The hoop can lay still on the ground or even be hung from a tree, as people take turns throwing their darts at it. More often than not, the hoop is rolled along the ground, set into motion sometimes by a third player, while the two other players toss their darts as the hoop rolls in front of them. The score depends on how or if the dart falls on or through the hoop. One hoop is made by just bending a branch into a circle and tying the ends with rawhide. Other simple hoops are made from bundled corn husks, cedar bark or other plants and are wrapped with rawhide or colored yarn, and some with beads attached to the inside to divide up the ring.
Some hoops use rawhide lacing stretched across the hoop to divide it in two halves or into quarters.
And many hoops have a web of string woven onto them, which divides up the hoop into different sections and shapes like squares, rectangles and triangles. These different shapes in the web can then e used to determine the score when the dart lands in them. Netted hoops are made by the Arapaho of Wyoming, the Cheyenne of Oklahoma, the Oglala of South Dakota, the Chippewa of North Dakota, and the Crow and the Grosventre tribes of Montana. People of the Grosventre use a net of buckskin lacing. This game ends when the first player reaches a certain number of points decided before hand.