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choosing darts
23 articles Date
First Darts: Spend This, Not a Penny More
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Set a sensible budget for your first darts and learn where barrel material, weight, shafts, flights, and branding do or do not justify extra cost.
Read More Dart Balance: The Spec Everyone Ignores
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Compare front-, center-, and rear-weighted darts and learn how each balance point interacts with grip position, release, shaft length, and flight.
Read More Dart Grip Styles: You Chose the Wrong Barrel
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Compare knurled, ringed, and smooth dart barrels and learn how texture, hand moisture, grip pressure, and release affect your choice.
Read More Barrel Shapes: The Hidden Cause of Bad Groups
By Charles Wallace · Updated
See how straight, torpedo, and bomb-shaped dart barrels suit different grips, release points, grouping needs, and throwing styles.
Read More Dart Metals: You're Throwing the Wrong One
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Compare brass, nickel-silver, and tungsten dart barrels by price, width, durability, and feel so you can choose the right material for your game.
Read More Tungsten %: The Number Sellers Hide Behind
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn how tungsten percentage affects barrel width, density, durability, and price, and when a higher percentage offers a practical benefit.
Read More Shaft Length: The Tweak That Fixes Grouping
By Charles Wallace · Updated
See how short, medium, and long dart shafts change stability, entry angle, and grouping, and how to pair shaft length with flights and barrel weight.
Read More Choosing Flights: Small Part, Big Mistake
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Choose dart flights by shape, size, texture, shaft pairing, and throwing style, with guidance for correcting wobble, drag, and unstable entry angles.
Read More Darts for Kids: Safe Setup Parents Get Wrong
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Choose age-appropriate dartboards and set clear throwing-lane, supervision, storage, and retrieval rules for safer family play.
Read More Pro Dart Weights: Copy Them at Your Peril
By Charles Wallace · Updated
See the weight range common among professional steel-tip players, why most choose tungsten, and why copying a pro's setup may not suit your throw.
Read More Dart Weight: The Choice That Makes or Breaks
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Find a suitable dart weight by comparing lighter and heavier barrels, balance, material, steel- and soft-tip limits, and a simple testing process.
Read More The Soft-Tips the Pros Secretly Favor
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Explore the weights, tungsten barrels, grip styles, points, and models favored by professional soft-tip players, plus which choices are worth copying.
Read More Buying Darts? Read This Before You Waste $50
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Choose darts by steel or soft tip, weight, tungsten content, barrel shape, grip, shafts, flights, and budget without relying on packaging alone.
Read More The Best Steel Tip Dart, Named Outright
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Compare steel-tip darts by tungsten content, weight, grip, balance, shafts, and value, including why the Harrows Wolfram 97% is recommended.
Read More Soft Tip Darts: Not the Toy You Think
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn how soft-tip darts use replaceable plastic points with electronic boards, including scoring, weights, safety, maintenance, and compatibility.
Read More What Darts the Pros Throw: The Real Specs
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Explore the weights, tungsten barrels, grips, shafts, flights, and signature setups used by professional players and what amateurs can learn.
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The Best Soft Tip Darts, No Sponsor Talk
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Choose soft-tip darts by weight, tungsten content, grip, balance, tip availability, board limits, and price rather than packaging alone.
Read More Best Beginner Darts: Skip the Junk Sets
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Choose beginner darts by weight, grip, barrel material, tip type, shafts, and flights, with guidance on sensible pricing and sets to avoid.
Read More Soft-Tip Darts for Beginners: Smart or Soft?
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Compare soft-tip and steel-tip darts for beginners, including safety, cost, board compatibility, replacement tips, and room to improve.
Read More 16g Darts in Pro Tournaments? The Truth
By Charles Wallace · Updated
See why 16-gram steel-tip darts are tournament legal, why few professionals use them, and which players may benefit from a lighter setup.
Read More Steel, Soft, or Bar Darts: One Isn't for You
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Compare steel-tip, soft-tip, and American bar darts by points, barrels, boards, weights, rules, and the settings where each type belongs.
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Soft-Tip Darts: Why the Pros Are Switching
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn how soft-tip darts and electronic boards work, including weight limits, replaceable points, scoring, online matches, leagues, and maintenance.
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Steel Tip Darts: What No One Tells Beginners
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn how steel-tip darts are built, which boards they suit, how barrel material and weight affect play, and what maintenance they need.
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culture
13 articles Date
Women in Darts: From Locked Out to Headlines
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Trace women's darts from early pub leagues and BDO champions to Fallon Sherrock's breakthrough, modern tours, major events, and new opportunities.
Read More Darts Nicknames: The Stories Behind the Names
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Discover how famous darts nicknames such as The Power, Snakebite, and The Nuke began, and how walk-ons and branding made them part of the sport.
Read More Darts Etiquette: Rules Nobody Says Out Loud
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn the expected etiquette for standing, throwing, scoring, retrieving darts, sharing a board, and treating opponents fairly.
Read More Watching Pro Darts: TV, Streams, and Chaos
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Find professional darts on television and streaming services, understand the major events and season, and know what to expect at a live match.
