing people are unavailable, stop and report the partial result without claiming a completed comparison. This is the stated one-bounce house version: no airborne interception and no bad-serve retry beyond an explicitly stated beginner option. League rules may differ. A serve that fails to land legally in diagonal square 1 faults its king; after the serve, a hit whose first bounce is back in the hitter’s own square faults that hitter. For each complete four-person team, add its four recorded rally lengths and divide by 4: lengths 4, 6, 8 and 6 total 24, giving an average of 6. For the shared full-roster branch, add its N recorded lengths and divide by N, the posted roster length. Count only legal returns after the serve; a missed serve records 0, while an interrupted or uncertain rally is replayed without an entry. A playing recorder writes the confirmed count while the ball is held between rallies; others check that person’s count. Never divide by team size as a substitute for the actual number of recorded rallies. After all fixed four-person teams have four recorded rallies each, highest average wins and exact ties share. With one team or the nonmultiple full-roster branch, record the average as a shared challenge. Do not compare a shared N-rally result against a four-rally team result. Selected rule: Use the host’s full fixed-team or shared-roster branch and exact recorded-rally count, including every willing admitted person. Four-person teams have four rallies each: lengths 4, 6, 8 and 6 total 24, divided by 4 gives 6. In the nonmultiple shared branch, divide the N recorded lengths by N. Count legal returns after the serve, missed serve0 and no recorded length for a replay. Compare only completed four-rally teams; one team or the full shared roster records a shared result. This modifier creates no extra rallies or points. This selected rule replaces only its explicitly named schedule, court geometry, task or score condition; keep the other host rules. Use only this selected rule, with no stacked optional variants or duplicate bonus. Safety and needed access support remain available without using an ordinary token. Use a soft playground ball on a clear flat court. No slamming at faces, no body blocking, and pause for slips or crowded edges. One ball in play; keep waiting players off the court lines. Scored results are tracked as challenge points.
• Score Team Average Rule · Four Square as 1 challenge point, separate from the main score.
• Reset and rotate evenly after Team Average Rule · Four Square; stop at the agreed finish condition.

A safety interruption replays the same rally free.

• A safety interruption replays the same rally free.
• Compatible host: Safety Pause Round · Four Square. Use one soft playground ball on a dry, flat, clear court. Mark a 6 m square divided into four equal 3 m squares. Label the front row 1, 2 and the back row 3, 4 from left to right, so low square 1 is diagonal from king square 4. Mark a waiting area away from all court lines. Draw the first four ranks and the complete waiting order from folded names; no blindfold is used. Use a caller, score sheet and clock. Announce one ten-minute local scoring session. Pause the clock for safety, access, lineup resets, rulings and necessary recording. Keep the posted queue order, including names beyond the initial four. A caller may also play and keeps the same court and queue rights. Use a visible clock and record results between rallies with the ball held still; no fifth nonplaying person is required. Other participants check a caller’s own disputed result. If observations cannot establish it, replay without a fault award or challenge bonus. Run the active clock from the serving release until the rally stops; hold it during all between-rally work. At any announced round signal, stop the ball, give no stay points for an unfinished rally and carry the current ranks and queue into the next round. The king drops the ball in their own square, then gently hits it underhand after that bounce into diagonal square 1. After one bounce in a player’s square, that player uses one hit with the hands to send it into another square before a second bounce. No catching, carrying, double hits, body blocking or dangerous hits. An outer-line bounce is in. An inner-line bounce or a bounce beyond the outer court faults the last hitter; a second bounce in a square faults that square’s player. An uncertain observation or outside interference replays the same rally without a score. After a definite fault, the faulting player immediately joins the back of the waiting queue. Players below the vacant rank move up in order 1→2→3→4, and the queue head enters square 1. With four players, the faulting player returns in 1 after the others advance. The king remains if someone else faults; never reset all four ranks merely to give the next name a king turn. A pass requires no reason or substitute task. Move a declined entry to the back of the posted queue and offer the next willing name; the passer may return on a later cycle without jumping ahead. If an active player rests, hold the ball, fill that vacancy by the same lower-rank advance and queue entry, and award no fault or stay point merely for resting. Keep earned points; stop if fewer than four willing players remain. Anyone may call stop for a slip, unsafe hit or crowded edge. Secure the ball, fix the problem and replay that interrupted rally with the same ranks and queue, free. A completed unaffected rally retains its result. A clearly observed prohibited hit is still its ordinary fault; calling stop adds no extra penalty. Replay only when the interruption preceded any established fault. This is the stated one-bounce house version: no airborne interception and no bad-serve retry beyond an explicitly stated beginner option. League rules may differ. A serve that fails to land legally in diagonal square 1 faults its king; after the serve, a hit whose first bounce is back in the hitter’s own square faults that hitter. After each definite rally-ending fault, each of the three nonfaulting active players receives 1 stay point and the faulting player receives 0. A replay adds no point. Record those results before the next serve. This is a house scoring chart for this session. A safety pause adds or deducts no point. At ten minutes of active play, stop the ball calmly. An unfinished rally adds no points; do not begin another. Compare recorded stay totals: highest wins and ties are shared. The common entry queue is fair to waiting names, but performance determines court time and this format does not promise equal king turns. Resolve each definite fault completed before the signal once, including any timely challenge; do not begin a new replay after the endpoint. If fewer than four willing players remain earlier, keep partial records without declaring a completed session. Selected rule: Stop the ball for a slip, unsafe hit or crowded edge. Fix the problem, restore the same ranks and queue and replay the interrupted rally without a point deduction. A completed unaffected result stands. Pause the clock throughout the stop; nobody can veto a needed pause to protect a lead. A clearly observed prohibited hit keeps its ordinary fault consequence; the safety call adds no extra penalty. Only an interruption before an established fault causes a replay, and never after the active-clock endpoint. This selected rule replaces only its explicitly named schedule, court geometry, task or score condition; keep the other host rules. Use only this selected rule, with no stacked optional variants or duplicate bonus. Safety and needed access support remain available without using an ordinary token. Use a soft playground ball on a clear flat court. No slamming at faces, no body blocking, and pause for slips or crowded edges. One ball in play; keep waiting players off the court lines. Scored results are tracked as challenge points.
• Score Pause Free Rule · Four Square as 1 challenge point, separate from the main score.
• Reset and rotate evenly after Pause Free Rule · Four Square; stop at the agreed finish condition.

Draw one suitable soft ball before the match and keep it.

