Fun-Damental Invention and Big Potato Games win UK Toy Inventors’ Dinner WITTY Prize for Tilt N’ Shout
Fun-Damental Invention and Big Potato Games won the WITTY Prize at this year’s UK Toy Inventors’ Dinner for their party game, Tilt N’ Shout.
Inaugurated in 2013, the WITTY (which stands for Winning Inventor Toy of The Year) is presented to the inventors of a product introduced in the preceding year and judged by event attendees to be the most exciting and inventive.
Other products in contention included the likes of Hasbro’s Life in Reterra, The Op’s Flip 7 and Fat Brain Toys’ Foosbots Stadium Battle.
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