Darts score sheet
The countdown sheet shows what is left after every turn, refuses a throw that would bust, and will tell you how to finish from anywhere under a hundred and seventy. Underneath it is the marks grid for the other game, three boxes a number.
Keep score in the browser
The grid below is the sheet. Type into it and the totals, bonuses and thresholds are applied as you go; press Print at any point and the paper version comes out with whatever is in the boxes.
Names and scores stay in this browser and nothing is uploaded. Where a game has competing conventions the sheet says which one it applies. Check this before you rely on it. This score sheet and scorekeeper is provided free and without warranty, and its results are not professional advice.
Darts score sheet
Date ____________
| Turn | Player 1 | Player 2 | Player 3 | Player 4 | ||||
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| Scored | Left | Scored | Left | Scored | Left | Scored | Left | |
| Start | 501 | 501 | 501 | 501 | ||||
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The marks game — three to shut a number
| Turn | Player 1 | Player 2 | Player 3 | Player 4 |
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| 20 | ||||
| 19 | ||||
| 18 | ||||
| 17 | ||||
| 16 | ||||
| 15 | ||||
| Bull | ||||
| Points |
A countdown from 501 that refuses a bust, and a marks grid for the other game.
Check out from here
Give it what is left and it returns a route in three darts or fewer, preferring the shortest. It also says when a number cannot be finished at all, which is worth knowing before the first dart rather than after the third.
A worked example
Sitting on 40 and throwing 40 twice — once with a single twenty and a twenty, once with the double twenty.
| What happened | Points |
|---|---|
| Forty scored, but not on a double | 0 |
| Score stays where it was | 40 |
| Double twenty, and the leg is over | 0 |
| Total against you | 0 |
The column that matters is what is left
Players call out what they threw; what they need is what remains. So the remainder is a column of its own beside every turn, recalculated as the turn is entered, which is exactly what a caller does aloud and exactly what a plain grid of thrown scores leaves everyone to work out privately.
Starting at five hundred and one is the standard, and three hundred and one is the shorter game. The odd number is deliberate — it prevents an opening treble-twenty run from leaving a clean double, and it is the reason the first throw of a leg is a real decision rather than a formality.
A bust puts the score back, it does not subtract
Three things void a turn: going below zero, landing on exactly one, and reaching zero without the final dart being a double. In every case the whole turn is discarded and the player starts their next one from where they were before it. Nothing is deducted and nothing is carried.
Simple subtraction gets that wrong every time, which is why an app or a sheet that merely takes numbers away is not really scoring the game. The countdown here checks each turn against all three conditions, refuses the ones that bust, and says which rule was broken — the argument this settles is one of the oldest in the sport.
Finding a finish, and shutting a number
Anything from two up to a hundred and seventy can be closed in three darts, and the sheet will show a route: the maximum is two trebles of twenty and the bull. Below about a hundred there are usually several, and the one offered here prefers the fewest darts, which is what a player standing at the line actually wants to hear.
The lower grid is for the other game entirely. Three marks shut a number, and until every opponent has shut it too, further hits on it score its face value. The three boxes per number per player make the state of every number legible from across the room, which a tally of slashes in a margin never manages.
Common questions
Does the sheet insist on a double to finish?
By default, yes, because that is the standard rule and the source of most busts. Straight-out play is a common informal variant; if that is what you are playing, simply enter the turn that takes you to zero and ignore the warning.
What is the highest possible checkout?
A hundred and seventy: treble twenty, treble twenty, bull. A hundred and sixty-nine, a hundred and sixty-eight, a hundred and sixty-six, a hundred and sixty-five, a hundred and sixty-three, a hundred and sixty-two and a hundred and fifty-nine cannot be done in three darts at all, and the finder will tell you so rather than offer something illegal.
How many players does the countdown handle?
Four columns, which covers singles, pairs and a small round-robin. For a larger group the usual approach is a fresh sheet per leg, since a leg rarely runs to twenty turns.
Is the bull worth twenty-five or fifty?
The outer ring is twenty-five and the inner bull is fifty, and the inner counts as a double, which is what makes it a legal finish. Both are in the checkout finder, and both appear on the marks grid where the bull is closed like any other number.
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