IQ Tests to Keep You Sharp

"Use it or lose it" applies to your biggest muscle--your brain. These IQ-building quizzes improve your thinking power with words, numbers, and visual designs. Quick--try these five:
1. Make a six-letter word from these five: B, G, E, A, D.
2. Calculate what fraction will produce this running decimal: .166166.
3. Take one letter from each of these animals to make another animal: possum, donkey, ermine, kitten, rhesus, cayman.
4. Which number added to 100 and 164 will make them both perfect square numbers?
5. Ten people share a birthday cake. All had equal portions, yet one remained on the plate. How can this be?
How'd you do? If you got all of them right, maybe you should write our next test book!

Answers: 1. Bagged. 2. 166/999. 3. Monkey. 4. 125. 5. The tenth person ate from the cake plate.

These IQ tests are a fun and entertaining way to keep your brain as fit as your body. Are you best at verbal, visual, numerical, or calculation and logic questions? Can you beat the time limit given for each test? You'll know soon enough just how smart you really are. Warm up on these:
Which word is the odd one out?
DECODE, TRANSLATE, ENCIPHER, INTERPRET, REVEAL
Simplify to find the value of x:
x = (-5) - (-7) - (-2)
A man left a sum of money to his three children. Albert is to get 20% more than Jasper and 25% more than Cyril. Jasper's share is $3600. How much does Cyril get?