Canteen Recommended Games
Mensa Recommended Games is a recommendation list for board and card games that is published once a year by the Mensa International association or the American section of Mensa as part of the award ceremony of the Mensa Select Games . The list compiled by a jury contains game titles that did not win the coveted game award, but are still recommended.
The prize was introduced at the Mind Games 2013. Every year 10 to 15 titles are chosen that are allowed to carry the label “ Recommended by American Mensa ”.
Recommended games
| 2013 • 2014 • 2015 • 2016 • 2017 • 2018 • 2019 |
| year | city | game | Author (s) | Game publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | St. Louis | Domitrio (Settrio) | Mark Fuchs | Maranda Enterprises |
| Dotzee | Mark Fuchs | Maranda Enterprises | ||
| Duple | n / A | Anomia Press | ||
| I go! | Leo Colovini | Steffen Games | ||
| Nounsense | Mark Fuchs | Maranda Enterprises | ||
| Pick 'N' Choose | MH Ribeiro | MHR Games | ||
| Pick-a-PIG | Torsten Landsvogt | Eagle-Gryphon Games | ||
| Quartex | Tim WK Brown | CSE Games | ||
| Raid the pantry | Amanda Milne, Julia Schiller | Cheeky Parrot Games | ||
| Terzetto | n / A | Gamewright | ||
| Word Winder | Steve R. Bullock, David Hoyt, Graeme Thomson | HL Games | ||
| WordARound | Joe Herbert, Dave Herbert | Thinkfun | ||
| 2014 | Austin | Hearts of AttrAction | Jeff Glickman | R&R Games |
| CrossWays | n / A | USAopoly | ||
| Fish to Fish | n / A | Fat Brain Toy Company | ||
| Fluxx: The Board Game | Andrew Looney | Looney Labs | ||
| Four in a square | Koby Ben-Aroush | FoxMind Games | ||
| Ghost flash | Jacques Zeimet | Lion Rampant Imports | ||
| karma | Marsha J. Falco | Set Enterprises, Inc. | ||
| Laser maze | n / A | ThinkFun Games | ||
| Matchstix | Martin Nedergaard Andersen | Haywire Group | ||
| Oxygin (Gin With Words) | n / A | Oxygin LLC | ||
| Pass-Ackwords | David Arnott, Aaron Weissblum | R&R Games | ||
| Pivot | n / A | MindWare | ||
| Robot Face Race | Ivan Moscovich | Educational Insights | ||
| Staxis | Paul Wickens | MindWare | ||
| Tapple | n / A | USAopoly | ||
| 2015 | San Diego | Battle Sheep | Francesco Rotta | Blue Orange Games |
| Castellan | Beau Beckett | Steve Jackson Games | ||
| dimension | Luchau lye | Thames & Kosmos | ||
| Just desserts | Andrew Looney | Looney Labs | ||
| Leaps and Ledges | n / A | MindWare | ||
| ModX | n / A | Cryptozoic Entertainment | ||
| Niya | Bruno Cathala | Blue Orange Games | ||
| Pathwayz | Louis Lafair | Go! Games | ||
| Prime Climb | Katherine Cook, Dan Finkel | Math For Love | ||
| Roll For It! | Chris leather | Calliope Games | ||
| Rush hour shift | Alex Siedband | ThinkFun | ||
| Skosh | n / A | GoldBrick Games | ||
| Stones of Fate | Luke Laurie | Cosmic Wombat Games | ||
| The Game of 49 | Mark Corsey | Breaking Games | ||
| Yard master | Steven Aramini | Crash games | ||
| 2016 | Wheeling | Apotheca | Andrew Federspiel | Knapsack Games |
| Attila | Bruno Faidutti | Blue Orange Games | ||
| Bring your own book | Matthew Moore | Gamewright | ||
| Carnac | Emiliano Venturini | HUCH! | ||
