Dartle Game: Hit Exactly 100

The Dartle game is a free daily trivia puzzle shaped like a darts checkout. One category, up to three named answers, and the goal is exactly 100. It is played in the browser at dartle.net. The rules below come from that site’s homepage and how-to-play page, checked on 14 November 2026. Other domains use the Dartle name as guides. This page follows dartle.net.

What is Dartle?

Every day there is one category. Pokémon by Pokédex number and countries by population rank are the examples on the homepage. Every accepted answer is worth its number. In a ranking, first place is worth 1 point, not 100. You type an answer and pick it from the list. Its value is revealed and added to your total.

Everyone plays the same category. A new one unlocks at midnight in your time zone. Today’s puzzle needs no app and no account. Past puzzles are in the archive. The homepage does not list a price for that archive, so this guide does not invent one.

How do you play the Dartle game?

You have up to three darts. Each answer can be used once.

1. Read the category so you know what the number means: a president’s number, an atomic number, a population rank, a place in a film list.
2. Throw a dart by submitting an answer. The value is added.
3. Hit 100 exactly for a bullseye. Go over 100 and you bust, which scores 0.
4. Or stand. After any dart you can keep the total you have. A score near 100 beats a bust.
5. After the last dart, that total is your score.

A higher score wins. If two players tie, the player who used fewer darts wins. A bullseye in two darts beats a bullseye in three.

On some days, one answer in the category is worth exactly 100 on its own. On those days, a bust earns one extra dart: name that answer and you still hit the bullseye. The site leaves it to you to work out which answer that is.

The worked example is puzzle #1, US presidents by number. One finish is Franklin Delano Roosevelt at 32, Harry S. Truman at 33, and John F. Kennedy at 35. Those add to 100. After two darts the total was 65, so the last dart had to be worth exactly 35. The how-to-play page says there were 140 different ways to hit 100 that day, counting one-dart, two-dart, and three-dart finishes.

Each category page explains edge cases: ties, merged entries, renamed teams. The how-to-play page says every category is built from a published source, and the source is linked on the puzzle. You can browse past categories on the site and replay old puzzles from the archive.

Is there an unlimited mode?

The official pages describe today’s free puzzle and an archive of past puzzles. They do not describe a mode that generates a new category on demand. Replaying an old day is the published way to throw more than once. A separate unlimited rare-answer game lives on this site at unlimited mode, and it is a different kind of puzzle: Rarest Answer asks for a rare member of a category, not a sum of 100.

What helps you hit 100?

The site’s strategy notes are arithmetic, not obscurity.

Start with an answer whose value you can estimate, so you know how much room is left. Before the last dart, subtract. Then look for answers near that exact remainder. Some answers are worth more than 100 by themselves, and throwing one busts immediately. Standing is a real option: the how-to-play page says that 94 with one dart left, when you cannot think of a 6, beats a bust. Read the category notes before you argue with a number that looks wrong. The notes are where ties and renamed entries are defined.

Because the values come from a public list, the skill is knowing the list well enough to search it under a target. A rare name only helps when its number is the one you still need. That is the opposite of Krillion or Cosmillion, where a less common valid name is the entire point. If you want that kind of round after you finish the checkout, play today’s Rarest Answer round and then read the rarest answers for the prompts you missed.

How does Dartle compare with similar games?

Seldom gives you five guesses at one open question and wants the lowest rarity score. Dartle gives you three named answers and wants a sum.

The Size It Up game is also numeric, and the number is a physical size you judge by eye. Dartle’s numbers are published ranks and counts, revealed after you commit the name.

Farflung asks you to pin a country that fits a rule, and a less obvious country scores further. A country’s size can be a Dartle category, as the site’s category list has included countries by area rank. On Farflung, size is not the score.

Wordle-style games hide one word. Dartle hides nothing except the values of the names you have not thrown yet. A survey of daily games that do reward rarity is on games like Krillion. For a general method on open prompts, see how to find rare answers.

Which pages were checked?

dartle.net and dartle.net/how-to-play, on 14 November 2026. The categories index at dartle.net/categories lists past puzzles and answer counts. Guide sites such as dartle.online and dartle.pro say they are independent of the game.