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      Head Games

      Match wits with the Mensa puzzler

      • By Abbie F. Salny on June 1, 2006
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      This article was originally published with the title "Head Games" in SA Mind 17, 3, 86 (June 2006)

      doi:10.1038/scientificamericanmind0606-86

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