![Links: Nominees for the 2016 Origins Awards, Mensa Select for 2016, and Ernest and Peterson's Game Golem](https://cf.geekdo-images.com/K-bPm-4jgqWJbPOUkcxrbw__thumb/img/w-I3PXzGtURti6ti3s7uvK3BUlI=/fit-in/200x150/filters:strip_icc()/pic1376840.jpg)
—Board Games: Champions of Midgard, La Granja, New York 1901, Orléans, and Star Wars: Imperial Assault
—Card Games: 7 Wonders: Duel, Ashes: Rise of the Phoenixborn, The Grizzled, Medieval Academy, and Welcome to the Dungeon
—Collectible Games: DC Comics Dice Masters: War of Light, Force of Will, and Yugi's Legendary Decks (in case you're as baffled about that as I am, it's three TCG-exclusive sets released to commemorate the 15th anniversary of Yu-Gi-Oh!)
—Family Games: Codenames, Co-Mix, Dohdles!, Fuse, and Me Want Cookies!
—Miniatures Games: Frostgrave, Guild Ball, Star Wars: Armada, Warhammer: Age of Sigmar, and Wrath of Kings
• The Mensa Select winners of 2016 have been determined by the attendees of the annual Mensa Mind Games event, which was held April 15-17, 2016 in Chicago, Illinois. The winners are:
—Circular Reasoning
—Favor of the Pharaoh
—The Last Spike
—New York 1901
—World's Fair 1893
• The U.S. branch of IELLO has announced a new release policy in which preorders of their games by brick-and-mortar stores will be shipped to those stores two weeks before online retailers and mass market stores receive their copies. This policy starts with its release of Sea of Clouds, Candy Chaser, and Kenjin, although due to shipping delays those titles will have an April 21, 2016 street date at B&M stores, only one week prior to their release at other locations.
• Television station KARE in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota shared the "board games are booming" trend with a story of a British family that traveled to the Fantasy Flight Games Center in Roseville, Minnesota instead of Walt Disney World. (The TV host goofed, though, as the games are designed, not manufactured, in that part of the world. Anyone who shows up at the Games Center expected to see X-Wings rolling off the production line like Krispy Kreme donuts will be extremely disappointed.)
• Designers James Ernest and Paul Peterson showed up on Twitch channel Hyper RPG!'s show "Grab Bag" to take parts from Tsuro, Loot, and Mage Knight Board Game, then design a new game with them. What did they come up with? A co-op game called Mr. Dragon Bro!