Mensa Select® Games
Each year, hundreds of Mensans 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.
The Mensa Select seal indicates that a game is original in concept, challenging, and well designed. Additionally, these games are a good value for the price, easy to comprehend and play, and, above all, fun! Look for the Mensa Select seal when purchasing your next game.
Bermuda Pirates
2021 Mensa Select Winner
Manufacturer:
FoxMind Games
Players: 2–4
Age Range: 13+
Navigate your magnetic boat on perilous waters to gather treasures. Using dexterity and memory, find your way around hidden whirlpools that will send your treasurers flying overboard.
ClipCut Parks
2021 Mensa Select Winner
Manufacturer:
Renegade Game Studios
Players: 2–4
Age Range: All Ages
Players race to complete 5 parks by rolling a die and cutting into a parks sheet to fulfill specific park requirements on unique park cards.
Gates of Delirium
2021 Mensa Select Winner
Manufacturer:
Renegade Game Studios
Players: 2–4
Age Range: 13+
Cosmic horror meets set collection and area control in this race to score the most points before the end. Switch between sane or insane during your turn, changing which actions you can take!
Gridopolis
2021 Mensa Select Winner
Manufacturer:
Gridopolis Games
Players: 2–4
Age Range: All Ages
Gridopolis is a 3D strategy game and system. On your turn, you can move, jump or build! Win by being the last player standing or play a timed game with points.
Ishtar: Gardens of Babylon
2021 Mensa Select Winner
Manufacturer:
IELLO USA
Players: 2–4
Age Range: 13+
From the award-winning designer Bruno Cathala, Ishtar is a game in which you play the role of a gardener aiming to transform the dry desert into the Lost Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Kodama 3D
2021 Mensa Select Winner
Manufacturer:
Indie Boards and Cards
Players: 2–4
Age Range: 13+
In Kodama 3D, players will grow trees in three-dimensional space. Players move their kodama pieces around a 4x4 grid of branch tiles in order to pick the branches they want to add to their tree.
Mental Blocks
2021 Mensa Select Winner
Manufacturer:
Pandasaurus Games
Players: 4–6
Age Range: All Ages
Ready, set, Puzzle! Mental Blocks is the frenetic, nail biting 3D puzzle game you will never want to put up. Players must work together to solve 3d puzzles varying from entry level to hardcore head-scratchers before time runs out! Each player has their own secret perspective to the puzzle, but there's a catch! Every person has a restriction: some players can only touch certain blocks, some can only touch certain shapes, some cannot speak. This leads to delectable disarray as player scurry to solve each puzzle in real-time to graduate to the next puzzle - each ramping in difficulty as you proceed. Mental Blocks features two different modes (Family or Challenge) to fit everyone's tastes!
Stripes
2021 Mensa Select Winner
Manufacturer:
Breaking Games
Players: 4–6
Age Range: All Ages
The race is on to be the first to create a single line of color. Use 60 Stripe cards to create your tableau of stripes, then mix in 7 Action tiles to advance further or disrupt the stripes of others.
Village Pillage
2021 Mensa Select Winner
Manufacturer:
Jellybean Games
Players: 2–5
Age Range: All Ages
Loot Thy Neighbor in this fast and furious simultaneous-play game of risk and betrayal.
WHO KNOWS WHO
2021 Mensa Select Winner
Manufacturer:
Digby Doo
Players: 8+
Age Range: 13+
A game for friends, family, or couples. Too many wrong questions and you will receive a real task to perform anytime after the game has ended.