Read More Run a Tournament People Actually Come Back To
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Plan a darts tournament with the right format, bracket, boards, schedule, entry fees, payouts, rules, staffing, and tiebreak procedures.
Read More Join a Darts League (They Want You, Really)
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Find a local darts league, understand fees and formats, prepare for your first night, and learn what teammates expect from a new player.
Read More The Darts Civil War That Split the Sport
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn why 16 leading players broke from the BDO in 1993, how two rival tours emerged, and how the dispute reshaped professional darts.
Read More Why Darts Pros Dress Like That: The Truth
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn how pub traditions, tournament dress codes, comfort, movement, sponsors, and stage presentation shaped professional darts clothing.
Read More Is Darts a Sport? End the Argument Here
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Examine darts as a competitive sport through its governing bodies, physical skill, training, professional tours, rules, and official recognition.
Read More Why Darts Crowds Sing: Inside Walk-On Mayhem
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Explore how walk-on music, chants, costumes, and arena traditions turned professional darts into one of sport's loudest live events.
Read More How a Pub Time-Killer Conquered the World
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Trace darts from early military and pub games through standardized boards, television, the BDO-PDC split, and today's professional circuit.
Read More What Darts Pros Really Earn (Brace Yourself)
By Charles Wallace · Updated
See how prize money, sponsorships, exhibitions, travel costs, rankings, and uneven tournament results affect what professional darts players earn.
Read More Going Pro in Darts: The Brutal Honest Path
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Follow the route from local leagues and county play to Q-School and a PDC Tour Card, including the averages, costs, travel, and practice involved.
Read More dart accessories
16 articles Date
Fix Your Darts: Tips, Shafts, Flights
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Replace worn points, broken shafts, and damaged flights, remove stuck shaft pieces, and keep spare parts ready for quick dart repairs.
Read More Sharpening Darts: You're Doing It Backwards
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Use a sharpening stone to round and roughen steel dart points, reduce bounce-outs, remove burrs, and avoid weakening them with a needle tip.
Read More Shaft Length: The Tweak That Fixes Grouping
By Charles Wallace · Updated
See how short, medium, and long dart shafts change stability, entry angle, and grouping, and how to pair shaft length with flights and barrel weight.
Read More Choosing Flights: Small Part, Big Mistake
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Choose dart flights by shape, size, texture, shaft pairing, and throwing style, with guidance for correcting wobble, drag, and unstable entry angles.
Read More DIY Backboard: Save Your Wall for $20
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Build a dart backboard from cork, cardboard, pallet wood, or other affordable materials to protect drywall around your board.
Read More Wire Shafts: The Upgrade Nobody Talks About
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn how wire dart shafts affect durability, flex, flight clearance, and stability, plus how to choose a compatible length and thread.
Read More Amethyst Darts: What You're Really Buying
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn what “amethyst” means on a dart set, how the purple coating affects grip and durability, and what actually determines performance.
Read More Aluminum Dart Cases: Overkill or Essential?
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Compare aluminum dart cases by impact protection, foam storage, capacity, weight, latches, and price to decide whether a hard case suits your gear.
Read More 6-Dart Cases: Twice the Darts, Zero Excuses
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn how a six-dart case stores two complete setups, protects assembled flights and points, and compare materials, compartments, and portability.
Read More Darts Scoring: Stop Nodding, Start Knowing
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn every dartboard scoring area, including singles, doubles, trebles, inner and outer bull, miss zones, and common match notation.
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Dart Tools: The Kit Serious Players Carry
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn how sharpening stones, flight punches, tip removers, dart mechanics, and laser oches help maintain equipment and improve setup accuracy.
Read More Dart Cases: Stop Ruining Your Darts
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Compare hard and soft dart cases, materials, storage capacity, and compartments so your points, shafts, and flights stay protected.
Read More Dart Tips: Steel vs Soft (and When to Swap)
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Compare steel and soft dart tips by board compatibility, shape, size, wear, replacement, maintenance, and the spare parts worth carrying.
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Dart Flights: Tiny Plastic, Huge Difference
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Compare standard, slim, kite, pear, and other dart flight shapes, and learn how size and material affect speed, stability, and entry angle.
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Dart Shafts: The Part You Forgot Matters
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Compare nylon, aluminum, carbon, and other dart shafts by length, weight, durability, fit, and their effect on stability and entry angle.
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The $5 Tool That Ends Flights Falling Off
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn how a dart flight punch and shaft ring lock flights in place, how to use the tool, and when it is worth adding to your case.
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dart games
39 articles Date
How to Play Dartball: Baseball on a Wall
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn how dartball turns a wooden target into a baseball game, including equipment, innings, hits, runs, outs, ghost runners, and team play.
Read More Shanghai: Darts' Flashiest Instant Win
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn how a single, double, and treble of the same number form a Shanghai, when it creates an instant win, and how players aim for one.
