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Category: FAQs

Darts History…

YE OLDE FAKE HISTORY OF YE OLDE GAME OF DARTS

20 Sep 201920 Dec 2020
I have been friends with Arthur R. Taylor, the noted pub games expert for some years and was unaware until recently that he had, back in 2007 written about the…
FAQs

The Oche

13 Aug 201913 Aug 2019
WHERE DOES THE WORD OCHE ORIGINATE? This is one question that I am asked time and time again and one for which I can only offer a theory. 'Oche' as…
FAQs…

John Lowe – Nine Darter

22 May 201915 Nov 2019
John Lowe has called his now legendary nine-darter, achieved on 13th October 1984, as ‘two and a half minutes of magic’. Indeed he has recorded the historic event in detail…
Darts History…

NINE-DARTERS

22 May 201911 Dec 2021
Who Threw The Very First Nine-Darter? I receive a good number of darts history questions via my website, but one I received in February 2003 from a dart fan in…
Darts History…

WALK ON GIRLS (AND MEN)

22 May 201921 Dec 2020
WILLIAM HILL WORLD DARTS CHAMPIONSHIP 2018 ALEXANDRA PALACE,LONDON PIC; (c) LAWRENCE LUSTIG PREM ROUND WALK ONS. Used with permission.) Glamorous walk-on girls became a popular feature and fixture of every…
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Why 501?

22 May 201931 Oct 2019
The very first games of darts consisted of throwing three darts and the highest score with those three darts won the game. But then things became a little more sophisticated.…
FAQs

Why Three Darts?

22 May 201916 Aug 2019
In June 2004 I received the following e-mail from a visitor to my web site. “Hello Mr. Chaplin, Could you please tell me why we only use 3 darts in…
Australia…

First Back-To-Back 180s On TV

21 May 201920 Dec 2020
Way, way back in 2003 in response to a question that I could not answer, Wayne Robinson of the University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, e-mailed me to say…

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