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

Are You Superintelligent? Games for the Superintelligent can help you find out. But even if it doesn't it will provide hours of mind-expanding entertainment guaranteed to inflate your ego — or drive you quietly crazy. Featured in Playboy this volume is a treasure chest of fascinating puzzles taken from the personal files of the members of MENSA, the exclusive high-I.Q. society. Included are techniques the masterminds use to solve puzzles, a special test to measure your intelligence, comments on the pleasures and perils of the super-bright — and all the answers. James F. Fixx is a writer and editor who has worked for such magazines as Saturday Review and Life. He is a graduate of Oberlin College and a member of MENSA, the international organization for people with exceptionally high I.Q.s Cover Back Cover Epigraph 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.