| Foodfighters | Josh Cappel, Helaina Cappel | Kids table board gaming | ||
| Fuse | Kane Klenko | Renegade Game Studios | ||
| Kodama: The Tree Spirits | Daniel Solis | Indie Boards and Cards | ||
| Möbi | n / A | Mobi Games | ||
| Onitama | Shimpei Sato | Arcane Wonders | ||
| Sheriff of Nottingham | Sérgio Halaban, André Zatz | CMON Inc. | ||
| SiXeS | Steven Poelzing, Rick Soued | Eagle-Gryphon Games | ||
| Spyfall | Alexandr Ushan | Cryptozoic Entertainment | ||
| tak-tak | Rich Zeglovitch | Twizmo! Games | ||
| Terra | Friedemann Friese | Bezier Games | ||
| Thieves! | Richard de Rijk | Calliope Games | ||
| 2017 | Herndon | 4 The Birds | Steve Ewoldt | Breaking Games |
| America | Ted Alspach , Friedemann Friese | Bezier Games | ||
| Best Treehouse Ever | Scott Almes | Green Couch Games | ||
| Burst Out Laughing Gas | Claudia Cleveland, Joyce Johnson | MindWare | ||
| Don't Mess With Cthulhu | Yusuke Sato | Indie Boards and Cards | ||
| Honeycombs | Dave Clarke | Go Games Inc. | ||
| Karmaka | Eddy Boxerman, Dave Burke | Hemisphere Games | ||
| lotus | Jordan Goddard, Mandy Goddard | Renegade Game Studios | ||
| New York Slice | Jeffrey D. Allers | Bezier Games | ||
| Organ ATTACK! | Nick Seluk | The Awkward Yeti | ||
| Pyramid Arcade | Andrew Looney, John Cooper, Kristin Looney | Looney Labs | ||
| Ski wampus | Myles Christensen | Gamewright | ||
| Snippets | Shaun Salzberg | The Master Theorem Games | ||
| This, That, and Everything | K. Allegra Vernon | Outset Media | ||
| Word game | Marsha J. Falco | Set Enterprises, Inc. | ||
| 2018 | Herndon | Ancestree | Eric M. Lang | Calliope Games |
| Cahoots! | Ken Gruhl | Gamewright | ||
| Capital City | James Ernest | Calliope Games | ||
| Chickapig | Brian Calhoun | Buffalo Games | ||
| Clustered | Scotty Hardwick | Sculpin Games | ||
| Dicey peaks | Scott Almes | Calliope Games | ||
| Einstein: His Amazing Life & Incomparable Science | Dirk Knemeyer | Artana | ||
| Magic Maze | Kasper Lapp | Dude Games | ||
| Rewordable | Allison Parrish, Adam Simon, Tim Szetela | Penguin Random House | ||
| Seikatsu | Matt Loomis, Isaac Shalev | IDW Games | ||
| Sentient | J. Alex Kevern | Renegade Game Studios | ||
| ShutterBug | Mike Elliott | Calliope Games | ||
| Splurt! | Gene Mackles | PDG Games | ||
| Stroop | Jonathan Chaffer | Grand Gamers Guild | ||
| Unearth | Jason Harner, Matthew Ransom | Brotherwise Games, LLC | ||
| 2019 | Herndon | Astro trash | n / A | USAopoly |
| Blank slate | Robert A. Kamp | USAopoly | ||
| Cat crimes | n / A | ThinkFun | ||
| Dragon Castle | Hjalmar Hach, Luca Ricci, Lorenzo Silva | CMON Inc. | ||
| Forbidden Sky | Matt Leacock | Gamewright | ||
| Intellect | David Abelson | Fisher Heaton Games | ||
| Nite lights | n / A | SimplyFun | ||
| Railroad Ink: Blazing Red Edition | Hjalmar Hach, Lorenzo Silva | CMON Inc. | ||
| Reef | Emerson Matsuuchi | Plan B Games / Next Move Games | ||
| Sushi roll | Phil Walker-Harding | Gamewright | ||
| Tiny Towns | Peter McPherson | Alderac Entertainment Group | ||
| The Game of Wolf | Joe Barron | Gray Matters Games | ||
| 2020 | Herndon | tba | tba | tba |
Web links
- Mensa Recommended Games , official website with database