The Probert Encyclopaedia of Recreation

DARTS

Darts is a game played with small pointed missiles fitted with a feathered or plastic flight, which are thrown at a circular target divided into twenty numbered segments and inner circles called 'doubles', 'triples', twenty-five and the central circle called the bullseye - which scores fifty. The game of darts originated in England after Englishmen were required by royal decree to practice their archery everyday. Darts is traditionally a man's game associated with public houses though there are no rules governing the gender of participants.
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