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July 12, 2013

Inventor of iconic party game Twister dies

  • The game became a sensation after Johnny Carson and Eva Gabor played it on “The Tonight Show” in 1966.
    • By PATRICK CONDON
    Associated Press

    ST. PAUL, Minn. — Twister called itself “the game that ties you up in knots.” Its detractors called it “sex in a box.”

    Charles “Chuck” Foley, the father of nine who invented the game that became a naughty sensation in living rooms across America in the 1960s and 1970s because of the way it put men and women in compromising positions, has died. He was 82.


     
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