Games for the Super-Intelligent

by Jim Fixx

Book Overview

Math, logic and word puzzles from the Masterminds in MENSA, by the author of The Complete Book of Running. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0760747431
• ISBN13: 9781114344990
• Release Date: January 1972
• Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
• Length: 86 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

"Intelligence" Or Merely "Persistence" ?

I am a totally ordinary guy, and I found that I was able to solve all of the games, puzzles and questions presented in this interesting little book. All it required was some application, thought and tenacity. For instance, when presented with a series of apparently random pictures and given a choice from among four of which image should appear next, all it took was a few minutes of thought and avoidance of the temptation to become frustrated. I suddenly saw that the given figures were a person's right eye, a left foot, a right hand, a left ear.... so it didn't really take any sort of genius to determine that the next item would be a "right" something. Desire and persistence are the keys, every time.About the time I read this book, I met a guy who was extremely proud of being a Mensa member, and he too had solved everything in this Games book. But he was lazy as a red brick, and worked as a machinist on a graveyard shift. Right, Mensa.

Do you read an author's being in his writing?

Read Jim Fixx's work for the invisible titles and the silent music. :-) I have for many years recommended GAMES to others as a gently educational recreational read. Over the years, I have never found a reader who didn't smile and say he'd enjoyed it. Buy several. Buy one to keep and re-read every so often. Buy others as gifts. GAMES deserves a wide audience. Dr. Ralph Gun Hoy Siu's THE MAN OF MANY QUALITIES; A LEGACY OF THE I CHING is another recommendation. Dr. Siu's is another book that has those subtitles and that music. Here, too, you may want to buy several so that you will have some give to friends.

Fixx's "Games" is charming and educational, too!

Jim Fixx had a way about him that was quite appealing--modest, humorous, highly intelligent himself and gifted with "a way with words"."GAMES" is a classic in its field. The recent new edition has it in print for 30 years. It's the sort of book I like to recommend to friends by saying, "If you don't like "Games", I'LL give you your money back."PS: Memorize a bit and play games with your children, parents and friends. (Also great material for bar bets!)PS: Join me in a "Games" Fan Club. Interested in ideas for creative social change? Check Santa Barbara's Center for The Study of Social Structures at http..