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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    • Quatorze

    (search on Board Game Geek)

    small pic of Quatorze

    • Replay Value (1-10): 4
    • Fun Factor (1-10): 6
    • Worth Buying (1-10): 3
    • MMG Popularity Rank (out of 54): 32nd

    An accumulator-based card game with a custom deck. The play rules are along the lines of Crazy Eights or Uno, except that in addition to having to play a matching suit or number, players have to keep track of the current total value of the stack. When it reaches 14 exactly, the player takes the stack as a score pile, and then the next player has to start a new stack. Someone emptying their hand ends the round.

    A prebtty light card game, and in any case any card game that has "steal" cards that allow you to steal someone else's score pile isn't going to be that deep in strategy anyway. The cards have a complex looking fleur-de-lis pattern that seems to only serve the purpose of identifying the suit, while the text used for the number is thin and not so easy-to-read from across the card table.

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