Official Mensa® Challenge – February 2023
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1. A statement about someone’s smarts is coiled in the grid below. To spell it out, start with a “H” and move to an adjacent letter in any direction. Three letters will not be used. All others will be used exactly once. Hing: The enumeration is (2’1 3 3 4 5 2 1 11 5).
| X | I | T | A | F | O | T | G | G | E |
| X | N | O | N | A | R | O | R | E | N |
| X | P | L | I | C | H | S | O | S | O |
| E | T | A | B | M | O | L | L | E | H |
2. Find four men’s names, each at least six letters long, hidden in the sentence below. (The letters are in consecutive order.)
They performed war dances and rewarded attendees in uniform at the wackiest events.
3. Each definition below applies to a word that begins with the name of a different animal. Can you find all three words?
1) Crème brûlée, dish ____________ (7 letters)
2) Reasoned position ______________ (9 letters)
3) Vital organ ____________ (6 letters)
4. Which is larger: the number of seconds in a week or the number of feet in 100 miles?
5. Determine the next number in each sequence. Then convert your numerical answers to letters (A = 1, B = 2, C = 3, etc.) to form a word reading down.
64, 32, 16, 8, 4, ________________
0, 3, 6, 9, 12, ________________
3, 4, 6, 8, 12, ________________
2, 3, 5, 8, 13, ________________
110, 109, 105, 96, 80, 55, ________________
Answers
- He’s one egg roll short of a combination plate.
- Edward, Andrew, Matthew, Steven
- 1) ramekin 2) rationale 3) kidney
- The number of seconds in a week (604,800) is larger than the number of feet in 100 miles (528,000).
- The bonus word is BONUS. The numbers are 2 (descending powers of 2); 15 multiples of 3); 14 (one more than the prime numbers); 21 (each term is the sum of the two preceding it); 19 (subtract the next larger square, that is, -1, -4, -9, -16, -25, -36).