Read More Cricket Strategy: Point or Close? Most Guess
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn when to score points, close an opponent's number, switch targets, or attack the bull with a practical decision guide for cricket darts.
Read More 6 Solo Games That Beat Boring Practice
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Use six scored solo darts games to train accuracy, doubles, scoring, checkouts, and pressure while making individual practice more structured.
Read More Darts Rules You've Been Getting Wrong
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Clear up common darts rules covering bounce-outs, busts, doubles, bullseyes, throw-line distance, scoring, and when a winning turn ends.
Read More Darts Games for Groups: End the 501 Boredom
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Find darts games for two players, small groups, teams, odd headcounts, and parties, with options that keep everyone involved.
Read More Legs: Beat the Last Score or Die Trying
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn Legs darts rules, including starting lives, setting and beating scores, penalties, elimination, group play, and common variations.
Read More Mickey Mouse Darts: Cricket's Wilder Cousin
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn Mickey Mouse darts rules, including the extended cricket targets, marks, doubles, trebles, bulls, scoring, and winning conditions.
Read More Count-Up: The Perfect Warm-Up (Don't Skip It)
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn Count-Up darts rules, the standard eight-round format, scoring, useful target benchmarks, and why the game works well as a warm-up.
Read More English Cricket Darts: Bat, Bowl, Battle
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn English cricket darts rules, including batting, bowling, wickets, runs, role changes, scoring, and how to win the match.
Read More Bermuda Triangle: Where Scores Disappear
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn Bermuda Triangle darts rules, target sequence, doubles and trebles, score-halving penalty, winning conditions, and useful strategy.
Read More Tic-Tac-Toe Darts: Childhood Game, Real Skill
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Set up a nine-square target grid and learn how hits claim spaces, how cricket-style variations work, and how to win tic-tac-toe darts.
Read More Nine Lives: Climb the Board or Lose One
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn Nine Lives darts rules, how players advance around the board, lose lives after misses, use doubles or trebles, and win by surviving.
Read More Scram: One Scores, One Sabotages
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn Scram darts rules, how the scorer and stopper roles work, when numbers close, how players switch roles, and which tactics matter.
Read More Gotcha: The Game That Rewards Betrayal
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn Gotcha darts rules, including target totals, matching an opponent's score to reset it, bust variations, turns, and winning strategy.
Read More Baseball Darts: Nine Innings of Chaos
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn baseball darts rules, including nine-inning scoring, which numbered segments count, how runs work, and how to settle a tie.
Read More Around the World: Simple Game, Ugly Truths
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn the rules of Around the World darts, how to move from 1 through 20, and variations for doubles, trebles, groups, and practice.
Read More 301 vs 501: You're Playing the Wrong One
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Compare 301 and 501 darts, including starting rules, double-in formats, game length, strategy, and which version best suits your group.
Read More 301 Darts: The Short Game With Sharp Teeth
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn 301 darts rules, including double-in and double-out play, scoring, busts, checkouts, and the strategy differences from 501.
Read More The One Dart Game the Whole World Plays
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn why 501 is the world's most widely played darts game, how its rules work, and how it compares with cricket, 301, and other formats.
Read More Dart Ball: The League Sport You've Never Seen
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn how dartball combines darts and baseball on a wooden board, including equipment, innings, hits, runs, outs, strategy, teams, and leagues.
Read More Around the Clock: The Official Rules
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn Around the Clock darts rules, turn order, valid hits, winning conditions, popular doubles and trebles variations, and group formats.
Read More American Darts: The Official Rules, Settled
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn official American darts rules for the diddle, innings, scoring, ties, valid throws, wooden boards, and feathered widdy darts.
Read More The 501 Strategy That Wins Ugly
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Build a 501 game plan for high scoring, leaving even numbers, choosing setup shots, memorizing checkout routes, and practicing match-winning doubles.
Read More 501 Scoring: Simple Until It Suddenly Isn't
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn how to count down from 501, score singles, doubles, and trebles, avoid busts, and finish a leg on a double with worked examples.
Read More 501 Darts Rules: One Mistake Ends Your Leg
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn how to play 501 darts, from scoring and turn order to busts, checkout routes, and the rule requiring a double to finish.
Read More Shanghai: The Game With an Instant Win
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn Shanghai darts rules, round-by-round scoring, the single-double-treble instant win, common variations, and tactics for each target.
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Rugby Darts: Tries and Conversions on Sisal
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn how rugby darts maps tries, conversions, territory, and scoring onto a dartboard, with setup, turn order, and winning rules.
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Lawn Darts: The Banned Classic, Played Safe
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn modern lawn darts setup, rules, scoring, throwing order, and safety practices, with context on why the original weighted game was banned.
Read More Halve It: Miss Once, Lose Half Your Score
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn Halve-It rules, target sequence, scoring, the penalty for a missed round, common variations, and tactics for protecting your total.
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Dart Golf: 18 Holes, Zero Walking
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Play an 18-hole round of dart golf with clear target, stroke, par, scoring, and tiebreaker rules for individuals or groups.
