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The games included in this year's field of finalists include bingo, the lottery game that first appeared in its modern form in the 1920s; Catan, the board game originally known as Settlers of Catan when it was published in Germany in 1995; Phase 10, a rummy-style card game that first appeared in 1992 and is the second best-selling card game in the world; and Rack-O, a pattern-building card game first introduced by Milton Bradley in 1956.
Other toys on the list of finalists are Breyer horses, Lite-Brite, Masters of the Universe, Nerf toys, pinata, Pound Puppies, Spirograph and the spinning top.