Mind Games (r) up in Albany was, by and large, a great success. Currently, I am more zombified than I've been in a long time, having stayed up until about 3am (again) playing games, and then I started doing some clean-up to make searching for "orphaned" game pieces easier... "re-fluffing" of the games started at 4:30am and went until 8:30am with a slowly increasing amount of help from a few others (ugh - I need sleep!).
Enough time to stumble to breakfast, and get to the main room early for good seating to see and hear well at the game giveaway. I was astonished at just how long all of my preferred games were still available during the giveaway (as usual, I was about 3/4 of the way down the list) -- I got my 3rd and 6th choice of game, and 3 of my top 6 games were announced as the Mensa Select (r) winners for 2011.
The Mensa Select winners were:
InStructures
Stomple
Uncle Chestnut's Table Gype
Pirate vs. Pirate
Pastiche
I am going home with a copy of Train of Thought (very funny game) and Scruble Cube (think 4x4x4 Rubik's Cube combined with Scrabble).
After lunch out of the hotel with some friends, I conked out in a chair in the hotel lobby for a couple of hours, but I still look and feel like the walking dead. I can't wait to collapse on my bed... in 4 hours. (ugh)
Once I have returned to the land of the living in the next day or two, I should be able to take a look at e-mail and approve any blog comments that may have been sent in over the weekend.
Talk Mensa With Me
Dizzy trying to find out which way Mensa is going? Make this one of your stops to find out about the ins and outs of American Mensa, Ltd. (AML).
If you want to get in touch with me, contact me at boxmaster@alumni.williams.edu or just click on any of the "comments" links throughout this blog.
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