Each year, members of Mensa meet over one weekend to play and rate the year’s newest board games. The top five games earn Mensa Select® distinction and may display the Mensa Select seal on their packaging. Look for the Mensa Select seal when purchasing games.
The seal indicates that a game is original, challenging and well designed. Indirectly, it indicates that a game is original and creative in concept, challenging, a good value for the price, easy to comprehend and play, and, above all, fun!
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| New York 1901 Blue Orange Games A great family game about shaping the historic skyline of New York during the 1901 skyscraper boom. |
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| Favor Of The Pharaoh
Build a dice-rolling
engine
with over 100 tiles and 20
standard and custom dice.
Manipulate and add dice to win.
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| World’s Fair 1893 Renegade Games Coming in May! With simple mechanics and layers of depths, collect exhibition sets, admission tickets, and control exhibition areas as the ferris wheel ticks away the game turns. |
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| Circular Reasoning Breaking Games An abstract game where players race to get all of their tokens to the center of a circular board which alters as the game progresses. This impacts how players interact and how they plan their win. |
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| Last Spike Columbia Games Players cooperate to build a continuous railway from St. Louis to Sacramento but will compete to accumulate the most money before the last spike is laid. |
Past Mensa Select award winning games include Castles of Mad King Ludwig (2015) and Suburbia (2013) by Bézier Games, Lanterns (2015) and Gravwell (2014) by Renegade Games, Forbidden Desert (2013)and Forbidden Island (2010) by Gamewright, Pastiche (2011) by Eagle-Gryphon, and more.