Pyramid Review

Ingenious (for Windows)

Published by Merscom LLC

Original design by Reiner Knizia

Project lead Lena de Riese

Programming & design by Kai Ludwig, Stefan Stefanow, Jürgen Hoffmann, & Michael Zeilfelder

Graphics by Sascha Urbanek & Oliver Schulz

CD-ROM, rulebook; full color, boxed, for one to four players, 20 minutes playing time; $19.99

If it was taken out back behind the woodshed and beaten with a rubber hose, the attacker would only tire himself out; Ingenious is here and it's here to stay. It was recently reduced to a convenient little travel size, but depending on how one defines that term in an age of portable lap-top computers, it may also go on the road as part of the desktop. Welcome Ingenious for the personal computer.

The play of the game remains the same: There are six colored symbols in play, and players take it in turns to place domino-like pieces, with these same icons at either end, onto the board. Every color that matches a symbol already on the board scores a point in that color, and as the tiles stack up into a line, players can get a bigger score for every symbol in that line. When the board has filled up with tokens (a game takes about 20 minutes), the highest score wins the game . . . but every player can only claim his lowest scoring color as his "high" score.

This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.

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Article publication date: December 21, 2007

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System requirements OS: Windows 2000/XP/Vista CPU: 500 MHz Memory: 128MB RAM Video Card: 3D video card with 16MB RAM Hard Disk Space: 170MB free hard disk space DirectX: . . .