American Mensa

Admission Testing

Schedule an Admission Test with your Local Group. Score at or above the 98^th percentile to be invited to join American Mensa.

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Prior Evidence Review

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

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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.

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The Lure of the Antarctic

A late-blooming traveler’s icy adventures lead to the ends of the Earth — and penguins, lots of penguins.

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.

Lincoln 2.0

Could we build an artificial intelligence that could think, make decisions, and communicate like the man most regarded as our greatest president, Abraham Lincoln?

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.

At-home Learning Resources for Kids

As the school season begins anew, here's a friendly reminder that the Mensa Foundation is here to help. MensaforKids.com features a curated lists of free and low-cost educational resources to enrich your child’s mind and ignite their excitement about learning.

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.

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.

Mind Games 2025

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

The Einstein Effect: How the World's Favorite Genius Got Into Our Cars, Our Bathrooms and Our Minds

January 18, 2025

Southeast Michigan Mensa

Join Southeast Michigan Mensa via Zoom on Saturday, Jan. 18 at 7 p.m. (EST) as Benyamin Cohen, journalist and award-winning author of The Einstein Effect: How the World's Favorite Genius Got Into Our Cars, Our Bathrooms and Our Minds, gives us a fascinating and funny overview of history's favorite genius, and explains why he still matters.

Irish Mensa Lecture and Discussion -- The Convoluted Brain: Wrinkles and Folds

January 20, 2025

No group assigned

The human brain has a very distinct and complex appearance with valleys and ridges folding over themselves. The same convolutions are found in large mammals, but not in smaller ones. Simple mathematical models can help us understand the emergence of these beautiful patterns during development as well as their pathology.

Theodore Talk -- Exploring the Universe: Citizen Science and Beyond with the Adler Planetarium and Zooniverse

January 26, 2025

No group assigned

Join Laura Trouille, Vice President of Science Engagement at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago and Principal Investigator for Zooniverse, for an engaging exploration into the world of citizen science and space discovery.