Main game page
The core app screen with setup, the dartboard, in-game controls, overlays, and menus.
Setup mode
Playing mode
Details panel
Player guide
Player Help
Current player UI
Pages, menus, scores, and rules
Quick summary
This guide explains what a user can do in the current OchePlay UI.
1. Pages
Main places a user can end up
Score Summary
The standalone scores page for active-session standings and the historical leaderboard.
Live session
Leaderboard
Second screen
Central guide
This page is now the shared help target for the in-app game guide button and full-page game help links.
2. Setup
What users see before a game starts
The setup workflow lives inside the details panel and can switch between Game setup, Players, Profile, Options, and Spaces.
How setup behaves
- Choose a game mode
- Choose the match length or round count
- Turn mode-specific rules on or off
The current player-facing flow is focused on local game setup from a single scoring device.
Game modes
- 501
- 301
- Clock
- Killer
- Race
Match length
Most modes use Best of 1, 3, or 5. Race uses 4, 6, or 8 rounds.
Instructions button
Each mode now points to this shared help page and jumps straight to that game’s section.
Start conditions
You need at least one player to start, and Killer needs at least two.
3. Players
Managing the game roster
What users can do
- Add a new guest player
- Import an existing player with email or player ID plus password
- Tap suggested players to add them to the current game
- Hold to reorder or tap to remove staged players
Current limits
- Maximum 8 players in a game
- Killer needs at least 2 players
- Race does not allow players to join after the game starts
Player profiles
Staged and imported players keep their saved avatar, display name, and email. Edit your own linked profile from Menu → Profile (avatar, display name, email, summary emails, and Premium global stats period).
5. Spaces
Choose the group you want to play and compete in
Spaces are designed for separate social groups with their own identity and competition. A good example is Home versus Work: you can keep those groups separate, track different players, and compete on different leaderboards.
Active space
- Your active space is the main group your account is currently using
- Games, players, and space-based standings follow that active space
- You switch the active space from the Spaces screen
- The active space must be one of your own spaces
Owned spaces and member spaces
- Owned spaces are spaces you created and control
- Member spaces are spaces where you are included but not the owner
- You can rename or delete spaces you own
- You can leave a member space, but not one you own
Why spaces matter
They keep different groups separate, so your home games do not mix with work nights, pub sessions, or league-style play.
Space limits
Each account can currently own up to 4 spaces, so there is a clear cap on how many personal groups you can create.
Membership
A player can appear in more than one space. Members stay until the host Removes them or they Leave — switching spaces does not drop membership. Leaving or being removed clears that space’s stats for them. Guest profiles can be claimed from Spaces Edit via email; chips show Pending claim or Claimed.
6. In-game
What the live game experience looks like
HUD
The header shows the active player, the current score, target, lives, or running total depending on the mode, plus the three dart slots and mode-specific hints.
Scoring input
Users can score by tapping the board, using quick score buttons, or using the larger target-based legacy input mode.
Main buttons
End Game, Undo, Options, Miss, and End turn are the main live controls.
Modern board extras
Modern board play uses pinch zoom for closer targeting. This is not available in Legacy iPad mode and may still be feature-gated in some cases.
7. Game modes
Explicit rules for each game
These are the sections the in-app guide now targets directly. If you open this page from the setup instructions button, it will jump to the chosen game.
Focused guide: you opened this page at a specific game section.
501
Start on 501 and finish on exactly zero
501 is the longer x01 format. It uses standard dart scoring and usually plays as double-out unless Straight out is available and selected.
Goal
Each player starts on 501. Your score goes down by the value of each scoring dart. The winner is the first player to finish exactly on zero.
Turns
Players throw in order. A normal visit is up to three darts, then play passes to the next player.
Checkout rule
By default, 501 is double-out. That means the final scoring dart must be a double. If Straight out is enabled for the account and selected in setup, any valid finishing dart can win the leg.
Busts
A throw busts if it takes the score below zero, leaves 1, or reaches zero illegally in double-out mode. The app shows a bust confirmation and resets the score back to the start of that visit when the bust is confirmed.
