The Mensa Book of Words, Word Games, Puzzles, & Oddities

From Mensa quiz-master Abbie Salny, here are tough questions about tricky words people think they know, as well as games and puzzles using word derivations, meanings, and little-known facts.

Magic, Mayhem and Mensa

It should have been a cushy job: Vern, the dragon detective, and his partner, the mage Sister Grace, are given an all-expense paid trip to Florida to chaperone a group of Magicals at a Mensa convention. Then the pixies start pranking, the Valkyrie starts vamping and a dwarf goes to Billy Beaver's Fantasyland hoping to be "discovered." Environmentalists protest Vern's "disrupting the ecosystem," while clueless tourists think he's animatronic. When the elves get high on artificial flavorings and declare war on Florida, it turns into the toughest case they aren't getting paid for.

Mensa Whodunits (Official Mensa Puzzle Book)

You can solve some of the most dastardly, downright confounding crimes ever committed. But first, check out some helpful tips that only the best detectives know about deciphering secret codes; writing messages in invisible ink; and dusting for fingerprints. Now you're ready to go out into the world and catch the evil criminals who have been preying on innocent citizens. From a jewelry heist to a Halloween homicide, you're on the case and people everywhere are safer because of it.