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)

Regatta

(search on Board Game Geek)

Replay Value (1-10): 2
Fun Factor (1-10): 9
Worth Buying (1-10): 9

Educational Insights seems to have taken a page from Thinkfun's book and come up with this one-player puzzle game with 40 challenges. You are given multiple ships with cute colored people tokens in them. The goal is to rearrange the ships and people such that the colors match across the lanes (see the last pics for an example). Ships may be repositioned as long as they don't change direction and don't change lanes. People may be repositioned as long as they don't change ships and the coxswain doesn't change.

If you're used to Thinkfun puzzles, the first reaction you'll get from this is really large. Not a real problem unless you were expecting a portable puzzle, though. As puzzles goes, I thought this was pretty entertaining, probably even better than some of Thinkfun's offerings.

Hey, isn't a regatta supposed to be for sailboats only? I forget.

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