A local connection to a taping of the Ellen Degeneres Show this week.

Snoop Dog, Martha Stewart and Miley Cyrus played the party game, “The Game of THINGS”.

The game was created in North Bay by brothers Ted and Tom Quinn and Mark Sherry about 15 years ago.

Sherry says it was exciting to see the game played on Ellen’s show, especially because it was a part of the “12 Days of Giveaways” Christmas specials, with everyone in the audience going home with the game.

He says Ellen is a big supporter of games and they’re honoured to be one of her favourites.

Meantime, Sherry says they’ve come a long way, pointing out THINGS has sold almost 3 million copies in Canada and the U.S. alone.

“We started in North Bay, we started at Creative Learning and Gullivers. We took off from there and now we’re distributed across North America,” he said.

They’ve just expanded to the UK, Australia and New Zealand.