Darts History – 1800’s

Many interesting stories exist with regard to darts. One such story was about a game which originated in 1844 called "Puff and Dart". It seems that while some people were throwing the darts others tried to start a new type of game by using a blowpipe to blow the dart into the board. Apparently the game was quickly banned because a London dart blower made the mistake of sucking the blowpipe instead of blowing. The dart went into his digestive system, which caused him to die a few days later.

From the 1800 to 1900’s, different versions of the game existed with not much of a standard or any rules. Different dartboard numbering configurations were used during this time and it was only at the end of the 19th century that the game developed into its modern day version.

In 1896, a carpenter from Lancashire in England, by the name of Brian Gamlin, invented the dartboard numbering layout of today.

The numbering system of modern day dartboards, has the number 20 at the top, followed by the number 1 in a clockwise direction, then the number 18 etc. Brian Gamlins numbering sequence layout, was specifically created with the intention to penalize inaccuracy. Although many papers were written about the billions of different dartboard numbering sequences that could be devised with 20 numbers, it is widely accepted, that Brian Gamlins numbering sequence layout, is the closest to perfect randomness you will ever find. (Brian Gamlin died in 1903 before he could patent his idea)

Doubles and trebles were not part of the dartboard’s make-up during this time. The highest score was the bulls-eye.

The dart, at this stage, consisted of a 4 inch long piece of wood called the barrel, with a metal point on the one side and feathers for the dart flight on the opposite side.

Nowadays, tungsten dart becomes the most popular sport, compared with the “old school dart”, the modern tungsten darts have smaller diameter (under the same weight), attractive and durable, so tungsten darts are widely popular to dart players.

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