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Darts training: 8 practice games with rules

Eight practice games for accuracy, doubles, checkouts and scoring. Here are the rules, plus a Bob’s 27 scorer that runs in your browser. Each game fits into a 20-minute session.

Accuracy

Around the Clock

Around the Clock is the classic darts game for beginners and a good warm-up for everyone else. You work your way round the board from 1 to 20 in order and get to know every segment.

How to play

  1. 1 You start on 1, with three darts per visit.
  2. 2 Hit the number and you move on to the next, even within the same visit.
  3. 3 In the basic version any part of the number counts: single, double or treble.
  4. 4 Once you’ve hit the 20 you’re done. Your score is the number of darts you needed, so fewer is better.

Variations for stronger players

  • Doubles only: a number only counts when you hit its double. Ideal for checkout practice.
  • Trebles only: works on your scoring.
  • Finish on the bull: after the 20 you still need to hit the bull.
App screenshot: Around the Clock with dartboard, current target 12 after 28 darts
Around the Clock in the app

Doubles practice

Bob’s 27

Bob’s 27 was devised by Bob Anderson and is one of the best-known darts practice games for doubles. Every miss costs you points, so you feel real pressure, just like going for a checkout in a match.

27

Starting points for every game.

D1 → Bull

You play the doubles in order and finish on the bull: 21 rounds in total.

3 Darts

Three darts at each double. Every hit adds the value of the double.

No hits

Miss with all three and the value of the double is taken off once. Drop to 0 or below and the game is over.

Example: you start on 27 and throw at D1. One hit adds 2, so you’re on 29. You miss all three at D2, which costs 4, leaving you on 25. The highest possible score is 1,437.

Bob’s 27 online scorer

Current target

D1

Score

27

Round 1 of 21

How many times did you hit D1?

All eight practice games in the app. With records for every game.

Download on the App Store

Android: free APK from GitHub

Checkouts, doubles, scoring

Six more practice games

All eight games are built into the app. The app keeps score, saves a record for every game and fits a full session into about 20 minutes.

Checkouts

121 Checkout

Check out 121 in nine darts, then keep climbing.

  • You start on 121 and have nine darts, three visits, to finish on a double.
  • Check out and your next target goes up by one, all the way to 170.
  • Miss or bust and the target drops by one. Busts work just like in a match.

Checkouts

50 Checkout

Climb from 50 to past 100.

  • You start on 50. How many darts you get depends on the score: up to 60 you have 3 darts, up to 120 you have 6, above that 9.
  • Check out and the target goes up by 10. Miss or bust and it drops by one.
  • You win as soon as you get past 100.

Doubles

Halving Chains

Five routes where the double halves each time.

  • The routes are D20 → D10 → D5, D16 → D8 → D4, D8 → D4 → D2, D12 → D6 → D3 and D4 → D2 → D1.
  • One dart at each double. Hit or miss, you move on to the next.
  • Choose one round or more; each round is 15 darts. The app shows your hit rate on every double.

Scoring

Power Switch

Five minutes on the trebles.

  • You play against the clock for five minutes, starting on T20.
  • Hit the treble and you stay on that segment. A single or a miss moves you on: T20 → T19 → T18.
  • Every new visit starts again on T20.
  • The app counts your trebles and your longest treble streak.

Scoring

Segment Master

Reach 1,000 points on the 20 and 19.

  • Only the 20 segment with its neighbours (20, 1, 5) and the 19 segment with its neighbours (19, 7, 3) score.
  • Hit anything else and points are taken off.
  • Three misses in a row cost you 100 points.

Doubles

Double Chase

The bull, and whichever double your miss leaves you.

  • Throw at the bull. Three bulls in one visit complete the round.
  • Miss the bull and the number you hit instead becomes your double. Now you chase that.
  • The app records your hit rate on the bull and on every double.

More tools

Darts checkout chart Every finish from 170 to 2, with calculator. Darts average calculator Work out your 3-dart average from points and darts.