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Belgian Darts: The Café Game Time Forgot
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn how Belgian darts, or vogelpik, is played with feathered darts and a small cork board, including setup, scoring, turns, and local variations.
Read More Beer Darts: The Backyard Game of Legends
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Set up and play beer darts with clear throwing rules, scoring, equipment, distance, and safety precautions for a backyard game.
Read More Killer: Darts' Most Ruthless Party Game
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn Killer darts rules, how players claim doubles, become killers, remove opponents' lives, and adapt the game for different group sizes.
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Fives: The Game Where Most Throws Score Zero
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn the rules of Fives, where only totals divisible by five score, including turns, points, winning conditions, and useful target strategy.
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American Darts: The Game the East Coast Hid
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Explore American darts, the Pennsylvania pub game played on wooden boards with feathered darts, including its scoring, equipment, and origins.
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Cricket Darts: The Rules, Minus the Arguing
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn how to close 15 through 20 and the bull, score points, mark singles, doubles, and trebles, and win a standard game of cricket darts.
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How to Play Darts: From First Throw to 501
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn dartboard scoring, setup measurements, stance, grip, throwing technique, popular games, safety, and etiquette in one beginner-friendly guide.
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Bar Darts: The Rules Everyone Gets Wrong
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn how bar darts is set up, which boards and darts pubs use, the games people commonly play, and how to create a safe throwing area.
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dartboards
15 articles Date
Best Home Dartboards: Don't Buy the Wrong One
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Compare bristle and electronic dartboards for home use, including durability, wiring, noise, space, accessories, and common buying mistakes.
Read More What's Inside a Dartboard Will Surprise You
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn how sisal fibers, steel wiring, backing, adhesives, and number rings form a bristle dartboard and why good boards appear to heal after throws.
Read More Bristle, Cork, or Electronic? One's a Trap
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Compare bristle, cork or paper-wound, and electronic dartboards by durability, scoring, maintenance, noise, and the darts each one accepts.
Read More 5 Signs Your Dartboard Is Already Dead
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Check five signs of a worn dartboard, including frequent bounce-outs, permanent holes, soft segments, damaged wires, and uneven playing areas.
Read More Rotate Your Board or Kill It: The Schedule
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn when and how to rotate a bristle dartboard, which segments wear fastest, and how regular rotation extends the board's useful life.
Read More Dartboard Dying? Habits That Double Its Life
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Extend a bristle dartboard's life by rotating it, maintaining points, controlling moisture, choosing a good location, and removing darts correctly.
Read More Bounce-Outs: Stop Blaming Luck, Fix Them
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Reduce bounce-outs by checking point shape, board wear, spider wires, throw angle, and dart condition, then address the most likely cause.
Read More The Dartboard's Numbers Are Rigged on Purpose
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn how the dartboard's number sequence punishes inaccurate throws, how the scoring rings work, and what is known about the layout's origins.
Read More Pro Dartboards: What the TV Players Use
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn why professionals use regulation sisal bristle boards with thin wiring, which standards matter, and whether a tournament board suits home play.
Read More Arachnid Boards: Why League Players Convert
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Explore Arachnid online dartboards, including remote matches, automatic scoring, game libraries, statistics, league features, and durable hardware.
Read More Accudart Boards: Worth the Name or Not?
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Review Accudart boards by playing surface, wiring, durability, mounting, bounce-outs, and maintenance to see whether the brand fits your setup.
Read More Steel, Electronic, or Online? Boards Compared
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Compare steel-tip bristle, electronic, and connected online dartboards by scoring, compatible darts, maintenance, noise, features, and cost.
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Online Dartboards: Play the World From Home
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn how connected dartboards provide remote matches, automatic scoring, statistics, and game libraries, plus what to compare before buying.
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Electronic Dartboards: Cheating or Genius?
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Compare electronic dartboards by scoring, game selection, online play, safety, maintenance, and the tradeoffs versus a bristle board.
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Steel Tip Boards: Why Pros Refuse the Rest
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn how sisal steel-tip dartboards work, what makes thin wiring and dense fibers valuable, and what to check before buying and mounting one.
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game room setup
17 articles Date
Light Your Board Right: No More Shadows
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Position ring lights, spotlights, or overhead fixtures to illuminate every segment evenly without glare, dark patches, or distracting shadows.
Read More Darts for Kids: Safe Setup Parents Get Wrong
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Choose age-appropriate dartboards and set clear throwing-lane, supervision, storage, and retrieval rules for safer family play.
Read More Darts Safety: Before the ER Visit, Read This
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Set up a safer darts area with a clear lane, wall protection, supervised play, secure storage, and practical rules for children, pets, and guests.
Read More DIY Backboard: Save Your Wall for $20
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Build a dart backboard from cork, cardboard, pallet wood, or other affordable materials to protect drywall around your board.
Read More Where Your Dartboard Should Actually Hang
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Compare garages, basements, and spare rooms for dartboard placement, with guidance on safety, wall protection, noise, lighting, and clear space.
