Game Reviews: Mensa Mind Games®, year 2010

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 2010. (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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Party Games: Word-based
  • Truth Be Told (7;5;6;31st/28th)
    Party Games: Artistic skill
  • Sounds Like a Plan (7;6;4;21st/11th)
  • Stix & Stones (6;7;9;36th/20th)
  • Yamodo Party Time (8;6;5;29th/25th)
    Quiz Games
  • Locale (6;5;3;37th/29th)
    "Roll Dice And Move" Games
  • DECALOGUE The Ten Commandments Game (3;1;1;45th/44th)
  • Riches 'n Rascals (2;4;6;8th/7th)
    Number and Math Games
  • Ergo (6;4;6;14th/27th)
    Word and Language Games
  • Letter Roll (7;4;3;19th/17th)
  • Scravage (7;6;6;7th/31st)
  • Spellen-Meister (7;3;1;46th/45th)
  • Syllaballistic (6;4;4;27th/18th)
  • *Word on the Street (9;9;8;1st/1st)
    Reflex and Reaction Games
  • *Anomia (7;8;7;12th/5th)
  • Circle Out! (3;4;1;43rd/39th)
  • Hands Up! (6;6;4;44th/38th)
  • Q-bitz (7;6;5;25th/19th)
  • 7 Ate 9 (5;7;4;39th/30th)
  • Tri-Spy (4;7;5;22th/24th)
    Dexterity Games
  • Bisikle (6;7;8;3rd/13th)
  • *Yikerz! (4;7;6;11th/10th)
    Strategy Card Games
  • Cornucopia (8;7;7;5th/26th)
  • Ingenious Inventions (3;2;3;48th/36th)
  • Masters Gallery (9;7;7;32nd/16th)
  • Opus-Dei: Existence After Religion (7;4;4;24th/21st)
  • Prime (6;5;7;33rd/32nd)
  • Rowboat (9;7;5;30th/41st)
  • Simpatico (4;4;2;38th/34th)
  • Triplica (4;3;2;34th/33rd)
    Family Strategy ("German") Games
  • Fish Stix (5;6;4;20th/22nd)
  • Gems of Virtues (8;7;7;9th/3rd)
    Abstract Strategy Games -- Pure Abstract
  • Arimaa (10;6;6;4th/9th)
  • Cannonball Colony (7;8;6;10th/6th)
  • Octatrix (8;1;1;49th/49th)
  • Pentago Multi-Player (8;6;9;15th/14th)
  • Rapid 4 More (7;4;3;13th/8th)
  • Zenith (7;5;7;18th/15th)
    Abstract Strategy Games -- Luck or Hidden Information
  • Be FOUR You Know (5;5;2;42nd/37th)
  • *Dizios (6;8;9;6th/2nd)
  • Kachina (9;7;8;2nd/12th)
  • Tri-Cross (7;4;6;41th/36th)
    One Player Games
  • AnimaLogic (2;5;4;17th/40th)
  • Cobra Cubes (2;6;5;28rd/43th)
  • Crazy Cheese Puzzle (1;3;2;47th/47th)
  • Dig It (2;6;7;26th/35th)
  • Mirrorkal Escher Puzzle (3;6;5;23rd/23rd)
    Games With Original Themes
  • Agreed (2;2;1;35th/48th)
  • *Forbidden Island (7;9;10;16th/4th)
  • Rory's Story Cubes (9;1;1;40th/42nd)
  • Letter Roll

    (search on Board Game Geek)

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    • Replay Value (1-10): 7
    • Fun Factor (1-10): 4
    • Worth Buying (1-10): 3
    • MMG Popularity Rank (out of 49): 19th/17th
    Roll three dice, getting three letters. Flip the timer. Write words that contain all three of those letters. In order. When time is up, get a point for every word you wrote that nobody else did. For variety, game comes with seven dice with different letter distributions, and two different timers.

    Okay, it's not bad. I've played this game with license plates in the car when bored. But, well, the game is a timer, some paper, and a bunch of custom dice. Personally, I can easily reproduce the same game for much less than $25. Your mileage may vary.


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