DartsDone by

Abubaker Al Hashimi

Index

1. Darts history.2. Equipments.3. Dartboard.4. Darts.5. Scoring.6. Dartboard setup.

Dart board

Darts history

• Darts is a form of throwing game in which small missiles are thrown at a circular target (dartboard) fixed to a wall.

• darts is a traditional pub game.• Though various boards and rules have been

used in the past, the term "darts" usually now refers to a standardized game involving a specific board design and set of rules.

Darts history

• It was first played approximately in 1870s.• It is usually played one versus one.• It was never an Olympic game.• It is categorized as target sport, individual

sport. • It can be played by men and women so it is a

mixed gender game.

Equipments

• Dartboard.

• Dartboard Illumination.

• Darts.

Dartboard

• Before the First World War, pubs in the United Kingdom had dartboards.

• Dartboards were made from solid blocks of wood usually elm.

• It had to be soaked Overnight to heal the holes made by the darts.

Dartboard

• Nowadays quality dartboards are made of sisal fibers; less expensive boards are sometimes made of cork or coiled paper.

• A regulation board is 17 3⁄4 inches (451 mm) in diameter and is divided into 20 radial sections.

• Each section is separated with metal wire or a thin band of sheet metal.

• The best dartboards have the thinnest wire, so that the darts have less chance of hitting a wire and bouncing out.

Darts

• It was made of one piece from wood; wrapped with a strip of lead for weight.

• Modern darts have four parts: The points, the barrels, the shafts and the fletching. The steel points come in 2 common lengths, 32mm and 41mm and are sometimes knurled or coated to improve grip.

Scoring

• The standard dartboard is divided into 20 numbered sections, scoring from 1 to 20 points, by wires running from the small central circle to the outer circular wire.

• The goal is to finish 501 which is starting score.• The highest score possible with three darts is

180, commonly known as a "ton 80" (100 points is called a ton).

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