Solving The Mensa Norway IQ Test Puzzles (145+ IQ Answers) 

Updated Video with better graphics: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zD2Emo560u8.html In-depth video explanations for the 4 last puzzles: 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

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what's amazing about this test is that even if I am thinking of another approach but I still get the same answer so it is reasonable in many ways

I did this blind before and always reach 131. Reason I looked up this video is because no matter how long I stared at the dot puzzle (e.g. 34) I couldn't find a logical pattern. Interestingly, I solved almost all puzzles very differently from your explanations.

started the video with 10 iq. now have a -100 iq, headache and self esteem terminated.

Imagine the one who take a mensa test and answered random letters then got it all perfect

It's fascinating how I reasoned many of these differently and reached the same conclusions. I see some rows advancing with the final box being a plus b where c subtracts a from b.

Puzzle #33 was the one which was given to me to solve and to make complete logical sense out of it... It took me one hour to fully make sense out of it .

I got 142 on this when I first took it and I was confused by a number of the explanations. I used very different methods to solve these puzzles, and didn't even glance at the diagonals. Low key, this made me feel dumb because my thought process was a lot more common-sensical.

I found the puzzle pattern 34 after analyzing it by trial and error by different approaches STANDARD: the black and white dots have mandatory positions they must occupy. The black dot, for example, should occupy 2 times the middle of the line on the left side, and once in the middle of the straight line. To be more precise, it is not the points that need to occupy these certain spaces, but the specific spaces that must be occupied by a point with its respective color. In the last sequence, in the first block, we see that the black dot follows the pattern, being once at the bottom of the line on the left side, and once in the middle on the right. Now, according to the pattern analyzed in the previous sequences, the black dot has to allocate 2 times the left middle of the line. then we confirm that the answer will have a black dot in the middle left of the line. This logic also occurs with white dots, with a different pattern than black dots. we have a divergence if we look at the second block of the first sequence, we see a white dot in the middle right of the line, but in the second sequence it is not repeated. Could it still be repeated in the last sequences, making option F run too? perhaps, but as the pattern that follows the second sequence ignores this, it can be said that it is outside the true pattern presented, with option A being the correct one. google translator was used to translate this text into English

Puzzle #31: There’s only whites and stripes, the black blocks are meant to trick you into thinking they are part of a pattern but they’re really just covering a white or striped block. The logic is: white + white = white stripes + stripes = white stripes + white = stripes white + stripes = stripes black blocks are just covering either a white or striped block Using this logic the answer should be stripes, white, stripes which is D

I got 122 as a 30 year old now. As a kid I was "gifted" and tested twice at 8 and 14 and scored 143 and 138 respectively. It was a different test but from what I can remember it was pretty similar. A lot of patterns. I don't know...even as an intelligent adult, IQ really means nothing when it comes to functioning in the world. I think your intellectual curiosity and ability to logically deduce things goes way further. Also, people love to use their IQ as a flex which is pretty fuckin lame...working in engineering, there are a lot of really dumb "geniuses".

For 31, I think the answer is A, if you sum all the gray bloks you'd get 10, then sum all the white blocks you'd get 9 leaving 8 black blocks. Therefore, you'd only need 3 black bloks.

Untimed IQ tests are more accurate. Some people have slow processing speed but a super high intellectual ceiling. Mensa just times them for convenience but they can give you a horribly inaccurate score. Also for people with an IQ over 140, timed IQ tests become less reliable. It’s likely Einstein would have got a barely above average score or less if he took this test in the allotted time.

answers for the test 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 31B 32A 33E 34A 35D

For #11, you can also solve it this way... If you look at the boxes in each corner, they lead to an additional grouping by shape that forms another square within the main image(4 total). In each corner, the shape that corresponds to the primary shape comprising the pattern of the mini box appears by itself giving you A.

#31 I'm not sure: the only thing that repeats 2 times every sequence is that there are 2 equal outer squares, 2 times, not the same, so it could be F. The third sequence would therefore be accessory. It is logical but I do not know if it is the same logic that the inventor of this puzzle has in mind.

