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Bunco (also spelled bunko or bonko or buncko) is a dice game with twelve or more players, divided into groups of four, trying to score points while taking turns rolling three dice in a series of six rounds. A bunco is achieved when a person rolls three-of-a-kind and all three numbers match the round number which is decided at the beginning of ...
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]
Victor Serebriakoff – author and former international president of Mensa [88] Alexander Shulgin – medicinal chemist , biochemist, and rediscoverer of MDMA (ecstasy) [ 89 ] Clive Sinclair – inventor of the Sinclair Executive pocket calculator, founder of Sinclair Research , member of British Mensa, and chairman from 1980 to 1997 [ 90 ]
Mensa International 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]
The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation) Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE.
Those are listed below by selectivity percentile (assuming the now-standard definition of IQ as a standard score with a median of 100 and a standard deviation of 15 IQ points). Since the 1960s, Mensa has experienced increasing competition in attracting high-IQ individuals, as various new groups have emerged with even stricter and more exclusive ...
An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one ...
Mensa belongs in the same box with Who's Who and the Emmy Awards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.215.115.31 16:22, 21 September 2011 (UTC) That's a great and edgy opinion to have, but I've sat numerous valid IQ tests and my score on the test Mensa used was completely ballpark with respect to my other results e.g. on WAIS-IV.