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HOW SMART ARE YOU? EXERCISE YOUR BRAIN WITH MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED INTELLECTUAL

WORK-OUTS Warm-Ups Visual Puzzles

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Missing Links

Anagrams

Word Challenges I

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Number Games

I Codes and

Cryptograms I

And Other Mental Calisthenics

CHALLENGE YOURSELF AND YOUR FRIENDS THIRD SERIES PUB

TEST

YOUR \Q

SKILLS

1

Copyright

©

1987

Philip

No

J.

Carter

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HOW SMART ARE YOU!

TEST YOUR IQ SKILLS 3 C

PHILIP j. I

CARTER

KEN A. RUSSELL

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Black Dog

NEW YORK

& Leventhal Publishers

1

CONTENTS 9 9

INTRODUCTION

9 I 9

GROUP ELEMENTARY I:

ANSWERS

LEVEL

1

21

s

;

GROUP

9

ANSWERS

37

GROUP

III:

ANSWERS

47

GROUP

IV:

ANSWERS

52

II:

GROUP V: ANSWERS

_4

A A A A A A

A A A A A

A

A -».

MASTERFUL LEVEL

SUPERIOR LEVEL

63

23

41

49

MULTI-PART STUMPERS

61

SCORING A

CHALLENGING LEVEL

53

.

•

INTRODUCTION

read this before you begin

i Variety

the spice of

is

together

this

life,

and our aim

in

putting

a variety of puzzles, representing a wide range of culty, as possible.

You may

easy to answer, while others

—

limits

and

that's okay!

The

some

find

will

challenge

you'll certainly find that as

diffi-

of the questions

tax you beyond your is

and one card was gold on one side and

silver on The gambler would take one card and place it on the table showing gold on the back of the card. Then he would bet the onlookers even money

sides,

compilation has been to include as wide

part of the fun,

the other side.

that gold

would be on the reverse

you progress through therefore there

the book, you'll sharpen your

and exercise your brain

new and

in

to solve problems

ability

exciting ways.

side, his

reasoning

being that the card could not be the silver/silver card,

or gold/gold.

were only two

A fair and

even

possibilities: gold/silver

bet—or

is it?

Think of your mind as a muscle, and of these tests as

The

your "exercise regimen." The more you work out, the

We start with six sides, three gold and three silver. We eliminate the silver/silver card and we can see one

stronger you get fun

And

the stronger you are, the

more

your workout becomes. little

included

in this

is

game

that the

gold side. That leaves

background on some of the puzzle types

Here's a

catch

book.

Odds The basic

two gold and one

are therefore 2-1 that rule

is

the reverse side

it

will

sentation.

To

entirely of diagrammatic repre-

gold.

is

the

named

What

card out of a

pack of 52?

solve them, you have to apply your mind

to each set of diagrams, comprehend the experience before you, and decide what

logical patterns

and/or

sequences are occurring. The puzzles do not involve

numeracy or

unseen.

happen and then calculate

not happen. Example:

will

are the odds against drawing a

These puzzles consist

silver

really quite simple. Calculate

chances that an event the chances that

PUZZLES OF THE MIND

involves sides, not cards.

literacy,

but are purely exercises of the

mind, designed to test raw intelligence, free from the

The

probability of drawing the right card

odds the

or

in

first I

favor of drawing the right card

is

probability to the second, that

to 5

is !/52. is 5 lta.

probability of not drawing the right card

The The

the ratio of

is,

!/& to 5,/$2,

1

influence of prior knowledge.

CROSSWORDS GAMBLING AND PROBABILITY

On

The urge to defeat the laws of probability is inherent 7th cenin most people, although it was not until the tury, when Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician for-

Sunday,

December 21, 9 1

puzzle appeared

in

the

New

1

3,

the

first

York World.

by Liverpool-born Arthur Wynne,

It

crossword

was devised

who called

it

a

1

mulated the ple It

were

was

in

really

1

rules relating to probability, that peo-

aware that they

654 that the Chevalier de Mer6 asked

but 25

rolls

rolls

could be

a favorite of puzzlers worldwide.

CRYPTOGRAMS Pascal

lost

demonstrated that 24 bler,

Cross Puzzle. Now, of course, crosswords are

existed.

when he bet even money that a pair of would show once in 24 rolls of the dice. Pascal

why he sixes

first

Word

would be

against the

gam-

A cryptogram

is

a puzzle

tuted for another.

word

the same In

America during the gold-rush

era, a very ingenious

the

game garnered a Three cards were

money

gambling

lot of

trators.

placed

was gold on both

sides,

for

its

perpethe

in

a hat one card

one card was

silver

on both

letter

is

substi-

cryptogram? The easiest to deal with are those that contain a four-letter

slightly in his favor.

which one

in

How does one go about decoding a beginning and ending with

letter, e.g., FGHF. This is almost certainly word THAT, which should enable you to discover word THE, and now you're well on your way to

solving the cryptogram.

