Checkout Chart: Every Finish From 170 Down

One hundred and seventy left, three darts in your hand, and the whole room already leaning in — everyone knows it's the biggest finish in darts. Two treble 20s and a bullseye later the leg's over, and the chart in your head just paid for itself.

How to read a checkout route

A checkout is a combination of up to three darts that takes your score exactly to zero, ending on a double. In the tables below, T means treble, D means double, a plain number means the single, and Bull is the 50 — which counts as a double.

So "T20, T19, D12" reads: treble 20, then treble 19, then double 12. Routes are listed in throwing order, the last dart is always the double, and that's a hard requirement under standard 501 rules.

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The big finishes: 170 down to 121

These are the glamour checkouts, and each one needs three big darts. Seven scores in this range are bogey numbers — no combination of three darts can finish them at all.

120 down to 101: treble, single, double

Every score in this band follows one pattern: a treble 20 (or treble 19), a single to tidy up, then your double. Learn the pattern and the whole band comes for free.

100 down to 61: two darts can do it

One treble that leaves your favorite double finishes anything here. The guiding rule: an odd score needs an odd first dart (odd treble or odd single) to leave an even number, because you can't split an odd score into doubles alone.

Note 99: the treble still leaves too much for one dart, so it's the one score in the band that usually takes all three. T19 leaves 42, then 10 sets up D16.

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60 down to 41: single, then your double

No trebles needed — just the single that leaves your preferred double. Pros love leaves of 32 and the other powers of two, because a near-miss often keeps you on an even number.

40 down to 2: straight at a double

Any even score of 40 or below is one dart: halve it and throw at that double. Miss D16 into single 16 and you're on D8, miss that into 8 and you're on D4 — that clean halving is why so much of winning 501 strategy funnels toward 32.

Stuck on an odd number? Hit a small single first to leave a double you like — on 19, take single 3 to leave D8.

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How to memorize the chart

Don't memorize 170 separate numbers — memorize the handful of habits the whole chart is built from. Everything above collapses into a few patterns.

• Learn the four bull finishes (170, 167, 164, 161) and the seven bogey numbers as one set
• Treat 121–140 as "T20 plus a treble, ending on your doubles"
• Pick two favorite doubles — say D16 and D20 — and learn the leaves that reach them
• Drill the odd-number rule until it's reflex: odd score, odd first dart

Once the patterns click, the routes stop feeling arbitrary and start feeling inevitable. After that it's pure repetition.

Pin your five most-missed checkouts to the practice board this week and make them boring.