These are think-out-of-the-box brainbusters, lots of fun for anyone who enjoys a challenge. Some of the situations presented may seem really strange, and almost impossible to solve, but once the obvious assumptions are discarded, the answers begin to come into focus. The key lies in being creative, and getting into the groove by trying the easier puzzles before moving on to the super-hard ones. The collection includes problems that use visual clues, timed questions, and thorny conundrums that ask you to look for sequences, uncover relationships, use deductive reasoning, and make clever observations. It’s a true test of anyone's smarts.
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Mensa is the internationally renowned high IQ society which has a worldwide membership of almost 100,000 members in more than 100 countries. There are 28,000 members in the UK, including 2,200 Junior Mensans under the age of 16. To join Mensa, the only requirement for membership is that an individual's IQ falls within the top 2 per cent of the population.
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I am the author of over 20 books including The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills and The Innovative Leader published by Kogan Page. I have also collaborated with Des MacHale to produce a series of Lateral Thinking Puzzle books published by Sterling Publishing. I help organisations think differently and improve innovation. I speak, write, give courses and run company audits on innovation. My talks and courses are fun and stimulating but with strong business content. I play chess, tennis, golf and keyboards in a rock band. I have met Mick Jagger, Jonathan Ross and Douglas Adams. I blog and tweet. Why not book me to speak at your meeting?
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Unsatisfying. Pass.,
This review is from: Brain-Busting Lateral Thinking Puzzles (Official Mensa Puzzle Book) (Paperback)
Don't let the thickness/number of pages (most of it the clues and answer section) or the MENSA stamp convince you, *cough*like it did me,*cough* to buy this book if you're a puzzle fan. Many of them struck me as hit-or-miss. A lot of the puzzles were okay or throwaways but nothing superb enough to share or bother remembering.
The clue section does not seem always that helpful. Rather than feeling like hints or offering questions they're just statements (to questions?) that are sometimes not that helpful in solving the puzzle. Maybe these clues would have been better with a stronger question-answer format? Some of these puzzles feel far too general to have a single definite answer--to which the clue section at times doesn't help even narrow that. Others turn out to be fact or trivia based and your trivia/historical knowledge is dependent on you solving it. This is a very unsatisfying book when too many of the puzzles have you looking the back of the book for a definite answer both when you're by yourself and in a group. Even more so when you try to pass it off or share this book with others and they turn out to be unhappy with it as well. Go ahead and pass on this. You can find better. =)
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Some decent lateral thinking puzzles, some out there puzzles,
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This review is from: Brain-Busting Lateral Thinking Puzzles (Official Mensa Puzzle Book) (Paperback)
If you've read lateral thinking puzzle books before, this one is not much different. It's somewhat thicker than most of those books, so it has more puzzles, but it also has a few less-than-superb puzzles. The historical puzzles for the most part are trivia bits more than deductive reasoning, but they take up only a small amount of the puzzles.
I'd say two out of every three puzzles are still anywhere from challenging to downright clever, which is enough for me to give it almost 2/3 of a full score.
5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
This is one of the dumbest books ever written!,
By Frustrated Printer Owner "thinking_mama" (Anchorage, AK United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Brain-Busting Lateral Thinking Puzzles (Official Mensa Puzzle Book) (Paperback)
This is not a book for intelligent thinking, it's a book of parlor puzzles and trivia factoids. Perhaps in a different format it could be entertaining, but as a question and answer book it just plain stinks. Sample question: A man went into his local shopping center. A woman whom he had never met before wished him a happy birthday. How did she know it was his birthday?The "Answer": The man went to an eye doctor to have an eye test. The doctor looked at his record and noticed that today was his birthday. I had to flip pages to find this nugget of an answer! I want my money back for the time I spent looking at this book!
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