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)
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  • 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)
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    "Roll Dice And Move" Games
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    Number and Math Games
  • Equalz (5;7;4)
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  • Bananagrams (7;9;8)
  • disorder (9;9;7)
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  • Merriam-Webster's Word Sweep! (9;7;7)
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    Reflex and Reaction Games
  • Poppo! (3;3;7)
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  • Three of a Crime (7;8;8)
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  • Kippit (8;8;9)
  • Shakedown (6;5;6)
    Strategy Card Games
  • Abridged (7;9;5)
  • Ka-Ching! (9;9;10)
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    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)
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    Abstract Strategy Games -- Pure Abstract
  • Babylon (5;4;4)
  • Cover Up (4;3;7)
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  • Newton's Apples (3;4;5)
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    Abstract Strategy Games -- Luck or Hidden Information
  • Bendomino (6;5;8)
  • Cromlet (6;8;6)
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  • 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)

    • Newton's Apples

    (search on Board Game Geek)

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    • Replay Value (1-10): 3
    • Fun Factor (1-10): 4
    • Worth Buying (1-10): 5

    This abstract game has spherical apples on an inclined plane, their motion being stopped by apple-crate walls that players move around during the game. Each player controls half of the walls and owns half of the apples, and take turns moving their walls, with the ultimate goal of their apples rolling to the bottom of the board.

    Setting up the game and making some moves is initially interesting as the apples roll down, but after a while the game seems mostly tedious as the two players are forced to play defensively in order to win.

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