How to play Baseball darts
Nine innings. In inning N every player throws three darts at the number N, and only that number scores: a single is 1 run, a double 2, a triple 3. Most runs after nine innings wins. Level after nine and you play extra innings until someone leads at the end of a completed inning.
Also played as Baseball.
Chuck Darts scores this game to exactly the rules on this page, and keeps the card open mid-match so anybody at the board can check one. A full leg of 501, a board of Cricket and six practice drills are playable right now with no account at all.
THE INNING AND ITS NUMBER
Inning 1 is the 1, inning 2 the 2, on to inning 9. Extra innings carry on round the board: inning 10 is the 10, inning 11 the 11, up to the 20 — and after the 20 it starts again at the 1. The app owns the inning, not you. It moves on only when every player in the game has thrown in the current one, so nobody can get an inning ahead. Order of throwing is fixed by seat and the app refuses a turn out of turn.
WHAT SCORES
Only the inning's own number, and what it pays is the RING, not the number. In inning 7, a single 7 is 1 run — not 7. Double 7 is 2, triple 7 is 3. Everything else on the board is worth nothing that inning, including the bull and including a triple 20. Nine runs is the most any inning can hold; a perfect nine innings is 81.
ENTERING A TURN
Dart by dart. This game is scored from the darts as thrown, so the app will not accept a turn typed in as a total — it cannot count runs it cannot see. There is no way to enter "four runs", only which darts landed where.
WINNING, AND TIES
The game is over only when all three are true: every player has completed at least nine innings, every player has completed the SAME number of innings, and one player leads on runs. Level at the end of the ninth is not a draw — it is the tenth inning, and the tenth targets the 10. Extra innings run until one player finishes an inning in front. There is no limit on how many. If the host ends a game of two or more before it has finished, the run leader is recorded as the winner. If the scores are exactly level when the host ends it, no winner is recorded. A solo card is different: see PLAYERS.
PLACES
Second and below are ordered on runs, most first. Players level on runs share a place (2, 2, 4 — places under a winner start at second). If the game ends with no winner, no places are recorded at all. If someone has to leave, the host — or that player themselves — can take their seat out of a live game, as long as two players are left at the board: the app refuses a removal that would leave one player throwing alone, so a two-handed game has to be ended instead. The app keeps the seat in the running order so everyone else's turn order holds, but nothing more is scored for or against them: their board stops where they left it, and they are placed after everyone who finished. It cannot be undone, and Rematch will not bring them back: it carries only the seats that were still in, so start the next game and add them to it yourself.
CORRECTIONS
The board is rebuilt from the recorded darts, so a correction typed as a number is refused. Undo works: it removes the last turn completely and replays the board without it, so that inning goes back to unplayed and the player bats it again. Correcting the turn to 0 scores that inning nothing and leaves it on the record as played. A turn the clock forfeited is the clock's own record: neither you nor the host can undo it or correct it afterwards. If neither door puts a wrong entry right and it decided a close game, have the host name the right winner when ending it.
TIMED TURNS
If the host has set a turn clock in an online ranked game, running out of time records that turn as three misses: the inning is played and scores nothing. It never removes runs you have already banked, and it does not end your game.
PLAYERS
Two to eight is what the game is built for. One player can throw a full nine-inning card solo and it will be recorded as a win. A solo card the host ends before all nine innings are in records no winner and no place, whatever the runs at that moment.
HOUSE RULES THIS APP DOES NOT PLAY
No governing body publishes Baseball. Chuck Darts plays nine innings on the numbers 1 to 9, a single scoring 1 run, a double 2 and a triple 3, with nothing else on the board scoring at all — and extra innings carry on round the board, so inning 10 is the 10, inning 11 the 11, and after the 20 it starts again at the 1. That last part is a choice, not a rule: published guides disagree about it. Common alternatives you may have played elsewhere: extra innings thrown at the bull instead of at the next number up; the bull as a home run when it is the last dart of an inning, or as a four-run grand slam at any time; a seventh-inning stretch that halves your score if you fail to score a run in it; and the offense-and-defense version with runners on base. If your venue wants one of those, agree it out loud before the first dart — the app will still score the version above.