Jarts, or “lawn darts” is a game similar to horseshoes or darts. Each player has three large darts made of a plastic shaft and fins and a heavy pointed metal tip. The object is to throw them at a circular target on the grass to see who gets closest. After three children were killed in Jarts accidents, the toys were banned from sale and the government recommended that owners destroy them.
I played the game when I was a kid. I have a nice set, new in the box. Obviously they’re not for sale. Who else has Jarts?
This is very true. One other obvious example is horse shoes. I believe the difference was that both archery and horse shoes were both recognized as either for adults or needing adult supervision. For some reason Jarts came out as something for kids to play with after the parents instructed them to be careful. As a result, archery and horse shoes have retained their places and Jarts has been placed in the too dangerous to handle category.
My parents had a set, and we used to occasionally play them when we went on camping trips. This would’ve been probably in the early to mid 1990s. No idea they were banned, they didn’t seem all that more dangerous than other things (as long as proper safety precautions were done, which they were).