Darts Checkout Chart

T means treble and D means double, so T20 is treble 20 (60) and D16 is double 16 (32). Bull is the inner bull, worth 50, which counts as double 25 and is therefore a legal finish. The outer bull, worth 25, is a single and cannot finish a leg.

Each row shows the fewest darts that finish the score. Where a score has a one-dart out — every even number up to 40, plus the bull on 50 — that is what is listed, because there is no reason to throw two darts at something one dart finishes.

Published charts disagree with each other, because more than one route finishes most scores. The routes here follow four rules, applied in order.

Fewest darts wins. 40 is D20, not S20 D10.

Throw at beds you already aim at. A treble is a routine setup dart. A double or the bull used as a setup is a thin target thrown for no scoring benefit, so 120 is T20 S20 D20 rather than three double 20s.

Never finish on D1, D2 or D3 by choice. 122 is T18 T20 D4, not T20 T20 D1. The extra point of setup accuracy is worth far less than throwing at a double you can actually hit.

With three darts you are still scoring; with two you are finishing. On 150 you throw T20 T20 and take D15. On 61 you throw T15 and take D8, rather than T19 into D2.

Most players are far better on a handful of doubles than on the other fifteen, and the chart above is built around that. D20, D16, D12, D8 and D10 carry most of the finishes, because each of them halves cleanly into another double if you miss into the single bed.

Miss D16 into the single 16 and you are on 16, which is D8. Miss that and you are on 8, which is D4. That chain is why D16 is the double most professionals prefer, even though D20 is the one most amateurs throw at.

The same logic drives what you leave yourself. If you cannot finish this visit, put the last dart somewhere that leaves an even number — 32, 40 and 24 are the ones worth aiming for. Leaving 33 or 41 means the next visit starts with a dart spent just making the score even again.

Seven scores below 171 have no three-dart finish at all: 169, 168, 166, 165, 163, 162 and 159. There is no combination of three darts that both sums to those numbers and ends on a double.

They are worth memorising, because the mistake is not landing on them — it is not noticing. A player on 169 who throws at T20 expecting a finish has wasted a visit. The right move is to score down deliberately: from 159, throw T19 to leave 102, or T20 to leave 99, both of which finish next time.

Full breakdown of the bogey numbers and what to leave from each.