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A leg of darts must finish on a double
The rule makes 170 the highest possible checkout in one visit A player who lands on 1, or busts by going below zero, loses the rest of that visit and returns to the score they started with. The 170 checkout is treble 20, treble 20 and bull. Some formats use a double to start as well, which makes the game harder. It sits in Mondo's sports collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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Professional Darts Corporation
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A leg of darts must finish on a double: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- The rule makes 170 the highest possible checkout in one visit. The figure is taken from Professional Darts Corporation, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
- Is this really a sports fact?
- Yes. It sits on the Sports shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
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