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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  • Da Vinci Code Board Game (2;9;7)
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  • mental_floss: The Trivia Game (6;6;5)
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  • Jot (6;4;3)
  • Summit (3;2;7)
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  • Mind's I (4;4;3)
  • Ringgz (5;3;2)
  • Da Vinci's Challenge Card Game (4;3;2)
  • Fikloo: The Game of Crazy Commands (5;2;1)
  • Kiss My Rules! (2;3;2)
  • Pairs or Better (4;1;2)
  • Wordigy: A World of Words for Family Fun (3;1;1)
  • Wreck the Nation: the Game of Political Misbehavior (1;2;1)
  • Urban Legends the Game (1;2;1)

    • Debate This!

    (search on Board Game Geek)

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    • Replay Value (1-10): 7
    • Fun Factor (1-10): 3
    • Worth Buying (1-10): 3
    This game is focused on one thing: debate. There are cards that suggest what topic to debate on, blank sheets where you can write subjects to debate on, and some board with movement pawns and the like -- but really, the core of this game is about entering into a structured competitive debate with your opponents (and having a neutral player act as judge as to who won).

    I have never been a fan of debate, mostly because it is the art of persuasive argument that focuses on human emotional responses rather than logical (Socratic) arguments -- which means applying persuasive skills to apply to positions you may not even believe in. Perhaps not surprisingly, all the other players around me felt mostly the same way, and it was near impossible to give any sort of fair evaluation of this game.

    About all I can really say about this is that if you liked debate team in high school, or want some good practice at this skill that I have absolutely no interest in, you might want to check this game out. I'm certainly not qualified to write a decent review.

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