# This has got to be physically... difficult **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 30, 2003, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-has-got-to-be-physically-difficult/172065 "2003-04-30T02:55:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-has-got-to-be-physically-difficult/172065/21 "2003-04-30T05:04:01Z")
I suppose it could have hit fin-end first with enough force to make a mark in the wall, bounced off, and flipped to allow the point-end to stick itself in the wall. (Sort of like the old Sprint pin-drop commercials- one end hits, then the other hits.) Not likely though, since the first blow would’ve dissipated the force too much to allow any bounce to puncture the wall. ---
**Author:** ![badmana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@badmana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badmana)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-has-got-to-be-physically-difficult/172065/22 "2003-04-30T05:48:39Z")
I vote for random blind luck that you put a hole near an existing hole. Or maybe that hole was there long before any darts were thrown at the wall? You said the tip doesn’t match the hole perfectly? Then it could have been made by something completely different. I’ve played with real darts in my friend’s home bar. There is no way for a dart of any kind (except maybe magnetic ones) to hit a wall twice at any angle unless your wall isn’t 90 degrees away from “down”. Unless you can see a slant in your wall, that second hole is from something else. ---
**Author:** ![LordVor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90ced4/32.png) [@LordVor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LordVor)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-has-got-to-be-physically-difficult/172065/23 "2003-04-30T14:40:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Q.E.D. \* > \*\*No, no. This is all wrong. There would be no way for the dart to suddenly change direction in midair and hit the wall a second time. Once it bounces out of the hole, what on Earth could make it hit the wall again? \*\* I was assuming that there was an invisible couch sitting a few inches away from the wall, so that, so that the dart could bounce off of that on the backswing and bounce forward again. Well, really, I just wanted to make my joke about moving that black hole behing the target, and then remembered that I was in GQ so I better at least present a theory along side it. BTW, if you’re throwing a dart hard enough that you can miss a target by 5 or 6 feet and still drive the dart into drywall, I think I know why you’re accuracy’s off. -lv ---
**Author:** ![netscape\_6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8c91f0/32.png) [@netscape\_6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/netscape_6)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-has-got-to-be-physically-difficult/172065/24 "2003-04-30T16:10:01Z")
did you have a window open? perhaps it was blown back. a sudden gust of wind might be enough to make it change direction in mid air. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-has-got-to-be-physically-difficult/172065/25 "2003-04-30T16:48:49Z")
I for one, will withhold judgement until I see a detailed mock-up of the rec-room and carefully examine the “magic-dart”. Are there any grassy-knolls nearby where a 2nd dart-thrower might hide. Were you… _ehem_… inebriated? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-has-got-to-be-physically-difficult/172065.md?page=1)