Mensa Select® Games
Each year, hundreds of Mensans meet over one weekend to play and rate the year’s newest board games. The top seven 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.
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Pirateer
1996 Mensa Select Winner
Manufacturer:
Mendocino Game Co., Inc.
Players: 2-4
Age Range: 8+
Vast treasure, fast ships and cutthroat rivals await you on the seas of Pirateer, the fast-paced strategy game where fortunes turn on pirate skullduggery and a roll of the dice.
Quadwrangle
1996 Mensa Select Winner
Manufacturer:
Great American Trading Co.
Players: 1-2
Age Range: 9+
Quadwrangle is dice game played with a board with 9 columns. Each column has a counter that starts in the middle and you attempt to move a counter by rolling certain dice combinations to your scoring area.
Rat-a-Tat Cat
1996 Mensa Select Winner
Manufacturer:
Gamewright
Players: 2-6
Age Range: 6+
Get rid of the rats and go for the cats! Win by having your cards add up to the lowest number (a poker face helps).
Take 6
1996 Mensa Select Winner
Manufacturer:
U.S. Games Systems, Inc.
Players: 2-10
Age Range: 8+
The aim of the game is to lose all of your cards. Players start with 10 cards and get rid of them by carefully placing them in four rows.
Touché
1996 Mensa Select Winner
Manufacturer:
Wayne Bobette Enterprises
Players: 2-4
Age Range: 7+
Players are dealt a hand of cards from a standard double deck. The board depicts card images and some wild spaces distributed in a cross pattern. A turn consists of playing a card and placing a marker of your color on one of the corresponding spaces on the game board. If one of those spaces is occupied, your only choice is the other one.