American Mensa

Limited-time Offer: Admission Test

Enjoy 50% off Local Group Testing
and 10% off of Private Testing for the month of October! Score at or above the 98th percentile to be invited to join American Mensa.

Find A Test Session

Prior Evidence Review

Qualify the quick, easy way by sending us evidence of scores from prior intelligence tests you've taken. For individuals under 14, this is the only way to qualify.

Submit My Scores

Mensa Practice Test

Wondering if you're Mensa material? Take our Practice Test and you'll know in 30 minutes your likelihood of success on our official admission test.

Take Our Practice Test

The Art of Mystery/The Mystery of Art

A mother-son duo with a taste for mystery take their whodunit graphic novel from the kitchen table to Comic-Con.

How the World Woos

Dating customs across the globe range from flirty whistles to Zulu beadwork to matchmaking markets in Shanghai. Learn how to woo your way around the world.

The American Dreams

Like most dreams, the American Dream is a yearning, a seeking, a striving somewhere over the rainbow. Dreams are difficult to define, and the American Dream is no exception.

Polka-Dot Brain

The mother of a child with disabilities knows: No amount of smiling at a flight of stairs has ever turned it into a ramp — but there’s still reason to smile.

Mensa Eyewear Collection

Be smart. Look brilliant. Mensa Members can look sharp and save with the Mensa Eyewear Collection. See and be seen with exclusive designs from Readingglasses.com and Mensans. Explore the collection now!

Discover Mensa Experiences: Our Newest Members-Only Perk

Save up to 60% on theme parks, hotels, concerts, movie tickets, and more! As a Mensa member, you can now enjoy access to exclusive savings through our Mensa Experiences program. We've partnered with MemberDeals to bring you members-only savings on some of the world’s greatest entertainment and travel brands!

2025 Theodore Talks: Getting TEDer All the Time

This free monthly interactive series offers talks with a Principal Investigator for Zooniverse, an authority on Chicago's culinary scene, a blues musician and historian, along with a host of others.

National Events

Annual Gathering | July 1-5, 2026

The largest yearly confab of Mensans anywhere, the American Mensa Annual Gathering started as a small, two-day meet-and-greet at the New York Belmont in 1963. The event now spans five days and features a sprawl of talks, games, and entertainment unlike any other.

Mensa Foundation Colloquium

The Mensa Foundation hosts and supports Colloquiums to encourage and expand learning, research, and intelligence. Stay tuned for details on Colloquium 2026!

Mensa Mind Games® 2026

An annual tradition since 1990, Mind Games is a four-day board-game-judging marathon, during which the year’s five best new-to-market tabletop games are chosen and awarded the coveted Mensa Select^® seal. Join hundreds of tabletop fanatics for a long weekend of around-the-clock board gaming.

Local & Regional Events

New Zealand Sunday Seminars: The Treaty of Waitangi and New Zealand Law - From 1840 to Today

October 4, 2025

The Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti o Waitangi is recognized as a founding document and part of New Zealand's constitution. However, its meaning, interpretation, and application to New Zealand law and government have been contested, from its signing in 1840, right through today. Dr. Carwyn Jones will explain some important aspects of the text and context around the signing of Te Tiriti and key developments that have shaped its role in New Zealand law today.

Irish Mensa Lecture & Discussion: Galileo's Journey to the Underworld: The Case for Interdisciplinary Thinking

October 20, 2025

No group assigned

In 1588, the young Galileo delivered some lectures that were impressive enough to secure him a mathematics professorship at the University of Pisa. His subject? The geometry of Dante's Inferno. In Gresham College's Annual Provost's Lecture, Professor Sarah Hart looks at some of Galileo's deductions, and how the questions raised may have influenced his later mathematical research.

Non-fiction Book Discussion - The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America's Story by Kermit Roosevelt

October 22, 2025

Mensa of Western Washington

Join us as we discuss The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America's Story by Kermit Roosevelt.