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.

If you have any questions or concerns about my reviews and comments, please feel free to mail me.



Sort By Name
Sort By Ranking
Sort By Category
  • 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)
  • Noodlers

    (search on Board Game Geek)

    small pic of Noodlers small pic of Noodlers in play small pic of Noodlers in play

    • Replay Value (1-10): 3
    • Fun Factor (1-10): 1
    • Worth Buying (1-10): 2

    This puzzle is a large stack of cards and some sticks that look like uncooked spaghetti (although, fortunately, not as brittle as actual uncooked spaghetti). Each card has a puzzle, which is basically a collection of symbols on it with a number, and you're supposed to lay that number of sticks atop the card so that each symbol is separated from every other symbol by at least one stick.

    It feels like a bit more playtesting could've gone into this puzzle. The sticks have a round cross-section, which means that they have a tendency to roll around while you're trying to lay them down. Sticks with almost any other cross-section would've worked better. The puzzles themselves are okay, although it's very hard to distinguish whether a solution that doesn't match what is on the back of the card is truly valid. With only six sticks, there aren't that many combinations to try, and I'm pretty sure that there will be cards that are nearly identical.


    Return to Introduction

    Other MMG Reviews


    By Wei-Hwa Huang