Saturday, January 3, 2015

Wat is Naresh xact house number???

Naresh lives in a street with house-numbers 9 up to 100. Anitha wants to know at which number Varun lives.

She asks him: "Is your number larger than 50?"
Naresh answers, but lies.
Upon this, Anitha asks: "Is your number a multiple of 4?"
Naresh answers, but lies again.
Then Anitha asks: "Is your number a square?"
Naresh answers truthfully.
Upon this, Anitha says: "I know your number if you tell me whether the first digit is a 3."
Naresh answers, but now we do not know whether he lies or speaks the truth.

Anitha says at which number she thinks Naresh lives, but (of course) she is wrong.

What is Naresh real house-number?

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Best way to marry Mandarin's Daughter

A Young&good looking guy wanted to marry a Mandarin's daughter. The Mandarin decided to test the boy. 

  1. He gave the good looking person two empty, porcelain vases, 100 white pearls, and 100 black pearls. 
  2. "You must put all the pearls in the vases", he told the boy. "
  3. After this, I will call my daughter from the room next door.
  4.  She will take a random pearl from one of the two vases.
 If this pearl is a black one, you are allowed to marry my daughter."

 What was the best way in which the boy could divide the pearls over the vases?

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Can u find width of the River

Pardhu and Eswar are on the two opposite banks of a river. They both have a rowing boat.

They both start at the same time towards the opposite side.

  • They pass each other at 180 meters from the bank where Pardhu departed. 
  • When reaching the opposite bank, they both take a rest for the same amount of time before    they return.
  • On the way back, they pass each other at 100 meters from the bank from where Pardhu        returned.


Pardhu and Eswar both row with a constant speed, but Eswar rows faster.

 How wide is the river?

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Smallest Number with Squares

Many numbers that can be expressed "as the sum of three squares in three different ways".,with different numbers.

Can you find out the smallest of such number,which can satisfy the above Rule?

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Two natural Numbers

 Two natural numbers whose sum is less than hundred and both of them are greater than one. Me and my frnd Nandu knows the product and sum of the numbers respectively.

Both of us are exchanging the following statements:

Lucky : I don’t know the numbers.
Nandu : "I knew you wouldn't be. I am not aware myself."
Lucky : "Now I am sure I know the numbers!"
Nandu : "Now I am sure I know the numbers too!"

Can you find the two numbers?

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.Its u r turn to tell!!!! wat r my chances to get Palindrome Number.

One day, I thought of making my own palindrome. I thought of a number and then decided to add the reversed number to it. Unfortunately I did not get a palindrome.

So I kept repeating this step and eventually I succeeded, "but I was able to generate one of four digits."

Can you tell me the number at which I started?

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Three numbers in series

What are the next three numbers in the following series?

         4, 6, 12, 18, 30, 42, 60, 72, 102, 108, ?, ?, ?

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Buying Books with father&sons

Two friends, Arun and Boby, go to a bookshop, together with their sons Praveen and Tejas. 
  • All four of them buy some books; each book costs a whole amount in Rupees. 
  • When they leave the bookshop, they notice that both fathers have spent 21rs/- more than    their respective sons have.
  • Moreover, each of them paid per book the same amount  as books that he bought. 
  • The difference between the number of books of Arun and Praveen is five.
    Who is the father of Tejas?

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Husband&wife anniversary

For my anniversary, I decided to surprise my Husband. Since he is a voracious reader, I decided to collect a lot of books for him. 

  • On the first day of the month, I bought one book, 
  • On the second, I bought two and on the third, I bought three. 
  • This process went on till the anniversary and on the day, 
  • I had 276 books with me to gift him.


Can you calculate, on which day is our anniversary?

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Solve Series

If    2+3 = 8
      3+7 = 27
      4+5 = 32
      5+8 = 60
      6+7 = 72
      7+8 = ??

Find the exact number

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Friday, January 2, 2015

Bank Robbery

A bank is getting robbed and one of the robbers tells one of the tellers to give him all of the money. The teller tells him she doesn't have access to it.

Suddenly the phone rings. 

  • The robber tells the teller to answer it and not give them away. 
  • She picks up the phone and it happens to be her mother.
  •  She tells her mother "Is this an emergency mom? Call me when I get home, I could use some help painting." 
  • Then she hangs up.


The robbers continue to try to get into the vault but twenty minutes later the police show up with the tellers mom and arrest them all.

How did the police know about the robbery?

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Guess??


  • We hurt without moving.
  • We poison without touching. 
  • We bear the truth and the lies. 
  • We are not to be judged by our size.

      What are we?