I just never realized you were supposed to remove the overlapping lines when it came to the addition puzzles. Thanks for the video!

0:37 A 1:00 E 1:16 F 1:42 F 1:52 D 2:15 E 2:37 E 3:09 C 3:33 D 3:49 D 4:24 A 4:40 A 5:03 B 5:24 A 5:42 F 6:03 B 6:21 D 6:48 C 7:13 A 7:35 A 7:58 E 8:15 F 8:23 F 8:49 E 9:13 F 9:24 A 9:32 A 10:14 C 11:09 E 12:59 B 13:35 A 14:22 E 15:15 A 16:01 D

The answer to 31 is not B, it's A. If you look at what every option has in common, you're first presented with all options for colors, gray white black. Every arrangement following that presentation keeps the property of complete symmetry. Count which possible arrangements are missing from symmetrical presentations, you are left with 2 options, black white black, and black black black. Only the second option is available to select. Also, you assume that no option can repeat since it hasn't. Answer must be symmetrical and cannot be a repeat of what's already in the diagram. That also leaves A.

This is why the Ravens Progressive Matrices is considered to be a poor measure of intelligence. Solving the puzzles is something that can be achieved through practice; so your IQ result on this test can increase the more you take it, without your actual IQ necessarily increasing.

I did 105 with 26 answers out of 35. Did the test without knowing how many questions there were. and got lost in time, ended all of the sudden for me just as I was about to answer correctly #27. I like to take my time to find the solution, and have double-confirmation if possible. I'm 40 years old next month, I guess I'm your average no-brainer guy. These puzzles can be solved much quickly and efficiently if you like these type of puzzles and do them regularly; when you start this "iq" test you'll know much quicklier what to look for (patterns by rotations, additions of elements and substractions, looking for diagonales, etc.), you can pump your IQ level significantly by just practicing them. Also this test is purely logic test, a real IQ test is much broader than that. I wonder if time wasn't a factor (or let's say 24hr), how much would I've gotten right. Fun stuff!

How do you not second guess yourself? I see patterns upon patterns and I don’t know which is the right one. Is there a rule that you have to choose the simplest one you can find or what?

I think the solution to puzzle 21 would be (A) as the rule is if any line segment is common in first 2 columns of any row it would get cancelled out and if the any line segment is in either of columns then it would be appended in the final shape along the row.

I found the first 32 questions rather straightforward but then I was completely stumped by the last 3. Even after seeing the solutions I'm not sure I understand them? The result it gave me was 135

On question #34 you can also notice how it goes two, two three , two three four. And in the middle it goes: three , three , two. Meaning on the last row it has to be an option with two circles because it goes: Three , Three ___ (two).

I can't understand this guy's explanations for 32-35 so here's my thought process on the solution for 32: Solve along the columns, completely ignore the middle row. The bottom box (same column) is the flipped version of the top box, however, white squares are ignored (Answer: A).

For question #14 answer C also kinda makes sense (although answer A is correct). With the initial observation that the shapes stay the same along the diagonal going from top left to bottom right, you can also make the observation that the line within each shape rotates 45 degrees counter clockwise as the diagonal line (of the 3x3 square) travels down and to the right. This holds true for everything we see in the picture. I'm not sure if this is an answer that is also correct, if it was over looked, or if it is for some reason that I may be over looking it is deemed incorrect

I can't understand how the white dots function in puzzle 34. Can you explain, please?

Puzzle 31. This is also another abstract addition quiz. To get "?", we have two choices: make component-wise abstract addition on the last row or on the last column. If we go for the last row, "white square" + "white square" is not defined anywhere. So, we should go for the last column, and we need to figure out values for two additions: "white square" + "hatch square" and "hatch square" + "hatch square" to get "?". On the first column, add the first two cells and let it equal to the last cell, we know that "hatch square" + "hatch square" = "white square". Performing similarly on the first and second rows consistently produce the result "hatch square" + "white square" = "hatch square". Now we need all information to add the last column. So, D is correct.

