Mensa 365 Brain Puzzlers Page-A-Day Calendar 2008 [Calendar]

CC Workman Publishing (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 30, 2007

These puzzles don't mess around. Created by puzzle master Abby F. Salny—and an official calendar of Mensa, the internationally famous high- IQ society—this year of mental conundrums is for people who really like to use their gray matter. Every day, a tough new challenge: Gigantiwords. Tom Swifties. They Might Have Said. Metamorphosis. Cubic Chaos. And lots more, including this stumper: What letter would logically replace the question mark in the following sequence? A E F H I K ? M N. In case your neurons let you down, answers are revealed on the back of each page.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

TOUGH.NO, TOUGHER.

365 BRAIN PUZZLERS, an offical calendar of Mensa, the internationally famous high-IQ society, features a year of word and number stumpers from puzzle master Dr. Abbie F. Salny

Tom Swifties, Alphabet Soup, Cubic Chaos. Sequences, Double Trouble, Palindrome Pals and Gigantiwords—fill in the blanks to complete the following word: _N_U_S_T_O

About the Author

Abbie F. Salny is a contributor for the following Workman Publishing Co Title: Mensa 365 Brain Puzzlers Page-A-Day Calendar 2008

Product Details

• Calendar: 370 pages
• Publisher: Workman Publishing Company; Pag edition (June 30, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761145885
• ISBN-13: 978-0761145882
• Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 6.2 x 2.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,171,260 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars When will this end?, November 12, 2003

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Bill Santiss (Akron, ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mensa 365 Brain Puzzlers Page-A-Day Calendar 2004 (Page-A-Day(r) Calendars) (Calendar)

I can't believe my eyes! How could MENSA sponsor another Abbie Salny calendar? This calendar is full of errors, as it is every year. The so called puzzles fall far short of anything clever or original and it remains a huge mystery to my friends and me how something so poorly thought out could ever be published. I received this calendar as a gift and I am so disappointed that a publishing house as reputable as Workman Publishing could allow such a travesty, not to mention the high I.Q.society, MENSA!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars VERY dissapointing, March 16, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Mensa 365 Brain Puzzlers Page-A-Day Calendar 2004 (Page-A-Day(r) Calendars) (Calendar)

I mistakenly thought that Mensa would have come up with something a lot more interesting and creative than a calendar which simply recyles the same set of (not very enticing) puzzles over and over and over again. It's only March and I am already thinking about chucking this in the trash.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Waste of money, February 17, 2009

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David Burgett (Overland Park, KS) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mensa 365 Brain Puzzlers Page-A-Day Calendar 2008 (Calendar)

It's actually my own fault for not paying close enough attention. But I bought this calendar in mid-January 2009 and I *assumed* that it would be a 2009 calendar...I guess I thought a calendar store wouldn't still be selling year old calendars. But it was actually 2008 and exactly the same as the one I had just finished a few weeks earlier. So my fault...but buyer beware!