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Taking 250 Lbs Across The River.


What was the challenge? 

1. First 2 boys of 50 pounds should cross the river.

2. One of them should bring back the boat at other end.

3. A boy with 100 pounds should carry himself across the river with boat.

4. Other boy of 50 pounds waiting across the river now should bring back the boat again.

5. Now both boys of 50 pounds now should cross the river. 



Safely carrying 250 Lbs boy across the river

Which Door First?

While driving his car a man slams on the brakes when he sees, in the middle of the street, a diamond studded door, a gold door and a silver door. 

Which door does he open first?

Which door should I choose first?
Which door should I choose?


This should be first one! 

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This Should Be First Door!


What's the situation? 

To open any other door he need to get out of the car & for that first he needs to open the door of the car.

The car's door must be first door to open!

"Thanks,You're Fired!"

A man is leaving on a business trip and stops by his office on the way to the airport. The night watchman stops him and says, "Sir, don't take that flight. I had a dream last night that your plane would crash and everyone would die!" The business man cancels his trip and sure enough, the plane crashes, killing all the passengers. The man gives his watchman a $10,000 reward for saving his life, then fires him. Why?

The illogical looking decision by employer

That's why! 

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This Is Not Allowed On Duty


What exactly happened? 

The man awarded $10000 obviously for saving his life. The duty of night watchman is to keep watch on office at night not to sleep & dream.

That's why he fires the watchman.

Night watchman paying for sleeping on the duty!

Snail Up The Wall

A snail creeps 10 feet up a wall during the daytime, then falls asleep. It wakes up the next morning and discovers it slipped down 6 feet. If this happens each day, how many days will it take to reach the top of a 20 feet wall?


Snail climbing up on the wall


Escape to answer! 

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A Snail On Top of The Wall !


Read the question first! 

Let's find out progress of snail day by day.

Day 1 : UP to 10, DOWN to 4

Day 2 : UP to 14, DOWN to 8

Day 3 : UP to 18, DOWN to 12

Day 4 : UP to 22 which is greater than 20.

So snail requires 4 days to reach the top of the wall.




Number of days taken by snail to climb up the wall.

The 500 Miles Race

Mike, Jimmy, Nader, Kevin and Larry were the top five finishers in the regional 500-mile race. They drove yellow, orange, green, red and blue cars but not necessarily in that order.

1. Neither Kevin nor Larry drove the green car.

2. Kevin finished faster than Mike and Larry.

3. The blue car finished earlier than Larry’s and Nader’s car.

4. The yellow car finished faster than the green car and the orange car.

5. Mike’s and Larry’s car finished ahead of the orange car.

6. Jimmy’s car finished before the blue and the yellow car.

Who drove what color car and what place did each driver finish?


Rank & Car of each participant in the race?


To know that click here! 

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Stats of The 500 Miles Race


Here is the scenario! 

Let's make a bit simple by putting clues into table. Rows representing owner while columns representing their cars. Now we need to use logical deduction by using all the clues & fill the table one by one. Finally, we get this.

Table summarizing Stats of The 500 Miles Race
Stats of The 500 Miles Race

 Filled circle represents rank of the particular car or participant. e.g. 1 circle means it's first, 2 means second & so on.

 

Losing Ten Minutes An Hour

A clock loses exactly ten minutes every hour. If the clock is set correctly at noon, what is the correct time when the clock reads 3:00pm?


Finding Correct Time Using Faulty Clock!
Faulty Clock


Find it here!

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Real Time Of a Faulty Clock


How much faulty it was? 

A clock loses 10 minutes in every hour that means for 60 real minutes it shows 50 minutes. In another words, real time is 60/50 = 1.2 times the minutes shown by the slower clock. It was set correctly at noon & at 3:00 PM ; 180 minutes of slower clock elapsed. That means the real time is 180 x 1.2 = 216. So it's 3:36 PM in real time clock!


Finding Real Time Using Faulty Clock
Correct Time

'The Slowest Race' Brain Teaser

An Arab sheik is old and must will his fortune to one of his two sons. He makes a proposition. His two sons will ride their camels in a race, and whichever camel crosses the finish line LAST will win the fortune for its owner. During the race, the two brothers wander aimlessly for days, neither willing to cross the finish line.

