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Founded in 1990, American Mensa’s Mind Games® has become one of the most respected national games competitions. The four-day board-game-judging marathon draws Mensans and their guests from across the country where they vote on the year’s five best new-to-market games to be awarded the coveted Mensa Select seal.
This list includes 7 games from the last 3 years, with 1 like. They come from a range of different genres and play-styles and are all good games if you want to play Mensa certified games.
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Skill Rating: 8-10 year-olds
Release Date: 01/01/2019
Genres: Brain Game, Collecting and Sequencing
Pieces: Cards
Developer: Breaking Games (@Breaking_Games)
Players: You can play with 2 to 6 players in the same room
Stripes is a sequencing and collecting card game where you create stripes of a single colour from a tangled mess of colours. You flip, draw and trade your cards into an order that creates a complete line of colour. It is about using limited actions to...
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Release Date: 01/01/2020
Genres: Brain Game, Collecting, Push-Your-Luck and Sequencing
Pieces: Cards and Tokens
Developer: Game Wright (@GameWright)
Players: You can play with 1 to 5 players in the same room
Shifting Stones is a competitive brain game where you manipulate a grid of Stone cards to match arrangements on your Pattern cards. The trick is that you have to spend your Pattern cards to swap or flip the Stone cards. It's a game where you have to...
Skill Rating: 7-11 year-olds
Genres: Brain Game, Roll-And-Write, Strategy and World Building
Pieces: Cards, Dice and Placeables
Developer: Play Renegade (@PlayRenegade)
Players: This is a single-player game
ClipCut Parks is a world building brain-game where you are making the ideal park. You cut up sheets of square coloured terrain to place on your Park cards. The twist is that you can only make a specific number (and length) of cuts matching a dice role.
Skill Rating: 5-10 year-olds
Genres: Action, Collecting, Dexterity, Push-Your-Luck and Traversal
Pieces: Board, Figures, Placeables and Tokens
Developer: Fox Mind (@FoxMind)
Players: You can play with 2 to 4 players in the same room
Bermuda Pirates is an action game about navigating a treacherous sea. You use your finger to push your boat through the sea to the central island to collect gems. The twist is the magnetic spots in the board that sink your boat and jettison any cargo.
Genres: Brain Game, Communication, Puzzle and World Building
Pieces: Cards and Placeables
Developer: Pandasaurusgame (@Pandasaurusgame)
Players: You can play with 2 to 9 players in the same room
Mental Blocks is a puzzle game where you build shapes from blocks to match you Design cards. However, each card only shows you the construction from one perspective so you have to co-operative with the other players. Building the structure to match all...
Skill Rating: 8-12 year-olds
Genres: Brain Game, Collecting, Push-Your-Luck, Strategy and World Building
Pieces: Placeables, Score Board and Tokens
Developer: HABA USA (@HABA_USA)
Miyabi is a world building brain game where you build elegant Japanese gardens. You place Tetris-shaped garden tiles in your garden matching different flowers, stones and tress with scoring columns. Because the garden tiles are awkward shapes and only...
Skill Rating: 8-11 year-olds
Genres: Battle, Collecting, Push-Your-Luck and Sequencing
Developer: Blue Beard Ent (@BlueBeardEnt)
Players: You can play with 2 to 5 players in the same room
Village Pillage is a simple card battling game about protecting your village. You choose which characters to send into battles which resolve depending on each card's abilities. Unlike similar card battle games, things are kept streamlined both by the...
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