Brain Puzzle Question

21Mar/1113

Brain Puzzle Question

Solve this interesting brain teaser or puzzle and exercise your mind.

Thief in the Jhootas' Club - Brain Teaser

An expensive painting was stolen from the Jhootas’ Club, but the CID is having a hard time identifying the culprit because every statement made by a member of the Jhootas’ Club is false. Only four members visited the club on the day that the painting was stolen. This is what they told to the CID inspector Fredrick:

Anand: None of us took the painting. The painting was here when I left.
Bobby: I arrived second. The painting was already gone.
Chirantan: I was the third to arrive. The painting was here when I arrived.
Dinesh: Whoever stole the painting arrived before me. The painting was already gone.

Obviously neither Fredrick nor Daya could figure out who’s the thief out of the four members of Jhootas’ club. They requested you (an expert on such subjects) to solve this puzzle for them. According to you who out of these four liars stole the painting? Please explain to all of us.

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22Jan/1114

Reasoning Puzzle

This is an arrangement related reasoning problem for you. Similar questions frequently appear in various competitive examinations. You will probably need a pen and paper to solve this.

So go ahead and solve it. All the best!!

Arrangement related Logical Reasoning Question

Information

Bimla, champa, Tina and Alica are sitting around a table discussing their favorite sports.

a. Bimla sits directly across from the jogger.

b. Champa sits to the right of the racquetball player.

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19Jan/1120

3 Men and 5 Hats – Brainteaser

Interesting Brainteaser

3 innocent prisoners were sitting in a jail. One day, the cruel jailer takes them out and places them in a line on three chairs, in such a way that man C can see both man A and man B, man B can see only man A, and man A can see none of the other men.

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17Jan/1118

You have 12 coins, one of which is fake.

Hey friends, try and solve this intricate puzzle. You can use your skills to explain this puzzle using a flow chart. If you make one send it to me on my email address, I will include it in the body of this post itself.

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25Oct/107

Climbing Problem of Creepers

Another puzzle for you guys. I know there are lot of puzzle enthusiasts out there.

This is an interesting puzzle related to understanding of circular motion. You can solve the puzzle by logic or having some basic mathematical understanding of circular motion. Try it out!

Puzzle

Two creepers, one jasmine and the other rose, are both climbing up and round a cylindrical tree trunk. The jasmine twists clockwise and the rose anti-clockwise, and they both start at the same point on the ground. Before they reach the first branch on the tree the jasmine has made 5 complete twists and the rose 3 twists.

Not counting the bottom and the top, how many times do they cross?

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21Sep/107

Dangerous Wine Tasting

You are the ruler of a medieval empire and you are about to have a celebration tomorrow. The celebration is the most important party you have ever hosted. You've got 1000 bottles of wine you were planning to open for the celebration, but you find out that one of them is poisoned. The poison exhibits no symptoms until death. Death occurs within ten to twenty hours after consuming even the minutest amount of poison. You have over a thousand slaves at your disposal and just under 24 hours to determine which single bottle is poisoned. You have a handful of prisoners about to be executed, and it would mar your celebration to have anyone else killed. What is the smallest number of prisoners you must have to drink from the bottles to be absolutely sure to find the poisoned bottle within 24 hours?

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19Sep/108

Perfect Square Puzzles

Squaring Puzzles- Find below 2 interesting puzzles related to square of some number. Hope you will like them.

Puzzle 1

The square of 13 is 169. Take the last digit of the square, 9, and place it in the middle, making 196. This is the square of 14, the next number above 13.

What are the next numbers which also have this property?

Puzzle 2

The following multiplication example uses every digit from 0 to 9 at least once. Letters have been substituted for the digits. Can you replace the letters and make the original multiplication problem?

B O G
x B O G
_______________
L Y L E
G G U L
T U O O
___________________
U N I T O E

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13Sep/108

Grid Based Puzzle

Friends based on the emails I am getting I think most of you like creative and interesting logical puzzles. So I am presenting another very interesting grid puzzle one for you.

Grid Puzzle

Below is a very special grid, around each shaded number are 8 white squares. However, each white square should have a number from 1 to 7. Once filled in, these 8 numbers will sum to the shaded number. In addition, once completed correctly, no row nor column will contain a duplicate number within a white square. For example, the top row may be 5 6 4 2 3 1 7, etc. hence no digit repeated (similar to Sudoko)

Figure-1

Try to fill all the blank spaces. Leave your answers below by writing the numbers row-wise.

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Answer (posted on September 17, 2010)

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8Sep/1011

Time Measurement Riddle

After quite a few days I am posting a riddle. I assure you it's very interesting. Though it may seem a little difficult when you first read it, maintain your cool and ponder over it again.

Suppose you have ten threads and a lighter. If a thread is lighted, it will burn for exactly one hour. The threads do not burn at constant speed, in other words it can happen that the first half of the thread is burned in 15 minutes, while the remaining part will take three quarters. How can you measure exactly 45 minutes using these threads, and what is the minimum of threads you need for this?

If you need any clarification, leave your queries as comment.

Leave your asnwers below as comments.

Try your hand at another interesting time keeping puzzle

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24Mar/107

Most Difficult Riddle: Einstein Riddle

Most Difficult Riddle: One of my friend have forwarded me this mentioning the background. It claims that this mathematical puzzle was created by Einstein. Though we don't vouch for this claim but in any case it is very interesting to solve this. So guys go ahead and solve. We are ready to give the solutions too, if you all fail to solve it. But hope that's not the case. All the best!

Albert Einstein created this riddle in the late 1800s, and claimed that 98% of the world population couldn't solve it. It is a good brain exercise. Here it is:

- In a street there are five houses, painted five different colors.

- In each house lives a person of different nationality.

- These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.

Einstein's riddle is: Who owns the fish?

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