Books to boost your brainpower
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The Complete Book of Intelligence Tests: 500 Exercises to Improve, Upgrade and Enhance Your Mind Strength (The IQ Workout Series) Using fun, informative, and accessible style, this book helps people identify mental strengths and weaknesses, and provides methods for improving memory, boosting creativity, and tuning in to emotional intelligence. Written by a puzzle editor for MENSA - the renowned high IQ society - this is a fun, challenging program for significantly enhancing performance in all areas of intelligence. Price: $10.17 |
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Mensa Exercise Your Mind Math & Logic Puzzles (Mensa) These puzzles are the kind of challenge found at the World Puzzle Championships, and require no language to solve. For example, you are given a grid of dots that has some numbers (0, 1, 2, or 3) in them. You need to connect the dots in one continuous path so that each number is surrounded by that many lines. So a "3" means that three of the four sides around it must be connected. All the puzzles are similar abstract exercises, and all have unique solutions that can be reached using pure logic. They're a difficult--and really satisfying exercise for your brain. Price: $7.95 |
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The New Puzzle Classics: Ingenious Twists on Timeless Favorites (Mensa) Here is a challenge that puzzle fans will find simply irresistible: a really smart, varied, and original collection of more than 200 contemporary brainteasers. Some are visual, others geometric, and still more are topological. They play games with words and numbers, and with matchsticks and coins. And many of them are of World Puzzle Championship level; in other words, really hard. Divide figures into their congruent parts, or rearrange the pieces of a patterned star so that the result precisely matches a checkered cross. Try a little puzzling origami: fold an origami square exactly six times to create the shape of a house. Do cubical inversions, shift coins around from shape to shape in a given number of moves, and much more. Price: $12.95 |
