Official Mensa® Challenge – May 2023

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1. The items in each column below share one feature in common. (It has nothing to do with vowels, consonants or syllables.) Can you find the common factor in each group of items?

2. There is just one good anagram in English of the word MOUNTAINEER. What is it?

3. Make your way from COLD to HEAT in four steps, changing one letter at a time to make a common English word at each step.

COLD

__ __ __ __

__ __ __ __

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HEAT

4. How many common English words can you make from the letters below, using all five letters once in each word.

A D E R T

5. A popular saying has been put into fancy language below. Can you put it back into its original form?

The removal of an individual from the visual field of another tends to obliviate thoughts of that individual from the latter’s ideation.

Answers

1. 1. Round 2. Grow on trees
2. ENUMERATION
3. COLD, HOLD, HELD, HEAD, HEAT
4. DATER, RATED, TRADE, TREAD
5. Out of sight, out of mind.