Mensa Select® Games
Each year, hundreds of Mensans meet over one weekend to play and rate the year’s newest board games. The top seven 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.
If you buy something from a Mensa Mind Games link, American Mensa may earn a commission.
Agueda: City of Umbrellas
2025 Mensa Select Winner
Manufacturer:
25th Century Games
Players: 4-6
Age Range: All Ages
Every summer, Agueda, Portugal, hosts an arts festival with colorful umbrellas, murals, and installations. In Agueda: City of Umbrellas, players decorate the streets to draw tourists. Balance the needs of the city, shops, and visitors to create the most stunning arrangement, earning points by placing umbrellas and attracting attention to your display.
Diatoms
2025 Mensa Select Winner
Manufacturer:
25th Century Games
Players: 2-4
Age Range: All Ages
Diatoms is a puzzly tile-placement and pattern-making game where players create microscopic mosaics based on an obscure Victorian art form. Compete to collect and place diatom tiles of different colors and shapes, strategically arranging them to score points for matching colors, shape variety, and symmetry. The game also includes a solo variant with mosaic commission prompts.
Farms Race Deluxe Edition
2025 Mensa Select Winner
Manufacturer:
Farms Race LLC
Players: 2-4
Age Range: 13+
Build barns and armories, recruit spies, nuke your friends, and conquer the countryside in this fast-paced showdown between nuclear-armed, fascist farm animals.
HUTAN
2025 Mensa Select Winner
Manufacturer:
USAOPOLY
Players: 2-4
Age Range: 13+
Step into a world of wonder and natural splendor with an immersive family game inspired by the Indonesian word for "rainforest." Players have their own patch where they plant sprouts and flowers that grow into towering trees. A habitat forms, and iconic forest animals arrive. Grow the best rainforest and attract the most animals to win.
In the Footsteps of Marie Curie
2025 Mensa Select Winner
Manufacturer:
Hachette Boardgames
Players: 2-4
Age Range: 13+
Enter Marie Curie's lab and assist in her quest for a double Nobel Prize! Engage in experiments, enhance your workshop, and fulfill her research objectives. The game combines resource management and transformation mechanics, using a dynamic card river and contract system. Resources are distributed via a cube tower, with each turn offering surprises.
Plundering Times
2025 Mensa Select Winner
Manufacturer:
SimplyFun
Players: 2-4
Age Range: 4 to 10
Lead your dragon pirate crew to plunder the Islands of Numbers in this epic math adventure. Use multiplication and addition to match or get close to each island's number without going over.
Treasure of the Dragons
2025 Mensa Select Winner
Manufacturer:
FoxMind Games
Players: 2-4
Age Range: 4 to 10
The dragon's cave is full of treasure! Use your memory and observation skills to get all the riches hidden under the stones. Beware of the dragons and the spiders that will try to make you leave empty-handed!