Don't think too hard or you'll never solve these logic puzzles and riddles. The answers to all 187 are easy once you catch the tricky wording. How can you tie a knot in a napkin by holding one end in each hand without letting go of it? Impossible, you say (or your friends will say, if you bet them). But: Cross your arms and hold a tip of the napkin in each hand. When you uncross your arms, the knot will be formed! Now try this riddle: I climbed up a cherry tree, where I found cherries. I did not pick cherries, nor did I leave cherries. How can you explain this? Answer: I climbed up a cherry tree with two cherries in my hand. I picked only one. I left the other one on the tree. I did not "pick cherries," because I "picked a cherry." Take this dare: My bird can fly faster than any supersonic plane. Here's how: If you put my bird inside any plane and make it fly in the same direction as the plane, it will go faster than the plane. 96 pages, 52 b/w illus., 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.

Contains more than 500 puzzles designed not only to challenge puzzle-solving abilities, but also to increase levels of self-knowledge and logical thinking.

All kinds of logic brainteasers are included in this Mensa-branded book that will ensure your brain cells never have a chance to rest!

SILLY TREES is an anagram of what 10-letter word? What’s the next number in the sequence 483, 759, 264, 837? What two words that sound alike mean AUDIBLY and PERMITTED? Don’t be surprised if the answers aren’t easy to figure out. These puzzles are from a rich and varied new Mensa collection, and they’re meant to challenge even the most experienced puzzle fans. Some of the mind teasers test for knowledge of specific facts, but most can be solved by pure brain power. Readers who don’t give up too soon, who look beyond the obvious, use their imaginations, and put their minds to work, will find a great sense of accomplishment and hours of fascinating diversion. (answers: tirelessly, 592, aloud and allowed.)

The third book in this brand-new series with American Mensa, Mensa’s Galaxy of Brain Games contains more than one hundred math, logic, and word puzzles for hours of brain-training fun! The book's wide variety of challenges includes twists on popular puzzles such as word sudoku, large, intricate mazes, and creative story logic puzzles. Additional unique riddles and brain teasers provide an excellent opportunity to sharpen intellectual skills in new and exciting ways. Solving times range from a few minutes to an hour or so, allowing for brain training whenever you need it. Challenge yourself and keep your mind young and sharp with these brain-bending games and puzzles. Try one to get your brain going in the morning, or work together to solve with your friends and family!

Take the Mensa challenge! These extraordinarily entertaining puzzles can confound even those with high IQs-and that's what makes them such delightfully tricky fun. A few can be solved relatively quickly, but the hardest may seem nearly impossible to crack. Give your skills a real workout on numerical conundrums, word games, lateral thinking problems, and riddles. Brainteasers, arranged in order of difficulty, train the mind and provide a good time all at once. The most complex bafflers include chess, logic, and spatial puzzles. Here's a small sampler of what's inside! � A farmer has twenty sheep, ten pigs, and ten cows. If we call the pigs cows, how many cows will he have? � Which three boys' names are anagrams of one another? Answers: 1. Ten cows. We can call the pigs cows, but that doesn't make them cows. 2. Arnold, Roland, and Ronald.

You don't need to be a genius or a professor of mathematics to have hours of fun with this book - just some logical thinking, a little common sense, a bit of general knowledge and the stubbom determination not to be beaten! Pit your wits against Mensa's masterminds with this huge collection of brain teasers. This book contains more than 500 puzzles and tests of all kinds to delight and bamboozle every type of puzzler.