Purchased this for my son, daughter-in-law, and young grandchildren for Christmas and it was a great hit with the entire family, something that everyone can participate in. This was a game my sons had as children and we enjoyed and now it appears that tradition will be passed on. Thanks

This is a game that has been around for a lot of years that can get a good belly laugh from any age group young or old. This is a wonderful game to pull out on unsuspecting guests! Ha Ha HA!! It is even more hilarious to play after you have conned the reluctant player into participating. It is a great way for even the stiffest of the stiffs to learn to laugh at themselves in a healthy way that will leave them with funnybone memories for years to come. I love it when the adults play this with the kids because it lets the kids see that adults don't always have to be prim and proper and that they love to have fun too. When it gets clumsy is the best time because you really are able to bond with others when you see them unable to keep an impossible reach and learn that nobody is perfect and that is what is great about everyone as an individual.

This game is a lot of fun! Even though it is a classic game it is much better than the new Twister games like Twister Moves that are electronic. This game is more fun if you have more than 2 people playing, though.

Hello! It's Nessie :).

Come on, we have another classic game here. How can you deny it?

Twister is game where someone spins a cardboard spinner and calls out right foot blue, left hand green etc. In the end, the 2 players end up in a really funny position.

This game is great for a rainy Saturday. Play some nice, upbeat music, and you got yourself a cheaper and more active alternative to the movies.

Or, make Twister a lively party game. Twister tournaments work wonders as a party attraction!

There are may differnt possibilties and MORe funny positions you can find yourself in! Kids love it and grownups to. Sometimes it's fun to have a wacky position competition. I suggest you buy this toy 100%!

Good Luck!

Nessie!!

This is a timeless classic! My children are little, but they are able to enjoy the fun this game provides! They laugh extra hard when they get tangled up like a pretzel. "Mommmy, look at us, we are pretzels!"

I got this for my husband, and it turns out that my 4yr & 2yr old daughters have loads of fun.If has helped my 4yr old this learning her left and right.My 2yr old likes to push everyone off and get under them.Tons of Fun!!!

Twister is THE BEST! I really love twister seeing as I am quite flexible, I olmost always win. This is a really great game, such a classic! I would buy this for anyone that doesn't own it, it is a true family favorite!

This game is probably one of the simplest, but also most difficult games to play well. It requires a level of dexterity that can easily become unmanageable, though it is extremely entertaining to see people try.

The game mat is pretty strong, made of thick plastic sheeting that can stand up to most punishment a crowd can dish out. It is recommended that one should play without shoes, as instructed, as this will preserve the playing mat for longer.

The game is great at parties, if you want something fun for everyone, (including adults). However, those with flexibility or joint problems might want to exercise caution.

In short, "Twister" is a fun game for just about anywhere that a group of people are. It is simple, hard, and lots of fun, (even for the spectators).

Surely everyone knows Twister? My first encounter was when my sister got the game for her birthday in 1976.
She and her friends had a ball with it at her party, then the adults had a go; or rather the Dads.
The Mums all seemed to wear frocks in those days and they didn't want to disgrace themselves at my Sister's party! The Dads on the other hand, would be really dumb at the drop of a hat to make us kids laugh.
I remember it being fun whatever age I was (I played a lot of games at college and we were all pretty giddy with wine then, much like the Dads back in 76!).
You can't fail to enjoy it, just be careful if your back is troubled or you have any injuries that are healing. Oh and be careful if you play with someone with stinky feet! the game really is a "shoes off" number, This is a fine idea but I remember back in 76 one of the Dads was not so sweet and one of my college buddies was rank! This means the mat needs a wipe down occassionally, otherwise there is a unfortunate lasting pong every time you open the box!!

I have played this for years at birthday parties, but finally got one of my own last summer. So I took it to a Summer Youth Camp with me...and about 25 of us teens took turns on there. It was such a blast!
The only thing I would say is, if you have back or neck problems, you might want to skip this one. Or you could always be the spinner person. Either way, this one's tons of fun!

Twister is a very nice, fun, calm game. If you have any sort of party with friends this is a great game to play. And it's not really any age limit, just as long as you know your right from your left.

Twister is a great game for kids...but I recently saw Twister Moves and remembered how much fun I had at twister but when I got it I am sad to say I have not used it once. I do however still remember how much fun I had as a kid so I will say for kids this game is great. I personally think after about age 16 this game is just that a great memory.

