Charles "Chuck" Frederick Foley, the co-inventor of Twister, has passed away at 82. He died in a care facility on Monday, July 1 in St. Louis Park, Minnesota.
His son Mark said that he died from complications of his Alzheimer's disease.
Foley and his colleague, Neil Rabens, created the game together. The patent office told them that they needed mechanical pieces, but Foley suggested people. He even demonstrated the game in Washington to patent officials.
Twister was manufactured by Milton Bradley in 1966. Foley and Rabens were awarded the United States Patent 3.454.279 in 1969, "wherein the players constitute the game pieces."
In 1998, Foley told the Dallas Morning News that "the biggest problem people had in entertaining was worrying about people enjoying themselves and not sitting in corners." To him, the game "pulled people together."
The inventor held 97 patents. Twister is currently made by Hasbro.
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