List of Mensa Select recipients

Mensa Select is an annual award given by American Mensa since 1990 to five board games that are "original, challenging and well designed". The awards are presented at the annual Mensa Mind Games competition.^[1][2]

Past winners

Year	Location	Winners
1990	New York, NY	Abalone Scattergories Taboo Tribond Trivial Pursuit: Genus Edition
1991	New York, NY	Clue: The Great Museum Caper Lapis Master Labyrinth Pyramis Set
1992	New York, NY	Kinesis Q4 Terrace Traverse Why Not?
1993	New York, NY	Farook Inklings Overturn Quadrature Quarto
1994	New York, NY	Char Chung Toi Down Fall Magic: The Gathering Pylos
1995	New York, NY	Continuo Duo (game) Quixo The Great Dalmuti Wordspin Scramble
1996	Atlanta, GA	6 nimmt! (also called Take 5!) Pirateer Quadwrangle Rat-a-Tat Cat Touche
1997	Chicago, IL	Hattrick Quoridor Rush Hour Sagarian Stops
1998	Phoenix, AZ	Avalam Cube Checkers Kram Spy Alley Wadjet
1999	Seattle, WA	Apples to Apples Bollox (Also called Boku) Doubles Wild Fluxx Quiddler
2000	Atlanta, GA	3 Stones Finish Lines Imaginiff... Time's Up! ZÈRTZ (in the GIPF project)
2001	Medina, OH	Brainstrain Dao Metro Shapes Up! Thepollgame
2002	Minneapolis, MN	Curses! DVONN (in the GIPF project) Muggins Smart Mouth The Legend of Landlock
2003	Houston, TX	Blokus Cityscape Octiles TransAmerica
2004	Chicago, IL	10 Days in Africa Basari Rumis The Bridges of Shangri-La YINSH (in the GIPF project)
2005	Tampa, FL	Da Vinci's Challenge Ingenious Loot Niagara Zendo
2006	Portland, OR	Deflexion (now called "Khet") Hive Keesdrow Pentago Wits and Wagers
2007	Pittsburgh, PA	Gemlok Gheos Hit or Miss (not to be confused with Hit or Miss, a solitaire card game) Qwirkle Skullduggery
2008	Phoenix, AZ	AmuseAmaze Eye Know Jumbulaya Pixel Tiki Topple
2009	Cincinnati, OH	Cornerstone Dominion Marrakech Stratum Tic-Tac-Ku
2010	San Diego, CA	Anomia Dizios Forbidden Island Word on the Street Yikerz!
2011	Albany, NY	InStructures Pastiche Pirate versus Pirate Stomple Uncle Chestnut's Table Gype (Eternal Revolution)
2012	Herndon, VA	Coerceo Iota Mine Shift Snake Oil Tetris Link
2013	St. Louis, MO	Forbidden Desert Ghooost! KerFlip! Kulami Suburbia
2014	Austin, TX	Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia Gravwell: Escape from the 9th Dimension Pyramix Qwixx The Duke
2015	San Diego, CA	Castles of Mad King Ludwig Dragonwood Lanterns: The Harvest Festival Letter Tycoon Trekking the National Parks
2016	Wheeling, IL	Circular Reasoning Favor of the Pharaoh New York 1901 The Last Spike World’s Fair 1893
2017	Herndon, VA	Amalgam Around the World In 80 Days Clank! Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle Imagine
2018	Denver, CO	Azul Constellations: The Game of Stargazing and the Night Sky Ex Libris Photosynthesis Raiders of the North Sea
2019[3]	Wadsworth, OH	Architects of the West Kingdom Gizmos Gunkimono Planet Victorian Masterminds
2020[4]	Irving, TX	No games selected
2021[5]	Houston, TX	Bermuda Pirates ClipCut Parks Gates of Delirium Gridopolis Ishtar: Gardens of Babylon Kodama 3D Mental Blocks Stripes Village Pillage WHO KNOWS WHO
2022[6]	S. Portland, ME	Atheneum: Mystic Library Genotype: A Mendelian Genetics Game Life of a Chameleon Miyabi Shifting Stones
2023[7]	Columbus, OH	Trekking Through History Mille Fiori Gartenbau Akropolis boop.
2024[8]	Charlotte, VA	Abducktion First in Flight: A Historical Aviation Board Game In the Footsteps of Darwin The Vale of Eternity Wandering Towers