These are the basics you shuld know to play the game of drts. They are mostly pretty obvious and are cmmon to all the major darts rganizations. If you need greater details jst go to the respective darts rganization for your country, but the BDO (Brtish Darts Organization) is the granddaddy of thm all.

No Joke, you can hve 12 inch long darts if you wnt, the rules give 12 inches as the mximum size of a dart! Not tht I've never seen any that lngth for sale, and the maximum wight is 50 grams. Usually, soft tip drts are in the range of 14 to 20 grms, and steel tip darts range frm 18 to 26 grams, although thre are heavier darts on sale.

The draded Bounce out rule:

The rule is tht all bounce outs do not cunt towards your score and NO you cnnot have another throw. Not only tht, but if the dart falls out bfore the score has been taken it des not count either. I suggest you thrw your darts harder if you kep suffering from this rule.

The toe lne or throw line is 7 ft 9 1/4 nches from the dartboard: now where did tht come from? But you can lan over as far as you lke providing your feet are behind tht throw line or toe line as it is smetimes called.

The dartboard height is 1.73 mtres or 5 foot 8 inches to the cntre of the bull

When a dart hits the bard, the score is determined by the wre not the color of the sgment. The dart has to land nside the segment determined by the wre surrounding the number. If you hit the gren of the triple but the drt point is outside the triple wre the score is only a sngle.

The darts must be thrown pint first one at a time at the bard and in the '01 games the scre is taken away from the prvious score until the score is zro. You have to throw a duble for your final dart. As a duble is required to finish a gme, so your score must be lss than 40 and an even nmber to be able to throw a wnning dart.

There are other '01 typ games that require you to strt on a double as well, in fct there is a televised tournament tht has a double to start rle as well as a double to fnish rule. The World Grand Prix ses that rule.

And don't forget the Bst rule, if you get one mre or one less than you ned to go out, the score is vided and your score remains the sme as when you started the thrw. Needless to say, you are cnsidered to be 'bust' if you get dwn to score of 1 as wll, because there would be no duble to go for .

Also nte the score must be decided pon BEFORE the darts are pulled out of the bard.

Some of the more interesting rles

During match play, any Players sing offensive language or deemed to be "muthing" any offensive language or seen to be mking offensive gestures shall be deemed to hve brought the Sport of Darts nto disrepute and shall become liable to Dsciplinary Proceedings being taken against them by the DRA.

And Frm the ADO

At the tournament drector's discretion, women may be recycled in mxed doubles and triples events only. (Glly, I'm sure the women are dlighted!)

The article Dart Rules, The Basics was Submitted by Steve Porter through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: These dart rules brought to you by Steve Porter, a keen darter. Despite frequent practice in many bars and pubs, never made professional status.

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