Originally I did this timed never having seen the problems before and got 118 IQ. Then I took screenshots of the problems, spent 3 hours on it, submitted my answers and got 142 IQ. I found out I got problem 33 wrong even though my logic was valid so I spent 5 hours on it solving it different ways and finally got one that worked and got that 145+ IQ chicken dinner.

For 33 I believe the correct answer is C and not E. Each row has a different count of hollow triangles and each column has a different count of hollow triangles. Only answer C allows for this.

Thank you for explaining the answers I could not find them anywhere.

For Puzzle 31 I chose D. I look vertically from up to down. For each column, the 3rd element (i.e., the bottom one) is an indicator of the comparison result of the 1st and the 2nd elements. From the left elements of the 1st column we learn that Strips + Strips = White, so the middle square of the answer must be White. That leaves only B, D, E. Next, the answer's left and right squares must be identical, because they are both the results of White + Strips (in the same order), so that leaves only D. Note: It seems that the order of the summation matters, hence top White + middle Black gives a different result than top Black + middle White.

Now I can solve every Iq test, problem thanks for a better explanation!✨

I think the correct answer for #31 is A because all given combinations are unique (regardless of place, for instance square is 1 black, 1 stripe and 1 white) and A is the only unique combination (3 times black) you can add

I found out that this test needs paper To handle the massive information While I'm here without any paper thing Just can't hold some information and ended up forget

Puzzle 35. I do not like diagonal stuff, so here is another solution, which I find more obtainable. We have 6 available patterns: TWO V-shape down, V-shape up, pair of horizontal lines, pair of vertical lines, one horizontal line. The rule is following. Every row and column must contain all of these patterns with the restriction, that every picture have exactly 2 of them. All of the pictures are obvious in following the rule, except for top left and bottom left. THe first one has TWO v-shape down, and the second one has a pair of horizontal and a single horizontal line. The missing picture is easily deduced.

43K views. Weow. Why don't you make a video about the new puzzle 31 from this test? Could be a chance to share all the backstage stuff, our attempts to explain the old one, the videos, the discussions on reddit, everything.

Honestly I just needed an explanation on what it wanted me to find, thanks

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

I actually know a guy with 150 iQ and after trying to teach him cs go for over 1000 hours i give up. I know hes way smarter than me but he still is nova 2 and just cant play the game good. He loves the game and plays it all the time, but i guess some are just born gifted at different things. TLDR: if youre low/average iQ youre still way more skilled at certain things than geniuses will ever be.

Your explanations are a bit hard to understand because of the roughness of your voice. It’s like you’re talking as low and flat as possible. It might help if you lowered mic sensitivity and talked louder. Thanks for the video tho.

#31 makes no sense. The answer for box 9 is the same as box 8… clearly that answer is correct based on the program, but the only way to get the answer is to rearrange the puzzle to fit the known answer.

I have tested several times with Puzzle 31,and keep the Answers of other Puzzles not change. the answer is really D, you can test again, I think you have made mistakes during your test. you can have one more try.

Puzzle 23, is E. Only the vertickle and horizontal shapes are colour inverted. The diagnal are the same.

I thought question 21 was adding the two broken shapes to make a whole. Was shocked to think I got some of these wrong when simple answers seemed much more intuitive. Guess I just have a very low IQ

31 is pretty simple. The only pattern/colour however you name it which does not repeat 3 times in a cell is the black square si A is the right answer.

