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MIND GAMES
The American Mensa Mind Games competition showcases some the newest and best games on the market. some of the country's most avid game players judge new games on the U.S. market according to a full range of criteria. Game manufacturers and inventors submit the games for judging.
The top five games are named Mensa Select®. Past winners include Taboo™, Magic-The Gathering™, Rush Hour™, and Apples to Apples™.
Mind Games 2000 was May 5-7 in Atlanta, Georgia. Mind Games 2001 WAS April 20-22, hosted by East Central Ohio Mensa.
AND THE WINNERS ARE....
Mensa Picks Top Five Board Games
Updated: Tue, Apr 24 11:55 AM EDT
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) - If Mensa says a board game is good, it must be good.
The group chose the top five board games at its 12th annual American Mensa Mind Games Competition. The 150 judges came from across the nation last weekend and picked from 62 games.
They gave the Mensa Select Seal for 2001 to:
- Brainstrain, in which players make up words and ask questions to determine who, what and where they are.
- DAO, which requires an ever changing scenario, strategy and precise balance of movement.
- Metro, which challenges players to create an extensive network of tracks in the Paris underground while trying to cut off opponents' tracks.
- Shapes Up, where players fit shapes together like a tangram to cover their boards and form multicolored squares.
- The Poll Game, in which players choose from 750 yes-or-no questions and guess how many players will answer yes.
Mensa is an organization for people who score in the top 2 percent of the general population on a standardized intelligence test.
Check out
Mensa's hall of fame for a full list of winning games from past years.
