Twister
It's from 1966, before you were born.
- Maker
- Milton Bradley / Hasbro
- Type
- Party game
- Debuted
- 1966
- Note
- Called 'sex in a box' by rivals; exploded after Johnny Carson played it
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About
As of 2026, it's 60 years old.
Twister was so scandalous in 1966 — a game where players physically tangle their limbs across a mat of colored dots — that competitors denounced it as 'sex in a box,' and some stores refused to stock it. Then Johnny Carson played it with Eva Gabor on The Tonight Show, sales exploded overnight, and a party-game legend was born.
Right-hand-red, left-foot-blue: the game is a slow-motion collapse into a giggling human pretzel, ending when someone's elbow gives out and the whole pile topples. It remains the most physically intimate way to lose to your friends.
Tangled, giggly, and once genuinely scandalous, Twister is the game that turned 'the mat IS the playing piece' into the most beloved excuse to fall on your friends.
