Games we played: Omen (before I arrived), Seven Prophecies, Verdun, Successors, Magical Athlete, Northern Pacific, Napoleon's Triumph, Things in Rings, Xylotar, Habemus Papam, Tulip Bubble, Lure, Frank's Zoo.

I got to play Schadenfreude, Le Torri di San Gimignano, Torchlit, Lazy Bellboys, Sandannotou, Rainbow, Maskmen, Land and Freedom, Successors, 1889, For Sale, Rebel Princess, Seas of Strife, and Pax Penning. Great success!

Chaotic? According to my intel, everything is going rather smooth. Only the French delegation is disrupted, which is to be expected.

I guess it depends on the game, how opaque/entangled the game state tends to be.

People are lazy (see Thinking, Fast and Slow). Staying ahead of one other player is easier to calculate than staying ahead of every other player. Optimal decision making is being substituted by a problem that is easier to tackle.

It is already on there!

Nobody was interested in the juicy revenue of Kotohira?

Holding upside down + visual check is the way. Never had any problems like this.