Darts checkouts from 131 to 170

The big finishes

• 170: T20, T20, Bull. The highest checkout, and the only route. It is often called the big fish.
• 167: T20, T19, Bull. Also the only route.
• 164: T20, T18, Bull, or T19, T19, Bull.
• 161: T20, T17, Bull, or T19, T18, Bull.
• 160: T20, T20, D20, the highest finish on a double in the ring. T20, Bull, Bull also works.

Below 160 the chart keeps to the ring: two trebles and a double, mostly D16, D18 or D20. 131 is T20, T13, D16, 150 is T20, T18, D18 and 158 is T20, T20, D19. No setup dart in this band can be a single, because 130 (T20, 20, Bull) is the most a single can help make.

Why 161 to 170 finish on the Bull, or have no checkout

Above 160 a double in the ring cannot finish: D20 would need more than 120 from the first two darts, and 120 (two treble 20s) is the most they can score. So the last dart must be the Bull, and the first two must make the score minus 50. Two darts make only four totals from 111 to 120 (111, 114, 117 and 120, each two trebles), which is why 161, 164, 167 and 170 go out and 162, 163, 165, 166, 168 and 169 do not. 159 misses too: it would need 109 before the Bull or 119 before D20. Bogey numbers explained goes through each one.

What to do on a bogey number

You cannot finish, so use the visit to leave a double. The checkout calculator suggests T20, T20 and a single that leaves 32 (D16) for your next visit:

If both trebles land in the single 20, every one of these setups leaves 112, which is still a three-dart finish (T20, 20, D16).

What a missed first treble leaves

Every route in this band opens with T20. Land it in the single 20 and you are on 111 to 150 with two darts, and all of those need three, so the finish is gone for this visit. The If the first dart hits the single column shows the finish to aim for next time. With the two darts you have left, throw a setup: from 170, a single 20 leaves 150, and T20, T18 with the next two darts leaves 36 for D18.

Every checkout from 131 to 170