Where the game of darts come from? Glad you asked.

Back in the day A barrel lid (Sometimes an entire barrel) was taken from the local pub and placed in the village green. The town archers in their down time would toss crossbow quarrels at it using an under handed, high arching toss. Whoever got closer to the middle of the lid would win that round.  Eventually the lid was hung up inside the local pub and the men tossed the quarrels at trying to get closest to the center. That eventually would become the game of darts we know today.  (I know what you are thinking and that sounds like a lot like lawn darts, I guess that actually predated wall darts!)