Knowledge

is

continually being updated in the fields of

letter frequency,

word

endings, and the

which is

word

letters

frequency, like.

most common

For example, the order

appear most frequently

in

ETAOINSRHLDCUMFPGWYBVKXJQZ.

The

and there

what

if

is

only

where

substituted for another,

one message to be decoded. But

the sender of the message wishes to convey a

same cryptogram? This is done by the addition of keywords, which may be hidden in either the plain or the keyed text As all the cryptograms in this book have keywords or keyed further message within the

phrases,

may

easily pick

keyed quota-

do not appear

By inspecting the

alphabetical order.

plain text,

Above we see A to Y

ters.

in

we can show how these are uncovered by

MIRTHSGODECN. ed

Because

the letters

in

cannot be repeat-

letters

simple cryptograms, the fun begins

in

quotation repeats letters.

let-

order, thus suggesting

in

contained

is

in

you

out where the alphabet appears

the keyed quotation is

or, in this case, the

orderly succession and thus isolate the keyword

majority of cryptograms are simple types,

each letter of the alphabet

keyword

tion, contains the only letters which

today

in English

Usually the

if

the keyed

therefore necessary to

It is

use your imagination to make sense of the message. this case

The

the answer

addition of

MIRTH

is

IS

keywords has several purposes,

addition to the practical

In

GOD'S MEDICINE

one of sending an

in

additional

means of the following comment from Oliver Hardy,

message that may escape the attention of an intercep-

which he made to explain why he thought people

tor.

found the Laurel-and-Hardy partnership so funny.

on the coded

G LZOKK Gl BRK SOPRZKO BO BOHO KM PMFXWOIOWD ZQWGVO GQ OAOHD BRD. SZI, WGVO SRPMQ RQN OLLK, BO KOOFON IM SO RSMZI XOHTOPI IMLOIJOH—SZI QMI KM LMMN RXRHI.

and to

This

is

a simple substitution cryptogram, where one

letter of the alphabet has er,

I

and

GUESS

been substituted for anoth-

therefore deciphered

is

IT

PLETELY

in

WAS BECAUSE WE WERE SO COM-

which

material,

own

display his

usually

comment

a quotation,

wit as he adds an extra dimen-

ANAGRAMS Anagrams were invented by the Greek poet Lycoph-

on

280 AD.

in

word

Originally,

when

which,

an anagram was simply a

reversed, formed another word.

ROOM/MOOR or TIDE/EDIT. The

word "anagram"

is

derived from the Greek: "Ana"

means backwards and "Gramma" a

letter.

BUT, LIKE

BACON AND EGGS, WE SEEMED TO BE ABOUT PERFECT TOGETHER—BUT NOT SO GOOD

The

APART.

name; for example, the

To find the keyed

is

sion to the puzzle.

For example,

the usual way.

UNUKE IN EVERY WAY.

gives the compiler an opportunity to

It

quotation place the code text

in

best anagrams are those

letters

bear

some

in

which the rearranged

word or

relationship to the original letters of

the word "SOFT-

HEARTEDNESS" can be rearranged to form the "OFTEN SHEDS TEARS."

phrase

juxtaposition to the plain text, thus:

Now you're ready to begin. Suggested time limits are (Plain

Text)

ABCDEFCHIJK L M NO PQRSTU VWX YZ RSPNOTLJG VWFQMX HKIZAB D (Code Text)

code text alphabetically

like in

a mes-

juxtaposi-

tion to the plain text:

(Code Text)

ABCDEFCHIj K LM N O PQ RSTU VWXYZ VW Y Ml RTHSGO DEC NABF KLP U

or you can

ignore the time constraints completely and

guidelines appear at the

own

rate.

end of each

work

Scoring

section.

The

chart matching your composite score with an

IQ equivalent score "IQ score" and

(Plain text)

challenge yourself,

through the problems at your

As nothing appears yet which might look sage, arrange the

included at the beginning of each group of questions.

You can use these to

is

is

a loose assignment of an

not Mensa-approved. Again, these

are only guidelines: you are the best judge of your

own

success.

Have

fun!

* ft

ft

3 9

GROUP

I

ELEMENTARY LEVEL (Suggested time

limit:

I

hour and

1

5 minutes)

3

I "5

II

i

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f

I

MISSING SQUARE

Study the diagram and decide what

2 LOGIC logically

Find the next figure:

should be

the missing section from the choices

K"

given.

z (2)

1;

(3)

(4)

_r (5)

CHOOSE FROM:

V (a)

CHOOSE FROM:

^^^ /T\\

r^

/T^

(d)

13

/ (b)

(c)

(d)

(e)

1

3

TYPIST

1

WORD CROSS PUZZLE

5

A typist types four envelopes and places the letters

in

four

letters.

the envelopes at randon..

the chances that only three letters are

in

She

What

This puzzle

is

based on the

first

crossword by Arthur

Wynne.

are

their correct

DOWN

ACROSS

envelopes?