In desperation, they ask a wise man for advice. He tells them something; then the brothers leap onto the camels and charge toward the finish line.

What did the wise man say?

The slowest is the winner in the race

This is what he said! 

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Winning 'The Slowest Race'


Why was wise man asked? 


The wise man asked the brothers to switch camels. Now every brother tried

hard to make other brother's camel a winner! 

Trick to be fair in the slowest race
     Wise Man's Advice

Being Alive After Lift Crash Landing? - Puzzle

A lift is on the ground floor. There are four people in the lift including me.When the lift reaches first floor, one person gets in and three people get out.The lift goes up to the second floor, 2 people get out 6 people get in.It then goes up to the next floor up, no-one gets out but 12 people get in. Halfway up to the next floor up the lift cable snaps, it crashes to the floor.

Everyone else dies in the lift. How did I survive?


Living alive after lift crash landing
  
This is how did I! 

Escape from Crash Landed Lift


This was the incident. 

Read carefully once again, in journey from 1st to 2nd floor there are only 2 

people in the lift. At 2nd floor, 2 people get out that means it includes me   

as well. This is how I survived.

Escape from crash landing lift

Selecting The Barbershop

A man is driving South to Florida for a vacation. On the way, he realizes that he needs a haircut, so he stops in a small town along the way. He asks one of the residents where he can find a barbershop, and the resident tells him that there are only two barbers in town, one in the north part of town and one in the south. The man visits the north barber, and finds that the barbershop is messy and the barber himself has a bad haircut. He then visits the south barber, who has a clean barbershop and a good haircut



Which barbershop to choose?

However, the man decides to return to the north barber for his haircut. Why does he do this?

This is why he does so! 

Reason To Choose The North Barbershop


Here is the question! 

Since there are only 2 barbershops in town each barber has to go to each other for their haircut. So barber with good haircut must had it from the other barber at the north. Obviously, the man choose him to get a nice look. 


Hence he must chosse the north barbershop.

Bird's Journey From Train To Train

Suppose distance between SECUNDERABAD & CST is 1000 KM. Railway tracks are in straight lines with no curves in between.

A train with uniform speed of 100 kmph departs from CST at 9:00 AM. Same day on same track other train from SECUNDERABAD departs at 10:00 AM with uniform speed of 80 kmph.

A bird sitting on engine of train that departed from CST starts traveling toward the SECUNDERABAD & after touching the engine of that train travels back to CST train. A bird repeats this until trains collide.

How much distance the bird traveled & how many times did it travel to & fro? 


Distance covered by bird in the journey?


Click for the answer! 

Distance Traveled By The Bird


Here is the question! 

Let's divide answer in 2 parts.

1.Finding distance traveled by the bird.

The SECUNDERABAD train is one hour late till then CST train covers 100 km.

Hence effective distance is 900 km

Total speed of approach = 100 + 80 kmph

Total distance covered = 900 km

Time passed before trains collide = 900/180 = 5 Hours

Speed of bird = 120 kmph

Distance covered in 5 hours by bird = 120 * 5 = 600 km

Distance covered in first hour by bird = 120 km

Total distance = 600 + 120 = 720 km




2. Finding how many times bird traveled back & forth.


1st travel -


Total speed of approach = 120 + 80 = 200 kmph

Total distance to be covered = 900 km

Time required to meet each other = 900/200 = 4.5 Hours.

 
2nd travel -

Distance traveled by CST train in 4.5 hours = 100 x 4.5 = 450km

Distance traveled by SECUNDERABAD train in 4.5 hours = 80 x 4.5 = 360 km

Distance between 2 trains = 900 - (450+360) = 90 km

Time left for collision is 5 - 4.5 = 0.5 hrs.



So bird ends up with 1 complete round.


Calculation of Distance Travelled By The Bird

How To Reach The Island?

Abhijeet wants to reach an island which is in the middle of the river. The island is 30 feet from the edge of the river. As shown in the picture below he got two wooden planks about 29 feet each.

Any trick to reach the island?
          How to reach there?

How can Abhijeet reach the island? 


  1. This is how he reached!


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