What the app shows
The HUD can show suggested checkouts and setup darts. The live score page also tracks averages, checkout percentage, busts, max visit, and darts thrown.
301
Start on 301 and finish on exactly zero
301 behaves the same way as 501 but starts lower, so it is a shorter x01 game with faster checkout pressure.
Goal
Each player starts on 301 and counts down using normal dart scores. The winner is the first player to reach exactly zero.
Turns
Players still throw up to three darts per visit, then the turn passes on.
Checkout rule
Default behavior is double-out. If Straight out is available for the signed-in account and selected in setup, the leg can finish on any valid dart instead.
Busts
The same bust logic as 501 applies: below zero, leaving 1, or an illegal zero in double-out all bust the visit.
How it feels
Because 301 starts lower than 501, players reach checkout ranges much earlier, so misses and busts tend to matter sooner.
Clock
Work around the board by hitting the current target
Clock is a target-progression game. Instead of counting down, each player advances through required numbers in order.
Goal
Advance through the targets in order until you complete the final bull step before the other players do.
Turns
Players throw up to three darts per visit. The active target remains fixed until the player hits it enough to advance.
Scoring in Clock
The score display is really a progress display. A correct hit advances the target; an incorrect hit scores no progress for that dart.
Skips
When Skips is on, stronger hits on the current target can jump farther through the sequence. This makes doubles and trebles more powerful than a simple single-step advance.
Repeats
When Repeats is on, scoring successfully with all three darts in the visit makes that player go again instead of handing over the turn.
Merged bull
When Merged bull is on, the late bull progression is simplified so the outer and inner bull behave like a combined finish path.
Winning
A player wins as soon as the progression moves beyond the final bull target.
Killer
Build your own lives, then take lives from opponents
Killer is a last-player-standing mode. It starts as a build phase and becomes an attack phase once a player reaches full lives.
Setup
Each player is assigned one or more board numbers as their segments when the game is created.
Build phase
Players first hit their own assigned segments to gain lives. They cannot attack anyone else until they reach the selected maximum lives.
Attack phase
Once a player has full lives, hits on an opponent’s segment reduce that opponent’s life total.
Count D/T
If Count D/T is off, a valid hit changes life by 1. If Count D/T is on, singles count 1, doubles count 2, and trebles count 3.
Knockouts
When a player reaches 0 lives, they become Out and are skipped in turn order for the rest of the game.
Winning
The last remaining active player wins immediately.
What the app shows
The UI uses labels like Build, Killer, and Out so players can tell whether they are still charging up, ready to attack, or eliminated.
Race
Highest running total after fixed rounds wins
Race does not count down and it does not use legs. It is a fixed-round scoring race where every point matters.
Goal
Finish with the highest running total score.
Rounds
Every player throws one visit per round. When all players have thrown, the round is complete and the next round begins.
Scoring
Normal dart values apply: singles, doubles, trebles, outer bull, and bull all add to the running total.
Early finish
The app can end the game early if the leader becomes mathematically impossible to catch with the remaining darts and rounds.
Sudden death
If the top score is tied at the end, only the tied players continue. Each throws one dart, and the highest single-dart score wins. If still tied, the sudden-death round repeats.
Joining late
Race is stricter than the other modes: players cannot join after the game has started.
8. Scores
Scoreboard display
The Score Summary page is designed to work as a companion scoreboard on a separate device while the main game is being controlled elsewhere.
It shows the live game panel plus the historical leaderboard, so players and guests can follow the match without needing to crowd around the scoring device.
This is especially useful when entertaining, because the scoreboard can be opened on a bigger screen such as a laptop or cast to a TV while someone else tracks the game from a phone or tablet.
Example setups
- Phone on the oche for scoring, laptop on a table for everyone to watch
- Tablet used by the thrower, TV showing the scoreboard for the room
- Main game device beside the board, second browser window on another screen for spectators
- One player tracking the match on a phone while guests follow the scoreboard on a larger screen
How users will think about it
The main app is the control surface. The scoreboard page is the audience-friendly display surface.
It works like a second screen for the room, keeping the scoring device free while everyone else follows the match on the larger display.