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There
are many public houses in London and elsewhere, where
beer, wine and spirits may be bought and drunk at
certain times of the day. These are suitable for all
classes of the community and provide a place, where
people may meet together and talk, and perhaps play at
darts or other games, as well as drink.
In
the bar of every English «pub» there is a dartboard,
and on most evenings the game of darts is being played.
This is a traditional English game. The first record of
something like the modern game appears in a sixteenth
century. In this tournament people threw missiles in a
target by hand, instead of using a bow.
The
dartboard has numbered sections and the score depends on
the section in which the dart lands. The darts are small,
about 12 cm long, and have a steel point, a metal body
and the three feathers. A set of three darts is used and
each player throws them in turns. Expert players usually
have their own private set of darts, but pubs always
provide a set for occasional players. If you hit the
very middle – you hit the bull’s eye, which give you
the highest score.
Pubs
are really an essential part of English life. Most
customers in the smaller pubs play games such as
dominoes, darts or snooker. Snooker is a variation of
billiards played with 15 red balls and 6 variously
colored ones. And in many local pubs there are the teams
of players of snooker who play matches against teams
from other pubs. The idea has developed so far that
there are even national championships in snooker and
darts.
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