Game Reviews: Mensa Mind Games®, year 2008

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 2008. (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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  • It Was A Dark and Stormy Night

    (search on Board Game Geek)

    small pic of It Was A Dark and Stormy Night

    • Replay Value (1-10): 4
    • Fun Factor (1-10): 7
    • Worth Buying (1-10): 8
    • MMG Popularity Rank (out of 54): 10th

    A trivia game with a very specific type of question: given the first sentence or few from a book, identify that book. There are many different categories, meaning that everyone will probably find something that they can do... that is, if they're the type who actually reads books. The gameplay is otherwise not fancy; roll the die, move that number of spaces, answer a question from that category. Less variety in the board than Trivial Pursuit.

    There's really not that much else I can add to this review; it was pretty much what you would expect from the description.


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