This week, we talk probability, CMON financial reports, and the game everyone's clamoring for this holiday season.

 

TOP STORIES:

• "Queen's Gambit" leads to a run on chess sets.
• Scott Almes' "The Ugly Gryphon Inn" coming soon.
• First edition Pokemon set sales for $360,000.
• Penguin Random House acquires Simon & Schuster.
• "Assassin's Creed: Valhalla" dice game becoming reality.
• Free "Catan: First Adventure" available now.
• "Root: Militants" expansion teased.
• Revisit the Labyrinth with "Ready, Steady, Worm!"
• "Kids on Bikes" gets a board game.
• "Dune: Adventures in the Imperium" RPG coming in 2021.
• Build your civ with dice in "Origins: First Builders."
• "Nemo's War" expansion now on Kickstarter.
• Construct ziggurats in pre-Columbian Oaxaca in "Zapotec."
• Zenobia Award hopes to get more underrepresented designers into historical games.
• "Terraforming Mars: The Dice Game" appears on BGG.

 

SPECIAL REPORT:

• Jesse takes a look at CMON's long-awaited 2019 financial results.

 

NEW & UPCOMING RELEASES:

• Paris
• Unmatched: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Patchwork: Christmas Edition
• Paleo
• Aquatica
• Spyfest

 

KICKSTARTER:

• Creature Comforts
• Harry Potter: Catch the Snitch

 

OUTPUT RANDOMNESS:

• Corey talks probability and what those percentages look like in reality.

 

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