Arachnid Inter-Active 3000 Recreational Electronic Dartboard Features 27 Games with 123 Variation for up to 8 Players

has been a good dart board. I shoot on it anywhere from 1-3 hours a day 5 days a week and it has held up great unlike the less expensive model I had to send back. If you like to and or plan on getting a soft tip board to use a lot trust me and spend the extra money for a board like this at around $100 versus the less expensive $50 boards. HUGE difference in quality and peace of mind it will last.

We were skeptical about the electronics, but the board is great fun for our grandkids (7 yrs and up) and adults. The kids love the heckler (it also cuts down on their own heckling - nice), but you can also turn it off. We move the boarder lower for the little kids. Highly recommend this as a fun addition. Only problem is the darts that come with it are worthless. Many good darts are available. We found some decent quality ones at Walmart for under $10.

This is a decent electronic dartboard. Lots of games are included and the instructions provide full rules for each of them. The LED display is very bright and the Cricket scoreboard uses slashes and circles instead of simply lighting up LEDs. For most games, you can play as either One Player or "Solo". In Solo mode, you are actually playing against the board AI, and you can adjust the difficulty. This makes solo games of Cricket more interesting. At first I thought the Solo mode would be silly, I mean really the board is just showing numbers when it's the AI's turn, and you have to pretend it's throwing darts. Turns out I was pleasantly surprised. It plays intelligently and won't magically hit triple 20's every throw. In Cricket, the AI knows when you're racking up the score and will work hard to close out numbers. It will also realistically "miss" - for instance, if it knows that it needs a double 18 to close, when it "misses" it will hit a Double 4 or a Single 1, which is what a real player would most likely do. You can also add AI to game you're playing with your friends, ie 3 real people vs 2 AI. The board contains all the mounting hardware. Its built pretty solid and I haven't had any trouble with darts not registering. The mounting instructions give you measurements as to where the mounting holes on the back of the board are. It seems like a little thing but saves you the step of trying to line up exact bullseye positions with holes on the back and with whatever hole you screwed into the wall. It will run on AA batteries and comes with an AC adapter as well. The battery option lets you set it up anywhere. Oddly, when the board is mounted to the proper height, the AC adapter's cord isn't long enough to reach a typical floor mounted outlet unless the outlet is exactly underneath the. Just a minor complaint, as you're probably going to need some extension cord to plug it in. Unlike other reviewers, I was reasonably impressed with the darts that came with the board. They're not the ultra cheap, pure plastic "bar darts". These ones have brass fittings and weigh 10 grams, and two sets are included. While they are no substitute for a set of decent soft tip darts, the included ones aren't that all bad and worked out great for the kids. The board comes with a pack of 25 extra tips. The shafts and flights are a bit chintzy though, and the flights didn't attach to the shafts without some screwing around. The board has a few flaws, none of them deal breaking. The board is in my opinion VERY loud. When you turn it on, it does this ear blasting "fanfare" sound that you can't turn off. The Heckler feature only works on certain games, and it's pretty lame. You usually turn it off forever after hearing it for a game or two. You can change the volume of the game to "off", "normal", or "loud" - I wish that the "normal" volume was quieter. I'll probably end up putting duct tape or something over the speaker in an attempt to muffle it a bit more. There is a huge variety in game modes for each of the included games. They are all based on changing codes before you start the main game and without the book, it can be tricky to figure out how to play Variation 8 of "Cut Throat" Cricket. Another complaint is that the board doesn't auto switch to the next player after it registers three darts. You always have to hit the Next Player button. On the positive side, at least you won't accidentally give the Next Player a free score when you pull the darts. Finally, depending on the game, when a game is finished, the LED scoreboard only displays the winner, but not the final score. When playing a simple High Score game with my kid, it would have been nice to see what the final score was for both players, along with "Player 1 wins". All in all, I am very pleased with the purchase. I've only had it for a week so I'm not sure about how durable it is in the long run, but the build quality is good and it's a decent board with plenty of features.

I bought this dartboard game for my grandson, and we all had fun with it...for awhile. The board is great, but darts keep losing their guide "feathers". Several reviewers recommended buying a better quality set of darts, which I did, but they, too, kept losing the guide feathers. It seems that they could be put on permanently instead of slipping them into slots that they can so easily slip out of and get lost. We've bought more dart sets since, and they all seem to have the same problem.

This electronic board has a great visible face and seems to have few bounce outs. The display is easy to understand and is bright enough even for a well lit room. Overall I am very happy with only two minor issues. The mounting system is a top and bottom screw in the back that the board slides onto. The issue is that this does not seem to give the rock solid anchoring that I want. I prefer a system where there are 4 through the face screws. With 18gram darts the issue is how tightly they get stuck. It can be difficult to pull them out and with the rear anchoring system I find myself rocking the board a bit.

Great Board, right price, have had many hours of fun already! My wife got it for me for my office. Mahalo!

I love all the features and functions of this game. I have been playing darts for over 30 years (steel and plastic) and this one beats out some bar room boards! No issues at all, the product is just as described. I would purchase this product again from this seller. Thanks!

I do like the dart board and its features. The problem is that after about a months worth of use the panels on the board are breaking. One I can understand but when 5 have broken in less then 2 months that is not what I would call a quality product. I have contacted the company 3 times about part numbers to replace the panels but I have gotten no reply. I am disappointed in the service that I have received from the company. March 8, 2012 I again contacted the company with no luck on getting my issue resolved. Their are problems with player being skipped or some of the electronics not working properly. All of the red segments encased in the inner circle are borken and some of the triple and double segments are broke. It is a nice board but it it not long lasting. I do not recommend this board. DMI Sports attempted to help but then dismissed me as a customer and is no longer in contact.