• Draw one suitable soft ball before the match and keep it.
• Compatible host: Ball Color Blind Draft. Use one soft playground ball on a dry, flat, clear court. Mark a 6 m square divided into four equal 3 m squares. Label the front row 1, 2 and the back row 3, 4 from left to right, so low square 1 is diagonal from king square 4. Mark a waiting area away from all court lines. Draw the first four ranks and the complete waiting order from folded names; no blindfold is used. Use a caller, score sheet and clock. Announce one ten-minute local scoring session. Pause the clock for safety, access, lineup resets, rulings and necessary recording. Keep the posted queue order, including names beyond the initial four. When several suitable soft balls exist, draw one color for the whole match from folded slips and check it before scoring. With only one suitable ball, use it. A caller may also play and keeps the same court and queue rights. Use a visible clock and record results between rallies with the ball held still; no fifth nonplaying person is required. Other participants check a caller’s own disputed result. If observations cannot establish it, replay without a fault award or challenge bonus. Run the active clock from the serving release until the rally stops; hold it during all between-rally work. At any announced round signal, stop the ball, give no stay points for an unfinished rally and carry the current ranks and queue into the next round. The king drops the ball in their own square, then gently hits it underhand after that bounce into diagonal square 1. After one bounce in a player’s square, that player uses one hit with the hands to send it into another square before a second bounce. No catching, carrying, double hits, body blocking or dangerous hits. An outer-line bounce is in. An inner-line bounce or a bounce beyond the outer court faults the last hitter; a second bounce in a square faults that square’s player. An uncertain observation or outside interference replays the same rally without a score. After a definite fault, the faulting player immediately joins the back of the waiting queue. Players below the vacant rank move up in order 1→2→3→4, and the queue head enters square 1. With four players, the faulting player returns in 1 after the others advance. The king remains if someone else faults; never reset all four ranks merely to give the next name a king turn. A pass requires no reason or substitute task. Move a declined entry to the back of the posted queue and offer the next willing name; the passer may return on a later cycle without jumping ahead. If an active player rests, hold the ball, fill that vacancy by the same lower-rank advance and queue entry, and award no fault or stay point merely for resting. Keep earned points; stop if fewer than four willing players remain. Keep the chosen ball unless everyone agrees a replacement is needed. Stop, remove the old ball and bring in only one replacement; never keep two balls active. This is the stated one-bounce house version: no airborne interception and no bad-serve retry beyond an explicitly stated beginner option. League rules may differ. A serve that fails to land legally in diagonal square 1 faults its king; after the serve, a hit whose first bounce is back in the hitter’s own square faults that hitter. After each definite rally-ending fault, each of the three nonfaulting active players receives 1 stay point and the faulting player receives 0. A replay adds no point. Record those results before the next serve. This is a house scoring chart for this session. Record 1 shared process point when the group’s ball choice and safety check are complete, outside competitive totals. At ten minutes of active play, stop the ball calmly. An unfinished rally adds no points; do not begin another. Compare recorded stay totals: highest wins and ties are shared. The common entry queue is fair to waiting names, but performance determines court time and this format does not promise equal king turns. The shared point does not choose the winner. Resolve each definite fault completed before the signal once, including any timely challenge; do not begin a new replay after the endpoint. If fewer than four willing players remain earlier, keep partial records without declaring a completed session. Selected rule: Use folded color slips when several suitable balls exist, check the selected ball and keep only one ball active. This modifier’s no-midmatch-swap rule is stricter than the base game’s agreement exception. If the ball becomes unsafe, stop the match and begin a new agreed session with a safe ball; do not continue unsafe equipment. Record the existing shared 1 draw point once, with no extra bonus. This selected rule replaces only its explicitly named schedule, court geometry, task or score condition; keep the other host rules. Use only this selected rule, with no stacked optional variants or duplicate bonus. Safety and needed access support remain available without using an ordinary token. Use a soft playground ball on a clear flat court. No slamming at faces, no body blocking, and pause for slips or crowded edges. One ball in play; keep waiting players off the court lines. Scored results are tracked as challenge points.
• Score Color Draft Rule · Four Square as 1 challenge point, separate from the main score.
• Reset and rotate evenly after Color Draft Rule · Four Square; stop at the agreed finish condition.

In one separate precision frame, compare the serve’s first receiving-square bounce with a flat target.

• In one separate precision frame, compare the serve’s first receiving-square bounce with a flat target.
• Compatible host: One-Serve Pressure. Use one soft playground ball on a dry, flat, clear court. Mark a 6 m square divided into four equal 3 m squares. Label the front row 1, 2 and the back row 3, 4 from left to right, so low square 1 is diagonal from king square 4. Mark a waiting area away from all court lines. Draw the first four ranks and the complete waiting order from folded names; no blindfold is used. Use a caller, score sheet and clock. Announce one ten-minute local scoring session. Pause the clock for safety, access, lineup resets, rulings and necessary recording. Keep the posted queue order, including names beyond the initial four. A caller may also play and keeps the same court and queue rights. Use a visible clock and record results between rallies with the ball held still; no fifth nonplaying person is required. Other participants check a caller’s own disputed result. If observations cannot establish it, replay without a fault award or challenge bonus. Run the active clock from the serving release until the rally stops; hold it during all between-rally work. At any announced round signal, stop the ball, give no stay points for an unfinished rally and carry the current ranks and queue into the next round. The king drops the ball in their own square, then gently hits it underhand after that bounce into diagonal square 1. After one bounce in a player’s square, that player uses one hit with the hands to send it into another square before a second bounce. No catching, carrying, double hits, body blocking or dangerous hits. An outer-line bounce is in. An inner-line bounce or a bounce beyond the outer court faults the last hitter; a second bounce in a square faults that square’s player. An uncertain observation or outside interference replays the same rally without a score. After a definite fault, the faulting player immediately joins the back of the waiting queue. Players below the vacant rank move up in order 1→2→3→4, and the queue head enters square 1. With four players, the faulting player returns in 1 after the others advance. The king remains if someone else faults; never reset all four ranks merely to give the next name a king turn. A pass requires no reason or substitute task. Move a declined entry to the back of the posted queue and offer the next willing name; the passer may return on a later cycle without jumping ahead. If an active player rests, hold the ball, fill that vacancy by the same lower-rank advance and queue entry, and award no fault or stay point merely for resting. Keep earned points; stop if fewer than four willing players remain. Each king has only one serve attempt. A failed serve is an immediate fault with ordinary queue rotation, not a retry or a fresh scheduled king lineup. This is the stated one-bounce house version: no airborne interception and no bad-serve retry beyond an explicitly stated beginner option. League rules may differ. A serve that fails to land legally in diagonal square 1 faults its king; after the serve, a hit whose first bounce is back in the hitter’s own square faults that hitter. After each definite rally-ending fault, each of the three nonfaulting active players receives 1 stay point and the faulting player receives 0. A replay adds no point. Record those results before the next serve. This is a house scoring chart for this session. At ten minutes of active play, stop the ball calmly. An unfinished rally adds no points; do not begin another. Compare recorded stay totals: highest wins and ties are shared. The common entry queue is fair to waiting names, but performance determines court time and this format does not promise equal king turns. Resolve each definite fault completed before the signal once, including any timely challenge; do not begin a new replay after the endpoint. If fewer than four willing players remain earlier, keep partial records without declaring a completed session. Selected rule: Choose this separate precision drill before the frame; it replaces the host’s rally, queue, stay-score chart and ten-minute endpoint for that frame only. Mark one flat target spot strictly inside receiving square 1 and one common serving spot inside king square 4. Post the roster and offer each player one serve from that same spot, with everybody else outside the clear court. The server first drops the ball to bounce in their own square 4, then gently hits it underhand into diagonal square 1. Measure the first floor bounce after that hit, not the earlier drop bounce in square 4 and not the ball’s later resting position. That receiving bounce must be in square 1: an outer edge is in, an inner line is out. A serve without the required own-square bounce or underhand hit, a receiving bounce outside square 1, or a pass has no qualifying distance. A checker watches from outside and, only after the ball stops and the court is clear, marks the observed receiving-bounce center and measures its distance to the target center with the same tape. If the landing point cannot be established, improve the view or markings and replay without guessing a distance; safety/interference also gets a no-count reset. The checker may play and rotate with another participant for their own serve. Compare only after the full roster has an offered serve: shortest qualifying distance wins, exact shortest ties share, and no qualifying serve means no winner. This drill needs one active server, not a four-player rally; nobody must receive. Duration follows the roster and safe measurement/reset work. It adds no stay point or invented closest bonus to another match. This selected rule replaces only the schedule, task or score condition it names; keep the remaining host rules. Use only this selected rule, with no other optional twists or duplicate comeback. Safety and access pauses remain available, and participation is voluntary. Use a soft playground ball on a clear flat court. No slamming at faces, no body blocking, and pause for slips or crowded edges. One ball in play; keep waiting players off the court lines. Scored results are tracked as challenge points.
• Score Closest Only Rule · Four Square as 1 challenge point, separate from the main score.
• Reset and rotate evenly after Closest Only Rule · Four Square; stop at the agreed finish condition.

