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)

    • LonPos 101 Pyramid and Rectangle Game

    (search on Board Game Geek)

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    • Replay Value (1-10): 4
    • Fun Factor (1-10): 6
    • Worth Buying (1-10): 9
    This is a one-player puzzle challenge. There are something like 76 rectangle-filling problems and 25 pyramid-filling problems, which you have to construct with plastic pieces formed out of balls.

    The designer has made a pretty good blend of what are basically polyomino challenges, although the fact that you don't actually have a full set of pentominoes means that this puzzle challenge isn't a good general-purpose solving set. Certainly by no means a game, but I think it would give me a few hours of amusement (if I had a few hours to spare these days).

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