Darts is one of those games that has been experimented with to no end, and some people are still trying to find out the "perfect" formula for a balanced game of darts. You may be familiar with the default rules of the game which most people play by, but there are numerous variations of those rules and if you want to spice up your darts experience with a new set of rules to follow, you can try out one of the many variations of the sport.
The rules by which most people play are called "501" or "301" depending on the amount of points you start with - and they have players taking turns and trying to reduce their own scores to 0 by hitting the appropriate sections of the darts board.
A game known as "Cricket" is an interesting and quite different way to compete with your friends; first, each player must throw a dart at the board, aiming at the bull's eye - the one closest to it gets the first turn in the actual game. Whether you consider the actual distance from the center, or just the segment the darts land in, is entirely up to you.
The actual game involves players throwing darts at the numbers from 15 to 20, or the bulls' eye - your goal is to hit each of those numbers as well as the bulls' eye three times, before your opponents have managed to do the same. Doubles and triples count accordingly, so hitting 5 triple counts as 15, for example. You score points by hitting numbers which you've managed to hit 3 times already, but your opponent hasn't yet - each of these hits adds to your total points count, with the bulls' eye counting as 50 points. The one who manages to hit all their numbers 3 times and then score the most points wins the game.
"Around the Clock" is another variation of the rules for darts, and it can be a neat way to introduce the game to someone inexperienced with it due to the relative ease of playing. The goal is really simple - you must hit every number on the board consecutively before someone else does; there's no scoring in the traditional sense as the only thing that matters is the final result, e.g. managing to hit all those numbers in sequence before the others. Despite being really simple, these rules are great for both beginners as well as more experienced players.
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