Cat battles robot in race to be new Monopoly token (pictures)

The cat proved king in a field of five proposed new tokens for Monopoly. Here's how they fared in an online vote by fans around the world.In a Facebook vote sponsored by Hasbro, Monopoly fans from more than 120 countries have chosen this cat as the newest token to join the board classic game. It garnered 31 percent of the vote, the highest out of five proposed new tokens.

Meanwhile, the least popular classic token turned out to be the iron, which had 7.6 percent support. In the final hours of the vote, the iron traded places several times with the shoe and the wheelbarrow, which received 7.9 and 7.7 percent, respectively, but ultimately lost. [Read more]





by CBS Interactive via CNET