Official Mensa® Challenge – October 2025

Wicked intellect makes spooky season all the more thrilling. Between Halloween festivities and enjoying the autumn air, our October Mensa puzzles will keep your brain sharp with tricky wordplay and algebraic challenges. Unravel these riddles for a taste of victory that’s sweeter than any candy in the jar.

Questions

1. A palindrome is a word, sentence or group of words that reads the same backward or forward.

Someone who arrives solo in a city famous for divorces.

R_ _ _ _ _ _ _ R

2. Jake walks into a store, picks up an object and asks, “How much is 1?” The clerk says “$1.” Jake says, “Okay, here’s $3. I’ll take 111.” What is he buying?

3. How many common English words can you make from the letters below, using all six letters once in each word? What are the words?

ACEIMN

4. Charlie is twice as old as David. When Charlie is 72, he will be the sum of his age and David’s age now. How old are they now?

5. What two words, formed from different arrangements of the same eight letters, can be used to complete the sentences below?

The hospital informed all mothers-to-be that it was their ___________ duty to attend ___________ classes

Answers

1. RENO LONER

2. house numbers

3. three (ANEMIC, CINEMA, ICEMAN)

4. Charlie is 48; David is 24.

5. parental, prenatal

Just for LocalLife readers: Take the Mensa Practice Test for just $5! Visit americanmensa.org/mht and use offer code: Local21. Quiz © 2018 Dr. Abbie F. Salny. Mensa provides official tests and answers to LOCAL Life as part of an exclusive license agreement.