Rules for 301 dart

Scoring

• The red circle in the middle, made of hard wood, is called bulls eye and worth 50 points. It counts as a double.
• The four green fields surround bulls eye are worth 25 points.
• The numbers 1 through 20 placed around the board are nominal values for darts hitting the respective fields or sectors.
• The two larger fields of a sector (green for the 20 sector) are worth their nominal value as denoted by the number ring surrounding the board.
• The outer thin ring closest to the actual numbers are doubles, and worth double the nominal value of their sector.
• The inner thin ring is worth three times the nominal score, so the highest possible score on a single dart would be triple 20 (the small red field halfway between the number 20 and bullseye) that is worth 60 points.
• The black area outside the double ring is considered off the board and scores 0.

Score keeping

• All players begin with 301 points, and the aim of the game is to reach zero as fast as possible.
• The sum of one round of up to three darts will be withdrawn from the remaining score. That is, you do not have to throw all darts in a round, though normally you will do it unless you reach zero and thereby finish the game. [In real life, only darts that are still on the board when all darts have been thrown counts.]
• The first player to reach an even score between 2 and 50 inclusive and then scores a double to reach exactly zero points is the winner. (Unless someone else did that earlier.)
• Players getting a negative score or reaching exactly one point will lose all points scored in that round and the game will continue with the next player. The same goes for a player reaching zero without scoring a double with the last dart.