1. It is imperative that you be ready to go on the ice prior to your scheduled game time. Remember, seven others are waiting on you.

2. It is everyone's responsibility to keep their sheet of ice clean and free of loose hairs, lint etc. . However, it is unlawful to remove any foreign object from beneath a moving stone or from one that has come to rest.

3. Be ready to throw your stone immediately after your opponents stone has been delivered.

4. Do not move about or talk while anyone else is delivering his or her stone.

5. Each Skip should let the other three members of his/her rink know what he/she is Planning to do.

6. Sweepers should be on the sidelines - alert and ready to sweep immediately, if called upon

7. The expression of "Ice!" in golf and means you are blocking the path of a stone or view of the curler.

8. Skips and Thirds should keep their brooms behind them in the house while opponents are throwing.

9. No one should deliberately delay the game.

10. If you have personally fouled a moving stone, be the first one to so declare.

11. If you have personally moved a stationary stone, say so immediately so that it may be corrected