Read More Outdoor Darts Setup: Boards Hate Weather
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Set up darts outdoors with a sheltered mounting point, level board, safe lane, removable equipment, and protection from sun, rain, and humidity.
Read More Apartment Darts Without Losing Your Deposit
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Create a quieter, renter-friendly darts setup with the right wall, board, backing, floor protection, clearances, and neighbor-conscious playing times.
Read More Your Wall Is One Miss From Ruin: Protect It
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Compare dartboard surrounds, backboards, cabinets, floor mats, and DIY options for protecting walls, doors, flooring, and rental deposits.
Read More Build a Dart Room That Ruins Other Pubs
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Plan a home dart room with regulation space, wall and floor protection, lighting, scoring, storage, seating, and practical finishing touches.
Read More Dartboard Space: You Need More Than You Think
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Plan the required room length, width, ceiling height, throw line, and miss zone before installing a regulation dartboard at home.
Read More Hang a Dartboard Without Wrecking the Wall
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Mount a dartboard securely with the bull at 5 feet 8 inches, measure the regulation throw line, level the board, and protect the surrounding wall.
Read More Dartboard Height: Yours Is Probably Wrong
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Set up a regulation dartboard with the bull at 5 feet 8 inches and the oche at 7 feet 9¼ inches, with clear measuring instructions.
Read More Dart Decor: Make Your Setup Look Legendary
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Plan a finished-looking dart space with lighting, storage, scoreboards, wall protection, seating, signs, and room for spectators.
Read More The Throw Line: Where Cheating Starts
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn the regulation steel-tip and soft-tip throwing distances, how to mark or build an oche, and what counts as crossing the line.
Read More Dartboard Cabinets: Class Up or Cover Up?
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn how dartboard cabinets protect walls, store equipment, and frame a home setup, plus what to check before buying and mounting one.
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Dartboard Lighting: The Shadow Ruining Aim
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Compare ring lights, spotlights, and portable options, then position your dartboard lighting for an evenly lit board without glare or shadows.
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Dart Backboards: Your Wall's Last Defense
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Compare cork, foam, wood, and fabric dart backboards, learn how much wall they should cover, and choose between a backboard, surround, or cabinet.
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players
15 articles Date
Women in Darts: From Locked Out to Headlines
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Trace women's darts from early pub leagues and BDO champions to Fallon Sherrock's breakthrough, modern tours, major events, and new opportunities.
Read More Darts Nicknames: The Stories Behind the Names
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Discover how famous darts nicknames such as The Power, Snakebite, and The Nuke began, and how walk-ons and branding made them part of the sport.
Read More What Darts Pros Really Earn (Brace Yourself)
By Charles Wallace · Updated
See how prize money, sponsorships, exhibitions, travel costs, rankings, and uneven tournament results affect what professional darts players earn.
Read More Going Pro in Darts: The Brutal Honest Path
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Follow the route from local leagues and county play to Q-School and a PDC Tour Card, including the averages, costs, travel, and practice involved.
Read More Peter Wright: Overnight Success at 49
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Follow Peter Wright's long career, distinctive stage persona, late breakthrough, two world titles, equipment changes, and major victories.
Read More Gary Anderson: The Smoothest Throw in Darts
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Follow Gary Anderson's career, two world titles, major victories, and the relaxed throwing action that made the Flying Scotsman so distinctive.
Read More Eric Bristow: The Villain Darts Needed
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Follow Eric Bristow's rise to five world titles, his impact on televised darts, the decline of his playing career, and his later role as a mentor.
Read More Barney: Five Titles and Darts' Greatest Final
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Follow Raymond van Barneveld from his early career and five world titles to his classic Phil Taylor rivalry and influence on Dutch darts.
Read More Fallon Sherrock: The Night Darts Changed
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Trace Fallon Sherrock's career, including her historic PDC World Championship wins and the effect her run had on women's professional darts.
Read More Luke Littler: The Kid Who Broke Darts
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Follow Luke Littler's rise from junior champion and teenage World Championship finalist to major titles and a central place in modern darts.
Read More Michael van Gerwen: Darts' Scariest Player
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Explore Michael van Gerwen's career, world titles, record averages, fast scoring style, major rivalries, and impact on professional darts.
Read More Phil Taylor: A Record That Won't Be Broken
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Trace Phil Taylor's career, record 16 world championships, major rivalries, throwing style, and lasting influence on professional darts.
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Rapid Ricky: The Fastest Arm in Darts
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Explore Ricky Evans's career, major tournament runs, walk-on persona, and the exceptionally fast throwing rhythm behind his Rapid Ricky nickname.
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Anastasia Dobromyslova: Russia's Darts Queen
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Follow Anastasia Dobromyslova's career from junior success to three women's world titles and her years competing across the BDO and PDC.
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Wayne Warren: World Champion at 57
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Follow Wayne Warren's BDO career, his world title at age 57, and the unusual circumstances surrounding the final BDO championship.
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scoring
24 articles Date
High Ton: The Call That Turns Heads
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn which scores from 151 to 180 count as a high ton, how the term differs from a low ton and ton 80, and why players track the achievement.
