The darts were born in 1415 under the sky of Agincourt.
Bored English soldiers reportedly fired their arrowheads at the bottom of beer kegs before aiming them at the French.
Over time, the barrels would have been replaced by cut tree trunks, their rings and radial cracks representing the sectors of the target.
Leonardo da Vinci would have played there.
Anne Boleyn would have offered a game to Henry VIII before losing his mind...
The rules stabilize in the 19th century.
A treacherous carpenter from Lancashire, Brian Gamlin, invents the numbering system on which all the ingenuity of the game is based. others, surrounded by the little ones to maximize the risks.
Then, some squares equidistant from the center count double or triple.
Aiming for the middle is not enough...
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