This is the original, full-sized Abalone game. The Mensa Select Winner is a two-team, abstract board game designed by Michel Lalet and Laurent Lévi in 1987. This beautiful and functional board has room for two teams of large marbles. Players take turns pushing the marbles around the board, with the goal of pushing six of the opposing player's marbles off the board. The central idea is that a column of marbles has weight given by the number of marbles in line. Someone will need to push with a heavier group of marbles in order to push the column along that axis. However, with six possible directions, it's difficult to defend yourself perfectly.