This two-team format gives each four-person team three cooperative rallies.

• This two-team format gives each four-person team three cooperative rallies.
• Compatible host: Team Average Rallies · Four Square. This is a cooperative rally-length comparison, not a winner-stays match. Use one soft playground ball on a dry, flat, clear court. Mark a 6 m square divided into four equal 3 m squares. Label the front row, left to right, 1 and 2; label the back row 3 and 4, making low square 1 diagonal from high/king square 4. Keep waiting players well outside the court lines. Read the map and demonstrate the serve before scoring. With 4, 8, 12 or 16 willing players, draw fixed teams of four and post four recorded rallies per team, one serving offer per teammate. Teams use the same single court in sequence; one team alone records a shared challenge. For 5–7, 9–11 or 13–15, use the full roster as one shared cooperative group instead of excluding surplus people or comparing unequal teams. Post one cyclic roster and one recorded rally per listed starting server: that person takes square 4 and the next three names fill 1, 2 and 3, wrapping at the end. This gives each person four court appearances and one serving offer when all take their roles. A caller may also play and keeps the same offered roles. Record results between rallies with the ball held still; no clock or fifth nonplaying person is required. Other participants check a caller’s own disputed result. If observations cannot establish it, replay without a fault award or challenge bonus. The king drops the ball in their own square and hits it gently underhand after that bounce into diagonal square 1. After one bounce in a player’s square, that player hits once with the hands into another square before a second bounce. No catching, carrying, double hits or body blocking. An outer-line bounce is in; an inner dividing-line bounce or a bounce beyond the outer court faults the last hitter. A second bounce in a square faults its player. Stop a dangerous hit immediately. An uncertain call or outside interference replays the rally without a point. In each team rally, work together to return the ball legally. Count a return only after its first bounce lands legally in another square; the serve itself is not a return. An illegal attempted return adds no length. A fault ends that rally and fixes its length. For each four-person team, advance every teammate one square in the cycle 4→3→2→1→4 after each recorded rally, so all four serve once. In the shared-roster branch, use the next posted starting lineup instead. An outside interruption replays the offered rally without recording a length. A person may pass any role without explaining or losing prior results. Hold the ball and use four distinct willing people from that fixed team or shared roster; never make one person fill two squares. A substitute serving volunteer does not create another recorded rally. If four willing people are unavailable, stop and report the partial result without claiming a completed comparison. This is the stated one-bounce house version: no airborne interception and no bad-serve retry beyond an explicitly stated beginner option. League rules may differ. A serve that fails to land legally in diagonal square 1 faults its king; after the serve, a hit whose first bounce is back in the hitter’s own square faults that hitter. For each complete four-person team, add its four recorded rally lengths and divide by 4: lengths 4, 6, 8 and 6 total 24, giving an average of 6. For the shared full-roster branch, add its N recorded lengths and divide by N, the posted roster length. Count only legal returns after the serve; a missed serve records 0, while an interrupted or uncertain rally is replayed without an entry. A playing recorder writes the confirmed count while the ball is held between rallies; others check that person’s count. Never divide by team size as a substitute for the actual number of recorded rallies. After all fixed four-person teams have four recorded rallies each, highest average wins and exact ties share. With one team or the nonmultiple full-roster branch, record the average as a shared challenge. Do not compare a shared N-rally result against a four-rally team result. Apply the selected rule’s explicitly stated replacements to the host; keep the remaining host rules. For this selected version, three recorded rallies per team and their cumulative sum replace the host’s four-rally average. The ordinary host’s four-serving-offer promise does not apply to this three-rally variant. Selected rule: Start with “Team Average Rallies · Four Square” on this board. Use two teams of four in sequence on one court with one ball. Count legal returns after the serve in three rallies per team, including 0 for a failed serve; an outside interruption replays without a recorded length. The cumulative team score is the sum of those three lengths. Highest sum wins and ties are shared. This complete two-team format needs eight willing players. Use a soft playground ball on a clear flat court. No slamming at faces, no body blocking, and pause for slips or crowded edges. One ball in play; keep waiting players off the court lines. Scored results are tracked as challenge points.
• Score Two-Team Rotation Rule · Four Square as 1 challenge point, separate from the main score.
• Reset and rotate evenly after Two-Team Rotation Rule · Four Square; stop at the agreed finish condition.

Offer each player one unscored serve before the match.

