Super IQ Tests [Spiral-bound]

Fraser Simpson (Author), Myron Miller (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 31, 2000

How smart are you? Take 22 fun and challenging tests and you'll know if your IQ is really super. Start with these: 1. In how many ways can you make change for $3.00, using combinations of only dimes and/or nickels? 2. Change one letter in each word below to make a new word. The five new letters, in order, form a word. What is this five-letter word? PROPANE REDNESS IMPRESS REVERIE NOUGAT 3. What four-letter word completes this analogy? PULP is to PUMP as BURY is to ________. Answers: 1. 31 ways. Ignore the nickels. You can use any amount of dimes 0 to 30 dimes, filling in the remaining amount with nickels. 2. FRESH. The new words are proFane, redRess, Empress, reverSe, and nougHt. 3. BUSY. Move the third letter one place forward in the alphabet. Moving L to M makes PULP into PUMP. Similarly, moving R to S makes BURY into BUSY. The author lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 96 pages, 8 x 10.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 96 pages
• Publisher: Sterling (December 31, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806912472
• ISBN-13: 978-0806912479
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 8.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,936,726 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent fun!, December 16, 2000

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T. Dahm "burgeltz" (Plano, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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I love puzzles, but usually stay away from these "test your IQ" books (most of them are just ego trips for geeks). I picked this book up at the store, flipped through it, and fell in love with it. Yes, there's a scoring system, but the author makes it clear that's not the point. The puzzles are clever and well presented, and the overall format of the book is perfect. An excellent book for people who like keeping their minds sharp.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very enjoyable but a little formulaic, February 17, 2003

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John Harpur (Trim, Meath, IRELAND) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Super IQ Tests (Spiral-bound)

This is a very enjoyable little book. I have used some of the examples (involving pattern matching) in teaching students the bones of computer based reasoning. The questions are mostly good to challenging in quality. However as you plough through the tests, a pattern begins to emerge (somewhat like learning to unravel cryptogram based crosswords) and I suspect this helps improve performance.

The one quibble I have is that the wording of questions is not always clear - perhaps one to two in every fifteeen questions. Just to check this for myself I asked my wife, who is the sharpest blade in our household, to look at a few that I found unclear. She agreed (surprisingly ;-). It is worthwhile digging out the GRE general test for comparison on this point, and you'll readily grasp the importance of clarity in question wording. That being said, it is a worthwhile book and I derived a good deal of satisfaction from it.