Award-Winning Board Games - Mensa Mind Games
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The following games are all winners of the prestigious "Mensa Select" award, bestowed annually by the
American Mensa Society. Each year, the Mensa Mind Games event is held somewhere in the United States.
Mensa members are invited to play and judge the games which have been submitted to compete for the award.
The five most popular games based on originality, game play, aesthetics, play value, and clarity of instructions
receive the Mensa Select
distinction, an award coveted among game manufacturers, and a symbol of quality for game players around the world.
Mensa Select Games, By Year
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2005 Mensa Select Mind Games:
- Da Vinci's Challenge - This game uses ancient symbols to create patterns and pictures to outsmart your opponent.
- Einfach Genial - The simply ingenious placement game, from the renowned game designer Reiner Knizia.
- Loot - Set sail for an exciting adventure of strategy and skullduggery in this captivating game.
- Zendo - A game of logic in which the Master creates a rule and the students attempt to discover it.
2004 Mensa Select Mind Games:
- 10 Days In Africa - You have 10 days in Africa -- touring by plane, car, and on foot.
- 10 Days In The USA - Plan your trip from start to finish using destination and transportation tiles.
- Basari - Step right up and enter the enticing sights, sounds, and flavors of the street bazaar.
- Rumis - There'll be no stone left unturned in this challenging strategy game inspired by Incan architecture.
- The Bridges of Shangri-La - In the mysterious and isolated utopia nestled high in the mountains, a strange struggle for dominance has begun.
- YINSH - Each player starts with 5 rings on the board in this tempestuous abstract strategy game.
2003 Mensa Select Mind Games:
- Blokus - A fascinating strategy game for the whole family, very easy to learn, yet challenging to play.
- Cityscape - A challenging family game in which you and your opponent build competing views of a city.
- Fire and Ice - A strategic, move-and-place game with shifting strategies and complexities.
- Octiles - Win the race across a growing maze in this fascinating and fun game for the entire family.
- TransAmerica - It's America in the 19th century: railroads are booming and the pioneer spirit is everywhere.
2002 Mensa Select Mind Games:
- Curses! - Players take turns drawing cards and putting "curses" on each other.
- Dvonn - A challenging stacking game with very simple rules - control as many pieces as possible by building stacks.
- Smart Mouth - The quick-thinking, shout-it-out word game.
2001 Mensa Select Mind Games:
- Dao - Simple to the eye, but perhaps a lifetime in mastering, Dao is a pure game of strategy.
- Metro - Players compete to built the Paris Metro System in time for the World's Fair in 1900.
2000 Mensa Select Mind Games:
- 3 Stones - An abstract strategy game of complex moves and creative plans.
- Time's Up! - Race though three fun-filled rounds to guess the most celebrities in 30 seconds.
- Zèrtz - A fast & dynamic game for 2 players, played on a board that gets smaller and smaller.
- iMAgiNiff - The funniest game you can imagine!
1999 Mensa Select Mind Games:
- Apples To Apples - The wild, award-winning party game that provides instant fun for four to ten players.
- Doubles Wild - Combining luck and strategy, dice and marbles were never so much fun!
- Fluxx - The card game with ever-changing rules! Sounds complicated it's really quite simple.
- Quiddler - A fast-paced game you can play using everyday words.
1997 Mensa Select Mind Games:
- Quoridor - Can you get your pawn across the board and block your opponent from doing the same?
- Rush Hour - A sliding block puzzle designed to challenge your sequential-thinking skills.
1996 Mensa Select Mind Games:
- Pirateer - There is treasure on the island and you have the map to it, but everyone else does too!
- Rat-a-Tat Cat - Rats are high, cats are low ... get rid of the rats and go for the cats!
1995 Mensa Select Mind Games:
- Continuo - Draw a card and place it, trying to make as many of the longest chain of colors as you can.
- Duo - If you enjoy Uno, double your fun with Duo!
- Quixo - A modern version of tic-tac-toe.
- The Great Dalmuti - One minute you're on top, and the next you're peasant scum in this fast-paced game of medieval one-upmanship.
1993 Mensa Select Mind Games:
- Quarto! - Players take turns trying to line up four pieces, but your opponent who chooses which piece you play, not you!
1991 Mensa Select Mind Games:
- Set - Get that grey matter churning as you try to find sets of three numbers, symbols, colors or shadings.
- The Amazeing Labyrinth - Traverse the constantly shifting maze and collect your cards.
1990 Mensa Select Mind Games:
- Abalone - Loosely based on sumo wrestling, the goal of Abalone is to push your opponents marbles off the board.
- Scattergories - The game of quick and creative responses - but all your answers have to begin with the same letter.
- Taboo - Time is against you, and you've got to think fast, talk fast and avoid saying TABOO words.
- TriBond - The game that asks "What do these three things have in common?"
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