Game Reviews: Mind Games, year 2006

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 2006. (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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Baffle Gab (6;5;3)

Bonkers (6;6;4)

Byte (9;6;1)

Castle Keep (3;8;5)

Cephalopod (8;8;1)

Codebreaker (6;7;6)

Cosmic Cows (5;5;4)

Darter (8;8;7)

Da Vinci's Challenge Card Game (4;3;2)

Da Vinci Code Board Game (2;9;7)

Debate This! (7;3;3)

*Deflexion (7;4;8)

Diffusion (9;7;1)

Don't Quote Me - TIME for Kids Edition (9;6;5)

Dragon Chess (6;6;4)

800: The Game of Verbal Perfection (7;5;4)

Eve's Quest (8;6;3)

Evolution (6;7;6)

Fikloo: The Game of Crazy Commands (5;2;1)

Gordian's Knot (2;5;10)

Heximania (6;4;8)

*Hive (9;7;8)

The Invention Game (6;6;7)

It-Dah-Gan (7;8;5)

JabberJot (7;6;4)

Jot (6;4;3)

*Keesdrow (9;7;9)

Kiss My Rules! (2;3;2)

Linq (6;8;6)

LonPos 101 Pyramid and Rectangle Game (4;6;9)

Match of the Penguins (3;5;3)

mental_floss: The Trivia Game (6;6;5)

Mind's I (4;4;3)

Nerdy Wordy (6;4;5)

Net Y (8;6;1)

Nymble (6;5;4)

Pacru 302 (7;6;6)

Pairs or Better (4;1;2)

*Pentago (8;8;7)

Pepper (9;7;5)

Pickomino (8;7;9)

Pick Two Deluxe (7;6;3)

Poison (7;8;5)

Portrayal (5;7;9)

Pünct (8;6;10)

Quelf (9;7;8)

Questionary (8;8;5)

Regatta (2;9;9)

Ringgz (5;3;2)

Sketchword (7;7;5)

Snatch (7;6;4)

Space Faces (4;7;6)

Summit (3;2;7)

Thing-A-Ma-Bots (4;6;5)

Top Speed (6;7;5)

Tricky Town (5;8;6)

Urban Legends the Game (1;2;1)

*Wits & Wagers (7;8;8)

Wordigy: A World of Words for Family Fun (3;1;1)

Wreck the Nation: the Game of Political Misbehavior (1;2;1)

You Must Be an Idiot! (9;9;9)

Zeus on the Loose (8;8;7)

Eve's Quest

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Replay Value (1-10): 8
Fun Factor (1-10): 6
Worth Buying (1-10): 3

A variety game (but mostly trivia) where every task is themed to be about someone from the female persuasion. If you've always felt that trivia games are too male-dominated, well, this game will prove that there's definitely enough feminine material to make at least one game. The board has pawns going around trying to collect letters to make a word like "DIVA" or "MOTHER", but it's pretty easy to head to any letter you want with the liberal movement rules ... the question cards are really the core of this game.

I must admit that I had some prejudices coming into this game, probably unfairly so from last year's HotFlash! But, if you can get past the somewhat heavy-handed veneer of this game, the tasks in this game are actually quite managable and often interesting.

What does kill this game, however, is that the components and art design simply aren't appealing, and I can't really imagine ever convincing my friends to play this good game. So, better-than-average marks on the replay value and fun factor, but I think I'll save my money for games that are targeted more towards me.

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