Modern Rules
- To start the game (and after each goal), the puck is placed under the center mouse hole. Each player raps the bottom of the box with his hockey stick and then taps his opponent's blade, repeating this three times. After the third tap, both players can go after the puck and play begins.
- Each player hits the puck with his hockey stick blade, attempting to move the puck through the holes to his left (see diagram) and out the hole at the end of the box (the goal).
- In addition to advancing the puck towards his own goal, each player can use his blade to block his opponent's progress or to steal the puck.
- It is legal to use the blade to block the goal from either inside or outside of the box.
- When a player succeeds in getting the puck to exit the box through the goal, the player scores one point.
- The first player to score 11 points wins the game.
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