What is your favorite toy? Does it fit one of the graph’s categories?
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Math,
Toy Takeover
Check out the numbers behind favorite toys around the world
By Gayoung Lee
From the December 2024 / January 2025 Issue
Top Toys in the U.S. in 2023
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Source: Toy Association
Worldwide Popularity
These 3 toys have the most Google searches!
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LUDO:
A strategy board game where players roll a die to race tokens
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BARBIE:
Fashion dolls that have had more than 250 careers
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YO-YO:
A toy that zips down and up as its string unwinds and rewinds
BY THE NUMBERS
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20,000 trolls are in the world’s largest troll doll collection in Alliance, Ohio.
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520,000,000 copies of Tetris have sold worldwide, making it the best-selling video game of all time.
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3.13 seconds is the world record for the fastest time a human has solved a Rubik’s Cube.
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