Printable Darts 501 Score Sheet

The classic chalkboard layout on A4: a Scored and a Remaining column for each player, twenty turn rows — enough for even the slowest leg. Free, no ads, no signup.

How to score 501

Both players start on 501 and race to zero. You throw three darts per turn, add them up, and subtract the total from your remaining score. Write the turn total in the Scored column and the new count in Remaining — keeping that running subtraction honest is the whole job of the scorer.

What the board is worth. The numbered segments score their face value, 1–20. The thin outer ring doubles the number; the thin inner ring trebles it. The outer bull scores 25, the inner bullseye 50. The best possible turn is three treble-20s: 180 — traditionally underlined with flourish on the sheet.

The double-out rule. You can't just reach zero — you must reach exactly zero, and the dart that gets you there must land in a double (or the inner bullseye, which counts as double-25). Sitting on 32? You need double-16. On 40? Double-20. This is why good players steer their score toward a comfortable even number instead of just throwing at treble-20 forever.

Bust. If a turn would take you below zero, leave you on exactly 1 (impossible to finish with a double), or reach zero without a double, you've gone bust: the whole turn scores nothing, and your Remaining goes back to what it was at the start of the turn. Cross out the busted turn and rewrite the old number.

Checkouts. The highest score you can finish from in one turn is 170 (treble-20, treble-20, bullseye). From 170 down, most totals have a standard checkout route — the ones to remember at the oche are 40 (D20), 32 (D16), 24 (D12) and 16 (D8). A game is usually played as legs — first to win 2 of 3 or 3 of 5 legs takes the match, with the loser of a leg throwing first in the next.

Print this sheet

The sheet — one leg, two players

Turn	Player 1 — name:		Player 2 — name:
	Scored	Remaining	Scored	Remaining
Start	—	501	—	501
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Legs won

Print one sheet per leg, or reuse the lower rows for a quick second leg.

Stuck on a finish? The free darts checkout calculator gives you the best double-out route for any score — plus the full 170-to-2 chart to print alongside this sheet.