2016 Mind Games® Winners Announced

63 board games compete for Mensa Select® status at Mensa Mind Games 2016

ARLINGTON, Texas, April 17, 2016 — Following 42 hours of nonstop board game action, the 2016 Mensa Select winners are:

• New York 1901, Blue Orange Games
• Circular Reasoning, Breaking Games
• World’s Fair 1893, Renegade Game Studios
• Favor of the Pharaoh, Bezier Games, Inc.
• The Last Spike, Columbia Games

“Our judges have the great pleasure of reviewing some of the best new tabletop games out there,” said Chief Judge Greg Webster. “We are happy to be able to provide valuable feedback to all of the competing manufacturers.” Next year’s event will be hosted by the Metropolitan Washington Mensa chapter. To find out about competing games and the winners, visit mensamindgames.com.

Mensa Mind Games is an annual tabletop competition open to games that are new to market within the last two years. Entries for 2017 consideration must have achieved national distribution between June 1, 2015 and June 1, 2017. Entries for Mind Games 2017 will start being accepted in late fall of 2016.

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American Mensa is an organization open to anyone who scores in the top 2 percent on an accepted standardized intelligence test. Mensa has more than 50,000 members in the United States and more than 130,000 members globally. For more information about American Mensa, visit americanmensa.org or call (817) 607-0060.