The World Almanac & Mensa First-Class Mind Benders

From the best-selling World Almanac and American Mensa, a Must-Have Collection of All-New Puzzles!

Whether you're at home, on a plane, or relaxing in a beach-side lounge chair, these travel-themed puzzles from World Almanac and American Mensa will take any true puzzle fan on a real trip! These delightful puzzles range from easy to head-scratchingly hard, providing a relaxing reset in simpler puzzles even after harder puzzles leave the solver stumped. World championship puzzle constructor David Millar's eye-catching challenges promise that no puzzle fan will walk away bored, unchallenged, or unsatisfied. With deduction and reasoning-based puzzles, symbol and logic twisters, word challenges, and memorization games, there is guaranteed to be something for every puzzle enthusiast!

David Millar is a puzzle author and graphic artist who combines both disciplines to craft puzzle and gaming materials. A lifelong stationery nerd, he is never without many trusty notebooks full of graph paper, whose contents span puzzle grids, dungeon maps, user interface designs, sticker ideas, and beyond. In addition to a career in web application development and software engineering, David has more than a decade of puzzle blogging under his belt, and his puzzles have previously featured in UK and World Puzzle Championships. He resides in Fort Worth, Texas.

American Mensa has members who range in age from 2 to 102, and the community includes people from every walk of life. They include engineers, homemakers, teachers, actors, athletes, students, and CEOs, and all share one trait—high intelligence. To qualify for Mensa, our members scored in the top 2 percent of the general population on an accepted standardized intelligence test.