2 Human being 4 Give

4 LUCKY In a

CARD

number of rub-off pictures. One picture is marked and only two pictures are identical. If the two

Story (4) (4)

3 Knob (4)

(7)

8 Animal (4)

4 Expose

9

5 Explain (4)

Vivacity (4)

"loser,"

1

"loser" does,

1

2 Only

to (5)

6 Assembled

competition, each person receives a card with a

identical pictures

rise

(3)

Actor's part (4)

(4)

6 Spacious

buildings (7)

appear before the picture marked

then the competitor wins a

There are 60 pictures on the

card.

What

prize.

are the

odds

against winning?

12 Falsehoods (4)

7

14 Greek letter (4)

8 Inn

15 Marsh plant (4)

10 Requires (5)

16 Adorn (4)

1

Color

18 Adjacent (4)

13

Look With Eyes

19 Page (4)

17 Vegetable (4)

21

Imitates (4)

18

22

Parts of coat (7)

20 Tumbled

24

Parts of

25 Not

14

body

high (3)

(5)

21

Milk suppliers (7) (5)

Spill

(3)

Out

(3)

(4) (4)

Profess (4)

23 Made of Ebony

(4)

6 5

3 1

7

MAGIC SQUARES

6

Here are are

all

five

connected

five-letter

5x5

Message keyed,

magic squares. Answers

words, and each of the

five grids

reads

14 Medicine

Faded

1

2 Sky blue

1

Set upright

1

Shot

1

0-2-4-6

SNL NQGCF SHZC T MHTK GN JNY GSHG LSCF JNY SHZC CDTETFHGCK GSC TEWNMMTODC, LSHGCZCI ICEHTFM, SNLCZCI TEWINOHODC,

the same both across and down.

CLUES

CRYPTOGRAM

EYMG OC GSC GIYGS? KNJDC

at billiards

3 Money

17 Pains

4 Made mistakes

18

5 Actions

19 Color

6 Swap

20 Composition

7 Made angry

21

8 Excuse

22 Runner

9 Sum owed

23 Sharp

10 Shortens

24 Gives out

8

Makes purchases

CRYPTOGRAM

Message keyed, 4-3-4

Express

1

ME MR SQAHQ EA ZPQJ ELPE HO QOON RAYMEFNO EA VMQN AFDROYGOR BODLPBR ME MR QAE RA HOYY SQAHQ ELPE HO QOON RAYMEFNO EA VMQN AFD VOYYAHR OGOQ

Vagabond

ELO RPGMAD MR NORUDMTON PR DOPULMQW ZPQSMQN ELDAFWL ELO HMYNODQQRR LPGOYAUS OYYMR

25 Force

12 Teacher

Make amends

1

1

S

2

7

3

8

4

9

H

S

K>

12 ii

M 1A

15

21

22

i7

8

23 "

ift"

24

20

2S

15

9

PHONE NUMBER

This

was my old telephone number. What does

remind you

PRODUCT

12

Find the product

it

of?

of:

(x-a)(x-b)(x-c)...(x-z)

(314)159-2654

BARTENDER

13

EXPLORER

10

Two Base to explorer

at

strangers enter a bar.

The bartender asks them

what they would like. The first man says, "I'll have a bottle of beer," and puts 50 cents down on the counter.

the South Pole;

"What's the temperature?"

Bartender "Miller at 50 cents, or Budweiser at 45

"Minus 40 degrees" says the explorer.

cents?" "Is

that Centigrade or Fahrenheit?" asks base. First

"Put

down

expect

it

Fahrenheit" says the explorer.

will

"I

man: "Budweiser."

don't

Second man: "I'll have a bottle of beer," and he puts 50 cents on the counter. Without asking him, the bartender gives him a Miller. How did he know what the

matter."

Why does he say that?

man wanted?

LOGIC

11 What 3.7.

is

the next

10. II.

logical

number

in this

14 WAITER!

sequence?

A man calls to a waiter, "There's a fly in my tea".

IZ?

"I

will

bring

After a few

you a

fresh

cup of tea," says the waiter.

moments the man

same cup of tea!"

How did

calls

out "This

is

the

he know?

ANAGRAM PHRASES

15

Each word or phrase

in

quotation marks

is

an anagram

of another word The solution bears some relationship

to the (a)

original.

