Method and apparatus for operating tug-of-war style electronic dart games

A dart game for playing a simulated tug-of-war game wherein darts are thrown at segments in dart boards to adjust player and challenger graphics toward or away from a goal graphic, the dart game comprising:

• a first electronic dart board comprising a plurality of segments;
• a controller connected to the first electronic dart board;
• a display connected to the controller;
• a memory connected to the controller, the memory comprising:
• instructions that generate a player graphic, a challenger graphic, and a goal graphic for simultaneous depiction display;
• instructions that position the player graphic on a first side of the goal graphic, and that position the challenger graphic on a second side of the goal graphic;
• instructions that cause the controller to scan segments for hits by darts;
• instructions that determine at least one offset value associated with at least one segment hit by a dart;
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• instructions that adjust on the display, based on the at least one offset value, the player graphic in relation to the first side of the goal graphic and that correspondingly adjust the challenger graphic in relation to the second side of the goal graphic.

A method of controlling a computerized dart game, the method comprising the steps of:

• generating a present value and displaying the present value on a display;
• determining a player target value;
• determining a challenger target value;
• monitoring segments in at least one electronic dart board for hits by player darts and by challenger darts, when a challenger is playing;
• determining a player offset value associated with a segment hit by the player dart, the player offset determined as a first function of a player value associated with the segment hit by the player dart;
• determining a challenger offset value associated with a segment hit by the challenger dart, when the challenger is playing, the challenger offset determined as a second function of a challenger value associated with the segment hit by the challenger dart;
• and
• adjusting the present value based on the player offset value and the challenger offset value, when the challenger is playing.

A method of controlling a computerized dart game, the method comprising the steps of:

• generating a player number and a challenger number and displaying the player number and the challenger number on a display;
• determining a player target value;
• determining a challenger target value;
• monitoring segments in at least one electronic dart board for hits by darts;
• determining an offset value associated with at least one segment hit by a player dart in the electronic dart board;
• adjusting the player number toward the player target value and the challenger number away from the challenger target value based on the offset value.

A method of controlling a computerized dart game for playing a simulated tug-of-war game, the method comprising the steps of:

• monitoring segments in a first electronic dart board for player dart hits;
• monitoring segments in a second electronic dart board for challenger dart hits;
• determining a player offset value associated with a first segment hit by a player dart, the player offset determined as a first function of a player value associated with the segment hit by the player dart;
• determining a challenger offset value associated with a second segment hit by a challenger dart, the challenger offset determined as a second function of a challenger value associated with the segment hit by the challenger dart;
• updating a player score based on the player offset value and a challenger score based on the challenger offset value;
• determining a score differential between a player score and a challenger score;
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• determining a winner when the score differential exceeds a predetermined threshold value.