• Offer each player one unscored serve before the match.
• Compatible host: Practice Beat Allowed · Four Square. Use one soft playground ball on a dry, flat, clear court. Mark a 6 m square divided into four equal 3 m squares. Label the front row 1, 2 and the back row 3, 4 from left to right, so low square 1 is diagonal from king square 4. Mark a waiting area away from all court lines. Draw the first four ranks and the complete waiting order from folded names; no blindfold is used. Use a caller, score sheet and clock. Announce one ten-minute local scoring session. Pause the clock for safety, access, lineup resets, rulings and necessary recording. Keep the posted queue order, including names beyond the initial four. Before round one, give everyone one unscored walk-through of the square map with the ball held still. A caller may also play and keeps the same court and queue rights. Use a visible clock and record results between rallies with the ball held still; no fifth nonplaying person is required. Other participants check a caller’s own disputed result. If observations cannot establish it, replay without a fault award or challenge bonus. Run the active clock from the serving release until the rally stops; hold it during all between-rally work. At any announced round signal, stop the ball, give no stay points for an unfinished rally and carry the current ranks and queue into the next round. Walk or point through 1→2→3→4, explain outer-in/inner-out and demonstrate the dropped-ball underhand serve to diagonal 1. Offer an accessible explanation instead of walking. Record no practice points, restore the drawn first ranks and queue, then start the match. The king drops the ball in their own square, then gently hits it underhand after that bounce into diagonal square 1. After one bounce in a player’s square, that player uses one hit with the hands to send it into another square before a second bounce. No catching, carrying, double hits, body blocking or dangerous hits. An outer-line bounce is in. An inner-line bounce or a bounce beyond the outer court faults the last hitter; a second bounce in a square faults that square’s player. An uncertain observation or outside interference replays the same rally without a score. After a definite fault, the faulting player immediately joins the back of the waiting queue. Players below the vacant rank move up in order 1→2→3→4, and the queue head enters square 1. With four players, the faulting player returns in 1 after the others advance. The king remains if someone else faults; never reset all four ranks merely to give the next name a king turn. A pass requires no reason or substitute task. Move a declined entry to the back of the posted queue and offer the next willing name; the passer may return on a later cycle without jumping ahead. If an active player rests, hold the ball, fill that vacancy by the same lower-rank advance and queue entry, and award no fault or stay point merely for resting. Keep earned points; stop if fewer than four willing players remain. This is the stated one-bounce house version: no airborne interception and no bad-serve retry beyond an explicitly stated beginner option. League rules may differ. A serve that fails to land legally in diagonal square 1 faults its king; after the serve, a hit whose first bounce is back in the hitter’s own square faults that hitter. After each definite rally-ending fault, each of the three nonfaulting active players receives 1 stay point and the faulting player receives 0. A replay adds no point. Record those results before the next serve. This is a house scoring chart for this session. At ten minutes of active play, stop the ball calmly. An unfinished rally adds no points; do not begin another. Compare recorded stay totals: highest wins and ties are shared. The common entry queue is fair to waiting names, but performance determines court time and this format does not promise equal king turns. Resolve each definite fault completed before the signal once, including any timely challenge; do not begin a new replay after the endpoint. If fewer than four willing players remain earlier, keep partial records without declaring a completed session. Selected rule: After the map walk-through, use king square 4 for one gentle dropped-ball underhand serve per willing rostered player to diagonal 1. For each offered server, use the next three distinct willing roster names as receivers, wrapping the roster; everyone else waits off court. An offered server may pass, and receiving roles remain optional; stop if four willing people are unavailable. Record no practice points; after all offers, restore the drawn first ranks/queue and begin normal play. Explanation and access help remain available afterward. This selected rule replaces only its explicitly named schedule, court geometry, task or score condition; keep the other host rules. Use only this selected rule, with no stacked optional variants or duplicate bonus. Safety and needed access support remain available without using an ordinary token. Use a soft playground ball on a clear flat court. No slamming at faces, no body blocking, and pause for slips or crowded edges. One ball in play; keep waiting players off the court lines. Scored results are tracked as challenge points.
• Score Practice Beat Rule · Four Square as 1 challenge point, separate from the main score.
• Reset and rotate evenly after Practice Beat Rule · Four Square; stop at the agreed finish condition.

A ball or active player reaching the fixed hard stop line ends the rally with no stay points.

• A ball or active player reaching the fixed hard stop line ends the rally with no stay points.
• Compatible host: One-Serve Pressure. Use one soft playground ball on a dry, flat, clear court. Mark a 6 m square divided into four equal 3 m squares. Label the front row 1, 2 and the back row 3, 4 from left to right, so low square 1 is diagonal from king square 4. Mark a waiting area away from all court lines. Draw the first four ranks and the complete waiting order from folded names; no blindfold is used. Use a caller, score sheet and clock. Announce one ten-minute local scoring session. Pause the clock for safety, access, lineup resets, rulings and necessary recording. Keep the posted queue order, including names beyond the initial four. A caller may also play and keeps the same court and queue rights. Use a visible clock and record results between rallies with the ball held still; no fifth nonplaying person is required. Other participants check a caller’s own disputed result. If observations cannot establish it, replay without a fault award or challenge bonus. Run the active clock from the serving release until the rally stops; hold it during all between-rally work. At any announced round signal, stop the ball, give no stay points for an unfinished rally and carry the current ranks and queue into the next round. The king drops the ball in their own square, then gently hits it underhand after that bounce into diagonal square 1. After one bounce in a player’s square, that player uses one hit with the hands to send it into another square before a second bounce. No catching, carrying, double hits, body blocking or dangerous hits. An outer-line bounce is in. An inner-line bounce or a bounce beyond the outer court faults the last hitter; a second bounce in a square faults that square’s player. An uncertain observation or outside interference replays the same rally without a score. After a definite fault, the faulting player immediately joins the back of the waiting queue. Players below the vacant rank move up in order 1→2→3→4, and the queue head enters square 1. With four players, the faulting player returns in 1 after the others advance. The king remains if someone else faults; never reset all four ranks merely to give the next name a king turn. A pass requires no reason or substitute task. Move a declined entry to the back of the posted queue and offer the next willing name; the passer may return on a later cycle without jumping ahead. If an active player rests, hold the ball, fill that vacancy by the same lower-rank advance and queue entry, and award no fault or stay point merely for resting. Keep earned points; stop if fewer than four willing players remain. Each king has only one serve attempt. A failed serve is an immediate fault with ordinary queue rotation, not a retry or a fresh scheduled king lineup. This is the stated one-bounce house version: no airborne interception and no bad-serve retry beyond an explicitly stated beginner option. League rules may differ. A serve that fails to land legally in diagonal square 1 faults its king; after the serve, a hit whose first bounce is back in the hitter’s own square faults that hitter. After each definite rally-ending fault, each of the three nonfaulting active players receives 1 stay point and the faulting player receives 0. A replay adds no point. Record those results before the next serve. This is a house scoring chart for this session. At ten minutes of active play, stop the ball calmly. An unfinished rally adds no points; do not begin another. Compare recorded stay totals: highest wins and ties are shared. The common entry queue is fair to waiting names, but performance determines court time and this format does not promise equal king turns. Resolve each definite fault completed before the signal once, including any timely challenge; do not begin a new replay after the endpoint. If fewer than four willing players remain earlier, keep partial records without declaring a completed session. Apply the selected rule’s explicitly stated replacements to the host; keep the remaining host rules. Selected rule: Start with “One-Serve Pressure” on this board. Before the session, mark a hard stop line outside the court with a safe buffer and identify it. If ball or active player reaches it during a rally, stop pursuit immediately, award no stay points to anyone for that rally, and replay the same ranks after the all-clear. Ordinary faults already completed before the stop retain their results and normal queue movement. No one chases beyond the line. Use a soft playground ball on a clear flat court. No slamming at faces, no body blocking, and pause for slips or crowded edges. One ball in play; keep waiting players off the court lines. Scored results are tracked as challenge points.
• Score Boundary Zero Rule · Four Square as 1 challenge point, separate from the main score.
• Reset and rotate evenly after Boundary Zero Rule · Four Square; stop at the agreed finish condition.

An accessible rotation sheet earns 1 shared process point.

