I promise this won’t become a food review. Although if you could see the embarrassingly touristy pictures of what I spent the past weekend eating in New Orleans, you would understand the impulse. The story of how I came to be trapped in a not-as-haunted-as-advertised hotel with sixteen game designers and wargaming wonks isn’t as exciting as it could have been. Short version: I had a flight voucher two months shy of expiration.

But the games — oh, the games.

There’s no need to cover all of them. You already know how to play Two Truths And A Lie — the key is in the title — and my brisk review of Matt Calkins’ Charioteer is that it’s too arithmetical for its own good. Instead, here are the weekend’s two standouts.

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