Explaining the Mensa Norway IQ Test Puzzles (145+ IQ Answers) 

I appriciate any recommendation for fun puzzles/IQ tests so please send me a message or comment on this post if you have some :) My next video will be about the old puzzle 31 of the Mensa Norway IQ Test and how it was impossible to solve it. Here is specific videos about the last 4 puzzles (they might have more comments and help if you are looking for a specific solution): Puzzle 32: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cEjsGrydzmE.html Puzzle 33: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cZUr0JYe7zg.html Puzzle 34: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ks7Js7mJHz4.html Puzzle 35: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sW-uSRaIcRs.html

The interesting thing about puzzles in IQ test is that they often contain multiple correct patterns so they can be solved by different ways of thinking.

It's so interesting that we worked out the right answers in different ways. The way I worked it out felt more intuitive or something. This feels so systematic! Thanks for the upload.

Diagonals has risen my IQ by around 20 points in 20 minutes 😂

Not sure if diagonals are needed or intended to be used for any of these... Normally you should be able to solve both from left to right, and also from top to bottom Let me exemplify on four of the easier puzzles: Puzzle nr. 8: Pattern: Always 5 dots in the middle. Over and under the five dots you will always find 1 middle dot, 2 side dots, and 3 middle dots. Puzzle nr. 11: Add new shapes, Remove repeating shapes. Puzzle nr. 12: Clockwise rotation. Row or column always have two black, and one grey. Puzzle nr. 13: All rows and columns will contain A) circle, triangle, and square and B) black, grey, and white figure .

This video explains the puzzles better than the older one. thanks man.

for question 14 answer C seems correct to me When you look at the pattern of rotation of the line from left to right, it always does a 45 degree and then a 90 degree turn and the shapes cycle through

People that legitimately take Mensa tests practice patterns like crazy for many, many hours before they take an actual test. Doesn't matter if they are actual questions on said test or not. Therefore, most people in Mensa probably shouldn't even belong in Mensa. You would have to find someone to take the test who has never studied patterns in any way to get a true reading, therefore it's next to useless.

I took the mensa iq test today and boy.. its nothing compared to anything you find out there. constantly pressured by time (like 15 hard questions in 3minutes), and you barely have any puzzle tests, except at the beginning and some in between here and there, and none of them are as the ones you see with easy logical patterns. I was shocked, but felt great!

I never considered using diagonals! I only used horizontal lines. I got 138, so I think I managed to find some weird patterns anyway

For question #32, I used this logic, on left box flip vertically right side, on middle box flip vertically left side, combine them and that's the right box

Heres an observation, I have watched this video and picked up some of the problem solving strategies such "not in common" and "Diagonal processing" . As a result, I get 6 questions extra correct and my iQ score goes up 20 points. Therefore, the difference in my IQ is not my speed, or the correct answer, but my ability to identify the problem solving strategy. In my first go, I would never have spotted these problem solving strategies and probably would have sat there for 15 minutes each question until I got it right but due to a practice effect, I get better and better. Surely, this questions the validity of this measure.

I’m very surprised that this channel doesn’t have more views or subscribers, especially with recognition from a very popular IQ test from Mensa. Oh well, big brain society over here

I did the Mensa test twice. The first time I received a score of 143, the second time I received 102. I never take these tests seriously

Interestingly on #31 I saw a different pattern. If you add the pictures in columns it creates a pattern

Kinda like the SAT where if you know a strategy, you can rig your score vs people who don’t practice

34 - if you follow the pattern diagonally for the black dots but horizontally for the white ones, D could be the answer as each row starts with two white dots that move two times counterclockwise in every following suqare. Where you only see one white dot, the other one is hidden behind the corresponding black one.

In between two SAT tests, I went through The Princeton Review Book, which instead of vocabulary words and math problems taught principles of the test itself. My score went up 110 points. Even with different questions, the “standardized” in tests can be hacked. My goal wasn’t to raise my self-esteem, but to get into an Ivy League school which my wealthy father then declined to pay for 😂 I have no regrets. Fight the Power!

For number 33 I think the answer is B. There's a rule that's consistent for every tile that basically amounts to "for any given tile, you need to mix and match the triangles from the tiles immediately surrounding to make the shape of the given tile. Stated another way, if you add all of the immediate surrounding tiles together, you should be able to piece together the exact triangles in your given tile. If 1 or more tiles immediately surrounding has 1 or more of the exact type of triangle (same position, flip direction, color) you can use those to construct your given tile. Immediate diagonals are fair game, but you can't jump over a tile to get to the triangle you need." The only way to make this rule work on every single tile including the bottom right one is to pick B. Any other tile you need to jump an entire block to have all the triangles you need to make the bottom left one. B you only need the tile directly above and directly diagonal to the left, so all 9 tiles follow the rule.

