Dartboards

A dartboard of compressed sisal fibers having beds on a face of the board defined by wire, said wire having a quadrilateral cross-section, one corner of the wire being in contact with the board face, the opposite corner being exposed to the oncoming darts and the remaining two corners of the wire being spaced away from the board face, the wire being arranged to extend both radially and in a circle on the face, wherein a radially extending wire has sides that define a cross-section which is at least in part tapered, the radially extending wire being arranged on the board with the sides which define the tapered cross-section facing away from the board, and wherein a radially extending wire and a circularly extending wire cross over one another on the face, there being provided a notch in the part of either a radially extending or a circularly extending wire which is adjacent to the other at the cross-over point, or notches in the parts of each of the radially extending and the circularly extending wires which are adjacent to the other at the cross-over point.