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.
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 Basari$17.99 $15.60 SAVE $2.39 ! |
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 Pixel$24.99 $17.15 SAVE $7.84 ! |
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 Rumis$29.99 $23.99 SAVE $6.00 ! |
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 Taboo$36.99 $29.99 SAVE $7.00 ! |
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 YINSH$32.99 $32.69 SAVE $0.30 ! |
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Mensa Select Games, By Year
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2008 Mensa Select Mind Games:
- AmuseAmaze - At last a word game where words don't have to be biggest to be best, and where even little words are winners.
- Eye Know - It's time to put your visual memory and general knowledge to work in this visual trivia game.
- Jumbulaya - An addictive, multi-faceted word strategy game in which each player works with five letter tiles.
- Pixel - Don't let the situation slide out of control in this fun strategy game of slide, point, align and win!
- Tiki Topple - Welcome to Tiki Island, home to nine colorful carvings all competing to be the top Polynesian Idol!
2007 Mensa Select Mind Games:
- Gemlok - The roll of the dice determines your moves, but your strategy determines your fate.
- Gheos - The players are gods at the dawn of time, creating earth's landscape and inhabiting it with people.
- Hit or Miss - Sharpen your pencils -- and your intuition -- for this quick playing "think-in-sync" party game.
- Qwirkle - This tactile wooden block game combines the logic and strategy of Set with the creative multi-maneuver game play of Scrabble.
2006 Mensa Select Mind Games:
- Hive - Surround your opponent's queen bee while trying to block your opponent from doing the same to your queen bee.
- Keesdrow Deluxe - The ultimate word-seek game is fun and challenging for both children and adults.
- Khet Laser Strategy Game - An Egyptian-themed game that combines lasers with classic strategy.
- Pentago - The object of the game is to create a row of five marbles, in any direction.
- Wits & Wagers - A fast-paced party game with a unique combination of trivia, gambling, and social interaction.
2005 Mensa Select Mind Games:
- Da Vinci's Challenge - This game uses ancient symbols to create patterns and pictures to outsmart your opponent.
- Loot - Set sail for an exciting adventure of strategy and skullduggery in this captivating game.
- Niagara - Players move their canoes up and down the Niagara river to pick up gemstones.
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.
- 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.
2000 Mensa Select Mind Games:
- 3 Stones - An abstract strategy game of complex moves and creative plans.
- 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:
- 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:
- Duo - If you enjoy Uno, double your fun with Duo!
- 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.
- 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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