• A coin is tossed by one individual on each team. This decides which team will deliver the last stone in the first end.

• After brushing, curlers should walk along the sides of the sheet to return to the delivering end.

• Leads and seconds should position themselves between the hog lines and well to the side of the playing surface when their team is not delivering. Only skips and thirds are allowed to stand in the house area.

• All curlers should remain outside the house area until the thirds (vice-skips) have agreed on the score.

• The scoring team’s third (vice-skip) is responsible for posting the score.  The vice-skip is also responsible for filling out the score card and placing the results in the box as well as marking the win/loss/tie on the board (if necessary).

• Teams may not remove an opposition stone if it is in the Free Guard Zone until the fifth stone of the end.

• The team who scores in one end delivers the first stone of the next end.

• A skip can only brush an opposition’s stone once it has crossed the tee line of the playing end. And any sweeping in the house should be done by the skips once the rock has crossed the T-line.

• When throwing a stone, the curler must clearly release it before it entirely passes the hog line closest  to the throwing end.

• To be considered as “in play”, all stones must be over the hog line at the playing end of the ice (*consult rule book for exceptions).