Ingenious
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Ingenious is an abstract strategy board game designed by Reiner Knizia and published in 2004 by Kosmos under its German title Einfach Genial. It is also published by Mensa under the title Mensa Connections. The game, which can be played by 1, 2, 3 or 4 players, won the 2004 Schweizer Spielepreis and placed 5th in the Deutscher Spiele Preis.
Each player has a hand of 6 playing pieces (consisting of two joined hexes in different colours), which are placed on the board in turns (the board is also made up of hexes). Points are claimed by placing similarly coloured hexes next to each other.
When no more pieces can be added to the board, players check their lowest-scoring colour. Whoever has the most points in their lowest-scoring colour is the winner.
