Game:Young America Target

Parker Brothers sought a patent, sometime around the turn of the 20th century, for a new kind of target game. Everyone loved traditional dart games, but the steel-tipped darts were far too dangerous for younger children. The firm's solution was ingenious, if a bit bizarre. Darts made of wax balls with feather-tipped ends made safer throwing devices. And the target itself got small metal points. Players threw the waxy balls at the point-laden target and they invariably stuck. Incredibly, the wax balls are still intact about a century later.