"UP CLOSE"

Answer

"

(b) "EMIT

Answer

16

"

'TRIFLING" "

(7/8) "

"

GRUNT' through "MOUTH CASE' "

through

"

(9/9) "

16 The (a)

ANIMALGRAMS following are

all

19 CLASSIFICATION An

anagrams of animals:

CORONA

is

(b)

intelligence test in

which you are shown a number

of boxes and asked to choose the one which

PAROLED

called "Classification."

boxes

is

Which one of the

is

different

following

the odd one out?

(c) RETIRER

(d)

LESIONS

(e)

SOMEDAY (d)

(a)

(0 ALPINES (g)

ORCHESTRA

(h)

CALIFORNIA (two words)

20 WHAT!

NO VOWELS

Work from the top

17

THREESOMES

(a) These

common is

two

four-figure

numbers share a

is

common is

find five

two

four-figure

numbers share a

start

feature

with only one other four-figure number. is

in

What

the other number?

2025,9801

SENTENCES

Which one of these sentences

is

c

Y

P

N

M

H

R

T

N

Y

Y

R

S

H

Y

M T

T

Y

M

H

R

P

H

T

the odd one out?

(1)

FRIENDSHIP LINGERS UNTIL THE END.

(2)

LOVERS STROLL UNDER THE STARS.

(3)

HEAVEN ALWAYS REPAYS PERFECTION.

(4)

THE UPROAR BEGINS AGAIN.

finish

17

bottom

horizontally, verti-

words. Every letter

only.

T

the feature and what

18

to

What

the other number?

3600, 5776

(b) These

diagonally,

must be used once

feature in

with only one other four-figure number.

the feature and what

or

cally

grid

left-hand square to the

moving from square to square

right,

(e)

in

the

21

CUCKOO

IN

THE NEST

Each of the sentences below contains, order, the letters of a

word

meaning of the sentence,

that

e.g.

is

in

22 SISTERS Coincidence seems to run

the correct

CLOSE TO BOILING =

I

saw Pam the other day, and she remarked that the ages of her children was equal to the prod-

sum of the

A HAVEN OF LOVELINESS NOT FOR SOME TIME OR MAYBE NEVER

uct of their ages. this

NOT OFF THE SHELF (d) A GREAT EFFORT AND STILL FRESH ENOUGH TO DO IT OVER AGAIN (e) PUT YOUR EFFORT IN SHIFTING IT TOWARDS (c)

my

triplets first

Find the words:

(b)

our family. Although

sisters

COOL (a)

in

Pam and Fran each have five children, twins and triplets, Pam had her twins first, whereas Fran had

opposite to the

FROZEN,

was not

I

pointed out that although interesting,

unique, as Fran could say exactly the

same

about her children.

How old

23

US

SEW IT VERY TIGHTLY TOGETHER (g) A LOT OF COMPANY FOR ME (h) HATED OR REVILED (I) READ IN COMPLETE SILENCE TO YOURSELF 0) INDELICATE, UGLY AND UNCULTURED (k) TRUSTY, EVER SINCERE AND HONEST (0

are

my sisters' children?

ZERO

Without changing the order of the digits, insert four plus signs, one division sign, and three minus signs between

them to make the

calculation correct

987654321 =0

24 FAMILY WAY

NEW AND INEXPERIENCED MEMBER OF OUR BODY AND PROFESSION (I)

(m) RUN (n)

My two

uncles and five cousins

were

all

bom on

differ-

week Uncle Alan was bom on a Friday and his daughters, my cousins Judith and Mary, were bom on a Monday and Saturday respectively. My other ent days of the

ALONG SPEEDILY IN THE RACE

NOW STALE AND VERY WORN

was bom on a Sunday and his eldest son, was bom on a Thursday. His other sons, Roy and Terry, were bom on the two remaining days of the week; but which one was bom on a Tuesday and which one was bom on a Wednesday? uncle, Paul,

my cousin

25

Richard,

THE MEETING

The man from the country at the top of the Himalayas came by plane to meet the man from the Far East who was wearing a chain around his neck What was the weather when they met the man from the Middle East?

18

26 MISSING

27 LAUGHING MATTER

SQUARE

Find the missing square:

FR TE

NE FE

these words are connected with

All

TO

SN

(a)

_H_M_Y

(b)

_L_P_T_C_

(c)

_AJT_R

(d)

_A_I_A_U_E

(e)

_U_F_O.E_Y

is

(i)

(iii)

A The answer

Name these

00

meets the same conditions as

2

a

(a)*

which of the

left

1

w

e.g.,

FAMOUS NAMES

SILVER BUS

NO NEIGHBORS

7 In

8

each of the following, unscramble the

word There

are

no two

letters

adjoining letters in the

around the perimeter, adding

to find a

Spiral clockwise

same

the empty boxes, and

finish at

letters in

the center square to

spell

out the nine-letter words. Each word begins at one of

shape.

(a)*

SQUARE WORDS

1

1

-letter

the four

word

comer squares.

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