Free Play Day: Ingenious

Free Play Days are free for everyone to learn a new game, while we demo some of the hottest new games on the market and add them to our collection.

Ingenious: 7.1

In Ingenious, a.k.a. Einfach Genial, players take turns placing colored domino-style tiles on a game board, scoring for each line of colored symbols that they enlarge. The trick, however, is that a player's score is equal to their worst-scoring color, not their best, so they need to score for all colors instead of specializing in only one or two.

In more detail, the game includes 120 domino-style tiles, each consisting of two conjoined hexes; each hex has one of six colors in it, with most tiles having different-colored hexes. Each player has a rack with six tiles on it, and on a turn, a player places one tile from their rack onto two hexes of the game board.…