Mensa. Issue 4. Brainstorm

Author: [British] Allen, Editor-in-Chief
Translator: Yang Zhenhua
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: MENSA Brainstorm collects a series of clever puzzles—including numerical operations, word puzzles, visual and spatial puzzles, logic tests, and more—and demonstrates various innovative problem-solving techniques. If you enjoy solving puzzles, you’ll know there’s nothing more satisfying and enjoyable than cracking a tough problem. These are interesting intellectual challenges, but they’re not easy; on the contrary, they can even stump smart people. However, you don’t need special skills—just common sense, agility, and perseverance are enough.
What is MENSA? MENSA is the name of the world’s top IQ club, founded in Oxford, England, in 1946 by lawyer Roland Berrill and scientist L. L. Thurstone. They intentionally established a society for the intelligent to recognize and continuously improve their high IQs through challenging club activities and share their sense of achievement. The influence of MENSA over more than half a century has made it the best, largest, and most successful IQ club in the world. As a superclub, it has over 100,000 members worldwide, spanning 100 countries. Branches are established in more than 40 countries across all continents except Antarctica.
Besides high IQ, MENSA members have no other defining characteristics. The only way to join MENSA is to pass the MENSA test and stand out—out of every 100 people who pass the MENSA test, only two top performers may be admitted as full members.
MENSA Intelligence Test MENSA not only provides its members with an exciting intellectual exchange forum but also publishes the most challenging puzzles contributed by its members, allowing others to share in the fun. Thanks to MENSA’s reputation in the field of IQ testing, MENSA series books are not only bestsellers in Europe and America but are also used by numerous government agencies and multinational companies worldwide as important reference standards for talent selection.
The "MENSA Series Books" is a special set of intelligence test books launched by the MENSA Club, with the hope that the publisher will introduce them to the domestic market for the first time, comprising a total of 25 books.