• An accessible rotation sheet earns 1 shared process point.
• Compatible host: Process Sheet Visible · Four Square. Use one soft playground ball on a dry, flat, clear court. Mark a 6 m square divided into four equal 3 m squares. Label the front row 1, 2 and the back row 3, 4 from left to right, so low square 1 is diagonal from king square 4. Mark a waiting area away from all court lines. Draw the first four ranks and the complete waiting order from folded names; no blindfold is used. Use a caller, score sheet and clock. Announce one ten-minute local scoring session. Pause the clock for safety, access, lineup resets, rulings and necessary recording. Keep the posted queue order, including names beyond the initial four. Post the square map and draw a ledger with player, entry/pass, fault, stay points and total columns; keep the current queue visible. A caller may also play and keeps the same court and queue rights. Use a visible clock and record results between rallies with the ball held still; no fifth nonplaying person is required. Other participants check a caller’s own disputed result. If observations cannot establish it, replay without a fault award or challenge bonus. Run the active clock from the serving release until the rally stops; hold it during all between-rally work. At any announced round signal, stop the ball, give no stay points for an unfinished rally and carry the current ranks and queue into the next round. The king drops the ball in their own square, then gently hits it underhand after that bounce into diagonal square 1. After one bounce in a player’s square, that player uses one hit with the hands to send it into another square before a second bounce. No catching, carrying, double hits, body blocking or dangerous hits. An outer-line bounce is in. An inner-line bounce or a bounce beyond the outer court faults the last hitter; a second bounce in a square faults that square’s player. An uncertain observation or outside interference replays the same rally without a score. After a definite fault, the faulting player immediately joins the back of the waiting queue. Players below the vacant rank move up in order 1→2→3→4, and the queue head enters square 1. With four players, the faulting player returns in 1 after the others advance. The king remains if someone else faults; never reset all four ranks merely to give the next name a king turn. A pass requires no reason or substitute task. Move a declined entry to the back of the posted queue and offer the next willing name; the passer may return on a later cycle without jumping ahead. If an active player rests, hold the ball, fill that vacancy by the same lower-rank advance and queue entry, and award no fault or stay point merely for resting. Keep earned points; stop if fewer than four willing players remain. Write the agreed result and queue move before the next serve. Announce corrections aloud and provide a read-aloud or accessible copy so every side can inspect the record. This is the stated one-bounce house version: no airborne interception and no bad-serve retry beyond an explicitly stated beginner option. League rules may differ. A serve that fails to land legally in diagonal square 1 faults its king; after the serve, a hit whose first bounce is back in the hitter’s own square faults that hitter. After each definite rally-ending fault, each of the three nonfaulting active players receives 1 stay point and the faulting player receives 0. A replay adds no point. Record those results before the next serve. This is a house scoring chart for this session. Record 1 shared process point when the sheet and map are accessible, outside competitive totals. At ten minutes of active play, stop the ball calmly. An unfinished rally adds no points; do not begin another. Compare recorded stay totals: highest wins and ties are shared. The common entry queue is fair to waiting names, but performance determines court time and this format does not promise equal king turns. The shared point does not change the winner. Resolve each definite fault completed before the signal once, including any timely challenge; do not begin a new replay after the endpoint. If fewer than four willing players remain earlier, keep partial records without declaring a completed session. Selected rule: Use the base game’s initial ranks, ordinary queue and player/entry-or-pass/fault/stay-points/total ledger. Record each agreed result and queue move before the next serve. Announce corrections and offer a read-aloud or accessible copy. Record the existing 1 shared point once outside competitive totals; add no duplicate modifier point. This selected rule replaces only its explicitly named schedule, court geometry, task or score condition; keep the other host rules. Use only this selected rule, with no stacked optional variants or duplicate bonus. Safety and needed access support remain available without using an ordinary token. Use a soft playground ball on a clear flat court. No slamming at faces, no body blocking, and pause for slips or crowded edges. One ball in play; keep waiting players off the court lines. Scored results are tracked as challenge points.
• Score Process Sheet Rule · Four Square as 1 challenge point, separate from the main score.
• Reset and rotate evenly after Process Sheet Rule · Four Square; stop at the agreed finish condition.

The safely completed group reset earns 1 shared point.

• The safely completed group reset earns 1 shared point.
• Compatible host: Clean Reset Credits · Four Square. After all rallies stop, secure the single ball and close the court. Identify removable tape or markers the group owns and the ball’s safe storage place; do not remove permanent venue lines. Willing helpers collect the ball and loose markers, remove only permitted temporary tape and check ordinary safe litter. Leave sharp, unknown or heavy items to the appropriate person. The host reads specific thanks, such as “Thanks for checking the waiting area.” Nobody throws during reset. The complete safe reset earns 1 shared point for the group, once. It is not an individual speed or workload score. Everyone shares the win when the space and equipment are reset. Report a remaining hazard rather than handling it to finish. Selected rule: Close the court, secure the ball and use the host’s voluntary jobs to collect loose markers and permitted temporary tape. Leave permanent venue lines and hazards alone. Check the group’s ordinary litter and read specific thanks. Record the existing 1 shared point once; everyone shares closure, with no speed, workload or final-rally contest. This selected rule replaces only its explicitly named schedule, court geometry, task or score condition; keep the other host rules. Use only this selected rule, with no stacked optional variants or duplicate bonus. Reset jobs remain voluntary and do not affect the completed match. Use a soft playground ball on a clear flat court. No slamming at faces, no body blocking, and pause for slips or crowded edges. One ball in play; keep waiting players off the court lines. Scored results are tracked as challenge points.
• Score Clean Reset Rule · Four Square as 1 challenge point, separate from the main score.
• Reset and rotate evenly after Clean Reset Rule · Four Square; stop at the agreed finish condition.

Change optional social partners after every two ordinary fault rotations.

• Change optional social partners after every two ordinary fault rotations.
• Compatible host: Partner Switch Queue · Four Square. Use one soft playground ball on a dry, flat, clear court. Mark a 6 m square divided into four equal 3 m squares. Label the front row 1, 2 and the back row 3, 4 from left to right, so low square 1 is diagonal from king square 4. Mark a waiting area away from all court lines. Draw the first four ranks and the complete waiting order from folded names; no blindfold is used. Use a caller, score sheet and clock. Announce one ten-minute local scoring session. Pause the clock for safety, access, lineup resets, rulings and necessary recording. Keep the posted queue order, including names beyond the initial four. Make optional social check-in pairs; an odd person may join a pair. These labels create no scoring team. A caller may also play and keeps the same court and queue rights. Use a visible clock and record results between rallies with the ball held still; no fifth nonplaying person is required. Other participants check a caller’s own disputed result. If observations cannot establish it, replay without a fault award or challenge bonus. Run the active clock from the serving release until the rally stops; hold it during all between-rally work. At any announced round signal, stop the ball, give no stay points for an unfinished rally and carry the current ranks and queue into the next round. The king drops the ball in their own square, then gently hits it underhand after that bounce into diagonal square 1. After one bounce in a player’s square, that player uses one hit with the hands to send it into another square before a second bounce. No catching, carrying, double hits, body blocking or dangerous hits. An outer-line bounce is in. An inner-line bounce or a bounce beyond the outer court faults the last hitter; a second bounce in a square faults that square’s player. An uncertain observation or outside interference replays the same rally without a score. After a definite fault, the faulting player immediately joins the back of the waiting queue. Players below the vacant rank move up in order 1→2→3→4, and the queue head enters square 1. With four players, the faulting player returns in 1 after the others advance. The king remains if someone else faults; never reset all four ranks merely to give the next name a king turn. A pass requires no reason or substitute task. Move a declined entry to the back of the posted queue and offer the next willing name; the passer may return on a later cycle without jumping ahead. If an active player rests, hold the ball, fill that vacancy by the same lower-rank advance and queue entry, and award no fault or stay point merely for resting. Keep earned points; stop if fewer than four willing players remain. Count each definite fault as one rotation. After every second rotation, willing partners may change their check-in pairing between serves. They may not substitute on court, jump the queue or transfer points. This is the stated one-bounce house version: no airborne interception and no bad-serve retry beyond an explicitly stated beginner option. League rules may differ. A serve that fails to land legally in diagonal square 1 faults its king; after the serve, a hit whose first bounce is back in the hitter’s own square faults that hitter. After each definite rally-ending fault, each of the three nonfaulting active players receives 1 stay point and the faulting player receives 0. A replay adds no point. Record those results before the next serve. This is a house scoring chart for this session. At ten minutes of active play, stop the ball calmly. An unfinished rally adds no points; do not begin another. Compare recorded stay totals: highest wins and ties are shared. The common entry queue is fair to waiting names, but performance determines court time and this format does not promise equal king turns. Resolve each definite fault completed before the signal once, including any timely challenge; do not begin a new replay after the endpoint. If fewer than four willing players remain earlier, keep partial records without declaring a completed session. Selected rule: Use the base game’s check-in pairs and individual stay totals. Count each definite fault as one rotation; after every second, willing partners may change before the next serve. An odd person may join a pair. Labels grant no substitute, square ownership, queue jump or transferred point; all court entry and faults follow the ordinary queue. This selected rule replaces only its explicitly named schedule, court geometry, task or score condition; keep the other host rules. Use only this selected rule, with no stacked optional variants or duplicate bonus. Safety and needed access support remain available without using an ordinary token. Use a soft playground ball on a clear flat court. No slamming at faces, no body blocking, and pause for slips or crowded edges. One ball in play; keep waiting players off the court lines. Scored results are tracked as challenge points.
• Score Partner Switch Rule · Four Square as 1 challenge point, separate from the main score.
• Reset and rotate evenly after Partner Switch Rule · Four Square; stop at the agreed finish condition.

