# 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.

## 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 | Wadsworth, OH | Architects of the West Kingdom Gizmos Gunkimono Planet Victorian Masterminds |
| 2020 | Irving, TX | No games selected |
| 2021 | 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 | S. Portland, ME | Atheneum: Mystic Library Genotype: A Mendelian Genetics Game Life of a Chameleon Miyabi Shifting Stones |
| 2023 | Columbus, OH | Trekking Through History Mille Fiori Gartenbau Akropolis boop. |
| 2024 | Charlotte, VA | Abducktion First in Flight: A Historical Aviation Board Game In the Footsteps of Darwin The Vale of Eternity Wandering Towers |