Mensa Brain Test Review

Supposedly I have quite a high IQ. I say supposedly as it was a while ago that I took the test and I'm convinced my laziness gets in the way of any actual intelligence. Still, I like taking tests like the ones offered by Mensa which makes Mensa Brain Test an ideal app to give a whirl.

Mensa Brain Test offers two modes - a training mode and the actual test. Training mode offers you five multiple choice questions to answer so as to get your brain in the right mood for answering the full tests. The full tests are true mind benders. You can choose to complete a short, medium or long test. The long tests are indeed rather long with 60 questions to answer across 60 minutes. Even the short test can take up to 20 minutes to complete. Mensa Brain Test is clearly a title that demands some time spent on it. The questions also require you to fully concentrate because as you'd expect, they're challenging to say the least.

The questions are all genuine Mensa questions that are used in various test papers so if you gain a good score here, you're clearly rather bright. Questions range from mathematical in nature to logical. Some are visual with you having to determine which is the odd one out from a set of images which is frequently much harder than it sounds. Others require you to answer analogies, e.g., something along the lines of 'River is to Bank as Sea is to...' All the questions are multiple choice, but this rarely makes it feel any easier.

A results screen enables you to compare and contrast your scores, checking to see whether you're improving or not with time. There's also Game Center support meaning you can compare yourself to others. Perhaps fortunately, you can choose whether to upload your scores to the global leaderboard or not - potentially saving yourself any embarrassment.

Mensa Brain Test is a rather satisfying quiz game to play through, although annoyingly it's not long before questions are repeated. In the case of some, though, that doesn't strictly mean you'll remember the right answer though!

It's not relaxing by any means and it'll certainly tax your brain more so than any other quiz that I've played before. I did find with practice that I started to adjust my thinking appropriately and subsequently started to improve my scores. It's more of a time commitment than most App Store titles, but Mensa Brain Test is definitely worth a look if you fancy something more cerebral than average quiz offerings.