Official Mensa® Challenge – November 2025 | LOCAL Life SC

Gathering with loved ones to share gratitude is the reason for the season. This month, give back to your brain by completing our November Mensa puzzles. From algebra quizzes to vocabulary teasers, these challenges will keep your mind sharper than a carving knife.

Questions

1. An interesting idea is written in a simple substitution code below.

XIBU HPFT VQ DPNFT EPXO FYDFQU QSJDFT

2. Find the number that best completes the sequence below.

19 37 55 73 9?

3. Matthew had $2 to spend. He wanted to buy jelly beans and licorice sticks. He paid $1.50 for 5 jelly beans and 20 licorice sticks. For the same amount he could have bought 10 jelly beans and 10 licorice sticks. How much did each item cost?

4. Change two letters in the name of a magazine on comestibles to find what we would all like to be.

5. Which of the words below is least like the others? The difference has nothing to do with vowels, consonants or syllables.

BANK BEAR FAIR FIND

Answers

1. What goes up comes down, except prices. (Code: X = W, I = H, B = A, etc.)

2. 1 (Two series. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and the same sequence reversed.)

3. Jelly beans cost 10¢; licorice sticks costs 5¢.

4. Food and Wine – good and wise

5. FIND (All the others have more than one meaning.)

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.