Confirm the full local score and selected safe return rule before the round.

• Confirm the full local score and selected safe return rule before the round.
• Compatible host: Captain Rule Call. Use one soft playground ball on a dry, flat, clear court. Mark a 6 m square divided into four equal 3 m squares. Label the front row 1, 2 and the back row 3, 4 from left to right, so low square 1 is diagonal from king square 4. Mark a waiting area away from all court lines. Draw the first four ranks and the complete waiting order from folded names; no blindfold is used. Use a caller, score sheet and clock. Announce one ten-minute local scoring session. Pause the clock for safety, access, lineup resets, rulings and necessary recording. Keep the posted queue order, including names beyond the initial four. Use two five-minute rounds. Before each, a willing captain chooses ordinary gentle hand returns or underhand-only returns; the serve remains underhand in either choice. A caller may also play and keeps the same court and queue rights. Use a visible clock and record results between rallies with the ball held still; no fifth nonplaying person is required. Other participants check a caller’s own disputed result. If observations cannot establish it, replay without a fault award or challenge bonus. Run the active clock from the serving release until the rally stops; hold it during all between-rally work. At any announced round signal, stop the ball, give no stay points for an unfinished rally and carry the current ranks and queue into the next round. The king drops the ball in their own square, then gently hits it underhand after that bounce into diagonal square 1. After one bounce in a player’s square, that player uses one hit with the hands to send it into another square before a second bounce. No catching, carrying, double hits, body blocking or dangerous hits. An outer-line bounce is in. An inner-line bounce or a bounce beyond the outer court faults the last hitter; a second bounce in a square faults that square’s player. An uncertain observation or outside interference replays the same rally without a score. After a definite fault, the faulting player immediately joins the back of the waiting queue. Players below the vacant rank move up in order 1→2→3→4, and the queue head enters square 1. With four players, the faulting player returns in 1 after the others advance. The king remains if someone else faults; never reset all four ranks merely to give the next name a king turn. A pass requires no reason or substitute task. Move a declined entry to the back of the posted queue and offer the next willing name; the passer may return on a later cycle without jumping ahead. If an active player rests, hold the ball, fill that vacancy by the same lower-rank advance and queue entry, and award no fault or stay point merely for resting. Keep earned points; stop if fewer than four willing players remain. Announce the choice before the round, with the same rule for everyone. An overhand return faults only in the underhand-only option. Keep ranks and queue at the round boundary. This is the stated one-bounce house version: no airborne interception and no bad-serve retry beyond an explicitly stated beginner option. League rules may differ. A serve that fails to land legally in diagonal square 1 faults its king; after the serve, a hit whose first bounce is back in the hitter’s own square faults that hitter. After each definite rally-ending fault, each of the three nonfaulting active players receives 1 stay point and the faulting player receives 0. A replay adds no point. Record those results before the next serve. This is a house scoring chart for this session. After both announced round choices have been explained clearly, record 1 shared clarity point once for the whole match, outside competitive totals. At ten minutes of active play, stop the ball calmly. An unfinished rally adds no points; do not begin another. Compare recorded stay totals: highest wins and ties are shared. The common entry queue is fair to waiting names, but performance determines court time and this format does not promise equal king turns. The shared clarity point does not select the winner. Resolve each definite fault completed before the signal once, including any timely challenge; do not begin a new replay after the endpoint. If fewer than four willing players remain earlier, keep partial records without declaring a completed session. Selected rule: Use the base game’s shared court, ordinary fault queue and three-nonfaulting-players 1-point chart. Before each five-minute round, the captain names ordinary gentle hand returns or underhand-only returns; serves remain underhand. Keep the chosen rule for the full round. Record the base game’s shared clarity point outside competitive scores and add no duplicate bonus. This selected rule replaces only its explicitly named schedule, court geometry, task or score condition; keep the other host rules. Use only this selected rule, with no stacked optional variants or duplicate bonus. Safety and needed access support remain available without using an ordinary token. Use a soft playground ball on a clear flat court. No slamming at faces, no body blocking, and pause for slips or crowded edges. One ball in play; keep waiting players off the court lines. Scored results are tracked as challenge points.
• Score Captain Chart Rule · Four Square as 1 challenge point, separate from the main score.
• Reset and rotate evenly after Captain Chart Rule · Four Square; stop at the agreed finish condition.

Play three equal timed rounds; use one further equal round only if tied.

