Daily Darts

Daily Darts is a free browser game from Dayplay Games, a brand of WW Companies. It is drawn in 3D on a regulation board hung in a wooden cabinet, and it plays on a desktop or a phone with no account.

The daily round is nine darts. A panel beside the board names today's two numbers and the bull, and you throw three darts at each in turn. Only the target scores. A single counts the number, the thin outer ring doubles it and the thin inner ring trebles it, while at the bull the outer ring is 25 and the bullseye 50. A single, double and treble of the number in one visit is a Shanghai and adds 100. Three darts in the bull is a hat trick worth 50 more.

Throwing is a gesture. You press to pick up the dart, line it up under your number and flick upward to let go. The aim sways a little, and the speed and direction of the flick decide where the dart lands. The game says there are no random misses, so a repeat of the same flick lands in the same place. On a keyboard, Left and Right move the dart, and you hold Space and let go when the needle sits where you want it.

New numbers come at midnight UTC. You can retry as often as you like, and the best finished score is the one the daily leaderboard keeps. A week strip tracks which days you played, and a set of dart skins unlocks for playing several days or hitting a Shanghai.

Around the daily sit a practice mode with fresh numbers, Around the Clock from 1 to 20, a nine-dart High Score round, and matches of 101, 201, 301 or Cricket against the computer at three levels, a second player on the same device, or someone online. It suits anyone who likes a short skill challenge more than a word or logic puzzle.