Read More Handicapping: Beat Better Players Fairly
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Use starting-score adjustments, head starts, rule changes, or player averages to make a darts match competitive across different skill levels.
Read More Double In vs Double Out: The Rule Flip
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn how double-in and double-out rules change 301 and 501, where each format is used, and how the opening and finishing strategy differs.
Read More Ton 80: The Perfect Visit, Explained
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn why ton 80 means three treble 20s for a score of 180, how difficult the maximum visit is, and why it matters in matches and statistics.
Read More Out Charts: Never Do Checkout Math Again
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Use an out chart for finishes from 61 to 170, understand standard checkout notation, and learn why certain routes leave better backup shots.
Read More Setup Shots: The Secret of Smooth Finishers
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn how setup shots help you leave preferred doubles, avoid awkward numbers, and plan an entire visit before the final checkout dart.
Read More The Nine-Darter: Perfection in 9 Throws
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn how a perfect 501 leg is completed in nine darts, compare common checkout routes, and see why the achievement is so rare.
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Checkout Chart: Every Finish From 170 Down
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Find checkout routes from 170 to 2 and learn the patterns behind common three-dart, two-dart, and single-to-double finishes in 501.
Read More Track These 4 Stats or Stay Mediocre
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Track three-dart average, first-nine average, checkout percentage, and scoring distribution to find weaknesses and measure practice gains.
Read More What's a Good Darts Average? The Hard Truth
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn how a three-dart average is calculated, compare beginner, pub, league, and professional benchmarks, and find practical ways to improve yours.
Read More Darts Rules You've Been Getting Wrong
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Clear up common darts rules covering bounce-outs, busts, doubles, bullseyes, throw-line distance, scoring, and when a winning turn ends.
Read More 301 Darts: The Short Game With Sharp Teeth
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn 301 darts rules, including double-in and double-out play, scoring, busts, checkouts, and the strategy differences from 501.
Read More Bullseye Value: It's Less Than You Think
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn why the inner bull scores 50 and the outer bull 25, how soft-tip scoring can differ, and when the bull is used for finishes and first throw.
Read More The Dartboard's Numbers Are Rigged on Purpose
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn how the dartboard's number sequence punishes inaccurate throws, how the scoring rings work, and what is known about the layout's origins.
Read More Why Smart Players Abandon the 20
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn when treble 19 offers a better target than treble 20 because of blocked beds, scoring risk, preferred setup shots, or personal accuracy.
Read More The Highest Single Dart: Not the Bullseye
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn why treble 20 scores the single-dart maximum of 60, how that compares with the 50-point bullseye, and how each target is used.
Read More Low Ton: The Milestone Beginners Chase
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn which scores from 100 to 150 count as a low ton, how the term differs from a high ton and 180, and how players record the achievement.
Read More What Green Really Means on a Dartboard
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn what the green outer bull and alternating green doubles and trebles score, how colors divide the board, and which areas count as misses.
Read More 501 Scoring: Simple Until It Suddenly Isn't
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn how to count down from 501, score singles, doubles, and trebles, avoid busts, and finish a leg on a double with worked examples.
Read More Fives: The Game Where Most Throws Score Zero
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn the rules of Fives, where only totals divisible by five score, including turns, points, winning conditions, and useful target strategy.
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Cricket Darts: The Rules, Minus the Arguing
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn how to close 15 through 20 and the bull, score points, mark singles, doubles, and trebles, and win a standard game of cricket darts.
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Scoring Darts: Learn It Before They Notice
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn dartboard values, singles, doubles, trebles, bull scoring, turn totals, subtraction in countdown games, and basic chalking.
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How to Play Darts: From First Throw to 501
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn dartboard scoring, setup measurements, stance, grip, throwing technique, popular games, safety, and etiquette in one beginner-friendly guide.
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Darts Scoring: Stop Nodding, Start Knowing
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn every dartboard scoring area, including singles, doubles, trebles, inner and outer bull, miss zones, and common match notation.
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The Math Says You're Aiming at the Wrong Spot
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Use expected value to see how skill level changes the best target, why treble 20 can punish misses, and when another part of the board scores better.
Read More Out Charts: Never Do Checkout Math Again
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Use an out chart for finishes from 61 to 170, understand standard checkout notation, and learn why certain routes leave better backup shots.
Read More The Madhouse: Darts' Cruelest Trap
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn why double 1 is called the madhouse, how players become trapped there, and which checkout routes help avoid a difficult finish.
Read More Setup Shots: The Secret of Smooth Finishers
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn how setup shots help you leave preferred doubles, avoid awkward numbers, and plan an entire visit before the final checkout dart.
Read More Cricket Strategy: Point or Close? Most Guess
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn when to score points, close an opponent's number, switch targets, or attack the bull with a practical decision guide for cricket darts.
Read More Treble 20 vs 19: When Smart Players Switch
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Compare treble 20 and treble 19 for scoring, blocked beds, missed darts, setup shots, and the situations where switching targets makes sense.
