Games for the Superintelligent: Mindbending math, logic, and word puzzles with insights into the minds of the masterminds

The members of MENSA are recruited exclusively from the most intelligent 2% of the population, those with an I.Q. of 140 or more. GAMES FOR THE SUPERINTELLIGENT is the only book of games compiled from that elite organization, and it offers an intriguing variety of the mental recreations with which exceptionally brilliant people entertain each other. There are dozens of fascinating puzzles — math, logic, and word games, all mind-benders of the first order — with the solutions listed at the end of the book. But that’s only the beginning. There are also sections on the pleasures and perils of being unusually intelligent, on techniques the super-bright use to solve puzzles, and on intelligence tests and how to handle them. And for those who would like to measure their own intelligence, there’s a separate group of puzzles modeled on the MENSA test which were especially selected for the book by MENSA’s research director, Max Fogel. James F. Fixx’s chief interest lies in the varieties of human ability. In his best-selling The Complete Book of Running he describes the remarkable capacity of ordinary people, including heart attack victims and the elderly, to surpass their physical expectations and even to excel athletically. Here he presents a collection of extraordinary puzzles that reveal, among other things, how versatile and inventive the human mind at its best can be. Fixx, a graduate of Oberlin College, has been on the editorial staffs of Saturday Review, Life, McCalls and Horizon. For the past several years he has devoted himself to writing books. He lives in Riverside, Connecticut. Cover Inside Flaps Back Cover Title Confessions of a thoroughly puzzled man Contents 1. The pleasures of intelligence — and some incidental perils 2. Puzzles and games to start going quietly crazy by 3. Words to the wise (and from them, too) 4. Those wonderful laws of logic (and how they can fool you every time) 5. The fine, frustrating art of numbermanship 6. The superintelligent: how they got that way and how they stay that way 7. So you think you’re pretty bright? (Well, maybe you are.) The helpers Answers to puzzles 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 7.