Mensa Quizzes with Regent Seven Seas Cruises - Issue XXII - Mind-bending wordplay and logic puzzles

Oct 3, 2026

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Mensa Quizzes with Regent Seven Seas Cruises Issue XXII presents a set of challenge puzzles combining word unscrambling, letter-center guessing, vowel-omission quotation reading, age and pricing word problems, and sequence completion. It also includes anagram and hidden-name searches, proverb and poem completion using homophones, word-building tasks with given letter patterns, and a contest-style estimation problem for shell quantities. Solutions are provided at the end for every numbered quiz.

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Mensa® Quizzes with Regent Seven Seas Cruises Issue XXII 1. To find a common nine-letter word, unscramble the letters below and supply the missing letter in the center square. 2. All the vowels (including “y”) have been removed from the following quotation. Can you read it? F L S R S H N W H R N G L S F R T T R D 3. Jody is two-thirds Jim’s age. In five years, she will be three-fourths his age, and five years ago she was half his age. How old are they now? 4. There is an odd toy store down the block that has its own system of pricing items. A drum is 18¢, a top is 13¢ and a game is 16¢ . According to the same system, how much will a scooter cost? 5. What two words, formed from different arrangements of the same seven letters, can be used to complete the sentence below? The young page was forced to ______________ many trials before he was knighted and could receive the ______________ of his lord. 6. Find the number that best completes the following sequence. 101, 102, 100, 101, 99, 100, 98 , ?, 97, 98 7. Fill in the blanks below to complete three words that contain the word “ATE.” __________ ATE (fine) _____________ ATE (part of a sentence) ______________ ATE (light up) 8. All the vowels (including “y”) have been removed from the following proverb. Can you read it? B R D N T H H N D S W R T H T W N T H B S H 9. What two words, formed from different arrangements of the same eight letters, can be used to complete the sentences below? The non-green thumb gardener was having trouble with her A friend told her, “It’s obvious that the pot lacks good ” 10. The poem below can be completed by finishing each couplet with words that sound the same but have different meanings. Although the prince was, of course, the , He had a shy and pleasant . He loved his farm, his cows and He loved to sit beside his He just preferred to sit there Instead of enjoying his royal 11. What one three-letter word can be added to the blanks below to make a new word in each case? BL D Y COMM BR ED W ERED ST ARD 12. Change the first letter of each pair of words to form a new word. Place the letter, the same for each pair, on the blank line in the middle. When you have finished, you will have anew word reading down. Tail Bank Onto Us Mink Post Ring Hill 13. There is a word that changes from singular to plural by inserting a “c.” What is it? 14. The local travel agency held a contest. The person who came the closest to guessing the correct number of shells in a big jar would win a weekend in Atlantic City. Nancy guessed 71, Bob guessed 68, Carol guessed 69, Don guessed 75, Ellen guessed 67 and Paul guessed 70. One was correct, two were off by 1, one was off by 2, one was off by 5 and one was off by 3. How many shells were in the jar? 15. Fill in the blanks below to complete the names of cities or states in the United States. D N O S A F N L B M I W E 16. What word can be formed from the following letters? A C I I I L L N N R S T Y 17. Fill in the blanks below to complete three words that contain the word “PORT.” Picture PORT The act of carrying something, usually a boat, over land PORT City on the west coast of the U.S. PORT 18. The names of nine people are hidden in the sentence below. Can you find them? (The letters are in consecutive order. ) There are many annual events noted in the calendar. 19. The word “garter” has two anagrams. Can you find both of them? 20. An eight-letter word is in the box below. Find it by beginning with the correct letter and moving clockwise or counterclockwise around the box, using each letter only once. Answers 1. Dinosaurs. (The missing letter is “U.”) 2. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. 3. Jody is 10; Jim is 15. 4. 29¢ (Consonants are worth 5¢; vowels are worth 3¢ . ) 5. Undergo, guerdon 6. 99 (There are alternating sequences, both decre

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What types of puzzles are included in Issue XXII?

Issue XXII includes word unscrambling, missing-letter and center-square tasks, vowel-removed reading, pricing and age problems, number sequences, anagrams, hidden names, and poem/proverb completion using homophones.

How is the pricing puzzle in question 4 solved?

The drum, top, and game prices follow a consistent scheme based on item properties; the same scheme is applied to determine the scooter’s price.

Where can the quiz solutions be found?

The document provides an “Answers” section listing the results for questions 1 through 20.

Oct 3, 2026

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