10 September 06 - 15:45Congrats MSO Winners

The Mind Sports Olympiad finished a couple of weeks ago with entrants and winners from all over the world. At least an Englishman won the "Draughts English Go As You Please Championship". We may not have won the soccer World Cup but in Draughts we can hold our head up proud without too much huffing.

I see the winner of the Acquire competition was an old game playing acquaintance of mine - Michael Haytack. Well done that man!

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07 September 06 - 15:57Win $1000 by answering questions.

Between July and October 2006, the International Hi IQ society is offering several cash prizes to the highest scorers. As they say on their site.

"The contest has no entry fee and is open to anyone worldwide who wishes to attempt it. The contest questions have kept advanced math and specific cultural knowledge to a minimum, and requires knowledge of only simple, universal concepts to solve.

No puzzle is immune to alternate solutions if enough avenues are exhausted, and that will certainly be the case with some of ours as well. For many of the puzzles trying to figure out what the puzzle designer is looking for is the most difficult part of the puzzle. To maintain uniformity amongst all contestants no alternate solutions will be accepted.

The contest itself is in the form of a PDF document which will allow you to print it out and work on it at your leisure. You enter your answers through our website and have until midnight October 31st New York time to submit your answers. "

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06 September 06 - 06:59Receive updates by Email

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05 September 06 - 12:57I took another IQ test...

I'd been browsing around and found a free one at Intelligencetest.com. 30 Questions. I got 26/30 without cheating and it took me about 20 minutes to get through them. It said "Your age adjusted IQ score is 136 and the average score for all test takers is 100. You scored higher than 99 % of all the people that took this test. Your Grade ** Gifted **" - Woo. The equivalent score on the Cattell scale gave me a result about 5 over the rating I got in 1979 when I joined Mensa. Ah well there's hope for me yet!

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