Game Reviews: Mensa Mind Games®, year 2007

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 2007. (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 100 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
  • Head1liners (5;6;6)
  • *Hit or Miss (8;8;9)
  • Rhyme N Tyme (8;5;6)
  • Take Your Best Shot (8;6;10)
    Party Games: Artistic skill
  • Luck of the Draw (4;8;4)
    Party Games: A Variety of Tasks
    Quiz Games
  • Cineplexity (8;9;6)
  • NAQ (8;10;7)
  • Numaro (4;6;4)
  • Take A Wild Guess (3;3;1)
    "Roll Dice And Move" Games
  • Postcards from North America (2;7;2)
  • *Skullduggery (5;7;5)
    Number and Math Games
  • Equalz (5;7;4)
  • Space TiVitz (5;5;7)
    Word and Language Games
  • Bananagrams (7;9;8)
  • disorder (9;9;7)
  • Lim (Letter Cube Cards) (4;5;6)
  • Merriam-Webster's Word Sweep! (9;7;7)
  • Sneak A Peek (The Crossword Game) (6;3;4)
  • You've Been Sentenced! (5;6;5)
  • Zotto (4;5;3)
    Reflex and Reaction Games
  • Poppo! (3;3;7)
  • Slap Wacky! (5;3;2)
  • Three of a Crime (7;8;8)
  • Toppo (9;9;8)
    Dexterity Games
  • Kippit (8;8;9)
  • Shakedown (6;5;6)
    Strategy Card Games
  • Abridged (7;9;5)
  • Ka-Ching! (9;9;10)
  • Margin for Error (8;9;5)
    Strategy Dice Games
    Family Strategy ("German") Games
  • *Gheos (8;9;9)
  • Aussie Rules Super Subsistence Farmer (10;9;2)
  • Medici vs. Strossi (7;8;8)
  • Treasure Fleet (8;8;6)
    Abstract Strategy Games -- Pure Abstract
  • Babylon (5;4;4)
  • Cover Up (4;3;7)
  • Mix-Up (8;7;9)
  • Newton's Apples (3;4;5)
  • Project Kells - Tara (6;6;10)
  • Skybridge (3;4;7)
  • Spin & Trap (2;2;7)
    Abstract Strategy Games -- Luck or Hidden Information
  • Bendomino (6;5;8)
  • Cromlet (6;8;6)
  • *Gemlok (7;7;8)
  • Mimic (3;5;2)
  • Quirky (4;4;6)
  • *Qwirkle (8;9;10)
  • 24/7 the Game (7;7;10)
    War or Combat Games
  • HeroCard: Cyberspace (5;7;6)
  • HeroCard: Rise of the Shogun (5;7;5)
    One Player Games
  • Aqube (1;1;3)
  • Blik-Blok (1;3;1)
  • Cliko (6;2;5)
  • Cover Your Tracks (5;1;6)
  • Logic Links (2;1;1)
  • Meta-Forms (6;2;5)
  • Noodlers (3;1;2)
  • Zoologic (7;2;4)
    Games With Original Themes
  • Kingka (2;2;6)
  • Yamodo! (1;1;3)

    • Mix-Up

    (search on Board Game Geek)

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    • Replay Value (1-10): 8
    • Fun Factor (1-10): 7
    • Worth Buying (1-10): 9

    This is a fascinating twist on Connect Four -- each tile has one of three shapes and one of three colors. The board is similar to C4 in that you choose a column to drop a piece in, and it slides to the bottom of a column. One player is trying to get four-in-a-row all of the same color, while the other player is trying to get four-in-a-row all of the same shape.

    This is a very nice twist to the classic game, and turns out that it works pretty well as a game that children can understand but with enough depth for adults to not get bored (of course, the same is actually true for the original Connect Four). The extra dimension means that it's a bit harder to see threats and attacks, and some sort of "atari" announcement would probably be useful. The pieces are of good quality, not detracting from the game at all.

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