Mensa Challenge Your Brain Math & Logic Puzzles

Posted on July 11th, 2009 by How to Build a Resume

Mensa Challenge Your Brain Math & Logic Puzzles

Give your brain a workout on the type of brainteasers that challenge the best solvers at the World Puzzle Championships. They’re tough, but fun, and the feeling of satisfaction you get when you succeed is simply unbeatable. Some of the puzzles are oldies but goodies, like battleships–and its many variants–where you search for a fleet hidden within a grid. In “Eminent Domain,” try to determine which blanks cells are owned by the numbered ones. For “Hex Loops,” locate a path that travels through adjacent hexagons: the trick is, it has to end where it started, and the lines can’t touch or cross. From Snaky Tiles to Spiral Galaxies, these Mensa-level conundrums will get your mind in shape.

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Good, challenging puzzles
This has challenging puzzles, but their lacking the “fun” and intrigue that some other books contain.

5 Stars A great workout!
A great book for those of you who are preparing for a puzzle competition and are looking for an exercise book (as I was when I bought this one). Despite it is only 96 pages, it has a great variety of puzzles, mostly contest types.

There are around 10 to 20 puzzles of each type, and these are:

- Alternate corners

- Battleships (classic, crowded, hexagonal, minesweeper, numerical, ocean view, semicircular)

- Corral

- Deja Vu

- Dominoes (domino hunt)

- Eminent domain

- End View (like ABCD)

- Fences (including big field fences and pentomino fences)

- Hex Loops

- Lighthouses

- Minesweeper

- Number place

- Nurikabe

- Oxtails

- Clouds

- Skyscrapers (only the ‘number of buildings’ type)

- Snaky tiles

- Spiral galaxies

- Spokes

- Square Roots

- Tents

The level of difficulty is pretty good, at least for the puzzles I tried.

The only drawback is that most of the puzzles are too small, especially the Fences. I’ve seen books where the puzzles on the answer pages are bigger than these ones. It’s not like they are so small that makes it impossible to work them out, but still pretty small. What I’m doing on other books and will on that one too is to scan the puzzles, cut the white spaces and print them back again on larger sheets. This way you are not ruining your book when drawing and erasing and you can print (and solve) certain pages as many times as you like.

Highly recommended.

5 Stars Best Puzzle Book I’ve Ever Worked!
If you love puzzles, this book is a **must have**! This is hands down the best puzzle book I have ever worked. There is a wide variety of puzzles and they are all unique, not your standard logic problems. Prepare to be challenged, these puzzles are definitely for the puzzle solver at heart! What a great mental workout!

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