Banana Joe won best of breed for the third straight year, then took the toy group.
Finally, anywhere from 8 to 30 kids within the targeted age group play with the toy.
The herding, toy, nonsporting and hound group winners will be chosen Monday night on CNBC.
According to NPD Group, a market research company that tracks the toy and videogame business, board-game sales overall are up 9% in the last year on the strength of strong performance of the classic segment, which includes Monopoly.
That's the word from the non-profit research group Kids in Danger, which has been tracking toy injuries and deaths among recalled products since 2001.
HealthyToys.org, founded by a parental advocacy group and two American organisations, lets concerned parents text in the name of a toy they are considering buying in a shop and instantly reports back with information about lead or other toxins that may have been found in it.
The group commissioned a poll of local residents that found 80 percent didn't think the toy issue was an important one.
Even when news stories play it straight down the "he says, she says, " line, who, as a parent, are you going to believe: the company protesting that its toy, usually assembled in China, is just fine and dandy, or the "watchdog" group warning that it's frighteningly dangerous and waving a test to prove it?
Until now, the group has been largely associated with mom-and-pop stores, spotlighting stories of small toy shops and booksellers who argue Internet merchants that aren't legally required to collect sales taxes enjoy an unfair advantage with shoppers.
Even before building the app, ZeptoLab reached out to some of its 100 merchandising partners, including plush-toy maker Vivid Toy Group Ltd. and Round 5.
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