Book Description
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 just one example 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?

The answer: Ten cows. We can call the pigs cows, but that doesn't make them cows.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Spend time confounded and entertained at the same time with a wealth of perplexing American Mensa mind challenges. A number of them can be solved quickly; others are harder and take longer, even for someone with a high IQ! See how you do with these:

What word, expression or name is depicted here? F A R E D C E?

Uning exactly two 2s and any of the standard mathematical symbols, write down and expression whose value is five.

Ann is looking at the portrait of a gentleman. "He is not my father, but his mother was my mother's mother-in-law," she says. Who is he?

What animal walks on all fours in the morning, on two legs at noon, and on three legs at dusk?