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===Mayfair Games edition (1991) and subsequent expansion set (1993)=== In the November 1991 edition of ''Dragon'' (Issue 175), [[Allen Varney]] gave an ebullient review, saying, "This brilliantly interactive and spectacularly fun 1977 design is my very favorite game, bar none." Varney questioned the high price of the Mayfair Games re-issue, but concluded, "You definitely will get $35 of fun out of this box. I’ve played the original ''Cosmic Encounter'' game (from the late Eon Products) over a hundred times; every game was wildly different."<ref name=dragon175>{{cite journal|last=Varney|first=Allen|author-link=Allen Varney| date=November 1991 |title=Roleplaying Reviews|journal=[[Dragon (magazine)|Dragon]]|publisher=[[TSR (company)|TSR, Inc.]]|issue=175|page=85}}</ref> Varney again gave a very positive review of the Mayfair edition in the December 1993 edition of ''Dragon'' (Issue 200), but questioned some of the new rules in Mayfair's expansion set, saying the set "offers many terrific powers (and some terribly unbalanced ones) plus new cards and forgettable rules additions like Lucre and Moons."<ref name=dragon200>{{cite journal|last=Varney|first=Allen|author-link=Allen Varney| date=December 1993 |title=Social Board Games|journal=[[Dragon (magazine)|Dragon]]|publisher=[[TSR (company)|TSR, Inc.]]|issue=200|page=120}}</ref> In 1992, a new edition of ''Cosmic Encounter'' won the [[Origins Award]] for Best Fantasy or Science Fiction Boardgame of 1991<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.originsgamefair.com/awards/1991/list-of-winners |title=Origins Award Winners (1991) |publisher=Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design |access-date=2007-11-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080315071737/http://www.originsgamefair.com/awards/1991/list-of-winners |archive-date=2008-03-15 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and placed 6th in the [[Deutscher Spiele Preis]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Preisträger – SPIEL Messe |url=https://www.spiel-messe.com/de/deutscher-spielepreis/preistraeger/ |access-date=2022-12-22 |website=[[Spiel]] |archive-date=2020-11-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201103224339/https://www.spiel-messe.com/de/deutscher-spielepreis/preistraeger/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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