The Mensa Genius Quiz-a-day Book

Author: Abbie F. Salny
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 9780201135497
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Test your wits with this all-new collection of mindbusters from Mensa, the high-IQ society. Master puzzler Abbie Salny provides a fun brainteaser, logic twister, math mystery, or word game for every day of the year. Whether you're mathematically, verbally, or visually inclined, you're sure to find twelve months' worth of exciting challenges inside.Included with each puzzle's solution is the percentage of Mensa members who answered it correctly, so you can score yourself against the people with the high IQs. With a puzzle for every date and an extra for leap years, you can match wits with Mensa 366 days out of every year! Here are a couple of sample questions, and the percentage of Mensans who answered correctly: February 24: Can you make three words from the letters LGNEA? (100%) May 14: You have fifty coins that total 1.00. If you lose one coin, what is the chance that it was a quarter? (15%)

The Mensa Quiz Book

Author: Mensa Ltd
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781787390218
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
With over 1,500 questions, and including separate picture quizzes and IQ-style tests, The Mensa Quiz Book is the ultimate challenge for any aspiring quizzer to trial themselves against the best of the very best.

Mensa Genius A-B-C Quiz Book

Author: Alan Stillson
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 9780201311358
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 162

Book Description
More than half a million readers have taken up the challenge of the Mensa Genius Quiz Books. Now this all-new collection of word games supplies more mind-bending, cranium-crunching fun for all. Every puzzle in The Mensa Genius A-B-C Quiz Book is built around letters, words, and common phrases. These brainteasers make us view words in new ways, stretching our vocabularies and untwisting our tongues. Each quiz has been tested by members of American Mensa, so you can compare scores. Be warned-these puzzles aren't as easy as A-B-C! Here's a sample of the word games inside, along with the percentage of Mensa testers who could solve each one: What letter comes next in this series: M,V,E,M,J,S,U,N,... (75%) What English word contains this letter sequence? URTSH (55%) Make a seven-letter word from the letters in: Cape Fear (70%).

Match Wits With Mensa

Author: Marvin Grosswirth
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 9780738202501
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The ultimate book of Mensa-crafted puzzles, brainteasers, word games, number conundrums, and logical mysteries to test your intelligence Puzzle fans have bought more than 650,000 copies of the Mensa Genius Quiz series-the only books that let readers "match wits with Mensa," comparing how well they do against members of the famous high-IQ society. Here, in a giant omnibus edition, are four best-selling titles: The Mensa Genius Quiz Books 1 & 2, The Mensa Genius Quiz-A-Day Book, and The Mensa Genius ABC Book. Here are more than 800 fun mindbenders to exercise every part of your brain-word games, trivia, logic riddles, number challenges, visual puzzles-plus tips on how to improve your thinking skills. All the puzzles have been tested by members of American Mensa, Ltd., and include the percentage of Mensa testers who could solve each one, so that you can score yourself against some of the nation's fittest mental athletes.

Book of I Q Tests

Author: P. Carter
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 1402757352
Category : Intelligence tests
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
Tests a person's intelligence with a self-scoring collection of twenty-five challenging IQ quizzes that include diagrams, numerical challenges, wordplay, and other entertaining elements.

Ultimate IQ Tests

Author: Ken Russell
Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers
ISBN: 0749474319
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
IQ tests are routinely encountered in recruitment for various industries, including for jobs in the government, armed forces, and education as well as industry and commerce. Competition is fierce and employers are determined to cut the weak from the strong so it is essential for candidates to be prepared. Ultimate IQ Tests is the biggest book of IQ practice tests available. Written and compiled by experts in IQ testing and brain puzzles, it contains 1000 practice questions organized into 25 tests, with a simple guide to assessing individual performance. With a brand new test in this edition, designed to be more challenging than the others so you can track progress, this is the best one-stop resource to mind puzzles. Working through the questions will help you to improve your vocabulary and develop powers of calculation and logical reasoning. From the best-selling Ultimate series, Ultimate IQ Tests is an invaluable resource if you have to take an IQ test, but it's also great fun if you like to stretch your mind for your own entertainment - and boost your brain power. About the Ultimate series... The Ultimate series contains practical advice on essential job search skills to give you the best chance of getting the job you want. Taking you from your job search to completing an interview, it includes guidance on CV or résumé and cover letter writing, practice questions for passing aptitude, psychometric and other employment tests, and reliable advice for interviewing.

The Mensa Genius Quiz Book 2

Author: Marvin Grosswirth
Publisher: Dearborn Trade Publishing
ISBN: 9780201059588
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 164

Book Description
So you think you're smart . . . well, try these quizzes, puzzles, games, and strategies compiled by Mensa, the internationally famous high-IQ society. You need an IQ in the top two percent of the population to join this elite group. Take the sample tests inside to see how you rate alongside such famous Mensans as Buckminster Fuller, Theodore Bikel, and Isaac Asimov. Subjects range from math and logic to culture and trivia.

Genius Test

Author: Robert Allen
Publisher: Carlton Publishing Group
ISBN: 9781780970141
Category : Genius
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
IQ and genius are often muddled up, with one being mistaken for the other. However, various theories suggest that there may be seven key types of intelligence. This book examines several of the world's greatest historical geniuses, concentrating on the common threads between their lives to find insights into the way genius is formed.

Mensa Book of Words, Word Games, Puzzles and Oddities

Author: Abbie F. Salny
Publisher: Galahad Books
ISBN: 9781578660827
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Shocking origins! Altered meanings! Wild abuses of language! Who knew English was so full of fascinating surprises? For word lovers, these quizzes and games by Mensa member extraordinaire Dr. Abbie Salny will be a pure delight...and illuminating, too. She delves into the sometimes-unexpected etymology of a variety of words and reveals how they came to have their present meanings, examines derivations, and analyzes the frequently misunderstood, mispronounced, and misused. Then, she gathers them all into brain-teasing puzzles designed to test and improve the solver's vocabulary. For anyone seeking a bon mot or le mot juste, here's the place to find it!

Logic Tests (Mensa)

Author: Tim Dedopulos
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781780975160
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A series of logic problems that have been created by Mensans, with the aim of specifically improving various aspects of logical thought and lateral thinking through puzzle solving and problem confrontation.