• Play three equal timed rounds; use one further equal round only if tied.
• Compatible host: One-Serve Pressure. Use one soft playground ball on a dry, flat, clear court. Mark a 6 m square divided into four equal 3 m squares. Label the front row 1, 2 and the back row 3, 4 from left to right, so low square 1 is diagonal from king square 4. Mark a waiting area away from all court lines. Draw the first four ranks and the complete waiting order from folded names; no blindfold is used. Use a caller, score sheet and clock. Announce one ten-minute local scoring session. Pause the clock for safety, access, lineup resets, rulings and necessary recording. Keep the posted queue order, including names beyond the initial four. A caller may also play and keeps the same court and queue rights. Use a visible clock and record results between rallies with the ball held still; no fifth nonplaying person is required. Other participants check a caller’s own disputed result. If observations cannot establish it, replay without a fault award or challenge bonus. Run the active clock from the serving release until the rally stops; hold it during all between-rally work. At any announced round signal, stop the ball, give no stay points for an unfinished rally and carry the current ranks and queue into the next round. The king drops the ball in their own square, then gently hits it underhand after that bounce into diagonal square 1. After one bounce in a player’s square, that player uses one hit with the hands to send it into another square before a second bounce. No catching, carrying, double hits, body blocking or dangerous hits. An outer-line bounce is in. An inner-line bounce or a bounce beyond the outer court faults the last hitter; a second bounce in a square faults that square’s player. An uncertain observation or outside interference replays the same rally without a score. After a definite fault, the faulting player immediately joins the back of the waiting queue. Players below the vacant rank move up in order 1→2→3→4, and the queue head enters square 1. With four players, the faulting player returns in 1 after the others advance. The king remains if someone else faults; never reset all four ranks merely to give the next name a king turn. A pass requires no reason or substitute task. Move a declined entry to the back of the posted queue and offer the next willing name; the passer may return on a later cycle without jumping ahead. If an active player rests, hold the ball, fill that vacancy by the same lower-rank advance and queue entry, and award no fault or stay point merely for resting. Keep earned points; stop if fewer than four willing players remain. Each king has only one serve attempt. A failed serve is an immediate fault with ordinary queue rotation, not a retry or a fresh scheduled king lineup. This is the stated one-bounce house version: no airborne interception and no bad-serve retry beyond an explicitly stated beginner option. League rules may differ. A serve that fails to land legally in diagonal square 1 faults its king; after the serve, a hit whose first bounce is back in the hitter’s own square faults that hitter. After each definite rally-ending fault, each of the three nonfaulting active players receives 1 stay point and the faulting player receives 0. A replay adds no point. Record those results before the next serve. This is a house scoring chart for this session. At ten minutes of active play, stop the ball calmly. An unfinished rally adds no points; do not begin another. Compare recorded stay totals: highest wins and ties are shared. The common entry queue is fair to waiting names, but performance determines court time and this format does not promise equal king turns. Resolve each definite fault completed before the signal once, including any timely challenge; do not begin a new replay after the endpoint. If fewer than four willing players remain earlier, keep partial records without declaring a completed session. Selected rule: This selected endpoint replaces the ten-minute session with three equal three-minute rounds of the base game’s ordinary queue and stay chart. Carry ranks, queue and points across boundaries; stop an unfinished rally without points at each signal, and pause the clock for all required safety/access/ruling/recording stops. If the highest cumulative total is tied after round three, play one further three-minute round with the same full queue and ordinary scores; then compare cumulative totals and share any continuing tie. Announce this replacement endpoint before play. It is not the separate exactly-three-round activity. This selected rule replaces only its explicitly named schedule, court geometry, task or score condition; keep the other host rules. Use only this selected rule, with no stacked optional variants or duplicate bonus. Safety and needed access support remain available without using an ordinary token. Use a soft playground ball on a clear flat court. No slamming at faces, no body blocking, and pause for slips or crowded edges. One ball in play; keep waiting players off the court lines. Scored results are tracked as challenge points.
• Score Three-Frame Cap Rule · Four Square as 1 challenge point, separate from the main score.
• Reset and rotate evenly after Three-Frame Cap Rule · Four Square; stop at the agreed finish condition.

Points or stickers only.

• Points or stickers only.
• Compatible host: One-Serve Pressure. Use one soft playground ball on a dry, flat, clear court. Mark a 6 m square divided into four equal 3 m squares. Label the front row 1, 2 and the back row 3, 4 from left to right, so low square 1 is diagonal from king square 4. Mark a waiting area away from all court lines. Draw the first four ranks and the complete waiting order from folded names; no blindfold is used. Use a caller, score sheet and clock. Announce one ten-minute local scoring session. Pause the clock for safety, access, lineup resets, rulings and necessary recording. Keep the posted queue order, including names beyond the initial four. A caller may also play and keeps the same court and queue rights. Use a visible clock and record results between rallies with the ball held still; no fifth nonplaying person is required. Other participants check a caller’s own disputed result. If observations cannot establish it, replay without a fault award or challenge bonus. Run the active clock from the serving release until the rally stops; hold it during all between-rally work. At any announced round signal, stop the ball, give no stay points for an unfinished rally and carry the current ranks and queue into the next round. The king drops the ball in their own square, then gently hits it underhand after that bounce into diagonal square 1. After one bounce in a player’s square, that player uses one hit with the hands to send it into another square before a second bounce. No catching, carrying, double hits, body blocking or dangerous hits. An outer-line bounce is in. An inner-line bounce or a bounce beyond the outer court faults the last hitter; a second bounce in a square faults that square’s player. An uncertain observation or outside interference replays the same rally without a score. After a definite fault, the faulting player immediately joins the back of the waiting queue. Players below the vacant rank move up in order 1→2→3→4, and the queue head enters square 1. With four players, the faulting player returns in 1 after the others advance. The king remains if someone else faults; never reset all four ranks merely to give the next name a king turn. A pass requires no reason or substitute task. Move a declined entry to the back of the posted queue and offer the next willing name; the passer may return on a later cycle without jumping ahead. If an active player rests, hold the ball, fill that vacancy by the same lower-rank advance and queue entry, and award no fault or stay point merely for resting. Keep earned points; stop if fewer than four willing players remain. Each king has only one serve attempt. A failed serve is an immediate fault with ordinary queue rotation, not a retry or a fresh scheduled king lineup. This is the stated one-bounce house version: no airborne interception and no bad-serve retry beyond an explicitly stated beginner option. League rules may differ. A serve that fails to land legally in diagonal square 1 faults its king; after the serve, a hit whose first bounce is back in the hitter’s own square faults that hitter. After each definite rally-ending fault, each of the three nonfaulting active players receives 1 stay point and the faulting player receives 0. A replay adds no point. Record those results before the next serve. This is a house scoring chart for this session. At ten minutes of active play, stop the ball calmly. An unfinished rally adds no points; do not begin another. Compare recorded stay totals: highest wins and ties are shared. The common entry queue is fair to waiting names, but performance determines court time and this format does not promise equal king turns. Resolve each definite fault completed before the signal once, including any timely challenge; do not begin a new replay after the endpoint. If fewer than four willing players remain earlier, keep partial records without declaring a completed session. Selected rule: Before the ordinary-queue match, state “No gambling.” Track its agreed stay points or represent those with stickers. Add no cash prize, bonus or altered queue rule. Keep the complete serve, bounce, line, safety and shared-tie instructions. This selected rule replaces only its explicitly named schedule, court geometry, task or score condition; keep the other host rules. Use only this selected rule, with no stacked optional variants or duplicate bonus. Safety and needed access support remain available without using an ordinary token. Use a soft playground ball on a clear flat court. No slamming at faces, no body blocking, and pause for slips or crowded edges. One ball in play; keep waiting players off the court lines. Scored results are tracked as challenge points.
• Score No Cash Prize Rule · Four Square as 1 challenge point, separate from the main score.
• Reset and rotate evenly after No Cash Prize Rule · Four Square; stop at the agreed finish condition.

A pass preserves earned points and later queue opportunities.

