Darts is a game, or rather a large variety of related games, in which darts are thrown at a circular target (know as a dart board) hung on a wall.

Ironically the bullseye is not the most valuable part of the dart board. The triple-twenty is sixty points while the bullseye is fifty.

The standard dartboard is divided into twenty numbered sections, scoring from one to 20 points, by wires running from the small central circle to the outer circular wire. Circular wires within the outer wire divide each section into single, double and triple areas.

A relatively new type of board is the soft tip board, which is made of plastic and cast with small holes (about .08 inches, or 2 mm) in the face. The soft tip darts are, in general, lighter than the steel tipped darts, and have a lower maximum allowable weight.

The World Series Of Darts was first aired in 2006 on ESPN with a grand prize of $1,000,000.

A game, or “leg”, of darts is usually contested between two players who take turns in throwing up to three darts. Starting from a set score, usually 501 or 301, a player wins by reducing his score to zero. The last dart in the leg must hit either a double or the inner portion of the bullseye, which is the double of the outer bull, and must reduce the score to exactly zero.

A player throws 3 darts each time at the dart board.

The PDC tournaments often have higher prize money and without doubt the best player in the world: 13-time World Champion Phil Taylor. Cementing the PDC’s dominance at the very top of the game in early 2006, four-time BDO world champion Raymond van Barneveld moved to the PDC.