Who invented twister the game

That decision could not have been more devastating. The lasting image of the two contorting their bodies before a national audience sent sales skyrocketing, and by , Milton Bradley had moved over 3 million copies.

Sears started stocking it. Today, the game is a global sensation, with its new owner Hasbro citing it as one of its top sales performers in the first quarter of and the National Toy Hall of Fame honoring it as a inductee. Dirty mind, dirty game.

Michael Waters is an editorial intern at Smithsonian. Read more of his work at michaelwatersauthor. To deflect from concerns around sexual undertones, Milton Bradley packaged the game as inoffensively as possible. A boy and girl play the game Twister, as other young people watch in a paneled living room, circa Chuck Foley had lived in North Carolina for a number of years, but his son said he returned to Minnesota six years ago when his health began to decline, to be closer to his family.

Foley and his wife, Kathleen, had nine children. She died of breast cancer in , and Foley never remarried. He never wanted to grow up, and he always maintained his enthusiasm for seeing things through the eyes of a child.

Facebook Twitter Email. Inventor of iconic party game Twister dies. Patrick Condon Associated Press. Share your feedback to help improve our site! It was while he was developing packaging for the Reynolds Guyer House of Design that he and partner Neil Rabins came up with the idea for Twister. Foley often collected toys for churches and foundations that distributed them to less-fortunate children.

He also planted dreams in the kids he spoke to at elementary and high schools in the Twin Cities, his son said. Services will be held at 11 a. Wednesday at St. Visitation will be held 1 hour before services at the church. Tim Harlow covers traffic and transportation issues in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, and likes to get out of the office, even during rush hour. He also covers the suburbs in northern Hennepin and all of Anoka counties, plus breaking news and weather. Home All Sections.

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