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)

Zoologic

(search on Board Game Geek)

Replay Value (1-10): 7
Fun Factor (1-10): 2
Worth Buying (1-10): 4

This one-player puzzle game is a set of constraint-satisfaction logic puzzles -- you're given a set of tiles with animals and foods on them, and a grid arrangement to put all the tiles on. The arrangements are pretty reasonable to keep track of: dogs shouldn't be next to cats, mice shouldn't be next to cheese, ant spaces shouldn't contain food, and so on. There's only about 8 rules to keep track of, and they're all of the "can't be adjacent" form.

This puzzle is actually pretty good, where there seems to be a pretty decent variety of puzzles. Unlike a lot of puzzle game sets, the hard ones are decently challenging while not being impossible. The physical components of the game are servicable but not of particularly good quality -- recessed plastic pieces with colored stickers is about all you're getting here.

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