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.
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Abducktion
2024 Mensa Select Winner
Manufacturer:
Very Special Games
Players: 2-4
Age Range: 13+
ABDUCKTION: A weirdly strategic duck kidnapping game! 15-minutes of light strategy of ducks, a UFO, and mind-bending, shape-finding logic!
First in Flight: A Historical Aviation Board Game
2024 Mensa Select Winner
Manufacturer:
Genius Games LLC
Players: 2-4
Age Range: 13+
A fast-paced historical aviation game where players take on the role of a pioneer vying for heavier-than-air flight, balancing risks and rewards in the workshop and your test flights. Uncover and repair the design flaws in your flyer to outpace your opponents, and make improvements to build your range. Become a masterful pilot and set flight records in this thrilling voyage.
In the Footsteps of Darwin
2024 Mensa Select Winner
Manufacturer:
Hachette Boardgames
Players: 2-4
Age Range: 13+
Twenty years after his expedition around the world, Charles Darwin is writing On the Origins of Species. He wants to gather new information about animal life, particularly about continents he hardly explored. Who other than young naturalists, eager for discovery, could help the renowned scholar finish writing his most famous work? Players are junior naturalists who have just arrived aboard the Beagle to help Charles Darwin finish his book On the Origin of Species. During this journey, you will study animals, carry out cartographic surveys, publish your findings, and develop theories. Your goal is to score more Victory Points than your opponents to determine who contributed the most to the Origin of Species!
The Vale of Eternity
2024 Mensa Select Winner
Manufacturer:
Renegade Game Studios
Players: 2-4
Age Range: 13+
Hunt and tame a variety of creatures, with the key goal of capturing the powerful and noble dragons. With 70 creatures to tame, each game is unique!
Wandering Towers
2024 Mensa Select Winner
Manufacturer:
Capstone Games
Players: 4-6
Age Range: All Ages
Fill all of your potion bottles and get all of your wizards into Ravenskeep (it doesn’t matter which you do first). Move your wizards into Ravenskeep with good timing. Fill your potion bottles by moving towers onto wizards to imprison them. But if your own wizards are imprisoned, you must free them so they can get to Ravenskeep!