November 25, 2013

Who Owns the Fish?

(Difficulty - Very Tough)

In a street, there are five houses, painted five different colours.
In each house lives a person of different nationality and drink different kind of beverage, smoke different cigar and keep a different pet.

Hints:

  1. Brit lives an a Red house.
  2. Swede keeps Dogs as pet.
  3. Dane drinks Tea.
  4. The Green house is next to, and on the left of the White house.
  5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee.
  6. The person who smokes PallMall rears Birds.
  7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.
  8. The man in the Center house drinks Milk.
  9. Norwegian lives in the First house.
  10. The man who smokes Blends live next to the one who keeps Cats.
  11. The man who keeps Horse lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
  12. The man who smokes Bluemaster drinks Beer.
  13. German smokes Prince.
  14. Norwegian lives next to the Blue house.
  15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks Water.
The Question is - Who ownes the Fish?

June 18, 2013

Confusing tiles

You have a huge box of beautiful decorated tiles, which are enough to provide a border in two rooms. However, you really cant figure out how to arrange them. If a border of two tiles is set all around, there's one left over; if three tiles are set all around, or four, or five, or six, there's still one tile left over. Finally, after trying a block of seven tiles for each corner, it comes out even. What is the smallest number of tiles you could have to get this result?

April 24, 2011

What Is The Color Of my Horse?


I have a horse. Do you know what color it is

Allan said, "I guess it is not black".
Brian said, "It is either brown, or gray".
Charlie said "I know it is brown".

I said, "At least one of you is right and at least one of you is wrong." What is the color of my horse if the color is one of the above?

April 22, 2011

Life Door or Death Door

There is a prisoner who is about to be executed. The king decides to give him one last chance to live.

There are 2 doors, the life door and the death door. There is one guard standing by each door. Those two guards know which door is the life door and which is the death door. However, one of them always tells the truth and the other always tells a lie. There is no way you can identify which door is the life door or the death door. There is no way you can distinguish who is the one telling the truth.

The prisoner can only ask one guard one question. Then he needs to choose a door to walk in. If he walks in the death door, then he will be executed. If he walks in the life door, he can have a new life.

He did choose the life door and lived. What was the question he asked? How did he choose the door after he got the answer from one of the guards?

April 11, 2011

Who Was Saved?

There are 2050 men standing in a circle.
The first man has a sword in his hand. He kills the second man (Next man to him) & passes the sword to the third person. The third person kills the fourth man & he passes the sword to the fifth one... this cycle continues till only one man is left.
Question: Find out the number of that man who saved...

April 10, 2011

How Many Edges?

Visualize a cube. You know it has 6 faces, 8 corners, & 12 edges. Now imagine a knife slicing away each corner with an oblique, straight plane cut. How many total edges are there now?

April 08, 2011

Where Is Alex Standing!


Forty students are standing in a grid of 8 x 5. Alex is one of them. The students are standing in a special manner. The students in the top row are numbered 1 to 8 from left to right, with the students in the remaining rows similarly numbered (as shown). Given are the clues. Find, on the basis of these clues, where is Alex.
XXXXXXXX (1-8)
XXXXXXXX (9-16)
XXXXXXXX (17-24)
XXXXXXXX (25-32)
XXXXXXXX (33-40)
Clues:
(1) There are 20 boys & 20 girls.
(2) Each row & column has at least two girls, but no more than four girls.
(3) Every girl borders at least one girl.
(4) Girls are located at positions that are prime numbers.
(5) Boys are located at positions that are either squares or cubes
(6) Alex is surrounded by unique number of girls.

Trouble triplets

 There are triplet brothers. They look identical. The eldest is John, who always speaks truth. Second is Richard, who always speaks lies. Third is Larsen, who either speaks truth or lies. One day Stephen visited them. He was wondering about their identities. So he asked each person a question. He asked the one who was on the left: “Who is the guy sitting in the middle?” The answer came was “He is John”. He asked the one who was in the middle: “What is your name?” the answer was “I am Larsen”. He asked one who was on the right: “Who is the guy sitting in the middle?” The answer was “He is Richard”. Stephen got really confused. In fact he asked the same question to 3 different people, got 3 different answers. Would you help Stephan in finding the real sequence?

March 05, 2011

How many legs?

There are 7 girls. Each one has 7 bags. Each bag contains 7 cats. each cat has 7 kittens.

Q: Find out the number of legs of Girls, Cats & the kittens together.

(Answer- after some trys...)