Puzzle 31 thoughts: I thought of putting them together by pairs. You've got two with white sides and a black/striped middle. You've got two with striped sides and white/black in the middle. You've got 2 which are completely full (white & striped). You got 1 that got striped, white and black. Which leaves black, striped, black. So I figured black, white, black would have been a better fit here to balance it out (which is not one of the solutions, but would be correct following that logic). But with IQ tests it's sometimes a matter of perspective and some answers could be correct as well. This answer could also be found by symmetry. For the numbering, I am counting from 1 to 9 like on a phone. 3 and 8 are flipped, 6 and 7 are flipped, 2 and 4 are flipped, which leaves once again our tile 1 (left above), which has all three colors and tile 5. Flipping 5 would get you black, white, black. I chose not to flip 1 in this situation as there is no similar tile to 1 where all three are flipped. Flipping 1 could be a solution as well though, which would be a mirrored B solution. ---- Separating the tiles that contain a black tile from the ones that don't, and then focussing on the ones that don't could be reason for an answer like C or D where there is no black tile. But as 3 and 8 are mirrored as well as 6 and 7, what would 9 be? ---- Counting could give you more ideas. There are currently 9 white tiles, 10 striped and 5 black. The thing is; you could work from here with this ratio or try to equalize. Equalizing could give you the all black solution resulting in 8 black, 9 white and 10 striped. The all black combo fits well with the all white and all striped that are already on the board. Personally I like the black, white, black pattern the best, but feel free to give arguments for different solutions.

I think you got number 14 wrong.. if you look at the diagonal from top left to bottom right you can clearly see the line rotating counter clockwise at a 45 degree angle. The answer is C not F... please explain to me if im wrong

3:04 or you could count every dot horizontally and you’ll see that it’s equal to 27 dots in every line

#25: The white does that overlap in rows 1 and 2 make up the dots in row 3, thats why there is only one. The *black* dots in *column*(up and down) 1 that overlap with black dots in column 2 constitute the black dots in column 3.

It's interesting hearing your solutions for these puzzles, i got many of the awnsers right aswell, but came up with a completely different solution, for puzzle 8 for example my thought was that the third picture in each row is the same as the second picture in each row, but flipped horizontally

31: D. As per the other duplicate question, assuming the bottom squares are a function of the corresponding squares in the rows above, then the middle square must be white and the left and right squares must be identical. It leaves only D.

id say this test is well designed for the most part. albeit with every online test comes a few difficulties: for starters im a fan of the compatibility of the item, being solvable with various pattern-structures. although 2 specific questions can be viewed as bias. and i will be addressing that: puzzle 29# , for puzzle 29 there are 2 answers. though i am well aware of the "intended" answer i will be expounding on 2 possible answers; we can tell the puzzle is simple addition/subtraction. black must add, white either subtracts or adds. thus the last row must have one black square and 2 white squares. as far as the movement go heres where the errors arise. logic 1: if white (item1) (item2) squares are in different places they pursue the first axiom (subtraction/addition) whilst altering positions (right,left). axiom 2 (black square always stays in the same place) thus leaving F. Logic 2. (leads to answer C no need to explain)

これがMensaのIQテストかよ。 そもそも法則を認識するために抽象化するものが単純かつ画一的な記号だし、 しかも全てが解を求めるのではなく"解を満たすものを選択しろ"という選択問題で、情報量が少なく解を詳細に限定できないという形式のみの問題。 しかも何処にも3次元以上の多次元や認知学的に可能な範囲の相関計算を全て問う問題は無く、単純な座標的相関のみを基にしている。 しかも選択問題だから帰納法的にどうやって問題を解いたのかという計算過程も問うていなくて感覚的/直観的なものにもなるし。 こんな画一的かつ部分的かつ信頼性の低い問題でMensaを決めているとか、Mensa及びIQテストの信憑性が一気に落ちた。 問題の作成者さては認知哲学・脳科学的視点(そもそも思考は何のためにするもので、人間が可能な認知的機能はどこまで出来て、頭の良さを図るとはどのような行動及びその際の能力の指標に基づくのかというような分析)に欠けているな？

3 x 3 grid puzzles where the solution needs to be found from diagonals, instead of from the rows and columns, are incredibly poorly designed since the groups of 1, 2, 3, 2, and 1 cells do not form a consistent set, but is rather an inconsistency to begin with.

Puzzle 20 . I originally answered 'B' as the pattern is three right angles horizontal Row 1, six right angles Row 2, nine right angles Row 3 (pattern 3-6-9). I only see your answer 'A' by only allowing two right slash lines per horizontal row. I am still trying to understand your understanding of answer 'A'

What does it mean if I can answer all of these, but not within the time limit of 10 minutes? 🤔 I notice I almost always get it eventually, but I'm not that speedy.

