if player one has 36 remaining he must hit double 18 to win, while if player two has 45 remaining he must hit single 5, double 20 to win - or a another combination of scores provided the final dart scores on a double.Other tournaments will be played in Sets format, whereby players must win a Set by winning the Best of Five legs, before claiming the match in the Best of Three/Five/Seven/Nine/11/13 Sets.The PDC World Championship and World Grand Prix are played using the Set format, with differing lengths of games at each tournament.© Copyright Professional Darts

The standard international dartboard is known as the "clock" board. In fact all these games are played from a certain number of points, always ending in "01". For example, the common tournament game of 501 is played from 501 points. Numbers in Play: All the numbers are in play, but some receive greater use than others. Each player throws three darts on their turn with the maximum score being 180, achieved by hitting three treble 20s. There are two main professional governing bodies, the PDC and BDO, the latter being the longer running of the two. Details of the DRA Rules can be found at this link, downloadable as a PDF (rules updated in January 2019), while below is a basic guide for beginners to the sport of darts.. Most matches are normally played “best of” a defined (odd) number of sets, with the sport’s biggest prize, the PDC World Championship, involving a final that is best of 13 (therefore the winner is the first to seven sets).The rules of darts are very simple and have basically been discussed in previous sections. Being a “sport” – many argue it is a game – mainly played in pubs and requiring little or no physical fitness, darts is one activity at which Britain excels! Given the presence of the sport in pubs and bars it is probably one of the largest participatory sports in the world. Darts is thought to have been created when soldiers began throwing short arrows at cut tree trunks or alternatively at the bottom of the cask.

Find free online and app-based dart games that you can use to enhance your ability and competitiveness. Practice to stay sharp. Corporation 2020 The equipment needed to play darts is as follows: A good dartboard; A set of three darts, either soft-tipped or steel-tipped. Darts is now widely played in many parts of the world, but especially in former Commonwealth countries, the Netherlands and Belgium, the United States and Scandinavia. The the most popular games of darts are so called "01" games - the classic games of Darts, played world-wide. All Professional Darts Corporation tournaments are operated under the rules laid down by the Darts Regulation Authority.In addition to the standard playing rules for darts, PDC tournaments have their own rules in relation to format, qualification and their Order of Merit status. A safe, well lit place to play. These are guides that, in most cases, inaccurately represent the evaluations for a darter. When clicking on a HIT button or the MISS button the next number will be presented and you will continue all around the board and end with BULL. Leg One: Player 'A' wins in 18 darts, Player 'B' scores 401 with 15 darts. The rules is to throw 3 darts on each numbers double and track how many darts you hit.

The bull is worth 50 points, the outer bull 25 points and the various numbers score their own value, unless they are doubled (the outer rim) or trebled.To win a player must reach zero by hitting a double or a bull, having first got their score down from the 501 starting point. Match Averages.