MENSA Friday

If you have ever wondered if your cat can run at supersonic speeds, the answer is yes. If you care to see your cat run at breakneck speed, this is what you're going to need: A set of stairs and a water bottle.

Make sure that your water bottle is at least half full. Wait until your cat is at the bottom of the stairs, it's also best if you're descending the stairs. When you're walking past the cat, look away, pretend to not pay any attention to it. When you are just past the cat, swing around violently and hit the cat in the ass with the water bottle. You have 13 steps on your staircase, I guarantee your cat will leap all of them in less than one second.

Supersonic cat, go try it out.

MENSA Friday is back, and looking for vengeance. I know you missed MENSA Friday as much as you miss that red spotted growth that was taking up half your lip about two years ago. Well, you can relax, it's back. Not the red spotted growth, that's not back, at least not on your lip, however, I would get that large green lump that has attached itself to your nutsac checked out. Let's just admit it, that thing is super gross.

Let's play MENSA Friday, River Rat, give me a drum roll....

Replace the second letter of each word in both columns with the same letter so that two new words are formed. Place the letter used in the empty section. When this has been completed for all the words, another word can be read down. What is the word?

Star_________Ants
Play_________Blow
Sack_________Wane
Acid_________Shut
Tear_________Arks
Ripe_________Vale
Goat_________Ions

Here's another type of MENSA puzzle you might find interesting:

Five of the words in the diagram are associated for some reason. Find the words and then work out whether PLANT belongs to the group.

BURNT-----EVENT
COUNT-----CADET
MERIT-----FAULT
FLINT-----CARAT
ABBOT-----GIANT

Remember, keep to yourself, don't be looking on any else's paper, that's called cheating, my friend, and Mitchievillian's aren't cheaters. Well, I can only speak for myself...and Fenris, and maybe TH III, and River Rat. And Mark. And maybe Suvorov. And Alex.