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)

    • Project Kells - Tara

    (search on Board Game Geek)

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    large pic of Project Kells - Tara

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

    This is a two-player-abstract that has some similarities to Go, in that gaining territory is important, but also different in some fundamental ways, in that one small connected region is worth more than two large disconnected regions.

    As the game unfolds, there's a quite a bit of fiddliness going on with the pieces that isn't strictly necessary to gameplay, but it creates a very aesthetically-pleasing look to the game. At the end of the game, there are Celtic knot patterns of raised and lowered bridges that just look gorgeous -- a lot of good thoughts went into the design here. Strategy-wise, the game doesn't seem broken in any obvious way, so this is a good thing.

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