Game Reviews: Mind Games, year 2005

These are Wei-Hwa Huang's personal reviews of games that might or might not have been submitted to the Mensa Mind Games event in 2005. (You'll have to go to that site to get the official list of submitted games, when they decide to post it.)

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Party Games: Word-based
  • Eye to Eye (6;7;4)
  • his & hers (4;3;2)
  • Last Word (7;8;7)
  • Wavelength (5;6;5)
    Party Games: Artistic skill
  • Famous People (3;3;4)
  • Things in a Box (3;5;2)
  • Why Did the Chicken...? (4;5;2)
    Quiz Games
  • Trailblazer (3;2;3)
    "Roll Dice And Move" Games
  • HotFlash! The Menopause Game (2;2;1)
  • StockRush: a Week on Wall Street (5;6;7)
  • StakXchange (1;2;5)
    Number and Math Games
    Word and Language Games
  • Abet (8;7;5)
  • In a Pickle (6;6;6)
  • I Spy: In Common (1;1;2)
  • Letterflip (6;5;4)
  • Lexogon (8;7;7)
  • Sentence Says (3;2;2)
    Reflex and Reaction Games
  • Jurassic Jumble (6;5;5)
  • Perpetual Commotion (9;8;6)
  • Pounce (4;7;4)
  • Snorta! (4;6;7)
    Strategy Card Games
  • *Loot (7;7;7)
  • Wacky Water (2;3;1)
  • Turn the Tide (10;9;9)
    Family Strategy ("German") Games
  • The Motley Fool's Buy Low Sell High Game (8;8;9)
  • *Niagara (7;7;8)
  • Tutankhamen (8;8;10)
    Abstract Strategy Games -- Pure Abstract
  • Astroplane (5;4;3)
  • *Da Vinci's Challenge (7;7;8)
  • Infinifield (5;4;3)
  • Isolate (4;3;6)
  • Tac of War (7;6;4)
  • ZigZag (7;5;7)
    Abstract Strategy Games -- Luck or Hidden Information
  • Boxum (3;4;2)
  • Chameleon (3;5;9)
  • Domination (7;6;6)
  • Easy Come, Easy Go (9;8;8)
  • *Ingenious (8;8;10)
  • Maask (5;7;8)
  • Roundabout (5;4;3)
  • Spot-A-Shot (1;1;4)
  • Stack Gammon (6;5;6)
  • Trillion (7;4;10)
    One Player Games
  • GridWorks (4;9;7)
  • Namitz - The Game of Think (1;1;1)
  • Subtrax (2;6;7)
  • Tipover (3;8;9)
  • Touchdown (2;4;6)
    Games With Original Themes
  • Faces (8;7;9)
  • Mr. Bigshot (3;3;5)
  • *Zendo (10;9;10)
  • his & hers

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    • Replay Value (1-10): 4
    • Fun Factor (1-10): 3
    • Worth Buying (1-10): 2
    The game is designed for a mixed gender group. Separate the guys and the girls; each team takes turns. On your team's turn (let's say you're a guy), flip over a letter card, which says something like, "It starts with an a..." and then flip over a question card of the otehr gender, which says something like, "... she wants it from him. What is it?" Start the timer. One member writes down an answer and says "Done." The other team members now have the rest of that 30 seconds to guess what was written down.

    An okay party game, I guess, but there really isn't much interaction between the teams from a game standpoint; the fun part, if there is any, is to ridicule the answers the other team comes up with, or even the answers your own teammate came up with (whaddaya mean, "affection"? "alimony" is a much better answer!) From our plays, I couldn't really see much difference between how different genders answered the questions that came up. As "match the other players" party games go, this one's theme doesn't stand out enough.


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