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Bogey Numbers: 7 Scores That Kill Your Leg
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn which seven scores cannot be finished with three darts, why the checkout math fails, and how better setup shots help you avoid them.
Read More Checkout Chart: Every Finish From 170 Down
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Find checkout routes from 170 to 2 and learn the patterns behind common three-dart, two-dart, and single-to-double finishes in 501.
Read More The Mental Game: Why You Choke at the Double
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Use pre-throw routines, breathing, realistic practice, and attention control to manage nerves, recover from misses, and finish doubles under pressure.
Read More Doubles Drills: Stop Choking on the Finish
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Practice doubles with four scored drills designed to improve accuracy, checkout confidence, pressure handling, and finishing consistency.
Read More Winning Darts Strategies Nobody Teaches
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Improve match play with smarter targets, checkout planning, doubles practice, repeatable routines, mental control, and game-specific tactics.
Read More How to Win at Darts (Without Being Better)
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Improve match results through repeatable technique, smarter target selection, setup shots, checkout practice, routines, and pressure control.
Read More Why Smart Players Abandon the 20
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn when treble 19 offers a better target than treble 20 because of blocked beds, scoring risk, preferred setup shots, or personal accuracy.
Read More The 501 Strategy That Wins Ugly
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Build a 501 game plan for high scoring, leaving even numbers, choosing setup shots, memorizing checkout routes, and practicing match-winning doubles.
Read More Halve It: Miss Once, Lose Half Your Score
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn Halve-It rules, target sequence, scoring, the penalty for a missed round, common variations, and tactics for protecting your total.
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7 Dart Strategies Casual Players Never Use
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Use seven practical darts strategies for target choice, setup shots, scoring, rules, and playing to your strengths when accuracy alone is not enough.
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Fitness and Darts: The Hour-Three Collapse
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn how leg endurance, balance, shoulder conditioning, hydration, and nutrition help maintain a consistent throw during long matches.
Read More The 10-Minute Warm-Up Pros Swear By
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Use a four-step, ten-minute warm-up to loosen your arm, find your line, rehearse scoring targets, and prepare doubles before a match.
Read More Left-Handed Darts in a Right-Handed World
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Adapt stance, sight line, board position, lighting, and practice for a left-handed throw without simply mirroring right-handed advice.
Read More The Mental Game: Why You Choke at the Double
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Use pre-throw routines, breathing, realistic practice, and attention control to manage nerves, recover from misses, and finish doubles under pressure.
Read More Dartitis: When Your Arm Betrays You
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn how dartitis disrupts the throwing release, which physical and psychological factors contribute, and how players rebuild confidence and motion.
Read More Track These 4 Stats or Stay Mediocre
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Track three-dart average, first-nine average, checkout percentage, and scoring distribution to find weaknesses and measure practice gains.
Read More What's a Good Darts Average? The Hard Truth
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn how a three-dart average is calculated, compare beginner, pub, league, and professional benchmarks, and find practical ways to improve yours.
Read More How Long Until You're Good at Darts? Honestly
By Charles Wallace · Updated
See realistic progress stages from beginner to league player and learn how practice frequency, feedback, and focused routines affect improvement.
Read More Doubles Drills: Stop Choking on the Finish
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Practice doubles with four scored drills designed to improve accuracy, checkout confidence, pressure handling, and finishing consistency.
Read More 6 Solo Games That Beat Boring Practice
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Use six scored solo darts games to train accuracy, doubles, scoring, checkouts, and pressure while making individual practice more structured.
Read More Practice Routines That Actually Move Averages
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Build a weekly darts practice plan with scored routines for accuracy, scoring, doubles, and match pressure instead of aimless throwing.
Read More Bounce-Outs: Stop Blaming Luck, Fix Them
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Reduce bounce-outs by checking point shape, board wear, spider wires, throw angle, and dart condition, then address the most likely cause.
Read More Why Every Dart You Throw Drifts the Same Way
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Diagnose consistent sideways drift by checking alignment, dominant eye, stance, grip pressure, elbow movement, release, and follow-through.
Read More 7 Throwing Mistakes You're Making Right Now
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Identify seven common throwing faults, including excess grip pressure, elbow movement, rushed rhythm, and a shortened follow-through.
Read More The Follow-Through Mistake Killing Your Aim
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn what a consistent dart follow-through looks like, how an early stop affects accuracy, and which drills help build a smoother finish.
Read More The Release: Where Every Throw Goes Wrong
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Diagnose early and late releases, excessive grip pressure, and finger interference, then use simple drills to make your release more consistent.
Read More How to Aim Darts (You're Using the Wrong Eye)
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Find your dominant eye, create a consistent sight line, align your body and throwing arm, and use a repeatable aiming routine at the oche.
Read More Darts Stance: Your Feet Are Lying to You
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Compare front-facing, side-on, and angled stances, then adjust foot position, weight distribution, lean, and oche placement for consistency.
Read More Count-Up: The Perfect Warm-Up (Don't Skip It)
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn Count-Up darts rules, the standard eight-round format, scoring, useful target benchmarks, and why the game works well as a warm-up.
