A try is the highest number of points a rugby team can score at one time, similar to scoring a touchdown in football. In fact, rugby is where the term "touchdown" came from, because the ball must actually be touched down for a try to be awarded.

This is the ‘touchdown’ of rugby and occurs when a player gets the ball into the opposing team’s end zone and that player is able to touch the ball to the ground (if the opposing team can get their bodies underneath the ball, it is ‘held up’ and no points will be awarded).

While a player scores a touchdown in American Football when he reaches the end zone, in rugby the player has to touch the ball down in the try zone to be awarded a try. Similar to American Football, a team advances the ball by running the ball up the field and the opposition attempts to stop the advance by tackling the player with the ball.

5 points are scored when you score a touchdown, called a try. This is when you run into the end zone with the ball in your hands and "touch the ball down" for the 5 points.