This game can get any dull party going full swing by getting people who may not even know each other very close. The idea, if you're not familiar with Twister, is that each player begins standing. One person is assigned to be the spinner and spins an arrow on a board upon which are pictures of the left and right hands and left and right feet, and four colored dots for every limb listed above. The board is decorated with similar dots, and the players must follow the given instructions, competing for the most comfortable postitions in which to match the given instruction. Each player must place the indicated limb on the indicated dot, then keep it there, or they are out. Eventually people will end up all crossed one over the other and, as the box says, "tied up in knots." Winning can be just a matter of being the last person standing, or the crafty player can position themselves so that other players won't be able to easily position themselves, causing them to fall and lose.

This game isn't that great if you only have under four people, but a crew of four or more can easily roll out the plastic bag and have a great time.

I find it interesting to see that when you look at the cover of Milton Bradley's "Twister" today you see four adolescents playing the game: two girls and a very happy looking young boy on the mat, and another young lad holding up the spinner to indicate it is "left hand yellow" time. On our copy of "Twister" there are six younger children, again divided equally between girls and boys, with one pair actually playing the game and making their "left hand red" moves. However, if you go back to the original 1966 version of the game the cover art is of adults playing the game (by adults I mean grown-ups where the men are wearing coats and ties--but no shoes--to play the game). The art actually makes the playing mat look a lot bigger, which makes the two adults cavorting on it look a bit smaller. But while the marketing strategy may have changed over the years, the reason for boys and girls to play this game together has not (think about how many games can be said to require both genders to play it besides this one).

If you look at the game boy it tells you "Twister" is for ages 6 and up, but I have seen a suggestion that it is "intended" for ages 6-12. However, the popularity of the game seems to be mainly with college students, who bring a different perspective to the game's objective, which is to "Outmaneuver your opponents by placing your hands and feet on the colored circles." The game box contains a spinner, the mat 5-1/2 x 4-1/2 foot vinyl mat marked with colored circles, and the brief rules, which everybody already knows. A referee spins the spinner to come up with which hand or foot has to be placed on the circle of which particular color but there can never be a circle with more than one hand and/or foot on it, which is what makes things interesting. As the game progresses, this becomes much more difficult and bodies become entangled, which we always assumed was the point of the game. If you fall, or if any part of your body besides your hands and feet touch the mat, you are out and the last player literally left "standing," so to speak, is the winner.

The idea was that "The game that ties you up in knots" would be a good ice breaker for parties (keep in mind, the game was created in the 1960s), but it ended up becoming the raison d'etre for such festivities (I am sure many of us have memories of "Twister" parties way back then) and over 19 million copies of the game have been sold since it came out in 1966 (and sold for $6). The game was part of the golden age of games for Milton Bradley in the Sixties, when the company came up with "Life" (1960), "Stratego" (1961), "Trouble" (1965), "Operation" (1965), and "Battleship" (1967). In recent years Milton Bradley has also come out with a "Twisted Moves" game aimed at ages 8 to adult that gets players following the directions of a pair of recorded DJs on CDs, but that has more to do with dancing. The Guinness World Record for the largest "Twister" game was set by 4,160 students at the University of Massachusetts on May 2, 1987 and in 1999 "Twister" received the Dr. Toy Best Classic Toys award.

I love this game. It's great for parties. Don't use it for big parties,cause it might rip. EWW....Don't want that to happen. It's so fun. When my cousins come over,we have a fun time with this. We get tangeled up and linked together. You might get hurt if you are younger and playing with older kids,or you might get hurt if you are an adult not flexible.

I love this game. It's great for parties. Don't use it for big parties,cause it might rip. EWW....Don't want that to happen. It's so fun. When my cousins come over,we have a fun time with this. We get tangeled up and linked together. You might get hurt if you are younger and playing with older kids,or you might get hurt if you are an adult not flexible.

This is a really fun game but I've hardley played it. I guess it's because we haven't had any kids come over(yet). 3 stars for education value because it teaches motor skills.

This game is so much fun. It was around when I was a little girl and now my 6 year old has it. You can spend many hours playing this game and it is so much fun. It is so much fun for the whole family.

Twister is really fun. It is also easy to learn . You need aabout five people to make it fun. Somebody spins the spinner and sees what it lands on. For example, if it lands on right hand blue everyone has to put their right hand on blue. If you fall down your out. The game goes on until every body except one person is out. They win.
Me and my friends play it often. We really like it.

Just purchased another "Twister" game for the grandkids.
It is still fun, but I do think that years ago, teenagers used this game for a fun and innocent (?) contact sport. How times
have changed! The plastic is a bit slippery........but
falling down and tumbling over each other is part of the fun.

