The Mensa Genius Quiz-a-day Book [Paperback]

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

Book Description

Publication Date: January 22, 1989

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%)

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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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Da Capo Press (January 22, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201135493
• ISBN-13: 978-0201135497
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #65,925 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Challenge Yourself, July 18, 2008

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drebbles (Arlington, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Mensa Genius Quiz-a-day Book (Paperback)

"The Mensa Genius Quiz-A-Day Book" contains 366 puzzles (including one for leap years). The puzzles cover a wide variety including cryptograms, picture puzzles, math puzzles, riddles, palindromes, Tom Swifties, and more. The book is divided into months and at the start of each month there is a description of how the month got its name and some other interesting facts about the month. The answers are at the back of the book and each answer tells what percentage of Mensa members got the right answer for that particular puzzle.

"The Mensa Genius Quiz-A-Day Book" is a good book for people who want to keep their mind active by doing at least one puzzle a day. The puzzles are varied in such a way that if you find a puzzle tough one day, the puzzle the next day won't seem as hard. My favorite puzzles are the word puzzles (palindromes, anagrams, riddles, mini-mysteries, etc.) while I'm not too fond of or particularly good at the math puzzles. For the most part, the book is evenly divided between the types of puzzles, but there are a few times when it seems like there are several of the same type of puzzle in a row. Although the book says Mensa, you don't have to be a Mensa member to do the puzzles (I'm not). The answer section gives a detailed explanation of each answer, which ultimately helps you solve similar types of puzzles. By the end of the book you should be able to solve or at least have an understanding of how each puzzle works.

"The Mensa Genius Quiz-A-Day Book" is hours of challenging fun for everyone.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Sundry Puzzles, June 9, 2009

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Joshua Jacobsen "[e-mail]" (Plano, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Mensa Genius Quiz-a-day Book (Paperback)

This is a little book filled with puzzles. The majority of them are vocabulary-related puzzles that involve unscrambling letters. Some of them are math-related puzzles that involve pre-algebra. Some are logic puzzles.

There is a puzzle for every day of the year, and answers in the back. The answers include a % of Mensa "testers" that were able to answer the questions.

I keep it in the bathroom. Most of these puzzles are a little too easy. With a pencil and paper, most of them would be achievable for a bright sixth grader. An adult who is interested in puzzles will complete the majority of these puzzles in their head in a few seconds. This is probably because the book is quite old, and most of these puzzle ideas have been taught in school for a while, now, so... the "puzzle" part is stale.

12 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FUN, June 19, 2005

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E. Truman (Denver, CO USA) - See all my reviews
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This is a very fun book for those who can't get enough of logic puzzles. There is a wide variety of puzzles in this book. Buy this book and you too can look forward to solving a puzzle a day!