Horseshoes - A dart game for two players

This game is played much like a standard game of horseshoes, but rather than using horseshoes and stakes in the ground, the equipment is six darts and a dartboard.

Goal: Be the first player to score ten points without going over.

Gameplay: Points are scored by throwing your darts at various targets on a standard dartboard. Players alternate throws after every dart. Player 1 throws a dart, then player 2 throws a dart, then player 1 again. After six darts have been thrown (three by each player), the points are tallied for that round and the next round starts. The player who shot second in the previous round (and also last), shoots first in this round.

Scoring:
One point - Dark-colored field inside the treble ring
Two points - Outer bulls-eye
Three Points - Inner bulls-eye

Darts that miss the board completely, hit the border of the board, the double ring, the fields between the double and treble ring, the treble ring and darts that land in light-colored fields inside the treble ring all score zero points.

A player must tally more points than their opponent in order to score any points in a round. The number of points scored by this player is equal to the difference of the points tallied.

Winning the game:
The first player to score exactly ten points wins the game. If a players  score becomes higher than ten, that player is penalized. First the difference between their score and ten is found. That value is then subtracted from ten and that is their new score.

Example gameplay:
This game of Horse-shoes is between Jordan and Steve. They have decided that Steve will shoot first.
Round 1
Steve throws his first dart and it lands in a one point area (black field inside treble ring). Jordan then throws his first dart and hits a non-scoring field. Steve’s current tally is 1 and Jordan’s is 0. It’s Steve’s turn again. Steve throws his second dart and misses the board completely. Jordan does the same. The tally stays the same as 1-0. Steve’s third and final throw for this sound lands in another one point-field. Jordan’s throw also lands in a one-point field. The tally becomes 2 for Steve and 1 for Jordan and the round
is over. It’s now time to find the score for this round. Steve tallied more points this round, so he subtracts Jordan’s tally from his own, and the difference is added to Steves total score. In this case 2 - 1 = 1, so the
total score becomes Steve: 1, Jordan: 0.

Round 2
Since Jordan shot last in the previous round, he now shoots first. Jordan tosses his first dart and opens the round with an inner bulls-eye, tallying three. Steve throws his dart and tallies 1. They both tally zero for their next two shots. At the end, the tally for this round stands at 3 for Jordan and 1 for Steve. Jordan tallied higher and adds 2 to his total score (3-1=2). The game is now set at Steve: 1, Jordan: 2.

Jordan and Steve play some more until the scores are set at 9 for Jordan and 8 for Steve. Steve is up first. Steve misses. Jordan shoots and hits the inner bulls-eye. His tally is 3. Steve and Jordan miss their next two shots. At the end of the round, Jordan has tallied 3 and Steve, 0. Jordan then adds 3 to his total, bring him to a score of 12. This is over 10, so he subtracts 10 from 12 (12-10=2) and then subtracts that from 10 (10-2=8). Jordan’s score is now 8 and they are tied. In the next round, Steve tallies 4 with an inner bulls-eye and a black field and Jordan tallies 2 with an outer bulls-eye. Steve tallied higher, does the required calculation (4-2=2), adds 2 to his total, bringing him to 10 and wins the game.

Handgrenades

Handgrenades is a game played like Horseshoes, but with more rules that increase difficulty. The only differences lie in how various throws are scored.

Goal: See the rules of Horseshoes.

Gameplay: See the rules of Horseshoes.

Scoring: Darts that land on a dark field inside the treble ring will tally 1 point.
Darts that land in the outer bullseye tally 2 points.
Darts that land in the inner bullseye tally 3 points.
Darts that land in the double ring and in any field between the double and treble ring tally -1 point.
Darts that land outside the double ring, but still on the board tally -2 points.
Darts that land in a light field inside the treble ring, in the treble ring or strike the surface of the board but do not stick all tally 0.
Darts that that strike another surface that is not the dartboard tallies -3
points.

A player’s score cannot fall below zero.

The way to score a round is as follows:
1. Find the player’s negative tally. If they threw a mixture of negative  and positive tallying darts, then their positive darts must first be used to offset the negative.
2. If a player has positive points after offsetting all of their negative tally, that player then uses their left over positive points to then offset the opposing players positive points.
3. If a player, after offsetting both their own negative tally and the opponnets positive tally (found after the opponent has offset their own negative tally) has anymore positive points, that player then add that positive tally to their total score.

Winning the game: Same as in Horseshoes.

Lidiya and I are speed demons. We make an awesome team.

Just got back from the hockey game. RIT Tigers vs. Bently ..I don’t remember. It might have been some sort of bird. It was quite the game. RIT scored first, at about 4 minutes into the first period. Bently tied it up in the second, and then took the lead. In the third, RIT made it 2-2. Now it was time for sudden death overtime. Bently scored on a breakaway. RIT loses.

It sucked hard. RIT had so many shots that just didn’t go in. So many we should have had. Every time Bently scored, it hurt me to see Guimond (RIT’s goalie), take a drink from his water bottle and then slam it down on top of the net. He was so angry at himself. And when Bently scored the winning goal.. he slammed his stick down on the ice. It was hard to watch.

There was a fight at the very end of the second period. Each team had one player get 5 minutes for fighting and another get 2 for unnecessary roughness or something like that. I yelled my lung out the entire game. I screamed until I was dizzy. I’m just so disappointed. I almost felt like crying at the end of it all. I was drained, and to have them lose in OT just made it worse.

I find it funny that the refs name was Panek and Panic at the Disco is playing right now, not 100 feet away from the ice rink.

I saw Ben Folds again last night. It was just as amazing as the first time. Actually, it was better, because the first time, because the first time, The Fray opened for them. I know a lot of people like them, but I think they are crap. This time though… this time, a man named Corn Mo opened for him. This guy was awesome. He looked like Sam Kinison and sang like Meatloaf. He played accordian and he rocked the house. He was pretty funny too. He sang a song about Lollipops. But he did not sing his song about Gary Busey, which is pity.

As for Ben, he was great. It was him with Lindsay Jamieson on drums and Jared Reynolds on bass. He called Jared ‘Jose Hernandez’ all night though. It was pretty funny. It was pretty standard Ben Folds. Bitches Ain’t Shit was played, the cover of the Postal Service’s Such Great Heights was also played. He threw in some Olivia Newton John too. Army, Narcolepsy, There’s Always Someone Cooler Than You. All there. No Brick though. Ben Folds also played the brown note at random times on his synthesizer. It did not work.