Click on a channel, and what you will encounter is routine game play, along with two other frames: a miniature box showing the face of the streamer, who provides occasional commentary; and, to the right, a chat window that scrolls with the indecipherable speed of a spinning game-show wheel.
Just in time for the holidays, the Virtual Dreidel (spinthedreidel.com) pits you against a team of cartoon children in a cutthroat match of the spinning top game.
In 2011, the year the third Transformers movie was released, Hasbro recorded $960 million in sales from products related to Transformers and Beyblade, a spinning top game, according to the company's latest annual earnings report.
You can play Sea Turtle Survival, a spinning board game in which you have to avoid raccoons, ghost crabs and confusing house lights trying to get from nest to sea.
It's nothing more than a political spin game: we must have joint sacrifice.
But the only thing that's left is to play a spin game of how much somebody wins by".
Back in 1998, a Business Week cover story called "Wall Street's Spin Game" put the matter succinctly: "The analyst today is an investment banker in sheep's clothing".
"We are trying to get to good policies, and the spin game doesn't help us," said Dr. Harlan M. Krumholz, a professor of medicine at Yale who has served on a different Institute of Medicine panel.
Frank Luntz isn't the only one who can play the spin game.
But the Best Spin award this year goes to John McCain, who fully remembers how to play the Cold War spin game.
