Mensa Mind Busters

Mensa Mind Busters

Author: Philip J. Carter

Publisher: Thunder Bay Press (CA)

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9781571458827

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This gigantic new puzzle book from Mensa includes more than 500 puzzles, from cunning numerical conundrums and testing word games to logic teasers, enigmatic lateral thinking tests, and abstract visual problems. Because they don't follow any special pattern, you'll never know what fiendish challenge is lying in wait on the next page. Get some practice in puzzle thinking with the easy section, build mental muscles in the medium section, and gain a fighting chance for the really hard part. No special skills or abilities are needed, just a bit of common sense, some basic literacy, the ability to think things through, and the stubborn willpower and determination not to be defeated by a mere puzzle.


Mensa Mind Teasers

Mensa Mind Teasers

Author: Philip J. Carter

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9781402747953

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SILLY TREES is an anagram of what 10-letter word? What’s the next number in the sequence 483, 759, 264, 837? What two words that sound alike mean AUDIBLY and PERMITTED? Don’t be surprised if the answers aren’t easy to figure out. These puzzles are from a rich and varied new Mensa collection, and they’re meant to challenge even the most experienced puzzle fans. Some of the mind teasers test for knowledge of specific facts, but most can be solved by pure brain power. Readers who don’t give up too soon, who look beyond the obvious, use their imaginations, and put their minds to work, will find a great sense of accomplishment and hours of fascinating diversion. (answers: tirelessly, 592, aloud and allowed.)


Brain Busters!

Brain Busters!

Author: Barry R. Clarke

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9780486427553

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Fifty-one original puzzles include complex crosswords, a collection of amusing stories with a series of clues that lead to a single solution at the end, and an advanced series of math and logic puzzles — no skills beyond high school algebra needed. Most puzzles include hints; solutions are provided for all.


Challenging Logic Puzzles

Challenging Logic Puzzles

Author: Barry R. Clarke

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9781402705410

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How well do you think logically? Find out with these puzzles. But don't forget the degree of difficulty increases as you go.


The Mensa Genius Quiz-a-day Book

The Mensa Genius Quiz-a-day Book

Author: Abbie F. Salny

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Published: 1989-01-22

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780201135497

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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%)


Mensa Guide to Solving Sudoku

Mensa Guide to Solving Sudoku

Author: Peter Gordon

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9781402740114

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Here it comes: a revolution in sudoku solving! This is by far the most complete guide to cracking these addictive puzzles ever produced, with tricks even the experts won t know. While most books might have a few pages of introduction before proceeding straight to the sudokus, this one covers it all: hidden pairs, naked pairs, X-wings, jellyfish, squirmbag, bivalue and bilocation graphs, turbot fish, grid coloring, and chains. Every single one is here, and much more too, including the exclusive Gordonian logic methods (Gordonian rectangles and Gordonian polygons) that will turn even the hardest puzzles into a breeze. Of course, there are hundreds of sudoku for practice. A very special addition is a reprint of the very first sudoku ever published in 1979, from "Dell Pencil Puzzles and Word Games" magazine!"


Healthy Brain Book of IQ Puzzles

Healthy Brain Book of IQ Puzzles

Author: Fraser Simpson

Publisher: Puzzlewright

Published: 2021-06

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9781454941248

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Keep Your Mind Fit and Flexible Research has shown that a great way to keep your memory and cognitive skills at their best is to learn challenging new things that require you to think. This puzzle book is perfect for doing just that, since it features a wide variety of IQ-type brainteasers to keep solvers on their toes: different types of word games, memory tests, logic puzzles, and math problems, with something new on every page. It's a refreshingly fun mental workout!


The Little Book of Big Mind Benders

The Little Book of Big Mind Benders

Author: Scott Kim

Publisher: Workman Publishing

Published: 2014-08-26

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 0761179771

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Smart, addictive, challenging, fun, and good for the brain—here, in the irresistible 4" x 6" games format, are more than 450 truly satisfying, mind-expanding, full-color puzzles. It’s like salted peanuts for the puzzle aficionado and boot camp for the neophyte who wants to give his or her mind a workout. Created by puzzle master Scott Kim—a contributor to Games and Discover magazines—and adapted from the bestselling Amazing Mind Benders Page-A-Day Calendar, The Little Book of Big Mind Benders is a cornucopia of spatial puzzles, number challenges, wordplay, visual conundrums, and more. The puzzles are categorized by type but distributed throughout the book in a mixed fashion (i.e., a word puzzle next to a number puzzle next to a visual stumper). Readers can move page by page, working different parts of the brain—or easily find their favorite type of puzzle, going from easy to challenging. Test your knack for patterns with Dot Matrix. Put the pieces together in Assemblies. Deduce the secret word in Letter Swap, or untangle the mangled phrases of Lost in Translation. Plus discover cool twists on Sudoku, far-out ambigrams, Wordezoids, mazes, and number crunches. Answers are included in the back of the book.


The GCHQ Puzzle Book

The GCHQ Puzzle Book

Author: GCHQ

Publisher: Michael Joseph

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780718185541

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** WINNER OF 'STOCKING FILLER OF THE YEAR AWARD' GUARDIAN ** Pit your wits against the people who cracked Enigma in the official puzzle book from Britain's secretive intelligence organisation, GCHQ. 'A fiendish work, as frustrating, divisive and annoying as it is deeply fulfilling: the true spirit of Christmas' Guardian 'Surely the trickiest puzzle book in years. Crack these fiendish problems and Trivial Pursuit should be a doddle' Daily Telegraph If 3=T, 4=S, 5=P, 6=H, 7=H ...what is 8? What is the next letter in the sequence: M, V, E, M, J, S, U, ? Which of the following words is the odd one out: CHAT, COMMENT, ELF, MANGER, PAIN, POUR? GCHQ is a top-secret intelligence and security agency which recruits some of the very brightest minds. Over the years, their codebreakers have helped keep our country safe, from the Bletchley Park breakthroughs of WWII to the modern-day threat of cyberattack. So it comes as no surprise that, even in their time off, the staff at GCHQ love a good puzzle. Whether they're recruiting new staff or challenging each other to the toughest Christmas quizzes and treasure hunts imaginable, puzzles are at the heart of what GCHQ does. Now they're opening up their archives of decades' worth of codes, puzzles and challenges for everyone to try. In this book you will find: - Tips on how to get into the mindset of a codebreaker - Puzzles ranging in difficulty from easy to brain-bending - A competition section where we search for Britain's smartest puzzler Good luck! 'Ideal for the crossword enthusiast' Daily Telegraph


The Big Book of Mind-Bending Puzzles

The Big Book of Mind-Bending Puzzles

Author: Terry Stickels

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 9781402732553

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Brainiacs on the prowl for challenging fun will find everything they're looking for in these cunning conundrums. Puzzle master Terry Stickels has created a mind-melting collection filled with hundreds of diverse and fiendishly tricky problems--including wordplay, math, analytic reasoning, logic, visual dilemmas, and code breaking. Figure out the next number in a series, find hidden phrases, and determine what a three-dimensional object would look like from two-dimensional drawings. Every puzzle provides a workout that strengthens mental muscles. And while these brainteasers do require concentration, they don't demand any special training or high-level math skills. A little practice, patience, and imagination are all it takes.