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 59 - Hey! That's Mine!
GameTek Classic 58 - Player Engagement
Ludology Episode 58 - Back to Basics?
GameTek Classic 57 - Endowed Progress
Ludology Episode 57 - Goal!
GameTek Classic 56 - Gamification
Ludology Episode 56 - License to Thrill
GameTek Classic 55 - Intransitive Dice
Ludology Episode 55 - The Box is Half Full
GameTek Classic 54 - Designing Word Games
Ludology Episode 54 - The Long and the Short of it.
GameTek Classic 53 - Quantum Tic-Tac-Toe
Ludology Episode 53 - PAX Ludologica
GameTek Classic 52 - Entanglement
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GameTek Classic 51 - Regret
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GameTek Classic 50 - Monty Hall
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