Darts in a dartboard

Darts is a game, or rather a variety of related games, in which darts are thrown at a circular target (dart board) hung on a wall. Though various different boards and games 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.

As well as being a professional competitive sport, darts is a traditional pub game, commonly played in the United Kingdom (the first to officially recognize darts as a sport), the Netherlands, Israel, the Scandinavian countries, the United States and elsewhere.

Standardized dart board.

Links

• Superstars of Darts contains a popular forum frequented by many top players, officials and organisers
• DarterZ.com
• SEWA-Darts is a great source of articles, reviews and a great forum.
• Dartcalculators.com Various online free to use dart calculators. Including graphical overview each leg played and more statistics.

Organizations

• Professional Darts Corporation
• World Darts Federation
• British Darts Organisation
• American Darts Organization
• American Darts Association
• The Minuteman Dart League
• Metro East Dart Association
• Darts Federation of Australia
• National Darts Federation of Canada
• Dutch Darts Federation
• Norwegian Darts Organisation
• Swedish Darts Organisation
• Danish Darts Union
• Polish Darts Organisation
• Polish Darts Federation

Equipment

• Turbo Darts
• Vector Darts
• Unicorn Darts
• How to create your own Darts game from office supply in 10 minutes
• Winmau – The Force Behind Darts
• Nodor – First Ever Dartboard Company
• Red Dragon Darts – World Wide Darts Mail Order

History

• Patrick Chaplin – darts historian
• Online history of traditional games – lists pubs in England where traditional variants of dart boards are preserved

Rules

• A collection of darts games rules (36 games)
• Another collection of darts games rules (46 games)

Analysis

• A brief analysis of the scoring pattern.

This guide is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia.

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