Mensa Best Mind Game Award

For the past several years, Mensa has recognized a rather quirky selection of some of the best games on the American market. Each year, the Mensa Mind Games event is held somewhere in the United States. Mensa members are invited to play and judge the games which have been submitted to compete for the award (war games and electronic games are not eligible). The five most popular games based on originality, game play, aesthetics, play value, and clarity of instructions are named Mensa Select.

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Best Mind Game

10 Days in the USA
List: $27.99 $22.99 (18% savings!) Another destination in the 10-Days Travel Series. You have 10 Days in the USA -- travel the country by jet, car, and on foot. Plan your trip from start to finish using destination and transportation tiles. With a little luck and clever planning,...

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10 Days in Africa
List: $27.99 $22.99 (18% savings!) You have 10 days in Africa -- touring by plane, car, and on foot. Chart your course from start to finish using destination and transportation tiles. With a little luck and clever planning, you just might outwit your fellow travelers. The first...

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Basari (Currently Restocking) English language edition
List: $25.00 $20.00 (20% savings!) Enter the street bazaar... the enticing sights, sounds and flavor of the marketplace are everywhere. In Basari you barter and haggle with the other street merchants over precious gemstones that keep changing hands with every round. The trader with...

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The Bridges of Shangri-La (Temporarily Out of Stock)
List: $29.99 $8.00 (73% savings!) In Shangri-La, the mysterious and isolated utopia nestled high in the mountains, a strange struggle for dominance has begun. Once peaceful and neighborly, the Masters of the competing mountain-folk train their students and send them out across...

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Rumis with 4 boards There'll be no stone left unturned in this challenging strategy game. Inspired by Incan architecture, Rumis (meaning "stones") sharpens spatial awareness and critical thinking skills as players strategize to outwit their opponents while... Funagain Games does not stock this edition of this title, usually because it's out of print.

Best Mind Game

Blokus 3D (Currently Restocking) AKA: Rumis
$25.99 Outbuild and outsmart opponents one block at a time in this brain-building game that takes strategy to a whole new level! A challenging twist on classic Blokus, the most celebrated game of the century, Blokus 3-D sharpens critical-thinking skills as...

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YINSH
List: $32.95 $26.50 (20% savings!) YINSH is a tempestuous game! The players each start with 5 rings on the board. Every time a ring is moved, it leaves a marker behind. Markers are white on one side and black on the other. When markers are jumped over by a ring, they must be...