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Percentage Probability

A mathematics teacher took exam of his students. Out of the total students, 25% of the students passed both the tests included in the exam. However, only 42% were able to clear the first test. 

Can you find out the percentage of those students who passes the first test and also passed the second test ?

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How many cups I need to serve

I have a large number of friends coming over and they all get thirsty. 

  • My first friend asks for 1/2 a cup of water.
  •  My second friend asks for 1/4 a cup of water. 
  • My third friend asks for 1/8 a cup of water, etc.


How many cups of water do I need to serve my friends?

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what am I

A natural state, I'm sought by all.
Go without me, and you shall fall.
You do me when you spend,
and use me when you eat to no end.

What am I?


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How can u drop Coconuts

You have two coconuts and you want to find out how high they can be dropped from a 100 story building before they break. But you only have $1.40 and the elevator costs a dime each time you ride it up (it's free for rides down).

How can you drop the coconuts to guarantee you will find the lowest floor they will break at, while starting and ending at floor 1?

Note: They break when dropped from the same height and they don't weaken from getting dropped.

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How many apples u can get

You have been given the task of transporting 3,000 apples 1,000 miles from Appleland to Bananaville. Your truck can carry 1,000 apples at a time. Every time you travel a mile towards Bananaville you must pay a tax of 1 apple but you pay nothing when going in the other direction (towards Appleland).

What is highest number of apples you can get to Bananaville?



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Thursday, January 1, 2015

How to escape

Once there lived a king who did not allow anybody to leave the kingdom and any foreigners in his kingdom. There was only one bridge that connected his empire with the outer world. A guard who was a sharpshooter was specially assigned for a lookout on the bridge. According to the orders, anyone moving outside should be killed and anyone coming to his kingdom should be sent back. To take rest, the guard used to sit inside his hut for 5 minutes and return back on the lookout. The bridge took a minimum of 8 minutes to pass. 

Even then, a woman was able to escape the kingdom without incurring any kind of harm to the guard.

     How ?

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Young lady&Woman in a Restaurant

A charming young lady was approached by a kind looking old woman in a restaurant. The old woman said to her, 'You look exactly like my younger daughter. Sadly she passed away a couple of months back. Could you do me a favor and say 'Goodbye, mother' with a kind smile on your face when I leave?

The young lady agreed for the same and said, 'Goodbye, mother' when the old woman left. 

Soon after, she got the most disengaging shock of her life. 

Can you guess what the shock was?

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How can Survive

This is a tricky question so pay attention. You are trapped in a forest. With you, you have a gun preloaded with two bullets in it. In front of you, there is a tiger, a leopard and a jaguar.

How do you survive?

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Find out Movie name


The figure that has been attached might seem a bit awkward but a movie name is hidden within it. Which movie does it represents?



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Sports logical Puzzle

A game is being played where eight players can last for seventy minutes. Six substitutes alternate with each player in this game. Thus, all players are on the pitch for the same amount of time including the substitutes.

For how long is each player on the pitch?

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Guess Starting Number

One night, I thought of ways that can be used for creating a palindrome. So I decided that I will turn into a larger number by adding the reversed digits to the original number and keep doing it till I finally obtained a palindrome.

I am not sure if this process will always result in a palindrome eventually but I was able to produce a four digit palindrome.

 Can you guess my starting number?

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Can u tell my Birthday date

I engaged in a strange activity. My birthday was approaching and I decided to collect money for my birthday bash. On the first day of the month, I kept a dollar in my piggy bank, on the second, I kept two dollars and on the third, I kept three and so on.

On my birthday, I had a total of 276 dollars in my piggy bank. 

Can you find out on which day of the month was my birthday?

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Calculate no.of buses

I am working in a bus company. The company recently went under expansion and therefore there was not enough room for all the buses. As a result, twelve buses had to be stored outside.

If the company decides to expand the garage space by forty percent, enough space to accommodate the current buses will be created leaving enough space for twelve more buses if the need arises in future.

Can you calculate the number of buses that the company owns at present?

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Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Who am I

Living above a star, I do not burn
Eleven friends and they do not turn
I can just be visited in a sequence, not once or repeatedly
PQRS are my initials

Can you tell my name accurately?

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Find least no.of pairs to turn on light

You are camping with your friends. You have a flashlight for any emergency and have brought 8 batteries along with you. Your brother calls to tell you that four of those batteries are already dead.

Your flashlight requires two working batteries to run.

What is the least number of pairs you will need to test to guarantee that you can get the flashlight on ?

