I was poking around on puzzle blogs recently looking for news and fun information to recycle share with you, and I came across something that intrigued me – the annual Mensa Mind Games event. This year, the event will be held April 16-18 in San Diego, California. At this event, Mensa members get together and play the newest board games non-stop for an entire weekend. As you play the games, you’re required to evaluate each game on a variety of factors, and at the end the top-scoring games get certified as winners by Mensa. Pretty cool, eh?
The only downside to this is that you must be a member of Mensa to play and evaluate the games. Becoming a member of Mensa isn’t hard – you just have to pass an IQ test and score in the top 2% (along with registering and paying the membership fee, of course).
To help you prepare for the test, Mensa created a free and fun online exam called the Mensa Workout. Even if you have no plans to join a worldwide social network of smarty-pantsy people (oh, wait – you read this blog, so you already have! GOTCHA!), the Mensa Workout is a fun collection of brainteasers and logic problems to ponder.
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Who I Am
ePeterso2I’m Eric Peterson, and my email address is epeterso2@puzzlehead.org.
I’m a software engineer who lives in a suburb of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I’ve enjoyed solving puzzles for years, and a few years ago I began constructing puzzles of my own.
If you’re ever in Broward County and would like to get together some time, please send me a note by email and let me know. I love the opportunity to meet with other puzzleheads, especially if it involves lunch.
Puzzle Testing
I believe that the best way to make a puzzle even better is to ask someone else to solve it. You learn so much about how people think, how people approach your puzzle, pitfalls they may encounter, and outright errors in your construction by having someone else try it before you unleash it upon the world.
If you’re a puzzle constructor, I would be honored to test your puzzle for you. Send me email with your puzzle or a link to it, and I’ll try solving it, as long as I have time available to do so. I’m a busy guy, so my time is limited … but I’m always open to a challenge.
My Public Profiles
* My Linked In profile
* My Geocaching.com profile
* My FloridaCaching.com profile
Puzzles I’ve Written
* Geocaching puzzles
Puzzles I’ve Solved
* Geocaching puzzles (solved and found)
What Happened to ePeterso1?
ePeterso1 was a horrible experiment gone wrong that had to be hunted down and killed before he claimed the lives of any more innocent victims. Most of the bugs that caused ePeterso1 to go haywire have been corectted in ePeterso2.
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A good workout.