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Roland Berrill – lawyer, businessman and co-founder of Mensa [12] Theodore Bikel – actor, musician [13] Richard Bolles – self-help author [5] Laurie Brokenshire – Royal Naval officer, magician and world-class puzzle solver [14] Cyril Burt – educational psychologist, developer of factor analysis in psychological testing [15]
17 October 1912. Camberwell, London, UK. Died. 1 January 2000. Spouses. Mary Serebriakoff. Win Rouse. Victor Serebriakoff (17 October 1912 – 1 January 2000) was one of the early members of Mensa. [ 1] Serebriakoff is known for his contributions to lumber technology, writing intelligence quotient (IQ) tests, as well as organising and promoting ...
Mensa is the largest and oldest high-IQ society in the world. [ 3][ 4][ 5] It is a non-profit organisation open to people who score at the 98th percentile or higher on a standardised, supervised IQ or other approved intelligence test. [ 6] Mensa formally comprises national groups and the umbrella organisation Mensa International, with a ...
The Merlin Mystery is a 1998 puzzle/children's book, written by Jonathan Gunson and illustrated by Gunson and Marten Coombe.Published by Warner Books and certified by Mensa, it served as an armchair treasure hunt book, challenging its readers to solve the titular mystery by deciphering the pictures to learn how to cast a magic spell, the details of which were to be drawn and sent to an ...
Knights and Knaves. Knights and Knaves is a type of logic puzzle where some characters can only answer questions truthfully, and others only falsely. The name was coined by Raymond Smullyan in his 1978 work What Is the Name of This Book?[ 1]
The missionaries and cannibals problem, and the closely related jealous husbands problem, are classic river-crossing logic puzzles. [ 1] The missionaries and cannibals problem is a well-known toy problem in artificial intelligence, where it was used by Saul Amarel as an example of problem representation. [ 2][ 3]
The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever is a logic puzzle so called by American philosopher and logician George Boolos and published in The Harvard Review of Philosophy in 1996. [ 1][ 2] Boolos' article includes multiple ways of solving the problem. A translation in Italian was published earlier in the newspaper La Repubblica, under the title L ...
Mensa Select is an annual award given by American Mensa since 1990 to five board games that are "original, challenging and well designed". The awards are presented at the annual Mensa Mind Games competition. [1] [2]