Only 7 questions in, but my man, you are really over-complicating these answers. On 7, for example, use the rows and just count. 1,2,3, 2nd row, 2,3,4, 3rd row, 3,4, then the answer, 5 dots. Previous question was exactly the same. Actually, they all were very similar. There was no need to bother with any rotations with 1-7. Edit - Number 31 is also crazy simple. Reading the boxes like a book: just look at what number 4 and 7 have in common, then look at what 5 and 8 have (same upside down L pattern). Now you know that 6 and 9 will have a repeating pattern (backwards L), and D is the only answer.

Getting only 12 correct is below the level the test can score you at. Getting 13 correct gives you an IQ of 85. Then 88, 92, 95, 97, 100, 102, 105, 107, 110, 112, 115, 118, 121, 125, 128, 131, 133, 135, 138, 142 and then the last 2 max scores.

This is the best explanations I have seen for solving the Mensa Norway IQ test!

There are so many instances in this test where I get to the exact same conclusion as you about what the right answer is, but I get there through other explanations.

Is there any subjectivity to the "correct" answer? Do we preferentially see certain patterns: rotations, increase in number of an object, diagonals/orthogonals, etc. Other patterns (that we are blind to) might be just as "valid". This reminds me of the what-number-is-next questions as there are equations to produce any next number -- we are just partial to certain ones. Would a very intelligent alien choose the same answers on this test and for the same reasons?

29 could have been explained better, some might be perplexed by 2nd row, squares of same color cancels each other out if they are on opposite side of the line, but if they are on same side they dont.

I was stuck on last 3 tests, the thing that blew my mind is the diagonals. It seemed so unintuitive to me because it felt like there is no the same amount of information, however if we consider that the diagonals repeat by each 3 than you get equal number of information wrapped, but this seemed way too complicated compared to just vertical and horizontal lines. I was just assuming that there "format" is somewhat consistent because you can come up with infinite solutions for any puzzle if you look "outside the box" but those answers will likely be a lot more complicated, which seemed unlikely considering you have less than a minute for each answer in average. After taking this test I felt really dumb. I want to get properly tested for Mensa but not to become an member but to know if I am simply too dumb to be competitive in my field and to realize how fucked I am :D

very good explanation, the end is really hard. I am pretty sure that training helps here a lot otherwise you try to check for some to complicated rules.

So if you learn all these rules e.g. diagonal patterns, quirky additions, rotations etc. and do a hundred examples of each surely your IQ will get better - like studying chess?

Well, the actual "fun" starts with puzzle #30. To me, #30 and #33 seem the most devious. 32 confused me by the flip. 34 also showed similar white dot pattern in rows and columns. 31 was easy, 35 was fun. 30 doesn't really have a purely logical pattern. It is a mathematical pattern that involves cyclic groups with modulo 3. And 33 is quite a "flippant" one. Flipping and hiding doesn't help the pattern stand out much. I would probably need a lot of time and external motivation to figure these two on my own.

I think that the more obvious rule in n.35 is that in each row, the 1st column always has only the lines that are not present in columns 2 and 3. In other words, 1+(2+3) must add up to a "complete" set of lines. So for picture 9, the only thing that matters is that it has 2 vertical lines on both sides that picture 7 and 8 are missing. Coincidentally, it also leads to option D.

For question 17. I got B, I followed the same logic as you but instead of looking at the pattern in columns I was looking at rows. They all move the same angle when you look at rows from left to right.

was surprised by the explanation on the 8th one, i decided to ignore the first column, thinking 3rd column= flipped 2nd column, quickly got C. Though my mwthod feels flawed and baseless, one in the video looks mathematically pleasing

For no. 33 I expected it to be more complicated, thinking the when the triangle flips, it reveals the alternate colour. I saw all the pattern, but it doesn't fit with the alternating variation.

