Trudeau could always be counted on for unique layouts. I loved that about his games. Hopefully Keith can take up the unique layout mantle at Stern from here on out.

Respectfully disagree on that one. Usually he got stuck with bad themes, I liked his designs. Not all were fantastic, but that's what happens when you take chances. Way easier to play it safe, go standard fan layout and repeat the same thing over and over game after game. I'd much rather have a non-cookie cutter game.

Funny you mention Congo as one of his only two winners. I owned a Congo when the almost unanimous opinion on here was that it was trash, now all of a sudden it's a "winner". LOL. The game hadn't changed in 15 years, but interesting how the perception changed when people got over the theme and gave a game that wasn't an "A-list" title a real chance. Maybe I'll just check back and ask the same question in another 15 years...