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The Mensa Genius Quiz-A-Day Book

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ISBN13: 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 youre mathematically, verbally, or visually inclined, youre sure to find twelve months worth of exciting challenges inside.Included with each puzzles 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%)

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More puzzles, brainteasers, word games, number conundrums, logical mysteries, and intelligence-testers than ever before

About the Author

Abbie F. Salny, Ed.D., is 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.

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ISBN:: 9780201135497
Other:: Salny, Abbie F.
Publisher:: Da Capo Press
Author:: Salny, Abbie F.
Author:: Mensa
Location:: Reading, Mass. :
Subject:: Games, magic and puzzles
Subject:: Questions & Answers
Subject:: Hobbies and games
Subject:: Puzzles
Subject:: Literary recreations
Subject:: Mensa
Subject:: General Games
Subject:: Games-General Puzzles
Edition Description:: Trade Paper
Series Volume:: no. 46
Publication Date:: 19890131
Binding:: TRADE PAPER
Language:: English
Illustrations:: Yes
Pages:: 192
Dimensions:: 8.25 x 5.38 in 7.5 oz

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