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.)

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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)

Poppo!

(search on Board Game Geek)

Replay Value (1-10): 3
Fun Factor (1-10): 3
Worth Buying (1-10): 7

The main focus of this game is all the dice poppers that this game comes with. Each die popper contains a single 30-sided die that displays a letter or "wild star" on it. Each player is given four poppers, and a card is drawn that contains a picture of a four-letter word on it. At that point, players all pop their dice like mad, until those four letters are displayed on the four dice.

The game is rated for ages 4 and up, and while that lower-bound is probably fine, it felt very silly playing this game when there wasn't someone from the 4 to 8 age range present. The listed price of $25 for 16 dice poppers isn't bad, but unless you have some young children at home who could use practice spelling words like "PAIL", I wouldn't get this for the game.

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