Synergy

Everyday activities bring us into contact with many people, but we've grown accustomed to something more in our lives — that synergy that results when two or more Mensans get together. If we could change just one thing about our combined years in Mensa, we'd have bought Life Memberships much earlier.

— Gary Maycroft and S. Gail Skvarenina,
Greater Phoenix Mensa

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 for Kids' Excellence in Reading

To encourage the joy of reading, the Mensa Foundation has developed the Mensa for Kids Excellence in Reading Program. Earn a commemorative certificate in recognition of your outstanding achievement and get an Excellence in Reading T-shirt, too!

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

Mensa Foundation Colloquium 2025

The Mensa Foundation hosts and supports Colloquiums to encourage and expand learning, research, and intelligence. This year's Colloquium will explore the core distinctions between human and artificial intelligence (AI), with a focus on what uniquely defines human cognition.

Mind Games® 2025 Winners

After nearly four days of brain-busting, dice-rolling fun at the 2025 Mind Games® competition, American Mensa and its members have crowned seven tabletop games with the coveted Mensa Select® seal. Curious who made the cut? Check out the most clever games of 2025!

Annual Gathering 2025

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.

Local & Regional Events

Irish Mensa Lecture and Discussion: Carbon Offsetting - Does It Really Work?

May 19, 2025

No group assigned

In a net zero world, can you compensate for your own emissions by paying someone else to reduce theirs? This lecture explores potential offsetting strategies we could take. It asks, even if we need one that is effective, would setting up an ineffective strategy be the best place to start?

SynRG 2025

May 23, 2025

Gulf Coast Mensa

Join us for SynRG 2025!

San Diego Mensa Regional Gathering

May 23, 2025

San Diego Mensa

Find yer treasure and shiver ye timbers at San Diego AaaaR-G 2025! Join us May 23-26 for games, food, speakers, and a whole heap of fun! See old mateys, make new mateys. Pirate costumes encouraged — and don't forget your parrot!