Secret Crush: Point Or Drink

Secret Crush asks for an answer, not a punishment. Land the dart and you point, there and then, at whoever in the room you find most attractive. No hedging, no "it's complicated" — a straight point, in front of everyone. Too nervous to commit? Take the shot instead and keep your secret.

At a real table this is where the room goes quiet for a second. Most people bottle it and go for the shot, because a dartboard game is a strange place to make a confession. The ones who do point usually go for something safe — a mate, someone's partner as a joke, the person who just walked in from the kitchen — and the table erupts either way. It only gets properly awkward when someone hesitates a beat too long before pointing, and everyone clocks it.

The honest tactic: know your audience before you throw. If your other half's in the room, or there's history at the table nobody's mentioned since the last work do, the shot is the boring but correct choice. Save the pointing for tables where nobody's actually going to lose sleep over it.

It sits in the 4th Circle, one of the board's three big outer rings — 20 wedges apiece — so it comes round with the same regularity as any other 4th Circle forfeit. Not rare, not the one you can bank on avoiding all night.