furcula may be used by two people for making competing wishes. Brain Freeze: an ice-cream cone located in the brain. It refers to the experience of "brain freeze", a headache felt after consuming frozen desserts and iced drinks too quickly ($600). This was added in 2004 when Milton Bradley allowed fans a chance to vote on a new piece to be added to the original game during the previous year, during the promotion of "What's Ailing Sam?". Voters had been given three choices and could make their selection via the company's official website, or by phone for a chance to win a $5,000 shopping spree. The winning piece had beat out tennis elbow and growling stomach. Bread Basket: a slice of bread and one of the most difficult pieces to remove, with a small notch taken out of the top for grip ($1,000). The word "breadbasket" is a slang name for the stomach. Other variations In 2009, Hasbro released the first major update to Operation called Operation Sound FX. This is the first version of Operation to remove the buzzer and cards in place of a speaker. This meant that the game could call out the ailment needed to be removed by the player by using an audio cue, such as a "twang" sound for the rubber-band and a busy tone for the cell phone. Players have to press Sam's nose every time they successfully remove an ailment, if all the aliments were removed and Sam's nose was pressed on the final called ailment, the game would play a victory song. It also includes a standard game of Operation by sliding the power button to the "lightning bolt" setting. Licensed variations of Operation, based on popular intellectual properties, also exist, such as multiple versions of a Spider-Man-themed Operation where the titular Marvel superhero is the patient the player must treat, as well as a Fallout one where the player must treat Vault-Tec's mascot, Vault Boy, in which a "rads" alarm replaces Sam's nose buzzer. A video game app was also released. It is only available on mobile devices. In 2020, Hasbro introduced a new variation of the game called Operation Pet Scan, in which players have to remove objects from a dog's digestive tract. The Dutch version of the game is called "Dokter Bibber," which translates to "Doctor Shaky." Reviews Games and Puzzles References External links Operation Homepage at Hasbro