Scott takes us through the twisted history of the classic game Twister. How did it overcome its risqué premise to become a perennial favorite?
Bibliography of a Board Game:
Video - Twister was created 55 years ago Video - Ren Guyer: The Man Who Invented Twister & Nerf Video - Original Twister Commercial Video - Twister Mania for Xbox 360 review Text - Ren Guyer's story of Twister from his official website Text - Twister on Board Games Galore Fandom Wikia Text - Patent information on Twister Book - Timeless Toys: Classic Toys and the Playmakers Who Created Them, by Tim Walsh7m46: One interesting note is that Shuffle Twister's gameplay is similar to Bez Shahriari's independently-released In a Bind, but Shahriari released her game in 2015, one year earlier. In a Bind went on to be re-implemented by French publisher Gigamic as Yogi.
9m19s: To clarify, Monkey Auto Races wasn't #1 on the BGG Hot Games; as an April Fool's joke in 2007, a bunch of BGG users gave the game a high rating, and it was actually the #1 game on BGG for one day.
Ludology Episode 202 - Forgive Me Not
GameTek Classic 201.5 - The Yips
Ludology Episode 201 - Are We Having Fun Yet?
Biography of a Board Game 200.5 - Cluedo
Ludology Episode 200 - Auld Lang... Engelstein?
GameTek Classic 199 - Crystallography
Ludology Episode 199 - What's In the Box?
Biography of a Boardgame 198 - Othello
Ludology Episode 198 - Inspired
GameTek Classic 197 - Drinking Games
Ludology Episode 197 - Empires Up In Arms
GameTek Classic 196 - Apples Against Humanity
Ludology Episode 196 - Word Up
GameTek Classic 195 - Ritual
Ludology Episode 195 - Value Added
GameTek 194 - The Hanabi Challenge
Ludology Episode 194 - Lifting the Fog
GameTek Classic 193 - Merchant of Venus
Ludology Episode 193 - Lean and Mean in 2019
GameTek Classic 192 - Ties
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