The Mensa Genius Quiz-A-Day Book - Paperback

by Abbie F. Salny (Author), Mensa (Author)

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 Biography

Abbie F. Salny, Ed.D., the Supervisory Psychologist of American Mensa, has written many best-selling puzzle books, including The Mensa Genius Quiz Book. Members of Mensa have all scored in the top two percent of the population on a standard intelligence test.