The court (or fronton) for Jai Alai consists of 3 walls (front, back, and left), and the floor between them in play. If the ball touches the floor outside these walls, it is considered out of bounds. Similarly, there is also a border going about 3ft inside the front wall that is also out of bounds. The ceiling on the court is very high, so the ball has a more predictable path.

The court is divided by 15 lines going horizontally across the court, with line 1 closest to the front wall and line 15 the back wall. When serving, the server must bounce the ball behind the serving line, then with the basket hurl it towards the front wall so it bounces between lines 4 and 7 on the rebound.

The goal in Jai Alai is to score 7 points, thus winning the game. Points are scored by the other team dropping, missing, juggling, bobbling or sending the ball out of bounds. The game is played in a round-robin format, switching teams every point, where the team to score a point stays up and the opposing team rotating out into the end of the list of opponents.

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