Ingenious (board game) Ingenious (board game) Ingenious is the English name for Einfach Genial (Simply Ingenious), a German abstract strategy board game designed by Reiner Knizia under commission from Sophisticated Games and published in 2004 by Kosmos. Across most of Europe it is titled as the local translation of Ingenious or Simply Ingenious, the notable exception being Mensa Connections in the UK. With the exception of the game box and rule sheet (which require regional translations), identical components are used in each version of the game. There are six coloured symbols used in the game: Tiles are in the shape of two conjoined
Kingmaker (board game) Scrope of Masham (and owned by his descendants to this day). In the very first version of the game, there was also a typo: the board displayed "Ravenser" instead of "Ravenscar" in East Yorkshire. In Simon Foxall's book "Mapping England" there is a map/board described as a "Historical Version by the Black Prussian"; this appears to be a modification of the Avalon Hill version which increases the degree of historical accuracy in the nobles included, their strengths and the places shown. "Kingmaker" is a computer version of the game, produced by Avalon Hill in 1994, which reproduces the look and