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darts
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There are records of darts being thrown by hand at a target in England in the 16C (in effect a form of indoor archery), and the *Pilgrim Fathers amused themselves with such a game on the Mayflower. But it was only in the first half of the 20C that the game became formalized as a favourite pastime in British pubs, after Brian Gamlin (of Bury in Lancashire) had devised in 1896 the present scoring system.
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