• A pass preserves earned points and later queue opportunities.
• Compatible host: One-Serve Pressure. Use one soft playground ball on a dry, flat, clear court. Mark a 6 m square divided into four equal 3 m squares. Label the front row 1, 2 and the back row 3, 4 from left to right, so low square 1 is diagonal from king square 4. Mark a waiting area away from all court lines. Draw the first four ranks and the complete waiting order from folded names; no blindfold is used. Use a caller, score sheet and clock. Announce one ten-minute local scoring session. Pause the clock for safety, access, lineup resets, rulings and necessary recording. Keep the posted queue order, including names beyond the initial four. A caller may also play and keeps the same court and queue rights. Use a visible clock and record results between rallies with the ball held still; no fifth nonplaying person is required. Other participants check a caller’s own disputed result. If observations cannot establish it, replay without a fault award or challenge bonus. Run the active clock from the serving release until the rally stops; hold it during all between-rally work. At any announced round signal, stop the ball, give no stay points for an unfinished rally and carry the current ranks and queue into the next round. The king drops the ball in their own square, then gently hits it underhand after that bounce into diagonal square 1. After one bounce in a player’s square, that player uses one hit with the hands to send it into another square before a second bounce. No catching, carrying, double hits, body blocking or dangerous hits. An outer-line bounce is in. An inner-line bounce or a bounce beyond the outer court faults the last hitter; a second bounce in a square faults that square’s player. An uncertain observation or outside interference replays the same rally without a score. After a definite fault, the faulting player immediately joins the back of the waiting queue. Players below the vacant rank move up in order 1→2→3→4, and the queue head enters square 1. With four players, the faulting player returns in 1 after the others advance. The king remains if someone else faults; never reset all four ranks merely to give the next name a king turn. A pass requires no reason or substitute task. Move a declined entry to the back of the posted queue and offer the next willing name; the passer may return on a later cycle without jumping ahead. If an active player rests, hold the ball, fill that vacancy by the same lower-rank advance and queue entry, and award no fault or stay point merely for resting. Keep earned points; stop if fewer than four willing players remain. Each king has only one serve attempt. A failed serve is an immediate fault with ordinary queue rotation, not a retry or a fresh scheduled king lineup. This is the stated one-bounce house version: no airborne interception and no bad-serve retry beyond an explicitly stated beginner option. League rules may differ. A serve that fails to land legally in diagonal square 1 faults its king; after the serve, a hit whose first bounce is back in the hitter’s own square faults that hitter. After each definite rally-ending fault, each of the three nonfaulting active players receives 1 stay point and the faulting player receives 0. A replay adds no point. Record those results before the next serve. This is a house scoring chart for this session. At ten minutes of active play, stop the ball calmly. An unfinished rally adds no points; do not begin another. Compare recorded stay totals: highest wins and ties are shared. The common entry queue is fair to waiting names, but performance determines court time and this format does not promise equal king turns. Resolve each definite fault completed before the signal once, including any timely challenge; do not begin a new replay after the endpoint. If fewer than four willing players remain earlier, keep partial records without declaring a completed session. Selected rule: Accept a word, gesture or other comfortable pass signal without requiring a reason or substitute task. A person may decline the next entry, keep earned points, move to the tail and return on a later queue cycle in the posted order. If a player declines a receiving role, hold the ball and use the host’s lower-rank advance and next willing queue entry, without a fault/stay award for resting, or choose another activity; never pressure someone to fill a court. With fewer than four willing players, stop. This selected rule replaces only its explicitly named schedule, court geometry, task or score condition; keep the other host rules. Use only this selected rule, with no stacked optional variants or duplicate bonus. Safety and needed access support remain available without using an ordinary token. Use a soft playground ball on a clear flat court. No slamming at faces, no body blocking, and pause for slips or crowded edges. One ball in play; keep waiting players off the court lines. Scored results are tracked as challenge points.
• Score Fair Pass Rule · Four Square as 1 challenge point, separate from the main score.
• Reset and rotate evenly after Fair Pass Rule · Four Square; stop at the agreed finish condition.

Announce the current ranks and full queue before the final interval.

• Announce the current ranks and full queue before the final interval.
• Compatible host: One-Serve Pressure. Use one soft playground ball on a dry, flat, clear court. Mark a 6 m square divided into four equal 3 m squares. Label the front row 1, 2 and the back row 3, 4 from left to right, so low square 1 is diagonal from king square 4. Mark a waiting area away from all court lines. Draw the first four ranks and the complete waiting order from folded names; no blindfold is used. Use a caller, score sheet and clock. Announce one ten-minute local scoring session. Pause the clock for safety, access, lineup resets, rulings and necessary recording. Keep the posted queue order, including names beyond the initial four. A caller may also play and keeps the same court and queue rights. Use a visible clock and record results between rallies with the ball held still; no fifth nonplaying person is required. Other participants check a caller’s own disputed result. If observations cannot establish it, replay without a fault award or challenge bonus. Run the active clock from the serving release until the rally stops; hold it during all between-rally work. At any announced round signal, stop the ball, give no stay points for an unfinished rally and carry the current ranks and queue into the next round. The king drops the ball in their own square, then gently hits it underhand after that bounce into diagonal square 1. After one bounce in a player’s square, that player uses one hit with the hands to send it into another square before a second bounce. No catching, carrying, double hits, body blocking or dangerous hits. An outer-line bounce is in. An inner-line bounce or a bounce beyond the outer court faults the last hitter; a second bounce in a square faults that square’s player. An uncertain observation or outside interference replays the same rally without a score. After a definite fault, the faulting player immediately joins the back of the waiting queue. Players below the vacant rank move up in order 1→2→3→4, and the queue head enters square 1. With four players, the faulting player returns in 1 after the others advance. The king remains if someone else faults; never reset all four ranks merely to give the next name a king turn. A pass requires no reason or substitute task. Move a declined entry to the back of the posted queue and offer the next willing name; the passer may return on a later cycle without jumping ahead. If an active player rests, hold the ball, fill that vacancy by the same lower-rank advance and queue entry, and award no fault or stay point merely for resting. Keep earned points; stop if fewer than four willing players remain. Each king has only one serve attempt. A failed serve is an immediate fault with ordinary queue rotation, not a retry or a fresh scheduled king lineup. This is the stated one-bounce house version: no airborne interception and no bad-serve retry beyond an explicitly stated beginner option. League rules may differ. A serve that fails to land legally in diagonal square 1 faults its king; after the serve, a hit whose first bounce is back in the hitter’s own square faults that hitter. After each definite rally-ending fault, each of the three nonfaulting active players receives 1 stay point and the faulting player receives 0. A replay adds no point. Record those results before the next serve. This is a house scoring chart for this session. At ten minutes of active play, stop the ball calmly. An unfinished rally adds no points; do not begin another. Compare recorded stay totals: highest wins and ties are shared. The common entry queue is fair to waiting names, but performance determines court time and this format does not promise equal king turns. Resolve each definite fault completed before the signal once, including any timely challenge; do not begin a new replay after the endpoint. If fewer than four willing players remain earlier, keep partial records without declaring a completed session. Selected rule: Before the last five minutes, read or show who occupies each square and every waiting name. Continue ordinary faults and queue movement without a redraw, queue jump or forced king turn. This announces the existing play order; it adds no point or guarantee of equal individual court time. This selected rule replaces only its explicitly named schedule, court geometry, task or score condition; keep the other host rules. Use only this selected rule, with no stacked optional variants or duplicate bonus. Safety and needed access support remain available without using an ordinary token. Use a soft playground ball on a clear flat court. No slamming at faces, no body blocking, and pause for slips or crowded edges. One ball in play; keep waiting players off the court lines. Scored results are tracked as challenge points.
• Score Finale Order Rule · Four Square as 1 challenge point, separate from the main score.
• Reset and rotate evenly after Finale Order Rule · Four Square; stop at the agreed finish condition.