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The answer lies in the logo at the lower-right of both boxes on the ACD announcement. ACD is distributing the What's Your Game? versions of these titles and not the Z-Man Games versions. WYG is the original publisher of Vinhos, which debuted in Europe in late 2010, and the European licensor of Fairy Tale from original publisher Yuhodo. I asked WYG's Mariano Iannelli whether ACD purchased the games directly from WYG, and he answered, "[W]e did not have any kind of relationship with ACD and we did not sell them any units of our version of Vinhos and Fairy Tale."
• From Wired's Geekdad: "Auction Preview of D&D Co-Creator’s Personal Collection and Archives — Game's Secrets to Be Revealed". Starting May 6, 2012, according to the Wired article, Dave Arneson's "personal archives and game collection", which were found in an abandoned storage locker in Minnesota, will be auctioned on eBay. Arneson died in 2009.
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• Out of the Box Publishing interviewed designer Keith Meyers, whose Shake 'n Take was published by, yes, OotB. Meyers also has design or co-design credits for Sitting Ducks Gallery, Tiki Topple and Fantasy Flight's 2001 version of The Hobbit.
• In one of its daily Illuminator posts, Steve Jackson Games mentioned that it's sold 65,000 copies of Zombie Dice, which is in its third printing and recently had an expansion released for it, Zombie Dice 2: Double Feature. Zombie Dice was also featured in episode #3 of Wil Wheaton's TableTop show on Geek & Sundry, along with Get Bit! and Tsuro.
• In the first of what I imagine could be a series, I present this image of math homework presented to the child of a BGG user who wishes to remain anonymous:
Problem created by BGG user Eddie Feeley
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