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Volunteers are being called on to help break a world record with a twist - the world's biggest ever game of Twister.

The party game still has a big following especially in Charlotte, North Carolina, - the hometown of one of its inventors - where the attempt will get underway on Saturday.

To break the 1987 record Charlotte needs to persuade more than 4,161 people to take off their shoes and climb on the 1,125 Twister mats that have been taped together at a local college.

Jeff Watkins, student spokesman at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte, said: "We're trying to get everybody in Charlotte to come - no matter how old they are."

Local hero Charles Foley, who helped invent the game, will be twirling the spinner, he said: "Anything that's done with Twister, I'm for."

The final player still standing at the end of the weekend record attempt will win prizes including the game itself according to The Charlotte Observer.