I'm on an athletic team that will be spending a few days in a hotel room with other teams. The guys and girls from a few teams will get toghether after hours to make some friends. And even though were all in college, Strip Twister is a game that is a must at this party. Thats the whole reason im looking to buy one. Definitly intended for the young of age, but it can be used by anyone with an active imagination!

i remember playing Twister as a little kid at birthday parties and friends' houses, and having a great time. it's an excellent game for children, but i enjoy it even more now that i'm a 15-year-old teen. Strip Twister is the best teen party game ever. haha. all in all, it's a great game for any age.

~christina

Didn't we all have Twister at some point in our childhood? Well, I can no longer actually play in the game anymore because I"m not as limber as I used to be, but my kids had a ball playing this. They got it for Christmas (their age ranges from 8 to 4). Although the younger ones don't know left from right yet, they still had a great time & a lot of laughs.

This is just a great classic fun game for young and older kids. Well worth the price.

Oh heavens! I discovered this game in the seventh grade and was thrilled... for a budding young girl, any excuse to get in close body contact with her classmates is a good one! Invite someone you admire to a Twister party and get tangled up.

Everyone is a winner playing Twister. My husband and I took this to a school for at risk kids in Peru. There is nothing like a little fun to break through cultural barriers. They rather enjoyed watching us trying to beat each other along with them. We're buying extras to send back to the school. Classic games like Twister take you right back to childhood as you watch new generations give the spinner a try.

Fun game! While its low in educational value, its a good time, which is also important. Great game for slumber parties for kids who are a little older than the recommended age of 6. This game brings a lot of laughs and giggles.

I realy like Games,but my most favorite game is twister the kind of twister where there is a mat laying on the floor,and it comes with a spinner.
It takes 4 peopel to play, but 5 if you include the person that works the spinner.
When you start to play twister to people will be standing on each side of the mat, and one person will be sitting down by the mat holding the board.

It's the game that is always asked for at birthday parties or any kind of parties. For the price you pay you get 100 times as much fun laughter and joy!!!

Even though I'm sidelined from playing this game with the kids, I have a great time watching them and playing referree. The game is unchanged (other than the label on the box) since I owned it. I was surprised at the thickness of the mat, which has so far stood up to the beating it takes from my kids and their friends.

I played this when I was a child and about 30 years later, have introduced it to our 9 year old son. We now live in Ukraine and played it at his birthday party with some of our friends from here. Everyone laughed so hard while playing. I look at the photos and video and start laughing just seeing everyone getting "familiar." They all want to try to make their own game with whatever they can find, but I want to buy one for each of the families at the party. This is a new tradition for Ukrainian birthday parties from now on, I think.

I am a college student, and we play this game very often. For one thing it is absolutly hysterical to see two really tall basketball players all tied up, it is fun to play indoors or out, and it challenges your brain. You're probably thinking "What? How does Twister, a physical game, challenge my brain?" Even if you were just thinking "I'm hungry, I think I'll have a Tuna Fish Sandwich," or "Where did I put my Detroit Tigers Baseball cap?" I'll tell you how it challenges your brain. (Did I mention that I am studying to be a teacher?) Okay, Raise your left hand if you know the difference between left and right . . .no your other left hand - good job! One way Twister challenges your brain is that you need to know your left from your right. (Wow amazing!) Now I want you to cross your legs,bend over, put your left hand on the ground through your legs and your right hand on the ground in front of you - now stay that way until I tell yu to move your right arm again - guess what this involves? That's right Balance and coordination! (You get a gold star!) Okay so far we have balance, coordination, and knowing your left from your right. This game also teaches about colors - do you know the difference between red, green, blue,and yellow? Even if you are color blind you can play because they are in rows and if you really want you can label the circles. Did you know that physical activity is good for your brain and it helps you learn better? It really does - there is well proven research on that - go look it up if you don't believe me. Oh yeah - can you show me the difference between your feet and your hands? That is a very important life lesson - if you aren't sure about those I'd like to have a word with your parents please!

One small warning - take off your shoes first - when the mat gets ripped the game isn't fun anymore - you might want to put an oder eater ball in the box if you just played with college boys :o)!

I love this game: it is a simple concept yet an excellent design. In terms of education it can teach co-ordination etc. and its great fun whenever there's nothing else to do. Getting jumbled up can be hilarious

The main thing you need to make sure for is your balance and speed. Also it need spinning and determination. That's about it.

My kids, ages 7 and 9, got this game for Christmas and they have spent hours playing with it! It's a good physical, indoor game -- and there aren't a lot out there like that!

It has taught them that right and left change based on the location of your body. That's an important concept that some people never learn.