Playing Your First Game

This page walks through starting a custom lobby and playing a first X01 match with autoscoring hardware, from the lobby through to correcting a misdetected dart mid-game and finishing the match.

Start a lobby

Open a custom lobby either from the Play item in the top navigation, or by selecting the Play Now tile on the Home page. The first time you set up scoring in a lobby, Autodarts asks how you want to track your darts: Manual, Lens, or Hardware. Selecting Hardware uses a dedicated Autodarts board (see Connecting a Board for what each option means).

How do you want to score modal with Manual, Lens, and Hardware options — Choosing a scoring method for the lobby.

With Hardware selected, pick the board to use. New accounts will typically see a single board here, shown as Ready when it's online and available.

Which hardware device modal showing an available board marked Ready, with a Continue button — Selecting an available board.

The lobby

Selecting Continue opens the lobby. By default it's set up for a solo 501 (X01) game with autoscoring enabled and your board selected. From here you can add players or bots, change the game mode and settings, or start the game right away.

Create Lobby screen with one player, a 501 X01 game summary, and an Autoscoring panel listing available boards — The lobby right after it opens.

Game settings

Selecting Edit settings opens the full settings panel for the current game mode: base score, match mode (legs/sets), in/out mode, bull-off rules, bull mode, max rounds, and referee. The defaults shown here (501, first to 1 leg, straight in, double out) are a good starting point for a first game.

Selecting Change on the game mode card opens the full list of competitive modes (X01, Cricket/Tactics) and practice modes (Count Up, Around the Clock, Random Checkout, Shanghai, Around the World, Segment Training, Bob's 27, and more). X01 is the recommended default for a first game.

Select Game Mode modal listing X01, Cricket/Tactics, and several practice modes — Choosing a game mode.

Adding players

Selecting Add Player opens a search list of other Autodarts users you can invite to the lobby, or lets you add a local guest player by typing a name.

Add Player modal with a searchable list of Autodarts users and Invite buttons — Inviting another Autodarts player to the lobby.

Add Player modal with a guest player name typed in and an Add button — Adding a local guest player instead of inviting a registered user.

Adding a bot

For a first game without another player on hand, selecting Add Bot lets you add a computer-controlled opponent at one of eleven skill levels (roughly indicating their average score).

Add Bot modal listing Bot Level 1 through Bot Level 11, each with an approximate skill rating and an Add button — Adding a bot opponent.

Once added, the bot appears in the players list alongside you, and the lobby is ready to start.

Lobby with two players — the user and a bot — plus a Start Game button — The lobby with a bot opponent added.

Playing the game

Selecting Start Game moves to the live match view: the dartboard camera feed in the center, each player's remaining score and leg/match average on either side. Both players start at the base score set earlier (501 here).

Live match view at the start of a 501 game, both players showing a score of 501, with a camera feed of the dartboard — The match view right after starting.

As darts are thrown, autoscoring detects each dart from the camera feed and updates the running score and turn history automatically.

Live match view after several rounds of scoring, showing updated remaining scores and a per-turn score history for both players — Scoring updates automatically as darts are detected.

Correcting a misdetected dart

Autoscoring can occasionally misread a dart. If a detected segment is wrong, select it in the score bar at the top (highlighted in blue below) to correct it — you can then move the point to the correct segment and confirm with OK, mark it as a Bouncer (a dart that didn't stick), or Cancel to leave it as detected.

Live match view with a detected dart highlighted for correction (shown as D2), and Bouncer, OK, and Cancel controls — Correcting a misdetected dart before confirming the turn.

Moving the point updates the highlighted segment (here, from the incorrectly detected D2 to the correct D17). Selecting OK confirms the corrected value and continues the game.

Live match view with the corrected dart now showing D17 in the score bar, ready to confirm with OK — The corrected dart, now showing D17.

Finishing the game

When a player hits a valid checkout, a Game Shot banner appears on their card right away, before the full results screen — a quick confirmation of the win with a Finish button to move on.

Game Shot and the Match banner on the winning player's card immediately after a checkout, with a Finish button — Game Shot — shown the moment a valid checkout is hit.

Selecting Finish ends the match and shows the full result along with detailed game stats: 3-dart average, checkout percentage, first-9 average, and a breakdown of scoring rounds (60+, 100+, 140+, 170+, and 180s). From here you can start a Rematch or head back to the menu.

End-of-game results screen showing the match score, playing time, and detailed statistics including 3-dart average, checkout percentage, and scoring breakdown — Match results and statistics after finishing the game.

What's next

This completes the Getting Started section. Follow-up documentation passes will cover other game modes, multiplayer/online play, statistics, and account settings.

Start a lobby​

The lobby​

Game settings​

Adding players​

Adding a bot​

Playing the game​

Correcting a misdetected dart​

Finishing the game​

What's next​