#31 blacks and white alternate each turn if they aren't cancelled out by stripes. Tile[0][1] is consistent with this as it goes to tile[1][2] . Otherwise Tile[0][0] and tile [1][1] go to and B. (0 is row/column 1)

I scored a 97 and I didn’t have enough time to finish all the questions. It’s funny because despite getting some of the answers correct I had a completely different approach to solving them. I guess that’s the difference between someone with a high IQ

Puzzle 12 i think is C . I find 2 patterns A) starting from left to right black turns grey and then back to black all time. So last shape should have grey B) corners are the same so just change the black to grey or grey to black.

I managed to score 138 which I am actually very proud of!

So I got a 107 on my first try then watched this and broke it down before you did and while 3 made no sense to me I was able to get a 133 after your lesson :P

i took the test and first score was 131, with time left, i retook it 2 more times and reached 138. Out of curiosity i wanted to see what im missing and did wrong. 2-3 patterns barely solved them. Was hunch than understanding the pattern. I wanna see my mistakes so thank you so much for this video.

i thought that you were only allowed to try find an answer by looking at the patterns from left to right, like when you're reading. I could recognise that there were familiar patterns when I tilted my head back to try see the bigger picture, but thought those would be red herrings. Or.... Maybe I'm just bitter about my low score and I'm trying to find excuses to heal my self esteem. Truly intelligent people (IQ greater than or equal to 140) would have probably thought out side the box. Nevermind, I'll go cry now byeeeeee

Puzzle 31 is very easy to solve : White + white = White, Black + black = white, Black + white = Black, based on each individual square exact location. So logically, in the first row, you should have a black square in the center, in the second row, 2 black squares on left and center, and 3rd row all white. Final answer is D

Q18 6:22 Q23 7:59 Q31 11:17 Q32 13:00 Q33 13:30 Q34 14:23 Q35 15:17

I got a lot of the same answers you did, but this just confirms how much I overanalyze. Our breakdowns are wayyy different.

Can you please explain #23 again? Thanks.

QUESTION 35 IS NOT D. We can see that there 3 horizontal lines on each row, but with your answer there are 2 horizontal lines on the 3rd row. So the right answer is the shape you chose, with a horizontal line on it

I could not understand Ur explanation for puzze 33. Can you explain in writting? Thank you Very much

Could you please xplain question 23 again, I don't understand why you use picture 4 to work out the answer. Thank you!

Can u make a video for 32 , 33 , 34 solutions? I ve bad english and i Have some problems to understand , if u can do a video with visual explanation would be great

I thought maybe the answer was B for #31 because the last square in each column is always different, so it cannot be white or stripes, therefore it must be hidden by a black square

For puzzle 31, white blocks keep the color of it's partner while the other blocks seem to have inconsistencies which we see when we compare [black+black=white (found in the first 2 top boxes)] to [black+black=slash (found in the second 2 boxes)] this inconsistency make me believe that the horizontal comparison is not accurate as a test like this one would not have random outputs. If we look at vertical comparisons we see that we have the same problem with 2 boxes not giving the same outputs. The way you have to look at it is adding the 2 squares besides the desired tile. You have to add the tile above by the tile next to the desired block. Using this there were no inconsistencies and we also see that there are no ways to prove what slash + slash equals but we do notice that adding 2 of the same tiles get you a slash tile. using this method we see that we get slash+slash=slash, slash+white=white and slash+slash=slash. Even if this is incorrect we know that there is a pattern that forms when you add together 2 boxes with even sides (ex. black,white,black) you will have an outcome that results in a box with even sides.

For puzzle #7, my solving method is this way..... : 1st row consist of black square is 1,2,3 2nd row consist of black square is 2,3,4 so for the 3rd row consist of black square is 3,4, and the answer is 5 black square...

I got 135 IQ, my friends did this test and got something around 100~ IQ in general. This test is one of the hardest tbh.

I didn't understand the number 29. Can you please explain me?

