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

    • Aqube

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

    An assembly puzzle that is composed of thirty-two 1x1x2 oblongs that have bumps and holes in their faces. The goal is to assemble the entire set into a 4x4x4 clube, with no external bumps or holes.

    A one-player game (also known as a "puzzle") that is submitted to Mind Games rarely does well. A puzzle that has only one challenge and one solution (as opposed to a set that allows you to set up 40 different challenges or so), even less. A puzzle where all the pieces look about the same, is rather abstract, and has no clear indication of where to start ... well, forget about it. This puzzle probably wouldn't even sell that well at a mechanical-puzzle collector's convention -- the pieces are made of glued plastic that have a tendency to break if you're not careful. But hey, if you have the patience and the time to run through hundreds of combinations for the reward of having a 3-inch blue plastic cube, don't let me dissuade you.

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