I think 33 is B. We have to split top and bottom because they work differently. But top left-right and bottom left-right will work the same way. Top shaded triangle+top no triangle = Top shaded triangle Bottom shaded triangle + bottom no triangle = Bottom No triangle Top no triangle + Top unshaded triangle = Top shaded triangle (Because it has to be different from bottom no triangle + bottom unshaded triangle)

OK. I'm an old man (65 now), and I was taking such tests as a young man (say, ages 15 through 22). And things might have changed. The main thing I see here (as I recall - it's been a long time) is that I never considered looking for two diagonal patterns (going down left and then down right) to work a bunch of the puzzles. I wonder now if that's why some of them just seemed completely incomprehensible to me. I don't recall getting any training or teacher hints in school for how to approach such puzzles (but I might have just forgotten, as that would have been over 50 years ago). At least after having seen you do this the first time on problem 8 (which stumped me), I was able to use that trick a lot (like you) in the following puzzles. So is this actually about "IQ", or knowing HOW to take such tests? In college, if you learned the material fairly well, a LOT of success was being GOOD at taking the tests, not panicking if you initially didn't know how to work a STEM problem on a test, etc.

I kept scoring 131 and I didn't know why Now I know I never took in account the patterns had patterns within them The way I thought has been totally flipped and now everything I see everything Everything is different now Make it stop This feels like madness Through the eyes of a genius Oh well guess I gotta live with it now it should ferment in my brain since I'm still growing its now apart of me :p

Number 8 seems quite complicated for just number 8. I pick the only option that wasn't in the picture as an answer since every single element was unique as a pattern. Which could be technically considered a valid answer so I feel cheated :)

For question #8, u take middle box, flip it vertically and get right box

You do a great job showing different solution strategies, but you always start by explaining the correct strategy. The missing piece is how to find out which strategy to apply. Should I look for rotations, reflections, diagonals or additions/subtractions? After all, we are highly time-constrained.

At puzzle 14 i think C might also be a valid answer. Cause all the lines on the TOP LEFT TO BOTTOM RIGHT DIAGONAL rotate by 45degrees each step.

I have up after question 4 because they were too easy, and nothing like real mensa questions I've seen before. Did the questions get progressively harder, cos I was too bored to stick around?

on 29 they glossed over what was happening with the black boxes in the middle row? if you follow the logic of the white boxes shouldn’t there be 2 black ones left?? or if they don’t follow that logic and we can ignore them why did they mention the black box again after the solution?

Just caught a piece while playing in background, but noticed #11 works both horizontally and vertically, providing the same correct answer. Makes me wonder if on the difficult puzzles you will need to check multiple directions to rule out the red herrings. However, my problem is I tend to overcomplicate these things.

Question 32 is brilliant imo because it has a clear pattern yet contains irrelevant information. It forces you to discern very finely between the information that matters from the information that does not

I never did it this was I use rotations, folding, counting, etc. to get these same answers. This way is easier/quicker now that I think about it. What ever I see first imma just use‼️Thank you!!

When I took an actual paid IQ test, the first most commonly known was pattern+logic+visuals. Basically, you would need to use your imagination ability, along with logic when you find pattern. The test was kind of like so zhere are no patterns like this in mensa test, so its more hard and accurate. There were 4 tests: logic and visualization, working memory, reasoning, and not sure what the last one was.

I think F is a better solution for 16. Each row has a solid, a hatched, and a blank figure; each row also has one "up umbrella" and two "down umbrellas". Each column has a solid, a hatched, and a blank figure; each column also has one "up umbrella" and two "down umbrellas".

Since you guys here are probably smart so here is a riddle: Four golfers named Mr. Black, Mr. White, Mr. Brown and Mr. Blue were competing in a tournament. The caddy didn't know their names, so he asked them. One of them, Mr. Brown, told a lie. The 1st golfer said, "The 2nd Golfer is Mr. Black." The 2nd golfer said, "I am not Mr. Blue!" The 3rd golfer said "Mr. White? That's the 4th golfer." And the 4th golfer remained silent. Which one of the golfers is Mr. Blue? The official answer is the 3rd golfer is MR. Blue but I have a big problem with that answer. Since Mr. Brown told something (a lie) it has to be either number 1 or number 3 so only two options for being Mr. Brown. if 1st is Mr. Brown then there is a paradox because he lies which means that 2nd golfer isn't Mr. Black he also isn't Mr. Blue as he said it himself he also isn't Mr. White as it is 4th golfer but he also can't be Mr. Brown since it is 1st golfer. So the only way this can be consistent is that the 3rd is Mr. Brown. Here the 2nd golfer is Mr. Black as 1st said it, and since 4th isn't Mr. White because 3rd lies, only 1st can be Mr. White therefore Mr. Blue has to be the remaining 4th golfer. Am I right or is there a catch?

Tried the test and 15 problems into it my ADHD brain be like "come on, bitch. You don't need to sit through this"

In the 14 if u use diagonals why is the a?

