Reload

Land a dart on Reload and it's simple: knock back a shot, then throw again straightaway. No waiting for your next go — you get an extra dart on the spot, forfeit and bonus rolled into one hit.

At the table it goes one of two ways. Early in the night, it lands clean: shot down, dart back in hand, next throw sailing in before anyone's even finished cheering. Later on, "quick extra throw" turns into three wobbly attempts to actually hit the board, with a flight already bent from bouncing off the wall.

The bit people forget: that bonus dart isn't a guaranteed good time. Land it on something worse than Reload and you're doing that one too, shot still settling in your stomach. Treat the second throw as a real attempt, not a fling to get back to your seat — rushing it just books you a second forfeit for the price of one.

Reload sits in the 3rd Circle, one of the board's three big twenty-wedge rings, so it turns up often enough to become a running bit rather than a one-off. It keeps company there with some of the night's rowdier hits — Love Bite, Strip Chicken, Shot Roulette — so a Reload is usually a sign the board's about to get louder, not quieter.