Tonight, my cousin and I discovered that the regulation height for a dart board’s bullseye is 68″ off the ground. The regulation throwing distance is a befuddling 7 feet, 9-1/4 inches from the wall.
Fun fact from the article:
According to darts legend, regulation throwing distance was originally equal to the length of three wooden brewer’s crates placed end to end. The particular crates used to derive this measurement were from an English brewery named Hockey & Sons. Thus, the phrase “toeing the Hockey” came to mean stepping up to the designated throwing line. Eventually the line itself became known as the “oche” — based on the cockney pronunciation of the name “Hockey.”
These measurements placed my dartboard right at the top of the furnace room door and the line MUCH closer than we had been throwing from before. I will get some sort of indicator for the oche soon, and I’ll have myself a regulation darts setup. I love the Internet! 🙂
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