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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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)

Lim (Letter Cube Cards)

(search on Board Game Geek)

Replay Value (1-10): 4
Fun Factor (1-10): 5
Worth Buying (1-10): 6

This game comes with some rather interesting cards that are two-dimensional projections of cubes. The basic idea is to connect these cubes into a structure so that words can be read along the faces of the cubes, mostly by an "ant-crawl heuristic" (two letters are adjacent if an ant could conceivable crawl from one letter to the next) although one is also allowed to tunnel through the cubes to get to the letters on the other side.

If technology were sufficiently advanced so that it was easy to create cubes that can float in the air, this game would work perfectly fine with 52 such letter cubes. But technology isn't advanced like that, and so this game has to make do with these translucent hexagons. Unfortunately, very few people seemed to be able to visualize the floating cubes the hexagons were supposed to represent, and although the rules made a heroic effort to explain it, almost everyone I talked with just didn't get this game.

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