Tedman Getschman and Big Potato Games win UK Toy Inventors’ Dinner WITTY Prize for Whirly Derby

Posted on 26th January 2026 By Billy Langsworthy

Inventors’ Dinner, Big Potato

Tedman Getschman and Big Potato Games won the WITTY Prize at this year’s UK Toy Inventors’ Dinner for their party game, Whirly Derby.

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 and So Sound’s Star Wars Darth Vader Ultimate Mech Force Suit, TOMY and DesignbyTouch’s Doteki, and Buffalo and Ellie Dix’s Junior Detective Mysteries.

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