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Toy of the Year Award - 2006 Final Nominees

The nominees for the Toy Industry Association's top honor given to a game

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The final nominees for the 2006 T.O.T.Y. (Toy of the Year) Award in the Game of the Year category, are:

Apples to Apples (Out of the Box Publishing)
Candy Land DVD (Milton Bradley)
Dream Life (Tiger Electronics)
Hullabaloo (Cranium)
Sudoku (Techno Source USA)

The T.O.T.Y. Awards are presented by the Toy Industry Association (TIA) each year at the American International Toy Fair.

According to the TIA web site, "The Awards were conceived to honor the best toys developed by the international toy industry for consumers in North America; the program significantly expands the vision of the long-standing Toy Industry Hall of Fame program to recognize toys, as well as individuals."

The "game of the year" category is "for the game of the year, including children's board, card, CD-ROM or electronic game formats. (For CD-ROM or electronic games, formats must have ESRB's 'Early Childhood' rating: content may be suitable for persons ages 3 and older. Contains no materials that parents would find inappropriate.)"

The 2005 T.O.T.Y. Game of the Year was Scene It? (Screenlife).

The 2004 T.O.T.Y. Game of the Year was Hullabaloo (Cranium).

The 2003 T.O.T.Y. Game of the Year was Hullabaloo (Cranium).

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