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.)

DISCLAIMER: The opinions, ratings, and reviews stated in this document and related webpages are the sole personal opinions of Wei-Hwa Huang and Wei-Hwa Huang alone. Wei-Hwa Huang does not speak for the more than 200 participants on the Mensa Mind Games selection panel. This is not an official site of Mensa Mind Games or Mensa Select, although the statements on which games are winners of Mensa Select are factually correct. Mensa Mind Games and Mensa Select are registered trademarks of American Mensa.

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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)

Touchdown

Replay Value (1-10): 2
Fun Factor (1-10): 4
Worth Buying (1-10): 6

A sliding ball puzzle shaped like a football.

What is it with athletic events and overhype? The toy comes with all this text about how amazing the mechanical components are, and how it wonderfully associates with football, and how the designer was such a genius for coming up with this idea. An idea that, I'll have you know, mechanical puzzle makers were doing decades ago.

Well, perhaps the 2 minutes of fun it provided me will be a bit longer for you, since you're unlikely to be a mechanical puzzle collector like I am. On the other hand, if you're not a mechanical puzzle collector, I suspect you'll find this toy completely uninteresting. Oh well.

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