You think you're good at darts?

[edjr 6,585]

 

What da fock???  

[Horseman 2,458]

That's the pool equivalent of getting the 8 ball in on the break.  Happens, but, not very often.  

Handful of 8 ball breaks.

One triple bullseye.

Zero perfect games bowling (279 high 215 average).

Zero golf hole-in-one, handful of eagles. 

[BeenHereBefore 1,520]

No I don't but I was okay at one time.

[edjr 6,585]

22 minutes ago, Horseman said:

That's the pool equivalent of getting the 8 ball in on the break.  Happens, but, not very often.  

Not even close. I have sank the 8, more than once on the break. That is luck.

This? this is near unpossible. 0 luck involved

[Horseman 2,458]

39 minutes ago, edjr said:

Not even close. I have sank the 8, more than once on the break. That is luck.

This? this is near unpossible. 0 luck involved

You hit the head ball and the ball in the #2 position simultaneously from a wide angle and you get a pretty good movement of the 8-ball towards the corner pocket.   

[Engorgeous George 2,331]

I have put three in the bullseye, but only in practice.  I had a roommate who had a board and i might spend twenty minutes a day, every day, shooting at it.  i got only average good for a darts player put way better than those who never play and don't have a board but who presume they will be good at the game.

As for bowling i have rolled 14 strikes in a row, but over the course of two games.  My high score ever was 273.  I only league bowled one time  I alaways figured i was around a 180 bowler but it turns out I was not.  My league average was 169.

 

Who knows what I might have averaged as a bowler if I did not believe the game was about intoxication.  For me it was an excuse for a sloppy drunk.

[Horseman 2,458]

Darts is the easiest carney game to beat at the fair by far.  The vast majority of people don't know how to throw a dart.

[BeenHereBefore 1,520]

3 minutes ago, Engorgeous George said:

I have put three in the bullseye, but only in practice.  I had a roommate who had a board and i might spend twenty minutes a day, every day, shooting at it.  i got only average good for a darts player put way better than those who never play and don't have a board but who presume they will be good at the game.

As for bowling i have rolled 14 strikes in a row, but over the course of two games.  My high score ever was 273.  I only league bowled one time  I alaways figured i was around a 180 bowler but it turns out I was not.  My league average was 169.

 

Who knows what I might have averaged as a bowler if I did not believe the game was about intoxication.  For me it was an excuse for a sloppy drunk.

Okay where does this compare to making the 7/10 Split ?

[Engorgeous George 2,331]

9 minutes ago, BeenHereBefore said:

Okay where does this compare to making the 7/10 Split ?

I have managed that twice.  Once immediately after picking up the 6/7.  Maybe my best game ever.  No opens, no stikes, but three split pic ups, including the two hard ones.   

 

Games with no open frames were special for me as far more often than not I would put up at least one open frame in a game.  I just tried to make sure it never happened on a beer frame.

[BeenHereBefore 1,520]

As for 8 ball breaks, I probably had around 10 in my lifetime and had my last one back in August. Went through about 8 years without any. Was playing in the league and this other team got 2 in a row on us and purely luck cause they wasn't good players. We loss that round and had to laugh that one off.

[Engorgeous George 2,331]

I don't recall  any 8 balls on the break.  If I ever did it I was too intoxicated to remember or to think it anything special.

[Alias Detective 1,400]

Grew up with a pull table and American dart bored.  Made many 8 balls on the break.  Never put 3 in a row in the bullseye let alone the small one on an English bored.

[edjr 6,585]

18 minutes ago, Alias Detective said:

Grew up with a pull table and American dart bored.  Made many 8 balls on the break.  Never put 3 in a row in the bullseye let alone the small one on an English bored.

nailed it

[jonnyutah 287]

I once put 9 straight darts in the triple 19.

 

[Horseman 2,458]

22 hours ago, Engorgeous George said:

I have managed that twice.  Once immediately after picking up the 6/7.  Maybe my best game ever.  No opens, no stikes, but three split pic ups, including the two hard ones.   

 

Games with no open frames were special for me as far more often than not I would put up at least one open frame in a game.  I just tried to make sure it never happened on a beer frame.

9-spare in the third frame.  11 strikes.  279.  One ten pin away from perfection.

Yes you have to be good to get that many strikes in a row.  But also lucky, two went Brooklyn.  

[Engorgeous George 2,331]

3 minutes ago, Horseman said:

9-spare in the third frame.  11 strikes.  279.  One ten pin away from perfection.

Yes you have to be good to get that many strikes in a row.  But also lucky, two went Brooklyn.  

That damn 10 pin.  I've made it wobble, I've made it spin, I've knock it to the side wall and had it bounce back into place, I've even slid it over so it sits in the spot of the 9 pin or the 6 pin.  Sometimes I think it has a gyroscope to keep it upright.  Regardless it makes a great knockout sound when you send it spinning across the lane and out beyond the reach of the sweep.

I love that perfect sound too when you blow all the pins right into the trough leaving nothing for the sweep.

[edjr 6,585]

 

[TommyGavin 790]

Back in the day playing -01 I would hit trip 20 consistently- most of the time 3 in a row. Never did well with double cork. 

[edjr 6,585]

 

[Fnord 2,265]

Huh. I'm just special. I've sunk the 8 on the break at least once and seen it at least twice. All just by chance.

I have at least two friends I've seen hit three bulls in a throw. They could never do it consistently, of course. 

When playing either game we were usually intoxicated or on the way toward it.

[SUXBNME 1,499]

On 2/27/2024 at 11:41 AM, edjr said:

 

This? this is near unpossible. 0 luck involved

I've done it before. Total luck (on my part), but then again, I also have 2 aces on the golf course to my credit. One of the aces was total luck (gypsybrat was there to confirm) but the other ace was kinda 95% luck.