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• Vlaada Chvátil's Codenames has proven to be a surprising success for CGE, selling more than 400,000 copies in less than a year on the market, and at Gen Con 2016 the sequel/standalone expansion Codenames: Pictures will be released, challenging players to transmit information to their partners in new and not-so-new ways.
• You're challenged to follow the recipe in Menu Masters from Jordan Weisman, Zach Weisman, and Calliope Games, but in order to do that you need money, need to be first at market to have first choice of goods, or crowd the market so that others can't afford what you want.
• Running with the Bulls from Paul Peterson and Calliope Games is like a Pachinko machine come to life — except that it's on a board, with you as the balls and the bulls as bigger balls that will crush your spines and remove you from play.
• Calliope Games released a bit of info about Richard Garfield's upcoming Hive Mind prior to Origins 2016, and I immediately jumped to the question of whether this is a redesign of Garfield's nearly two-decades-old What Were You Thinking? The answer: Yes and no, but mostly yes.