Playing Darts – A Brief Overview
Darts is one of the many games you can enjoy with your friends and family after a few rounds of beer on a relaxing day out – or even in the comfort of your own home if you own a darts board yourself. Some people tend to feel reluctant to take part in darts games due to lacking knowledge of the rules, or fearing that they’ll look ridiculous trying to make a decent throw.
In reality though, playing darts is really easy and it can be an awesome way to mingle with those around you and spend the night in an amusing way. As with all games, you must begin by learning the rules; which, with darts, are quite simple – you have a board (most commonly circular), divided into seperate parts numbered according to the points they each give. You take turns with other players (with the traditional rules separating you in two teams of two players each) throwing darts at the board, and each hit subtracts the amount you have hit from your initial score (which is either 301 or 501 in most popular variations). The first player to reach 0 points wins.
Of course, it’s a bit more complicated than that and there are some rules you must become familiar with – for example, when you’ve reached the point where it’s a matter of just one throw to clear your score, something many beginners don’t realize is that they must get a hit that sets the number to 0 precisely – not lower, not higher. What this means is that if you have a score of 19, you must hit 19, not anything higher – if you go below zero your score would be reset to what it was before the throw; this usually makes the last rounds of a darts game the most interesting, as players are each trying to get a particular number and individual skill truly starts to shine.
Getting your throw perfected will take some time, but the greatest barrier is usually in the beginning of your learning, when you have to familiarize yourself with the technique for throwing a dart in general. Take it easy and listen to any tips you’re given – it’s actually a very straightforward process which will surely come naturally to you after just a few tries, but it will take quite a lot of practice before you’ve perfected it.
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