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Amazon.com had record year end business.
It’s top sellers were: Nintendo Wii, Samsung 52-Inch LCD HDTV, the Apple iPod touch, and Blokus. Yep, the Wii had a great year, putting to rest the old notion that video games are all about lazy, anti-social misfits; those people bought the TV. The IPhone is not just a phone, but the newest gaming platform. And lookie here: a board game.
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Did you know that November 2007-October 2008 (the latest statistics available), there were an average of 60,500 searches for “Blokus” per month on Google?
The article says only that the holiday bestsellers “included” these four items. I doubt Blokus was even the #100 highest selling single item for the year.
Today in the toy category, Settlers of Catan is the third most popular item and Blokus is the sixth. Both beat out Scene It, Monopoly, Scrabble, Uno, and, actually, every other game.