Darts 101- How to Play

It is on fashion and lately it almost became traditional to have a home bar at home decorated with a dart board and darts. Darts as a game has its origins in the British Isles with people playing it inside the pubs they went since 18th century.

In US darts has started to gain a lot of ground more and more people showing interest in playing it whenever the occasion allowed to. As such dart tournaments sponsored by the neighborhood bars with dart teams started to become famous with people of all age group participating. Further on there will be described how to play darts as well as a few tips to show you how to improve the accuracy when throwing the darts.

From behind a line that is drawn around 5 feet from the board each player is positioned in order to have his turn in throwing 3 darts. The board has a division of 20 numbers starting with 1 to 20.

When you throw a dart and this one hits a number from that area then you will be awarded with an amount of points that is indicated by that number. The center is called bull’s eye and you can receive 50 points. Outside the center each throw gains 25 points; so the highest amount of points in this given situation would be 180 on any turn that comes.

The fun and easy dart games are “The Killer” and “Around the clock”. The latter one requires that the players to hit numbers from 1 to 20 in an ascending order and finishing with hitting the bull’s eye.

The one who hits the center for the first time in that game is considered the winner. With “The Killer” is a different story; the players need to hit a number which it will be his number for the game. When hitting the specific number 5 times they will get 5 ‘lives’ and become the ‘killers’. At this point they can hit the their player’s number and as such the opponent will lose a life.

Some tips that you would want to consider when throwing darts: first of all and the most important, find a style of throwing that is very comfortable for you. Finding that style and stick to it, do not let your moves get lost in vain and print your throws some sort of fluidity. Do not move too fast with a jolted motion.

When you have got that style just practice on it and find out the most appropriate ways to warm up. Another tip: do not play darts with someone you don’t know for money! It is safer this way, trust me!