Be careful not to step over the
foul line while throwing.

Techniques and Strategies

• Because each bocce weighs about as much as a dictionary, it is usually thrown underhand. A bocce can be lofted overhand but cannot land beyond the centerline.
• Players must release the ball before they step on or over the foul line. If a player continually or intentionally steps on or over the foul line, he or she can be removed from the game.

Size up the other team's position
on the court.

• Balls can bounce off the sideboards, hit the pallino, or hit other balls. Good strategies are to knock the pallino closer to your group of balls or to knock the other team's balls away, which is called spocking. Balls cannot hit the backboard or roll out of bounds if the court doesn't have backboards: Balls that hit the backboard or roll out of bounds are dead and are removed from play until the end of the frame.