Mensa-Style IQ Practice 2 - Four Classic Puzzle Types

💡Tips for Parents

▸ What to do Four different puzzle types, just like a real Mensa practice test. Solve each one and circle your answer. Identify the rule separately for each task: matrix, sequence, analogy, and the item that differs. These are practice puzzles, not an IQ assessment. First question, checked from the printed data: 2 → 5 → 10 → 17 → 26 → 37. ▸ Start with an example Have your child solve these the same way as the first worksheet — scanning all four puzzles and naming their types before diving in — but this time add a short pause between each puzzle: a stretch, a sip of water, a few seconds looking away from the page. Since these puzzles are harder, treating them as four separate short sprints rather than one long slog helps keep concentration fresh for the third and fourth puzzle instead of just the first two. Encourage your child to actually finish reading a harder puzzle fully before starting to solve it, rather than solving as they read. ▸ If it is difficult If your child's accuracy seems to drop on the later puzzles, that's often fatigue rather than the puzzles genuinely being harder to understand — check whether they're rushing because they're tired, not because they're confused. Have them re-read the puzzle from the beginning out loud, slowly, which forces a fresh pass at the same difficulty rather than skimming through it a second time on autopilot. If one particular puzzle type keeps causing trouble across both worksheets in this series, it's worth briefly revisiting the matching single-type worksheet before returning to this one. ▸ Check before continuing Mensa-Style IQ Practice 2 - Four Classic Puzzle Types — Check the completed work using this instruction: Identify the rule separately for each task: matrix, sequence, analogy, and the item that differs. These are practice puzzles, not an IQ assessment. Point to one correction and explain the step used. Revisit that part if the explanation and the marks do not agree.

🎯What This Worksheet Builds

Identify the rule separately for each task: matrix, sequence, analogy, and the item that differs. These are practice puzzles, not an IQ assessment.

👉Next Step

When this set feels solid, move on to Mensa-Style Practice 3, which adds a light timed-practice element to build comfort working accurately under a ticking clock.