Quick-to-solve Brainteasers

Quick-to-solve Brainteasers
Author: José Julián Mendoza Fernández
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1998
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9780806961514

Don't think too hard or you'll never solve these logic puzzles and riddles. The answers to all 187 are easy once you catch the tricky wording. How can you tie a knot in a napkin by holding one end in each hand without letting go of it? Impossible, you say (or your friends will say, if you bet them). But: Cross your arms and hold a tip of the napkin in each hand. When you uncross your arms, the knot will be formed! Now try this riddle: I climbed up a cherry tree, where I found cherries. I did not pick cherries, nor did I leave cherries. How can you explain this? Answer: I climbed up a cherry tree with two cherries in my hand. I picked only one. I left the other one on the tree. I did not "pick cherries," because I "picked a cherry." Take this dare: My bird can fly faster than any supersonic plane. Here's how: If you put my bird inside any plane and make it fly in the same direction as the plane, it will go faster than the plane. 96 pages, 52 b/w illus., 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.

Giant Book of Mensa Mind Challenges

Giant Book of Mensa Mind Challenges
Author: J. J. Mendoza Fernandez
Publisher: Main Street Press
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2003
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781402710490

Take the Mensa challenge! These extraordinarily entertaining puzzles can confound even those with high IQs-and that's what makes them such delightfully tricky fun. A few can be solved relatively quickly, but the hardest may seem nearly impossible to crack. Give your skills a real workout on numerical conundrums, word games, lateral thinking problems, and riddles. Brainteasers, arranged in order of difficulty, train the mind and provide a good time all at once. The most complex bafflers include chess, logic, and spatial puzzles. Here's a small sampler of what's inside! � A farmer has twenty sheep, ten pigs, and ten cows. If we call the pigs cows, how many cows will he have? � Which three boys' names are anagrams of one another? Answers: 1. Ten cows. We can call the pigs cows, but that doesn't make them cows. 2. Arnold, Roland, and Ronald.

Mensa Mind Teasers

Mensa Mind Teasers
Author: Philip J. Carter
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2007
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781402747953

SILLY TREES is an anagram of what 10-letter word? What’s the next number in the sequence 483, 759, 264, 837? What two words that sound alike mean AUDIBLY and PERMITTED? Don’t be surprised if the answers aren’t easy to figure out. These puzzles are from a rich and varied new Mensa collection, and they’re meant to challenge even the most experienced puzzle fans. Some of the mind teasers test for knowledge of specific facts, but most can be solved by pure brain power. Readers who don’t give up too soon, who look beyond the obvious, use their imaginations, and put their minds to work, will find a great sense of accomplishment and hours of fascinating diversion. (answers: tirelessly, 592, aloud and allowed.)

Mensa Logic Brainteasers

Mensa Logic Brainteasers
Author: Philip J. Carter
Publisher: Carlton Publishing Group
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2011
Genre: Logic puzzles
ISBN: 9781847328311

Logic puzzles are perennially popular, and are accessible to beginners as well as being challenging to more experienced puzzlers. This book presents a fiendish collection of over 150 mind games to tax the reader's powers of logic.

Giant Book of Mensa Puzzles

Giant Book of Mensa Puzzles
Author: Robert Allen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2005
Genre: Puzzles
ISBN: 9781844424450

You don't need to be a genius or a professor of mathematics to have hours of fun with this book - just some logical thinking, a little common sense, a bit of general knowledge and the stubbom determination not to be beaten! Pit your wits against Mensa's masterminds with this huge collection of brain teasers. This book contains more than 500 puzzles and tests of all kinds to delight and bamboozle every type of puzzler.

Cunning Mind-Bending Puzzles

Cunning Mind-Bending Puzzles
Author: Terry H. Stickels
Publisher: Sterling
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2002
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9780806988030

Try any of these 150 word, number, and logic puzzles, and you'll encounter some surprising new ways to analyze, observe, and decide. You've been warned, so don't get frustrated when you feel yourself getting pushed out of the ruts of your usual problem-solving skills. Try these sample warmup exercises: 1. If Molly's daughter is my daughter's mother, what am I to Molly? 2. Which is larger, one-third times one-third of a dozen dozen, or one-third dozen halved and cubed? 3. How old is the man who told his friend, "Four years from now I'll be twice as old as I was fourteen years ago"? Answers: 1. I am Molly's daughter. 2. The first calculation is larger. 3. He's 32 years old.

Mensa Math & Logic Puzzles

Mensa Math & Logic Puzzles
Author: Dave Tuller
Publisher: Sterling
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2000
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9780806941998

"These visually unique braintwisters will put your puzzle-solving abilities to the ultimate test!"--Page 4 of cover.

Mensa® AARP® Challenging Brain Twisters (LARGE PRINT)

Mensa® AARP® Challenging Brain Twisters (LARGE PRINT)
Author: Fred Coughlin
Publisher: Skyhorse
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-04-07
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781510755666

Challenge yourself and excite your brain with this entertaining collection of new puzzles created in partnership with American Mensa and the AARP (American Association of Retired People). Young or old, your brain is essential to everything you do. You owe it to yourself not just to stay physically fit, but to stay mentally fit, too! This book of logic and number puzzles will help you do just that. A collaboration between Mensa and AARP, it is packed with brain teasers to exercise your mind and keep yourself sharp. Whether you are looking to practice your critical thinking skills or you just want to keep your mind sharp, these puzzles will provide a short workout for your cognitive lobes. In the end, you’ll have given your mind a problem-solving workout—and you’ll have had fun in the process. Challenge yourself and help keep your mind sharp with these brain-bending games and puzzles.

Mensa® for Kids: Everyday Super-Smart Mind Games

Mensa® for Kids: Everyday Super-Smart Mind Games
Author: Fred Coughlin
Publisher: Sky Pony
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2022-05-03
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781510766914

Prove how smart you are by solving these super-fun brain games! There is something for all levels of puzzlers here, from number games to word puzzles, and more. Kids will learn to become problem-solvers, improve logical thinking, and even gain confidence in themselves! Created in collaboration with American Mensa®, you can trust that these brand-new puzzles are the smartest choice for your kids. The book will walk you through how to solve each type of puzzle, complete with examples filled in, before sending you on your way into the ten different types of puzzles, including Sudoku, Word Search, Mazes, and more! Regularly practicing a variety of brain games can help improve and develop memory, concentration, creativity, reasoning, and problem-solving skills. Mensa® for Kids: Everyday Super-Smart Mind Games is a learning tool everyone will enjoy!