Showing posts with label PUZZLES. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PUZZLES. Show all posts
Saturday, July 12, 2014
Puzzle – exclusive club entry
A man wanted to enter an exclusive club but
did not know the password that was re! quired. He waited by the door and
listened.
A club member knocked on the door and the
doorman said, “twelve.” The member replied, “six” and was let in.
A second member came to the door and the
doorman said, “six.” The member replied, “three” and was let in.
The man thought he had heard enough and
walked up to the door. The doorman said,”ten” and the man replied, “five.”
But he was not let in. What should have he
said?
Puzzle by Einstein
This puzzle was apparently written by Einstein
in the last century.
He said that 98% of the people in the world cannot solve the quiz. See if you can…
He said that 98% of the people in the world cannot solve the quiz. See if you can…
Facts:
- There
are 5 houses in 5 different colors
- In
each house lives a person with a different nationality.
- These
5 owners drink a certain beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar and keep
a certain pet.
- No
owner has the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same
drink.
Hints:
- The
British lives in a red house.
- The
Swede keeps dogs as pets
- The
Dane drinks tea
- The
green house is on the left of the white house (it also means they are next
door to each other)
- The
green house owner drinks coffee
- The
person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds
- The
owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill
- The
man living in the house right in the center drinks milk
- The
Norwegian lives in the first house
- The
man who smokes Blend lives next to the one who keeps cats
- The
man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill
- The
owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer
- The
German smokes Prince
- The
Norwegian lives next to the blue house
- The
man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water.
The question is: who keeps the
fish?
Puzzles – Logical questions asked in interview
Question 1 : If one tyre of a car suddenly gets stolen….
and after sometime u find the tyre without the screws how will u
make ur journey complete?
Question 2 : How will you measure height of building when
you are at the top of the building?And if you have stone with you.
Question 3 : Can u make 120 with 5 zeros?
Question 4 : There are 9 coins. 8 are of 1 gm and 1 is of 2
grams. How will you find out theheavier coin in minimum number of weighing and
how many weighing it will need?
Question 5 : A fathers age is reverse of sons age. One year
back fathers age was twice of sons age. What is the fathers current age?
Question 6 : 500 men are arranged in an array of 10 rows
and 50 columns according to their heights.
Tallest among each row of all are asked to
come out. And the shortest among them is A.
Similarly after resuming them to their original positions, the shortest among each column are asked to come out. And the tallest among them is B.
Similarly after resuming them to their original positions, the shortest among each column are asked to come out. And the tallest among them is B.
Now who is taller A or B ?
Question 7 : A rich man died. In his will, he has divided
his gold coins among his 5 sons, 5 daughters and a manager.
According to his will: First give one coin to
manager. 1/5th of the remaining to the elder son. Now give one coin to the
manager and 1/5th of the remaining to second son and so on….. After giving
coins to 5th son, divided the remaining coins among five daughters equally.
All should get full coins. Find the minimum
number of coins he has?
Question 8 : If you look at a clock and the time is 3:15.
What is the angle between the hour and the
minute hands? ( The answer to this is not zero!)
Question 9 : A train leaves City X for City Y at 15 mph. At
the very same time, a train leaves City Y for City X at 20 mph on the same
track. At the same moment, a bird leaves the City X train station and flies
towards the City Y train station at 25 mph. When the bird reaches the train
from City Y, it immediately reverses direction. It then continues to fly at the
same speed towards the train from City X, when it reverses its direction again,
and so forth. The bird continues to do this until the trains collide. How far
would the bird have traveled in the meantime?
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