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Reveal the Password

A guy was writing his first book. After saving the document, he locked his laptop with a password and mentioned some phrases for the hint box. A friend of his tried opening his laptop but found out that it was password protected. 

Following is the hint that appeared. 

"1 mobile 3 books 2 roars 1 night 4 balls 2 lighters 1 ghost 1 hat 3 watches It seemed awkward to him."

 Can you help him in cracking the password?

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Six Girls Sitting Arrangement

Six lovely girls are standing in a straight line such that 

1. X and W are neighbors of Y.
2. V's only neighbor is U. 
3. U is at the forth place of Z. 

So who two are standing at the 2 corner of the line ? 

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Dot Mark Puzzle

There are five men, let's say Tarun Harish Lavesh, Manoj, and Manish. All of them have a dot mark in their forehead. They can't see the dot on their own forehead, but can see the ones on others. The owner of WHITE dot is an honest person and will never lie, while the owner of BLACK dot always tell the lie.

                This is the statement from Tarun Harish Lavesh, and Manish:
                Tarun: 'I see 3 whites and 1 black'
                Harish: 'I see 4 black'
                Lavesh: 'I see 3 black and 1 white'
                Manish: 'I see 4 white'

What color is the dot on each Tarun Harish Lavesh, Manoj, Manish forehead? 

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Deductive logical puzzle-who lives where

There are 4 big houses in my home town.

They are made from these materials: red marbles, green marbles, white marbles and blue marbles.


  • Mrs Jennifer's house is somewhere to the left of the green marbles one and the third one along is white marbles.
  • Mrs Sharon owns a red marbles house and Mr Cruz does not live at either end, but lives somewhere to the right of the blue marbles house.
  • Mr Danny lives in the fourth house, while the first house is not made from red marbles.

Who lives where, and what is their house made from ? 

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How can it possible for Thursday

A girl rode into a tourist spot out of the city on Thursday. She loved the place and decided to stay for a few days. She stayed for four days and then she left for back home on Thursday.

How can this be possible?

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How many aircrafts left

Anabelle is a clever trader of rare artifacts.

  •  Each day she carries three boxes with each filled with thirty artifacts. 
  • The boxes can't hold more than that. 
  • She travels far of northern lands to sell these artifacts but on way, she comes across thirty checkpoints where she has to shed one of the artifact for each sack to the authorities for letting her pass. 

How many artifacts will be left with her when she reaches her destination crossing all the check points ? 

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Monday, December 29, 2014

Hardest Math series

( ) + ( ) + ( ) + ( ) + ( ) = 30
This is what you have for equation. The following are the numbers that you can use to fill in the brackets:
1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 and 15

You can repeat the numbers if required. The resulting sum should be 30.

Can you solve it?

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Mystery Puzzle

Ganpat is found dead in his office at his desk. 

Sherlock Holmes was working on this case and have narrowed the suspects down to three people: 
1. His Friend Mr Rakesh Gupta 
2. Ganpat's wife "Bhawna" 
3. His Secretary "Jason Kumar"

All three suspects visited Ganpat on the day of his murder for various reason as they told to sherlock.

As we know where police failed , sherlock comes.
He was able to find a note at the corner of the wall. "7B91011" was written on it.

Sherlock waste no time in announcing the killer. Who was the killer ?

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Code Cracking

Can you decode the following to find a hidden message? You've probably got a tool to do so with you now.

Q5A6Q3 A1Z6A2Q2Q3Q4 Q8A2 A1Q5 Q6Q9Q7Q4 A4Q8Z6AGQ3Q4Q5Q8Q10A2

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A Girl-Gold Thief

A girl has stolen two bars of solid gold, each weighing 20 pounds, and is running from some police. On the path she is on, she comes up to a rope bridge with a sign saying that the rope bridge can hold a maximum weight of 130 pounds, and that if any more weight is placed on the bridge it will collapse.

The girl knows her weight is 100 pounds, so she walks across the bridge carrying both gold bars, and the bridge does not break. 

How is this possible?

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Word Similarity

What do these two words have in common?

SUBCONTINENTAL

UNCOMPLIMENTARY

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How much Money spent on total people

A rich aristocrat decided that he would give every man $45 and every woman $60. Only one ninth of the men and only one twelfth of the women collected their dues. 

Can you tell me how much money the aristocrat spent if there were 3552 people in total?

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Find out who survives

100 people are standing in a circle. The person standing at number 1 is having a sword. He kills the person next to him with the sword and then gives the sword to the third person. This process is carried out till there is just one person left.

Can you find out who survives?

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sequence letter

What is the next letter in this sequence?

S S E N T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T ?

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