I didn’t think of anything as diagonal I assumed everything had to do with the rows( a mistake on my end) but I still solved some of the diagonal ones by thinking of the outer and inner part as a thing that cannot be reused in each row I got 128 on the test which i guess I’m fine with

i don't think you were supposed to look diagonaly or vertically. some of the rules work at those angles, but all the rules work if you only look at the rows. So some of your explanations are insufficient or lucky guesses.

I solved puzzle 33 the following way: Striped Triangle Facing ↖️ = -1 Striped Triangle Facing ↘️= 1 White Triangle Facing ↖️= 1 White Triangle Facing ↘️ = -1 |Sum Striped| = |Sum White| = 1 Total Sum = 0 Following those rules, the only valid answer is E.

Puzzle 31: B is the correct answer because there has to be one black square on the third row. First row has 3 blacks, second has 2..

For question 31 it is a simple addition puzzle again and the answer is D and not B!!!

Puzzle 25 is E.. the small dots mean dragged away from. So a dragged curcle appears in the box it touches

How you solved question 8 at 2:40 fascinates me. You looked for patterns in the diagonals of repeating dot sequences. From the beginning I always check for patterns left to right, so I saw that the top and the bottom of each row always include 1,2 or 3 dots and never repeat. So I just filled in the last square with the missing numbers of dots.

aside from missing a few words from the intense vocal fry :), great explanations. ty!

I don’t think that this questions in fact tell your IQ. This are very especific questions which, in my opinion, show how good are you thinking strategically.

idk if you got these answers from some official site but I dont think all of your answers are correct. for example the last one is B, not D. Each row is combining to make an imaginary shape that we can't see, of the v, the top and bottom line, the side lines, and the upside down v. It would look like a box with two xs in it. in the first row, one structure repeats (the top line). In the second, two structures repeat (the top and the v), and in the third, three structures repeat (the top, the v, and the bottom line). Therefore it can only be B. (I think, the way you solved it, D B and E could all work) But this is a really epic video

I have solved 31 answer is D Reason :- after arranging the square multiply individual square from top to bottom If anything is multiplied with half filled square than result is blank square in last row so we can guess by seeing the result in r3 c3 that the first and the last square of r1 c3 must be half filled square But it is my point of view i may be wrong

Small correction at 3:07 column 3 is column 2 rotated by 180 degrees, not 90.

Question 31. At first glance i thought D but more rules applied for B(for me at least). So a Quick answer for me would be B. I Will look a little bit more after i finish The video. This question i think is out of my range doe since it has more rules that i would look for at least on a Quick test. I get a bit lower scores than most people here(Last test 123.7 and I dont regulary do them). I find it pretty fun so i might start do some more but i have so many unanswered questions about the tests it self thus The reason im here trying to see other peoples thought process. Tyvm for the video. *Finished The video now and read some comments. I saw you answer B but you later came to The conclusion that D is correct. Think ill look at it again and see if i still find more rules for B than for D.

So IQ test's are all about figuring out Patterns made by other people? But what if you think in different patterns compared to the person, or people that made the test. To be smart you have to solve my riddle, because I am a genius and make the best riddles. Mensa seem a little like a club were to get in you have to solve their special sudoku

I did this test blind a few nights ago when i was struggling to fall asleep and i got 138. This is the same score i got when I did the older test 6-7 years ago. I solved most of the question intuintively but I appreciate your explanation, it makes it much more clear

a solution for question 31 would be to give numerical value to each block ex 1 for white 2 for stripe and 3 for black like that you can obtain number chains with rules and after you can see that d is the answer

the problem exercises for me were 7 8 and 32 33 34 35. sure 7 8 can be resolved, but they seem way harder and out of scope than 31

the struggle with this is figuring out WHICH pattern it wants you to recognise, because there are many ways of finding the right and wrong answer

Looking at the comment section, seems like everyone is a genius.

in the most recent test, they replaced question 31 with an easier to solve puzzle

i only managed to do 24 of them bc i ran out of time but they were all correct so i ended up with 112 :C, wish i had more time but i suppose thats the point with these tests