On the 95th birth anniversary of Walter Frederick Morrison, inventor of the Frisbee or the Flying Disc, we look at other offbeat and unusual games that achieved popularity over the years...

Frisbee: While tossing a cake pan back and forth with his future wife at a beach in 1938, American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison discovered the marketability for the Flying Disc, which would later go on to be named Frisbeen, when someone offered him 25 cents for it.

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Inspired by this incident, both Morrison and his wife decided to set up a business selling cake pans to toss around for the same amount until World War II. Walter Morrison served in the Army Air Force during this time where he learnt something of aerodynamics while flying a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft.

After his return from service Walter Frederick Morrison drew up plans for the world's first flying disc in 1946, which an investor named Warren Franscioni paid for molding the design in plastic in 1948. Named the Flyin-Saucer, the disc failed to achieve good sales initially leading to the end of Franscioni and Morrison's partnership in 1950.

After discovering that he could produce his own discs more cheaply, Morrison and his wife designed the Pluto Platter, which became the archetype of all modern flying discs. The couple sold the rights to their disc to the Wham-O toy company on January 23, 1957, which was also Morrison's birthday and the invention was renamed as Frisbee by June 1957 after the company discovered that several college students were calling it by that name.

The Frisbee or the flying disc has become a staple for popular recreation over the years. Several hybrid games involving frisbees insist and are played all over world.

The game of guts was invented by the Healy Brothers in the 1950s and developed at the International Frisbee Tournament (IFT) in Eagle Harbor, Michigan. The game of ultimate, the most widely played disc game, began in the late 1960s with Joel Silver and Jared Kass. In the 1970s it developed as an organized sport with the creation of the Ultimate Players Association with Dan Roddick, Tom Kennedy and Irv Kalb. Double disc court was invented and introduced in the early 1970s by Jim Palmeri. In 1974, freestyle competition was created and introduced by Ken Westerfield and Discrafts Jim Kenner. The game disc golf was invented in 1976 with with targets called "pole holes" invented and developed by Wham-O's Ed Headrick.

Wife carrying: This sport which was first introduced in Sonkajärvi, Finland is a contest in which male competitors race while each carrying a female teammate. The objective is to clear an obstacle track in the fastest time.