Read More How to Win at Darts (Without Being Better)
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Improve match results through repeatable technique, smarter target selection, setup shots, checkout practice, routines, and pressure control.
Read More 21 Throwing Tips: From Barfly to Sniper
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Use 21 practical darts tips covering stance, grip, aim, release, follow-through, practice, equipment, scoring, and match focus.
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How to Grip a Dart (Without Strangling It)
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Find a comfortable dart grip by adjusting finger count, barrel position, and pressure while keeping the release relaxed and repeatable.
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7 Dart Strategies Casual Players Never Use
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Use seven practical darts strategies for target choice, setup shots, scoring, rules, and playing to your strengths when accuracy alone is not enough.
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Throw Darts Accurately: The Boring Secret
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Build a repeatable throw by aligning your stance, grip, elbow, release, and follow-through, then reinforce it with focused practice.
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How to Play Darts: From First Throw to 501
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn dartboard scoring, setup measurements, stance, grip, throwing technique, popular games, safety, and etiquette in one beginner-friendly guide.
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High Ton: The Call That Turns Heads
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn which scores from 151 to 180 count as a high ton, how the term differs from a low ton and ton 80, and why players track the achievement.
Read More Darts Slang: Speak Like a League Veteran
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn more than 50 darts terms, from Annie's room and bogey numbers to robin hoods, ton 80s, oches, and common match calls.
Read More Double In vs Double Out: The Rule Flip
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn how double-in and double-out rules change 301 and 501, where each format is used, and how the opening and finishing strategy differs.
Read More Ton 80: The Perfect Visit, Explained
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn why ton 80 means three treble 20s for a score of 180, how difficult the maximum visit is, and why it matters in matches and statistics.
Read More Shanghai: Darts' Flashiest Instant Win
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn how a single, double, and treble of the same number form a Shanghai, when it creates an instant win, and how players aim for one.
Read More The Madhouse: Darts' Cruelest Trap
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn why double 1 is called the madhouse, how players become trapped there, and which checkout routes help avoid a difficult finish.
Read More Bogey Numbers: 7 Scores That Kill Your Leg
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn which seven scores cannot be finished with three darts, why the checkout math fails, and how better setup shots help you avoid them.
Read More The Nine-Darter: Perfection in 9 Throws
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn how a perfect 501 leg is completed in nine darts, compare common checkout routes, and see why the achievement is so rare.
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Dartitis: When Your Arm Betrays You
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn how dartitis disrupts the throwing release, which physical and psychological factors contribute, and how players rebuild confidence and motion.
Read More Bullseye Value: It's Less Than You Think
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn why the inner bull scores 50 and the outer bull 25, how soft-tip scoring can differ, and when the bull is used for finishes and first throw.
Read More Low Ton: The Milestone Beginners Chase
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn which scores from 100 to 150 count as a low ton, how the term differs from a high ton and 180, and how players record the achievement.
Read More What Green Really Means on a Dartboard
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn what the green outer bull and alternating green doubles and trebles score, how colors divide the board, and which areas count as misses.
Read More Scoring Darts: Learn It Before They Notice
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn dartboard values, singles, doubles, trebles, bull scoring, turn totals, subtraction in countdown games, and basic chalking.
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Watching Pro Darts: TV, Streams, and Chaos
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Find professional darts on television and streaming services, understand the major events and season, and know what to expect at a live match.
Read More Run a Tournament People Actually Come Back To
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Plan a darts tournament with the right format, bracket, boards, schedule, entry fees, payouts, rules, staffing, and tiebreak procedures.
Read More The Darts Civil War That Split the Sport
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn why 16 leading players broke from the BDO in 1993, how two rival tours emerged, and how the dispute reshaped professional darts.
Read More World Cup of Darts: When Darts Goes Tribal
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn how the World Cup pairs format works, how countries qualify and advance, which nations have won, and how team play changes match strategy.
Read More Grand Slam of Darts: Where Rivals Collide
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn how the Grand Slam of Darts works, from group play and qualification to its original cross-code field, knockout rounds, and past champions.
Read More Premier League Darts: Thursday Night Mayhem
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn how Premier League Darts works, including player selection, weekly league nights, points, playoffs, venues, and the competition's history.
Read More World Matchplay: Darts' Summer Pressure Test
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn how the World Matchplay field qualifies, how the legs-only format and tiebreaks work, and why Blackpool's Winter Gardens matters.
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16g Darts in Pro Tournaments? The Truth
By Charles Wallace · Updated
See why 16-gram steel-tip darts are tournament legal, why few professionals use them, and which players may benefit from a lighter setup.
Read More Inside Darts' Million-Pound Championship
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Learn how the PDC World Darts Championship works, including qualification, set play, Alexandra Palace, prize money, and notable champions.
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The Rise and Fall of the BDO Championship
By Charles Wallace · Updated
Trace the BDO World Darts Championship from its Lakeside years and famous champions to the PDC split and the tournament's eventual collapse.
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