What is the word that sounds like "pestle" that he keeps using? Is it "puzzle"?

17:50 your answer is accidently correct. You did not acknowlegde the middle row of the puzzle which is relevent, every row is always relevent. Following your logic, it does not explain the reason the black box ends up on top, and not in the middle with one white on top and one white below.

I have seen noone talked about question 30, but there are two valid solutions based in different ways of thinking. One is alternative b and other, alternative e. Both are correct.

Thanks for your tests. Am on them. Would claim, question 8: reply is E. With E, all rows and colums, all sum up to 27 dots! How do you see that solution?

This video is by far better than your previous explanation of the Norway test.

Waitttt 9:21 #14, I see why you would say A but I can't help but think the answer should be C , right? If we should be grouping them from top left to bottom right, we can determine that by the shape. So we see that the line going through the circle will rotate 45 degrees counterclockwise so the answer should be C Can someone confirm?

Haven't watched the video yet. I got 128. I was struggling with the white and black circles devided by a lign. I am very curious about the logic behind thm

I belong at IQ 115… I tried to comprehend the questions I got wrong and they go over my head even when you explain hahaha. Right around 20 min in the video is where I check out.

I got a 117. But frankly, if you do puzzles, you would get a higher score. If you do graphic design or art, you would get a higher score. I had a lower score because I’m not moving on until I see the answer, so I only progressed to, I think, #29. It was fun though.

Would you consider this a fairly accurate IQ test? It seems that most people regard it as one of the most valid online IQ tests. It apparently was normed with a large sample size. What makes me skeptical is that I've never seen anyone who has a score below 120. This is just my observation from reading the r/mensa forums. I myself scored @ 121, which is fairly close to what I've scored on other mensa tests and other standardized online IQ tests. You seem to have a lot of experience with these, so I would like to get your take on it.

I didnt understand some of the explanations. Some of them are a bit out there. Two dots equaling a square? What

On puzzle 35 Each row have 0 vertical lines, 1 vertical lines and 2 vertical lines with would give the answer E. Can you explain why that is wrong?

I've taken this test a few times every couple of months, and I get 131 every time. When you get to question 33 I can feel a barrier. It's not intuitive anymore for me at that point. Even the explanation seems contrived. So I think it is actually a really good test. I don't feel that I was unlucky or that I was cheated. I just feel like it was an accurate measurement of my limit. I wish my limit was higher but it doesn't do any good to lie to myself. I am taking the USA mensa test in a few hours. I feel pretty prepared.

Quiz 14 and 15, I don't get why you select the order like that. Why is it not symmetrical, and they are yellow, blue, pink, yellow, blue... instead of yellow, blue, pink, blue, yellow. I don't get it.

Thanks for posting these solutions. They helped me learn a lot. However, I'm still confused about a few things. 18. The pattern you mentioned is not the only pattern in the puzzle. You can look at it and say the first and second columns are identical and the third column has an extra vertical line. By that pattern, answer E is the right answer. I hope they reward both solutions. 29. The pattern you found doesn't explain the second row - how do the two white squares end up at bottom and black square at top in the third column, when clearly the black square is at the bottom in the second column? 33. The type of pattern you're explaining , I don't think there aren't enough examples to support that pattern. Too many degrees of freedom, too few examples.

can someone explain how diagonals logically make sense? to take 1 square and pair it with the ones on the opposite side? to make it equally distributed on both sides?

If you look at number 8. Another way of getting the answer is that all the dots in each row will add up to 27.

On 33 you say only D and E have white triangle on top left, but so does F, or did I misunderstand?

Question 18 was a weird one for me. The duplicate columns just make it seem like extrapolating from the columns is wrong but the rows have a similar issue with the repeating shapes. In the end I thought well the top row could just work out to be a rotation of the top row or whatever is happening in the top to make right most patter will be the same as what happens in the bottom row but rotated 90 degrees. Both interpretations give C as the answer

got 131 when i did it. how might i fair in a real exam? always assumed id be between 85-100 because i did bad in school. always score high in online ones though

You made number 8 more complicated than it really is. each row needed to add up to the number 27. So the last box you needed 8 dots to equL 27.

Why are these so easy? Can someone tell me if mensa gives you an actual iq number? I heard the entrance exam literally give you a pass or fail score

Surprised by the question 23: I answered D cause I immediately saw, for every row, a sequence of 1 black brick alone - 2 black bricks near each other - 2 black bricks spaced apart. Since in the third row miss the two black bricks spaced apart, and D is the only answer in that sense, I was completely sure it was the right one, without even considering other possibilities. My fault.

