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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  • Abridged (7;9;5)
  • Aqube (1;1;3)
  • Aussie Rules Super Subsistence Farmer (10;9;2)
  • Babylon (5;4;4)
  • Bananagrams (7;9;8)
  • Bendomino (6;5;8)
  • Blik-Blok (1;3;1)
  • Cineplexity (8;9;6)
  • Cliko (6;2;5)
  • Cover Up (4;3;7)
  • Cover Your Tracks (5;1;6)
  • Cromlet (6;8;6)
  • disorder (9;9;7)
  • Equalz (5;7;4)
  • *Gemlok (7;7;8)
  • *Gheos (8;9;9)
  • Head1liners (5;6;6)
  • HeroCard: Cyberspace (5;7;6)
  • HeroCard: Rise of the Shogun (5;7;5)
  • *Hit or Miss (8;8;9)
  • Ka-Ching! (9;9;10)
  • Kingka (2;2;6)
  • Kippit (8;8;9)
  • Lim (Letter Cube Cards) (4;5;6)
  • Logic Links (2;1;1)
  • Luck of the Draw (4;8;4)
  • Margin for Error (8;9;5)
  • Medici vs. Strossi (7;8;8)
  • Merriam-Webster's Word Sweep! (9;7;7)
  • Meta-Forms (6;2;5)
  • Mimic (3;5;2)
  • Mix-Up (8;7;9)
  • NAQ (8;10;7)
  • Newton's Apples (3;4;5)
  • Noodlers (3;1;2)
  • Numaro (4;6;4)
  • Poppo! (3;3;7)
  • Postcards from North America (2;7;2)
  • Project Kells - Tara (6;6;10)
  • Quirky (4;4;6)
  • *Qwirkle (8;9;10)
  • Rhyme N Tyme (8;5;6)
  • Shakedown (6;5;6)
  • *Skullduggery (5;7;5)
  • Skybridge (3;4;7)
  • Slap Wacky! (5;3;2)
  • Sneak A Peek (The Crossword Game) (6;3;4)
  • Space TiVitz (5;5;7)
  • Spin & Trap (2;2;7)
  • Take A Wild Guess (3;3;1)
  • Take Your Best Shot (8;6;10)
  • Three of a Crime (7;8;8)
  • Toppo (9;9;8)
  • Treasure Fleet (8;8;6)
  • 24/7 the Game (7;7;10)
  • Yamodo! (1;1;3)
  • You've Been Sentenced! (5;6;5)
  • Zoologic (7;2;4)
  • Zotto (4;5;3)
  • Cliko

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    • Replay Value (1-10): 6
    • Fun Factor (1-10): 2
    • Worth Buying (1-10): 5

    This puzzle comes with plastic building-block pieces and a booklet of puzzles. A puzzle is a straight orthographic view of some structure you're supposed to build; the easy puzzles just give a front view, while later difficulty levels add a right view and a top view. From these views and a set of pieces, you're supposed to build the appropriate structure.

    Being one of the two building-block puzzle games submitted this year, this one has significant better and more cerebral puzzles -- the blocks are simple enough to understand, but have shapes that are just tricky enough to make the complex challenges worth thinking about. Every challenge is grid-aligned which means there are rarely any issues with ambiguity of positions or pieces. Perhaps the only drawback is that the pieces are made in this garish orange color, but at least the plastic is of sturdy quality.


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