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Hand’s up if you’ve played Twister before?
Maybe I should have said Right Hand on Red! Left Foot on Green!
Everybody would have had to have played Twister at least once in their life, and or been around friends or family who were playing it.
If you re-wind back to those memories no doubt they echo the nostalgic sounds of hilarious laughter, high pitched squeals and tonnes of fun with everyone tied up in knots and wrapped around each other like a pretzel.
Well, maybe it’s time for us to put down our smartphones, kick our shoes off and grab a pair of tracksuit pants… cancel that yoga class you’re about to show the kids how we had fun in our day.
Twister is a great way to get active, work on our flexibility, to stretch and work those tummy muscles with some full belly laughter!
Above all we can re-kindle our own childhood and feel like a kid again and it’s a great excuse to get everyone together for some quality family time.
This year Twister celebrates it’s 50th Anniversary and five decades of tangling players up in knots!
For those of you who may not know what Twister is well… this game is a game of physical skill, the spinner announces to move a hand or foot and to which colour, Red, Blue, Yellow or Green.
The challenge is to keep your hands and feet on the mat!
Right food red! Left foot green!
If your knee or elbow touches the mat, or you fall over, you’re out.
Be the last player standing to win! Two new moves include Spinner’s Choice and Air.
With Spinner’s Choice, the spinner makes up a move for the other player to do.
If the spinner lands on Air, the player must put a hand or foot up in the air!
Twister is for ages 6 years and up.
To help celebrate Twisters 50th Anniversary we are giving away 1 of 6 games
To enter visit: bit.ly/Twister2016
If you’re interested, Twister has a really interesting back story too:
- TWISTER was first invented in 1964 and called King’s Footsie because players could only use their feet and not their hands in the original game concept. In fact, TWISTER was the first game to use players as pieces.
- The game faced social resistance from retailers when it was initially released, who felt is was inappropriate to encourage customers to get tangled up on a mat together. Consumers were confused by how the game worked when it was initially released, so it was pulled off the shelves and all advertising cancelled.
- By a stroke of luck, a scheduled appearance on The Tonight Show went ahead after the game had been cancelled. Johnny Carson, host of The Tonight Show, had his celebrity guests play a game of TWISTER. The audience loved it and flocked to stores the next day to purchase their own TWISTER game.
- By 1967 more than three million TWISTER games had been sold.
