Table games · darts
Darts
How high to hang the board and how far back to stand, the board's rings measured, and how to play the games — 501 and 301 the way the professionals do, cricket and baseball the way American bars do, and the party games for a crowd. Printable sheets for all of it: the setup drawing, a throw-line marker, three score sheets and a board face for your league.
Darts · setup, rules, builder
Dartboard height and distance, the rules of the games, and a custom board sheet.
Regulation setup with the lane it needs, the games by rulebook, and a builder that puts your name on the board.
Darts at a glance
| Board height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) from the floor to the centre of the bull |
|---|---|
| Throw line | 7 ft 9¼ in (2.37 m) from the face of the board for steel tip; 8 ft (2.44 m) for soft tip |
| Diagonal check | 9 ft 7⅜ in (2.93 m) from the bull to the back of the line |
| Board | 17¾ in (451 mm) across; 13⅜ in (340 mm) scoring area; 8 mm double and treble rings |
| The game | 501 down to exactly zero, finishing on a double — or cricket, 301, baseball and the rest |
Printable · all seven sheets
The darts sheets.
Every PDF from the setup and rules pages in one place.
Also in the game room
Pool table — dimensions, sizes and 8-ball rules
7, 8 and 9 ft tables, the room formula, the rules by rulebook and how to rack.
Darts questions
Darts, frequently asked
Where do I start?
Hanging a board: the height and distance page, which has the side-view sheet and a throw-line marker you can print and tape down. Learning or settling a game: the rules page covers 501, 301, cricket, baseball and the party games. Running a league night: the score sheets print from here and the builder puts your name on a board face for the wall.
Is darts really a table game?
No — it hangs on the wall — but it lives in the same room as the pool table and the same people ask the same questions about it: how far, how high, how do you score. So it sits here with the game room tables. The lane it needs, about 5 ft wide and 11 to 12 ft deep, is on the dimensions page next to the table sizes.
Are these free?
Completely — no signup, no watermark. Every sheet is a plain letter-size PDF, and the builder runs in your browser.
Setup figures from the WDF Playing Rules and the NDA soft-tip rules; game rules as played by the PDC, WDF and American leagues. Updated through September 2026.