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In steel-tip darts, someone keeps score and does the math for everyone. Ochely takes that over: you tap every dart, the app works out the remaining score, bust and checkout suggestion – and remembers, at the end, just how good you really were.

How it works

Throw, tap, keep going

You tap in every dart individually, and after three darts it's the next player's turn. No math in your head anymore: the remaining score sits large on the screen, easy to read for everyone at the board.

The app knows the rules by heart. It recognizes a bust and resets the score – including the two cases that regularly cause arguments at the board: a remaining score of 1 on double out, and hitting the wrong field on the way to zero.

Whenever a remaining score can be checked out, the checkout route appears right underneath it. The app has 162 routes stored for every remaining score from 2 to 170. Beginners no longer have to throw blind, and experienced players skip the mental math.

And since every throw gets tapped in anyway, the stats you'd otherwise have to keep a table for appear on their own: 3-dart average, double rate and highest finish, per player and over time. If a match has to wait, pause it and resume it later.

The rules the app knows

Starting score and opening

Play from 301, 501 or 701, opening with straight in or double in. You also choose the number of legs and, if you like, sets.

Double out, master out, single out

With double out, the last dart has to be a double. The bullseye counts for this – it's double 25 and therefore a double. The outer bull ring, though, does not. Master out also allows a triple; there's no triple on the bull. With single out, any field except a miss ends the leg.

Bust – three cases, each one enough on its own

• The remaining score would drop below zero.
• The remaining score would be exactly 1 – invalid on double out and master out, because you can't finish 1 with a double.
• The remaining score would be zero, but the dart hit the wrong field.

In all three cases, the score jumps back to what it was at the start of the turn, and the turn ends immediately – even if it was the first dart. Points from that turn don't count.

First to and best of

First to 3 means three wins. Best of 5 the app converts to three wins needed, best of 6 to four. The opening throw rotates leg by leg.

The checkout route table: which way for which score

The app has 162 checkout routes stored for every remaining score from 2 to 170. Whenever a route is available, it's shown directly under the remaining score. The best-known ones:

Bogey numbers: seven scores with no route

Seven numbers can't be checked out on a double with three darts – there simply is no combination for them. They're called bogey numbers:

159 · 162 · 163 · 165 · 166 · 168 · 169

If one of these remaining scores is showing, the app displays no suggestion – not because it can't find one, but because none exists. Whoever lands there first has to bring the score into a reachable range with the next throw.

All 162 routes from 170 to 2 are ready to print in our darts checkout chart.

With master out and single out, the standard table doesn't apply; there, the app works out the route fresh every time and favors the common doubles in the order 20, 16, 18, 12, 10, 8, 14, 6, 4, 2.

Cricket

Play targets seven numbers: 20, 19, 18, 17, 16, 15 and bull. Three hits – called marks – close a number; a triple does that in one throw but scores no points that way. The outer bull ring counts as one mark, the bullseye as two.

In standard cricket, extra marks earn the thrower points – the number times the count – but only as long as at least one opponent still has that number open. In cut-throat, it's the other way around: all opponents get the points added to their score, and whoever has the fewest wins at the end. In the no-score variant, closing out is all that counts. The bull is worth 25 points per mark.

Six game modes for the evening

• Round the Clock – 1 to 20 in order. No math at all, which makes it the best starting point for people who've never thrown before.
• Shanghai – seven rounds, and in round n, only the number n counts. Whoever hits single, double and triple of the same number in one turn wins on the spot.
• Killer – three lives, everyone is randomly assigned a number, and only doubles count at all. Hitting your own double first makes you a killer; after that, you take lives with other players' doubles.
• Halve It – target sequence 20, 16, double 7, 14, triple 10, 17, bull. Whoever misses a round entirely has their score halved.
• Count Up – eight rounds of simply racking up points. Theoretical maximum: 1440.
• Elimination – from 301 down to exactly zero, with no double requirement. Whoever hits exactly an opponent's score sends them back to the starting value.

“Round the Clock” is free; the other five, like cricket, are part of Ochely Pro.

What the numbers mean at the end – and how they're worked out

For the double rate, every dart counts as an attempt if it's thrown at a remaining score that could be finished with one dart – not just the final one.

One detail that often causes surprise: darts from bust turns still count toward the average. They were thrown, after all. That's why your own average sometimes reads lower than it felt.

The core statistics are free. Ochely Pro adds the advanced stats and live statistics during a match.

Players, profiles and history

Up to eight players play on the same device. Regular players get a profile; anyone joining just once plays as a guest. Every match goes into your history, summary included.

With Ochely Pro, the player profile shows the form curve and head-to-head records against individual opponents. The interface is available in 16 languages.

What it costs

The core features are free: scoring, X01 in every variant, “Round the Clock”, the core statistics, your history and player profiles.

Prices on Google Play in Germany. Pro unlocks cricket and five more party games (Shanghai, Killer, Halve It, Count Up, Elimination), plus live statistics during a match, the advanced stats, and the form curve and head-to-head in your player profile.

Both subscriptions renew automatically until you cancel. Billing runs through Google Play, and you cancel in the Google Play app under “Payments & subscriptions”. The first month of the yearly subscription is free. The one-time purchase doesn't renew. If Pro ends, all your matches stay visible in your history.

For iPhone, Ochely is available on the App Store; more on the Ochely for iPhone page.

What this app is not for

Darts are entered by tapping. The app doesn't count on its own – you enter every throw, and it takes care of the rest: deducting the remaining score, recognizing busts, suggesting a checkout route.

No electronic dartboards. Ochely is built for steel-tip darts on your own board. Electronic dartboards already keep score themselves.

You play on one device. Online play, the friends list and the leaderboard are so far only available in the iPhone version.

Ochely runs on Android phones with Android 8 or later.

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