11:50 my logic was just to add one horizontal and one vertical line, like an off-centre plus sign

Exercise 34. Took me long but i thought "In answers black and white dots are always equal so i filtered every answer where theres more of one of those" I still cant understand, was this solution right or im just so dumb

After solving tens of different IQ test I know every trick they can use and I'm officially a genius in solving IQ tests lol

I asked a question for the "Mensa Hungary" video. Let me repeat here: What IQ range do you think the Mensa Hungary test measures? (If we're realistic.)

7 - complicated explanation - easier explanation row 1 1,2,3 row 2 2,3,4 row 3 3,4, answer is 5 blocks which is E sequential order...

Much better than your other video. It was almost like I was watching gibberish. Good touch.

Is time to complete accounted for in this test? Do you get the same score if you finnish it faster?

puzzle 29 reminds me of mixing anti matter and matter X'D anti matter in the left and matter on the right when mixed, they destroy each other

It's not so bad until half way through and then wow it gets harder

I would have solved Q8 in different way I would rather look at it at the simple way I solved it in the way below Upper row of the 1st line: 2 1 3 That of 2nd line: 1 3 2 3rd line: 3 2 1

What is the probability that a person guessing all the questions in alphabetical order gets 35/35 answer correct?

On the final question, 35, both D and E are correct answers, as based on your analysis, E also find the common pattern of a top horizontal line. I tested this my self and received a score of 145+ (before I came to this video I didn't know about diagonals and had to use my own analysis, I managed to get a score of 138)

Great video! I need to practice putting things together in new ways and finding the patterns.

1A 2E 3F 4F 5D 6E 7E 8C 9D 10D 11A 12A 13B 14A 15F 16B 17D 18C 19A 20A 21B 22E 23F 24F 25E 26F 27A 28A 29C 30E 31D 32A 33E 34A 35D

My main issue is I kept counting the shapes to see if there was a pattern in the numbers, as well as seeing if there was a pattern in the movements of the puzzles. I never thought about cancelling out what the first two pictures had in common or what their differences were then subtracting or adding the outliers. So I guess I am just dumb

I just a 120 score, I’m curious to know if this online test is accurate?

So you are going to ignore entire 2nd row at 29. puzzle?

I thought I had 33 but my answer wasn’t even an option.. The pattern I saw was subtracting the white dots of A and B from eachother and then mirroring the remaining white dots, if that makes sense.

I got 11 A not through addition, but because choice A is the only one not present in the entire puzzle. Every square is unique.

You has explained this test already xd

There is an inconsistency in the diagonal patterns, sometimes it applies to boxes which are hypothetically diagonal (like in puzzle 8, middle left - bottom right) and sometimes it doesn't (puzzle 12)

I tend to think more in terms of permutation between rows objects than in terms of diagonals. For Example if ther first two squares had respectively one and three dots, the. the third one should have three two dots. Similarly for shapes and so on

For me number 33 was the tricky one. Don't think I'd got that one right under time pressure.

Hello, I would need some information. I performed the Mensa test online on their site to check the viability of taking a real test. I had 34/40 which made me want to go deeper into the matter, so I do jigsaw puzzles like on the video, on this one I had trouble for the last 3 which possibly indicates a result satisfactory. However you indicate that the test of your video determines the IQ, by that you mean that the rest of the other tests (working speed, memory index ...) are therefore not useful to know his IQ? I tell myself that maybe it is because the puzzles here can be difficult and solving them would probably indicate a high overall IQ. I also ask this because I feel good at this type of exercise (puzzle) but there are other areas like code exercises, balance in which I feel less good. I find myself in the symptoms of a high IQ but I am still in doubt ... Thank you very much and sorry for my English, I'm French! :)

Hey! I'll wait for your Puzzle 31 video anxiously. Please make me look good in case you mention me! 😂

If you learn to look for what the patterns have in common and not in common and increase your score. Wouldn’t hat Knowledge pertain to any other iq test? Resulting an increase of score on other iq tests? If so, how can iq tests be accurate? My first time taking the test I got a score of 113, but after hearing this guy say to look for what is or isn’t in common, and without memorizing his answers, it went to 123. I assume that the first score was more accurate as I didn’t intentionally look for those patterns.

Number 14: D is a viable option as well. If we assume that every horizontal sequence has a circle, a square and a triangle, with the line moving in the same direction alternating 45 and 90 degrees rotation, D is a good option as well.