Author : Abbie F. Salny
Publisher : Harper Paperbacks
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,86 MB
Release : 1986-06-17
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780060912550
Written by the members of Mensa, here is a fascinating, enlightening program for strengthening the mind. Games, exercises, and mental fitness tests will help readers to open their minds and think smarter.
Author : Victor Serebriakoff
Publisher :
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 32,55 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Psychology
ISBN :
Author : Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff
Publisher : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 18,68 MB
Release : 1998-03-15
Category : Puzzles
ISBN : 9780789435590
Author : Ken Russell
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 26,83 MB
Release : 2015-08-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0749474319
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.
Author : Abbie F. Salny
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,21 MB
Release : 1989-01-22
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780201135497
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%)
Author : J. J. Mendoza Fernandez
Publisher : Main Street Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 36,28 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781402710490
Take the Mensa challenge! These extraordinarily entertaining puzzles can confound even those with high IQs-and that's what makes them such delightfully tricky fun. A few can be solved relatively quickly, but the hardest may seem nearly impossible to crack. Give your skills a real workout on numerical conundrums, word games, lateral thinking problems, and riddles. Brainteasers, arranged in order of difficulty, train the mind and provide a good time all at once. The most complex bafflers include chess, logic, and spatial puzzles. Here's a small sampler of what's inside! � A farmer has twenty sheep, ten pigs, and ten cows. If we call the pigs cows, how many cows will he have? � Which three boys' names are anagrams of one another? Answers: 1. Ten cows. We can call the pigs cows, but that doesn't make them cows. 2. Arnold, Roland, and Ronald.
Author : Mensa Ltd
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,69 MB
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781787390218
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.
Author : Marvin Grosswirth
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,82 MB
Release : 1999-11-25
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780738202501
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.
Author : Abbie F. Salny
Publisher : Galahad Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,81 MB
Release : 2006-07-14
Category : English language
ISBN : 9781578660827
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!
Author : Alan Stillson
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 31,53 MB
Release : 1968-01-22
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780201311358
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%).
