World of IQ was a puzzle website that became defunct around the year 2011. The archived link to the main page of worldofiq.co.cc can be accessed using the Wayback Machine.
I briefly mentioned the World of IQ website in my Cerebrals Society post. It was during my early days in US that I participated in the Cerebrals Society contests and World of IQ. I would spend nights thinking in the dark about how to solve contest questions or World of IQ puzzles. I was still in high school, so I didn’t want my parents to know that I was still awake during the night at 1 AM 🙂 .
This post is about nostalgia and internet archiving. The World of IQ was probably a pretty obscure website. The archived main page says that it had more than 3000 registered users in 2011, but most of these users probably only looked at the level 1 puzzle. If you search on Google, there are a few forums that mention the website and provide the link. But overall, the website is forgotten.
Saved Images
On my external hard drive I still have a few images from the website. I took a few screenshots when I reached the level 23. I am pretty sure that I took screenshots because the next 6 levels were linked according to the message at the start of level 23.
The first clue to level 23 was a letter according to this image.
I also have 2 images that seems to be related to level 26.
In the same folder I have the images, I also have a text file called “23” that seems to contain the answers or partial answers for the levels 23, 25 and 26. My file says “ordinary for 23, label for 25, igloo for 26”. I don’t know what happened with level 24.
More Details
I remember that one of the early levels involved looking at the HTML code of the page and finding the question “What is the deepest lake in the world?”. Of course, the answer was Baikal. However, I forgot how they phrased the clue that led you to look at the HTML code.
Another puzzle involved homophones like “night” and “knight”. The puzzle was presented visually with a big square divided in many cells. Each cell had an image, like the image of a knight. You had to realize that the images from the cell were connected because they represented words that were homophones.
My memory of other puzzles are even more vague or totally lacking. I don’t know if I made any printouts like I did with the Cerebrals Society contest questions. I probably tried to solve some puzzles on paper or a notebook, but all these materials are most likely gone.
I remember that there was at least one forum that discussed the puzzles. People on the forum would provide additional clues to the puzzles, but they would not provide the actual answers. This forum or forums seem to be defunct and I don’t remember their names.