The winners of the annual Mensa Mind Games competition are announced! The Mensa Mind Games competition is where American Mensa members gather for a long spirited weekend of tabletop gaming. Votes for favorites are tabulated, and the top five games are declared Mensa Select games for that year. Check out the winners for 2016. Read More
Learn which five tabletop games have earned the Mensa Select Seal for 2017! Winners were just announced this morning. Read More
‘Lanterns: The Harvest Festival’ is a tile placement game with an Asian festival theme. Players place tiles, strategically giving each player lanterns each turn. Read More
Every year, members of American Mensa gather for a long spring weekend of tabletop gaming at an event called Mensa Mind Games. And every year, at the end of the weekend, the participants vote for the top games they played. Votes are quickly tallied, with the top five games declared Mensa Select games for that year. They are allowed to carry the Mensa Select seal, and are generally fantastic games. Here are the winners for 2015. Read More
We continue our GeekMom’s gift guide series with board games for the whole family. Games for little kids, teens, adults, and stocking-stuffers for the entire family can be found in our guide this year. Read More
Last weekend, Mensa members and others gathered for the annual Mensa Mind Games, held this year in Herndon, Virginia, just outside Washington, DC. Mensa Mind Games is an intense weekend of playing board and card games. Game publishers submit games … Read More
It’s always great when you’re told that a game (or movie, or book) is fantastic, and when you finally try it, you agree. Uncle Chestnut’s Table Gype falls under that category. I’ve written about Uncle Chestnut’s Table Gype a couple … Read More
App versions of tabletop games are everywhere these days. Usually they are lacking when compared to the original. But there are a few game publishing companies that have taken the time to do it right, to faithfully recreate their game … Read More
This past weekend, American Mensa held their annual Mind Games, a gathering of board game lovers who are also Mensa members. They spend all weekend playing games, quickly and furiously, and rating the games based on a variety of criteria. … Read More
Recently I stumbled across Hive, a rather elegant title game produced by Gen Four Two Games. Even though it has been around since 2001, and was one of the winners in the 2006 Mensa Mind Games competition, it is still more than worth … Read More
About a year ago, we discovered an awesome game called Numbers League: Adventures in Addiplication, put out by Bent Castle Workshops. We first played it at the 2008 Mensa Mind Games in Phoenix (see my post on this year’s Mind … Read More
Last weekend, Mensa held their annual Mind Games, where hundreds of Mensans play 50+ games to determine which are the top five. The games are rated and evaluated, with plenty of feedback given for the game publishers. The five that … Read More
